What's happening at Cal South?

timbuck said:
We have promotion and relegation now.
A local, community based team at u9 has some strong players. They have a good season. The ECNL club in town comes out and "promotes" themselves to the 2 best players on the team. The other 9 players are now "relegated" to trying to recruit a few new players to fill those spots. Either from a team that they beat last year in their league or from the "b" team within their same club.

Those 9 decent kids would probably thrive playing with those 2 players who got "the call up" now have an average season. The parents can't figure out why they arent winning every game by 3 goals this year. They see the ECNL club that now has those 2 players is doing well. They hear that ECNL is the best place to be. They hear about that club having an ECNL Regional League and a Flight 1 team, so they go to a "Player Identification" camp to check things out. The big club offers their kid a "Spot" but doesn't say which team. Just "pay your deposit and we'll let you know someday soon."

Lots of people talk about youth sports as promoting "team work" and "work hard values." The current landscape is more about managing change every year and how to deal with something new every 9 months.
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Besides, it sounds cooler to say "Player Identification Camp" VS "tryouts". Just changing the name makes it sound more elite.
 
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