When to let your kid quit?

[jrcaesar]

Yes dilution occurred but frankly every one can and should have the ability to play in their neighborhood now.
I really wish this would happen and people would stay at their local clubs.

That's the thing: Families have to commit to doing that. The Slammers or Galaxy(TM) franchise is the "new" model, but doesn't have to be the better model. (But they do, in general, pay to have better fields.)

Also coaches have to commit to bringing in pairs/trios of friends to build a team. Takes work. Hard to make money that way.

 

[chargerfan]

I have to say I disagree a tad on this now. I am happy he DA came about and added 9. Yes dilution occurred but frankly every one can and should have the ability to play in their neighborhood now.
I really wish this would happen and people would stay at their local clubs.

But I think this is part of the reason we see movement from local clubs. A local club that only offers presidio, scdsl or csl is no longer enough for a lot of parents. I really think there should be one league per geographic area, with a couple ecnl/Da teams to cater to the "special" players.

I understand your reasoning though. I'm just seeing several local clubs go under because they don't offer the acronyms that parents like.

 

[rainbow_unicorn]

Your coach must be giving the US Soccer and CalSouth methodology the massive finger. See my post on the E License, but the gist of the US Soccer/Cal South methodology is, in short, all srimmage all the time. Skills work is supposed to be limited to the warm up (phase 1), progressing to small sided exercise, mid sided exercise, and (they couldn't emphasize enough) always always always ending in scrimmage.

Sorry, I guess we do scrimmage at least 50% of practices if you consider dividing the team in half and playing each other counts as a scrimmage. But I believe coaches should have leeway and not have to adhere to a national plan that may not be perfect for every team out there. Our team needed more skills development, hence why we were a bit heavy on that the past few months.