Shrinkage???

dmcvsd said:
Ya and what's the deal with kids going to ivy league school on the east coast when they can get a degree right down the street. Let's all please start settling for good enough.
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Oh come on. Using your analogy, you are living in the past. Here are the current rankings for US Universities. As you can see, the "degree right down the street" is probably now equal to or better than the one across the country. Is there a chance that may apply soccer as well? Sure, you can drive to Princeton, but why bother when Berkeley is just up the road?

U.S. News 2016 Best Global Universities Rankings
Overall Best Global Universities
  1. Harvard University (U.S.)
  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (U.S.)
  3. University of California—Berkeley (U.S.)
  4. Stanford University (U.S.)
  5. University of Oxford (U.K.)
  6. University of Cambridge (U.K.)
  7. California Institute of Technology (U.S.)
  8. University of California—Los Angeles (U.S.)
  9. Columbia University (U.S.)
  10. University of Chicago (U.S.)
 
Anyone have the time or energy to look back over the past 3-5 years and see how many teams there were in Cal-South Club leagues in a few age groups (u12-u13-u14). We may have the same amount of players, but are they now spread across too many teams?
 
dmcvsd said:
Ya and what's the deal with kids going to ivy league school on the east coast when they can get a degree right down the street. Let's all please start settling for good enough.
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You sound like you are a Surf Homer because no one would ever argue with the rationale that OC provides exponentially more DA opprotunities than San Diego. Period.
There isn't one DA team in OC (errr maybe Pats) that would have difficulty beating a SD DA team on any given day and often it would be a well fought match.
So yes although I see your point about free market and choices it's confusing as to why that choice would occur 2017. Prior to absolutely I get due to ECNL clubs and coaches. Now not so much. If you have school and work, and mandatory practice four days a week something will suffer.
Add in a fully funded option at DA at middle school teams while you are getting your feet wet anyway and no one cares about a soccer trophy u14-u15 seems like a solid choice.
 
chargerfan said:
Comparing kids soccer to a college education is stupid.

And if you think that way, why aren't you at surf instead of sharks?
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They compare it because they actually believe that Surf and Blues will allow their daughters to be noticed and seen at their favored universities.
That is how delusional they are and they obviously have not seen where those players have committed to (not the unicorns but he majority of the teams) and for added fun looked at their transfers.
It's an ongoing issue. They choose soccer over SAT. They choose YouTube videos over volunteering. Standard operating.
 
We know several players that opted out of the DA-1 program, they were fully invested "impact players" on their teams until the DA program was introduced and some made the decision to play on what they were told was the DA-2 team for virtually the same cost but less travel and one less practice day per week. Funny because we know 4 girls that are going to ditch that BS scam DA-2 team right after high school season! They were lied to about everything to do with the DA-2 program and now have a chip on their shoulder ending their club soccer run. But the club got their cash and will just smile and repeat the same deal with the next years groups.
 
sandshark said:
We know several players that opted out of the DA-1 program, they were fully invested "impact players" on their teams until the DA program was introduced and some made the decision to play on what they were told was the DA-2 team for virtually the same cost but less travel and one less practice day per week. Funny because we know 4 girls that are going to ditch that BS scam DA-2 team right after high school season! They were lied to about everything to do with the DA-2 program and now have a chip on their shoulder ending their club soccer run. But the club got their cash and will just smile and repeat the same deal with the next years groups.
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I saw several boys on DA teams that ditched their last season so they could play a year with their high school buddies. They already had college commitments by then and hadn't been picked for any national team, so what was the point of DA anymore?
 
espola said:
I saw several boys on DA teams that ditched their last season so they could play a year with their high school buddies. They already had college commitments by then and hadn't been picked for any national team, so what was the point of DA anymore?
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Yes we also saw that last year. I'm sure the Club coaches have a great reason for them to stay and pay -- oops i mean "play" club ha ha
 
Striker17 said:
They are still taking it till they make it in terms of conditioning, subs etc. School has not even started let's see how 4 days a week feels! Commuting? I can't begin to empathize with how difficult that will be. Reality hasn't set in for the 04.
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Many of these same girls already train four days a week.
 
sandshark said:
We know several players that opted out of the DA-1 program, they were fully invested "impact players" on their teams until the DA program was introduced and some made the decision to play on what they were told was the DA-2 team for virtually the same cost but less travel and one less practice day per week. Funny because we know 4 girls that are going to ditch that BS scam DA-2 team right after high school season! They were lied to about everything to do with the DA-2 program and now have a chip on their shoulder ending their club soccer run. But the club got their cash and will just smile and repeat the same deal with the next years groups.
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Knowing that you are from SD, you must be talking about the old bait and switch of Albion.
 
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