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Post by mightydawg on Nov 24, 2020 15:44:49 GMT -5
Why did Atlanta pick up the option on Mo Adams? If he is playing, we are in trouble.
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Post by mightydawg on Nov 23, 2020 16:27:40 GMT -5
Just a small nitpick...from the replay on the AFU IG, it didn't look like she slid into the goal but was hit from behind into the goal while finishing. Could have been a caution. http://instagr.am/p/CH8BXoJDSD9 Looking at the video, agree, it was an obvious foul. Also, looking at the video, looks like CF outside back was caught out of position and could not catch up. It was not a great cross. Looks like the goal resulted from a pretty serious misplay by the keeper.
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Post by mightydawg on Nov 23, 2020 16:13:56 GMT -5
With NTH I was more stating that I have seen times at the academy ages where they make a super team in a tournament where they pull top players from other locations to play on the top team. There is nothing wrong with this practice IMO. My kids have been at big 6 clubs for 5 years and we have seen many teams make tournament teams. I really don't think that is a bad thing. This year with low numbers we have seen teams pool resources more than in the past. Again I don't have an issue with this. I do have an issue with trophy hunting. That being said teams do not have 100% control over their placement. Sometimes they put an over qualified team in a lower bracket. Though I have seen placements that I know were requested by teams as I have been a TM for many years and know many other TM's. This was a UFA team at their own tournament,of course they can control the bracket I looked through the brackets and I do not see any age group where that happened--a NTH Gold team in the first bracket and a UFA top team in the 2nd bracket. Given that you are a coach at NTH and talking about SCCL, I assume that you are talking about the U12 age group and UFA 09G Red beating NTH Tophat 09G Navy. However, the Red team is the 2nd team for UFA. In fact, the UFA Premier team played in the top bracket and beat NTH Gold in the final.
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Post by mightydawg on Nov 4, 2020 16:00:39 GMT -5
Other than money, what is the point of the SCCL Cup? Isn't determining the best SCCL team the point of the regular season? I think you answered your own question. Kinda like the conference tournaments in college b-ball . . . . $$$. Except, college basketball ties the automatic NCAA bid to winning the conference tournament. Does winning SCCL Cup guarantee a place at nationals?
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Post by mightydawg on Nov 4, 2020 15:31:18 GMT -5
Other than money, what is the point of the SCCL Cup? Isn't determining the best SCCL team the point of the regular season?
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Post by mightydawg on Oct 23, 2020 8:43:44 GMT -5
How are those $45 evaluations going? The $45 evaluations for the 2009s were terrible. They gave the kids T-shirts with numbers printed on the back and then proceeded to have half of the kids wear solid green Publix pennies so that the coaches could not see the numbers. The entire night I only saw one coach ask a kid wearing a penny what his number was.
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Post by mightydawg on Oct 2, 2020 15:33:54 GMT -5
GT has a very good women's club team. Full of former ECNL players who decided to chase academics instead of soccer. If they had a program and actually recruited, they could be competitive. How many local girls would love to stay in town and play for GT? You said girls and GT in the same sentence. Funny.
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Post by mightydawg on Sept 29, 2020 11:02:18 GMT -5
ECNL doesn’t allow reentry in the half, so that typically leads to coaches waiting longer to sub. If you use all your subs and a player gets hurt, you’re playing with 10. It’s a dumb rule for the younger ages. Nothing is gained. But coaches do have to adjust to it. I know several teams have played with 10 for significant portions of games already this season due to an injury after subs came on. That said, it could result in some kids not getting half a game in every game. Hopefully it evens out over the course of the season. The way to remedy that situation is for the first half subs to start the second half and then bring the first half starters in as subs in the second half.
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Post by mightydawg on Sept 24, 2020 9:00:49 GMT -5
Best they have played in a while. Gallagher started at striker. He is quickly turning into a favorite of mine. Had tons of speed on the field. High press was very effective, particularly in the first half. Still have a difficult time scoring but were more fun to watch.
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Post by mightydawg on Sept 18, 2020 8:56:50 GMT -5
So let me make sure I can understand this. Pro and College football are up and running sans the Pac 12, CBB resumes late November, ECNL, MLS.Next and every other youth soccer alphabet soup league can return, but coaches can't social distance on the sidelines to watch these same kids play. What do the "No Clue About Athletics" brain-trust think? I bet if it were CBB or CFB recruiting period, it would suddenly be okay and the dead period would just be that. Dead, Period... The dead period includes college basketball and college football. Fall campus visits are when much of the basketball and football recruiting occurs. It is also when football coaches are going to high school games to evaluate players. It is across all sports in division 1.
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Post by mightydawg on Sept 15, 2020 10:48:54 GMT -5
Who knew you could read so much into a logo? The strong and modern player icon at the center of the badge symbolizes the player’s position at the center of every ECNL program. The motion and upward focus of the icon represent the league’s innovative programs and philosophy to constantly change and improve the sport. The classic badge shape reflects the league’s strength and history of leadership transforming youth soccer. The unique color schemes reflect the modernization of the league, with tailored programming and structure for each gender, but both united under one identity. The new league identity captures the symmetry of excellence and humility, exclusivity and accessibility, and freedom and community that is necessary to lead the sport forward.
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Post by mightydawg on Sept 14, 2020 16:11:40 GMT -5
Does Atl United really count? They don’t even send the same squad to each game and get to play all games at home with their refs. The refs for AFU this weekend need to return their money or be arrested for stealing. One of the ARs had no idea what offsides was. At these rates, they should do better: U12: $60/$35/$35 U13-16: $65/$40/$40 U17-19: $75/$50/$50
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Post by mightydawg on Sept 9, 2020 11:02:03 GMT -5
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Post by mightydawg on Sept 4, 2020 16:54:56 GMT -5
Any idea why they have pulled down all of the SCCL schedules?
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Post by mightydawg on Sept 2, 2020 15:27:25 GMT -5
The retractable roof apparently really drove up the $$$$ and doesn't even seem to be used other than to say, it has a retractable roof that opens like this.... it gets hot as hell in there when the roof is open. Has to be nearly perfect weather to open the roof.
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Post by mightydawg on Sept 1, 2020 15:57:53 GMT -5
That doesn't make any sense. The last switch wasn't so bad. Make the announcement by the end of this year and do it for everyone. I am actually going to send an email telling them how much I support the change. My oldest has a Jan birthday so it worked great for him and my youngest is later in the year so going back will do a ton for him. Plus it makes more sense to keep kids with their classmates. If you want to keep kids with their classmates then do September 1-August 31. That is actually the school year breakdown for the majority of the country. About no one does August 1 cutoff. Honestly the age group switch hurt my oldest kid in the beginning as an August birthday she went from the oldest to the younger end. She lost a year of soccer compared to 2/3 of her current teammates. If you go back she would be the oldest again but I KNOW she doesn't want that and she doesn't care if she is with her classmates as she has NEVER been on a team with anyone from her school. Neither has my youngest ever played with a schoolmate and her teammates never have more than one or two players on the team that go to school with them. If they want to switch it back for teammate/classmate reasons than switch it for rec and leave academy alone. Most kids that play high level really don't care. They have mostly fixed the gap year issue for 8th graders and seniors don't seem to care from what I have heard from everyone. Btw numbers are down for nearly every sport except lacrosse. That is probably were the numbers drain is going. That and e-sports. Exactly, the convenient truth that no one actually mentions--the soccer calendar and the school calendar never lined up. Throw in kids that held back in school, sorry, I meant redshirted, and there is really no rationale basis for favoring one calendar over the other. If you want to play with school mates, play soccer at school (soccer that is regularly trashed by the forum). Otherwise, it is just arguing about what 3 or 4 month period out of the year will have the age advantage.
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Post by mightydawg on Sept 1, 2020 15:43:06 GMT -5
Still no U12 schedules.
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Post by mightydawg on Sept 1, 2020 15:35:54 GMT -5
I notice that most tournaments use Sinc and they have their ranking system USA Rank. Is there a ranking site that is better and/or more accurate? none of them are accurate because they don't capture all of the games, only tournaments and games that teams chose to report. For some reason, most teams that do report scores tend to report wins but forget to report the losses. If clubs would all use one system, either sinc or got soccer, the rankings would be more accurate.
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Post by mightydawg on Sept 1, 2020 11:10:52 GMT -5
There are always going to be older and younger kids regardless of the cut off. The current system is going on its 5th year. Just let it be.
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Post by mightydawg on Aug 30, 2020 21:29:30 GMT -5
Right but you don’t play every team. You play every club. When Concorde plays tophat, there will be 2 games. Concorde A v tophat a. Concorde B v tophat b. Not that hard. No that’s not how the U12s will workr. It’s more like SCCL Premier with each club and location allowed to declare their own team. So it’s like Concorde North, Concorde West, Concorde Central, Ufa Forsyth, Ufa Norcross, Ufa Lawrenceville, NTH Quest, NTH Metro North, NTH Milton, SSA Blue, SSA Yellow, SSA Black, SSA Gold... Each club has 2 sccl teams, just like last year. Unless they have completely changed how they do U12, it will be like last year. Here is the schedule from spring where it works just like I said. events.gotsport.com/events/schedule.aspx?EventID=77853&Gender=Boys&Age=12
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Post by mightydawg on Aug 30, 2020 18:46:48 GMT -5
Still no U12 SCCL schedules. This really should not be that hard. Take the u13 schedule, copy it twice since there are two teams per club and paste into u12. Sorry not this easy. Most clubs declared multiple U12 teams so there’s probably about 25 plus teams just on the girls side. Right but you don’t play every team. You play every club. When Concorde plays tophat, there will be 2 games. Concorde A v tophat a. Concorde B v tophat b. Not that hard.
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Post by mightydawg on Aug 29, 2020 6:36:37 GMT -5
Still no U12 SCCL schedules. This really should not be that hard. Take the u13 schedule, copy it twice since there are two teams per club and paste into u12.
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Post by mightydawg on Aug 27, 2020 13:28:24 GMT -5
I think that Rush Union was counting on having tryouts for that exact reason. When tryouts were cancelled and the big clubs required players to commit before smaller clubs had tryouts, it ruined the plan to sell SCCL-C to SCCL-P players. Yep - they were hoping to make a big splash with the new Brook Run fields and bring in a bunch of new players. Interestingly, they did hold in-person tryouts, the only club in Atlanta that I'm aware of who had them. Roswell had in person tryouts as well.
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Post by mightydawg on Aug 27, 2020 13:12:06 GMT -5
No 08G, 07G, 05G, probably not a good candidate for SCCL Club. I'm surprised more kids from nearby clubs would rather stay in SCCL-P at the named club then play in a higher league with a smaller club. FC Alliance doesn't have any 08G or 04G's either. I think that Rush Union was counting on having tryouts for that exact reason. When tryouts were cancelled and the big clubs required players to commit before smaller clubs had tryouts, it ruined the plan to sell SCCL-C to SCCL-P players.
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Post by mightydawg on Aug 27, 2020 12:19:17 GMT -5
Club World cup is only a small number of teams right 8ish? Doesn't seem to be on anyone's radar either. UEFA champions league is where it is at. The concacaf version is laughable. But that is the point. If you can’t win the laughable one, how can you compete in the one where it’s at? .
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Post by mightydawg on Aug 27, 2020 11:03:51 GMT -5
In some of the SCCL-C schedules there is an unnamed club, which appears to be Rush Union. I saw that. Do they not have a team at every age group?
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Post by mightydawg on Aug 26, 2020 21:10:16 GMT -5
Should UEFA expand to the rest of the world and invite a few non euros to the party? I know it doesn’t make sense given what it is, but would be cool to see. They have the club World Cup that essentially does that.
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Post by mightydawg on Aug 26, 2020 14:19:22 GMT -5
What more do you want? It only took from June, when teams were formed, until August 24th to create the template for the website. Do you think that they are miracle workers? They still have to enter teams into all of shells before they can get the schedule out. Patience. Everything is on schedule for an October release.
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Post by mightydawg on Aug 25, 2020 9:53:11 GMT -5
National data shows that 70% of kids stop playing sports at 13 years old. That stat does not appear to be reflected in the SCCL Premier brackets. I would be interested to know the number of kids that play at U12 v. U13 v. U14 to see how that statistic applies to soccer.
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Post by mightydawg on Aug 25, 2020 9:08:40 GMT -5
Looking at the set up of the SCCL Premier divisions, it tells an interesting story about youth soccer and when boys and girls stop playing. events.gotsport.com/events/?EventID=80548For boys, there are 4 premier divisions in U13, U14 and U15. At U16, it drops to 3 premier divisions and stays that way at U17 and U19. Assuming 10 to 12 teams per division and 15 players per team, that is 150 to 180 boys that stop playing from U15 to U16. For the girls, there are not as many players as the boys but the girls do not drop out until U17. From U13 to U16, there are 3 premier divisions. At U17 and U19, that number drops to 2 premier divisions. So again, about 150 to 180 girls stop playing soccer from U16 to U17. I am sure that this has been true for some time but the visual from the SCCL website makes it easier to see.
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