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Post by atlsoccerdad on Aug 31, 2019 15:09:00 GMT -5
Currently whoever made the schedules for the Publix Cup was “new”. They didn’t allot enough time for each game... The first game went 10-15 minutes over. After the second game was over, they were already running half an hour behind…
By the time we showed up for our mid afternoon game, they were already an hour and a half behind (minimum).
The frustrating part is that they didn’t notify anyone. Coaches, team managers - no one.
I have no idea what time our evening game is going to actually start now…
It's going to be pretty rough driving back home at midnight, then getting up at 5 AM to drive back for our other kids 9:00 am game...
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Post by Keeper on Aug 31, 2019 16:32:22 GMT -5
Currently whoever made the schedules for the Publix Cup was “new”. They didn’t allot enough time for each game... The first game went 10-15 minutes over. After the second game was over, they were already running half an hour behind… By the time we showed up for our mid afternoon game, they were already an hour and a half behind (minimum). The frustrating part is that they didn’t notify anyone. Coaches, team managers - no one. I have no idea what time our evening game is going to actually start now… It's going to be pretty rough driving back home at midnight, then getting up at 5 AM to drive back for our other kids 9:00 am game... Wow! But not shocking. What venue is this at?? |
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Post by crossbar on Aug 31, 2019 17:09:02 GMT -5
Currently whoever made the schedules for the Publix Cup was “new”. They didn’t allot enough time for each game... The first game went 10-15 minutes over. After the second game was over, they were already running half an hour behind… By the time we showed up for our mid afternoon game, they were already an hour and a half behind (minimum). The frustrating part is that they didn’t notify anyone. Coaches, team managers - no one. I have no idea what time our evening game is going to actually start now… It's going to be pretty rough driving back home at midnight, then getting up at 5 AM to drive back for our other kids 9:00 am game... Not sure if you’re at McCurry South, but it’s the same situation here. Pretty much a full game behind at this point. Unclear how/why they messed it up this badly. They also gave some teams 8 hours between games, and other teams (in the same group) got about 2 hours. |
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Post by girlsoccer on Aug 31, 2019 17:42:53 GMT -5
Yikes! How much time did they schedule between games? That’s no fun.
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Post by Keeper on Aug 31, 2019 18:10:54 GMT -5
Welcome to Georgia Soccer....
Land of the old boys club running soccer like it’s 1977.
Publix Cup is a disaster now, Presidents Cup is in the middle of the season and State Cup is a complete joke spread amongst 13 venues. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Great job!
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Post by footyfan on Aug 31, 2019 18:24:53 GMT -5
It is sad that, as bad as SCCL is for the sport, Georgia soccer keeps setting the bar lower. I'd think at some point USYS is going to step in and take over for the state associations.
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Post by atlsoccerdad on Aug 31, 2019 18:29:34 GMT -5
Currently whoever made the schedules for the Publix Cup was “new”. They didn’t allot enough time for each game... The first game went 10-15 minutes over. After the second game was over, they were already running half an hour behind… By the time we showed up for our mid afternoon game, they were already an hour and a half behind (minimum). The frustrating part is that they didn’t notify anyone. Coaches, team managers - no one. I have no idea what time our evening game is going to actually start now… It's going to be pretty rough driving back home at midnight, then getting up at 5 AM to drive back for our other kids 9:00 am game... Wow! But not shocking. What venue is this at?? Yep. McCurry South. I hope they can fix tomorrow’s schedule tonight... |
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Post by oraclesfriend on Aug 31, 2019 18:54:23 GMT -5
It is sad that, as bad as SCCL is for the sport, Georgia soccer keeps setting the bar lower. I'd think at some point USYS is going to step in and take over for the state associations. I think you are being unfair to SCCL. First, because it was created due to the mess that was Georgia Soccer and US youth soccer. Second, because...look around...the dividing up of youth soccer has been happening everywhere over time and it recently got worse with the wars between DA and ECNL setting up. Once USSF made girls DA then ECNL also decides it has to have boys. Then they (ECNL) decide they can't be second fiddle so start forcing clubs to choose and the clubs decide they need a good second team option to build their pools and make DPL or go NPL or add SCCL or their state/region version of the same. Then ECNL makes ECRL. Does anyone see the snowball here??? I am sorry that Publix Cup has been a fiasco. It used to be a good tourney. As for Georgia Soccer I hope the leadership there realizes that they need to get a hold of things. There are still a lot of kids that rely on Georgia Soccer to provide a good platform for their kids to play soccer. |
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Post by footyfan on Aug 31, 2019 19:28:37 GMT -5
It is sad that, as bad as SCCL is for the sport, Georgia soccer keeps setting the bar lower. I'd think at some point USYS is going to step in and take over for the state associations. I think you are being unfair to SCCL. First, because it was created due to the mess that was Georgia Soccer and US youth soccer. Second, because...look around...the dividing up of youth soccer has been happening everywhere over time and it recently got worse with the wars between DA and ECNL setting up. Once USSF made girls DA then ECNL also decides it has to have boys. Then they (ECNL) decide they can't be second fiddle so start forcing clubs to choose and the clubs decide they need a good second team option to build their pools and make DPL or go NPL or add SCCL or their state/region version of the same. Then ECNL makes ECRL. Does anyone see the snowball here??? I am sorry that Publix Cup has been a fiasco. It used to be a good tourney. As for Georgia Soccer I hope the leadership there realizes that they need to get a hold of things. There are still a lot of kids that rely on Georgia Soccer to provide a good platform for their kids to play soccer. Lots of agreement. The Georgia Soccer monopoly got lazy or is incompetent. But I already admitted that point. Also not sure the "everybody is doing it" excuse is a good one. That said, I wish that Georgia Soccer wasnt so bad but also that there werent closed systems in soccer. It means we travel more. I'd like to travel less. I know travel will happen, but I'd like to play my kids to play against the best kids and not worry about the "best clubs". |
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Post by oraclesfriend on Aug 31, 2019 19:38:48 GMT -5
I think you are being unfair to SCCL. First, because it was created due to the mess that was Georgia Soccer and US youth soccer. Second, because...look around...the dividing up of youth soccer has been happening everywhere over time and it recently got worse with the wars between DA and ECNL setting up. Once USSF made girls DA then ECNL also decides it has to have boys. Then they (ECNL) decide they can't be second fiddle so start forcing clubs to choose and the clubs decide they need a good second team option to build their pools and make DPL or go NPL or add SCCL or their state/region version of the same. Then ECNL makes ECRL. Does anyone see the snowball here??? I am sorry that Publix Cup has been a fiasco. It used to be a good tourney. As for Georgia Soccer I hope the leadership there realizes that they need to get a hold of things. There are still a lot of kids that rely on Georgia Soccer to provide a good platform for their kids to play soccer. Lots of agreement. The Georgia Soccer monopoly got lazy or is incompetent. But I already admitted that point. Also not sure the "everybody is doing it" excuse is a good one. That said, I wish that Georgia Soccer wasnt so bad but also that there werent closed systems in soccer. It means we travel more. I'd like to travel less. I know travel will happen, but I'd like to play my kids to play against the best kids and not worry about the "best clubs". I wasn't using the "everyone is doing it" excuse. I agree that is not the right reason. I was just saying that the closed system of ECNL for girls and DA for boys started this followed by their egos in having to be the "top" league. Then the clubs' egos and parents' egos made all of the second level leagues start to pop up...that along with the problems with the other "top" league which was run by USYS. This is only a Georgia perspective though because there have been other leagues in other states that weren't run by USYS. Not sure how those evolved. |
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Post by guest on Sept 1, 2019 8:04:56 GMT -5
that along with the problems with the other "top" league which was run by USYS. This^^^ was the driving reason behind the creation of SCCL. There was already a bad taste in the mouth after the birth year mandate. It reinforced the idea that clubs had virtually no say in the soccer landscape. Add in a few more seasons of driving down to FL for R3PL play only to be turned back around for no refs or field space. GA Soccer is not alone in culpability for the current soccer landscape, it’s USYS too. |
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Post by footyfan on Sept 1, 2019 10:29:59 GMT -5
that along with the problems with the other "top" league which was run by USYS. This^^^ was the driving reason behind the creation of SCCL. There was already a bad taste in the mouth after the birth year mandate. It reinforced the idea that clubs had virtually no say in the soccer landscape. Add in a few more seasons of driving down to FL for R3PL play only to be turned back around for no refs or field space. GA Soccer is not alone in culpability for the current soccer landscape, it’s USYS too. USYS is not USSF. It was USSF that was responsible for birth year mandate. USYS and its regional leagues were no more responsible for that than US Club Soccer and its leagues. Agree Georgia soccer was not alone in culpability. State soccer associations all over the country needed a punch to the gut as provided by US Club Soccer leagues like SCCL & ECNL. Not sure why refs and field space werent provided in Florida and agree that that incompetence should be punished. Create a new league environment if you want, sanctioned by whoever you want, but dont leave out any clubs because they are not one of the good old boys. That's just more of the same. |
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Post by oraclesfriend on Sept 1, 2019 13:00:11 GMT -5
I don't know why the birth year mandate had to get put into this discussion again. That is just an arbitrary date. I feel bad for the older players that it messed up their teams years ago, but it was done in 2016 we need to get past that. I really don't think that had anything to do with any of the league additions or Georgia Soccer and RPL (USYS run programs) being poorly run. The kids are on their 4th season of the new year assignments. I can tell you that it isn't hurting any of the academy age players and it isn't hurting those kids that are in the older ages except maybe the U15 gap year kids. Frankly I don't even think it is a big deal for them anymore as most of the leagues allow the gap year kids to play with U14 teams and Georgia Soccer and the clubs added the U15 Spring season to help those kids and I will give kudos to Georgia Soccer on that.
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Post by soccerloafer on Sept 1, 2019 13:14:39 GMT -5
I don't know why the birth year mandate had to get put into this discussion again. That is just an arbitrary date. I feel bad for the older players that it messed up their teams years ago, but it was done in 2016 we need to get past that. I really don't think that had anything to do with any of the league additions or Georgia Soccer and RPL (USYS run programs) being poorly run. The kids are on their 4th season of the new year assignments. I can tell you that it isn't hurting any of the academy age players and it isn't hurting those kids that are in the older ages except maybe the U15 gap year kids. Frankly I don't even think it is a big deal for them anymore as most of the leagues allow the gap year kids to play with U14 teams and Georgia Soccer and the clubs added the U15 Spring season to help those kids and I will give kudos to Georgia Soccer on that. The age mandate wreaks havoc on the last two years of a players career. Each year, half (or more) of the oldest team graduate, leaving those players to roll down to the next team. So it results in massive team changes the last two years. (The second to last year as players roll onto your team, and the last year as you roll down to another team). At college showcase events, coaches have to figure out which players on team belong to which recruiting year - 18, 19, 20, 21, etc. The school year age brackets made a heck of a lot more sense, both for team continuity and college recruiting. Yes, we've moved past it, but that doesn't make it right. |
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Post by Keeper on Sept 1, 2019 13:21:32 GMT -5
I don't know why the birth year mandate had to get put into this discussion again. That is just an arbitrary date. I feel bad for the older players that it messed up their teams years ago, but it was done in 2016 we need to get past that. I really don't think that had anything to do with any of the league additions or Georgia Soccer and RPL (USYS run programs) being poorly run. The kids are on their 4th season of the new year assignments. I can tell you that it isn't hurting any of the academy age players and it isn't hurting those kids that are in the older ages except maybe the U15 gap year kids. Frankly I don't even think it is a big deal for them anymore as most of the leagues allow the gap year kids to play with U14 teams and Georgia Soccer and the clubs added the U15 Spring season to help those kids and I will give kudos to Georgia Soccer on that. It’s destroying the younger ages. Why do you think soccer numbers have drastically been going down since the age mandate? Do you honestly think a majority of families interested in soccer are going to put their 7 year old / 2011 born kid into a 9U Academy or even a 10U Rec team, because they aren’t. Most clubs 9/10U age groups have been cut nearly in half, especially on the girls side. So don’t try to argue this nonsense that it’s not hurting anyone anymore. It hurts the sport every season. |
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Post by oraclesfriend on Sept 1, 2019 13:27:59 GMT -5
I don't know why the birth year mandate had to get put into this discussion again. That is just an arbitrary date. I feel bad for the older players that it messed up their teams years ago, but it was done in 2016 we need to get past that. I really don't think that had anything to do with any of the league additions or Georgia Soccer and RPL (USYS run programs) being poorly run. The kids are on their 4th season of the new year assignments. I can tell you that it isn't hurting any of the academy age players and it isn't hurting those kids that are in the older ages except maybe the U15 gap year kids. Frankly I don't even think it is a big deal for them anymore as most of the leagues allow the gap year kids to play with U14 teams and Georgia Soccer and the clubs added the U15 Spring season to help those kids and I will give kudos to Georgia Soccer on that. The age mandate wreaks havoc on the last two years of a players career. Each year, half (or more) of the oldest team graduate, leaving those players to roll down to the next team. So it results in massive team changes the last two years. (The second to last year as players roll onto your team, and the last year as you roll down to another team). At college showcase events, coaches have to figure out which players on team belong to which recruiting year - 18, 19, 20, 21, etc. The school year age brackets made a heck of a lot more sense, both for team continuity and college recruiting. Yes, we've moved past it, but that doesn't make it right. They weren't school year brackets though. Not all states start the same day and even in Georgia we were a month off. Plus you have kids that skip a year or get held back a year. This way it is consistent. My older kid was one that skipped a year so I get it, but obviously not everyone has moved past it. As for team continuity...what is that? I have never seen that with my older child. At the moment she has 9 teammates that she had with her last year, 5 she played with for 2 years and 2 that she played with for 3 years and no one before that. Our whole club is like that. Plus with the dropout rates in high school (where we are now) it only gets worse especially for girls. As for the recruiters that is what a TM (or assigned person to do that duty instead) is for...you have your recruiting profiles for that. They have a brain and can look at the paper for themselves. I actually think it helps the younger kids (Sept-December) because they get to play for two years in the top age group and that are that much more ready to play in college. Just my opinion, of course. Part of this is that I guess I am just more of a realist/optimist and think it is a waste of time to worry about that now and just look at the future and make the best of it. |
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Post by oraclesfriend on Sept 1, 2019 13:32:02 GMT -5
I don't know why the birth year mandate had to get put into this discussion again. That is just an arbitrary date. I feel bad for the older players that it messed up their teams years ago, but it was done in 2016 we need to get past that. I really don't think that had anything to do with any of the league additions or Georgia Soccer and RPL (USYS run programs) being poorly run. The kids are on their 4th season of the new year assignments. I can tell you that it isn't hurting any of the academy age players and it isn't hurting those kids that are in the older ages except maybe the U15 gap year kids. Frankly I don't even think it is a big deal for them anymore as most of the leagues allow the gap year kids to play with U14 teams and Georgia Soccer and the clubs added the U15 Spring season to help those kids and I will give kudos to Georgia Soccer on that. It’s destroying the younger ages. Why do you think soccer numbers have drastically been going down since the age mandate? Do you honestly think a majority of families interested in soccer are going to put their 7 year old / 2011 born kid into a 9U Academy or even a 10U Rec team, because they aren’t. Most clubs 9/10U age groups have been cut nearly in half, especially on the girls side. So don’t try to argue this nonsense that it’s not hurting anyone anymore. It hurts the sport every season. I just think that is the nature of the generation and costs and other issues. I don't think people are too worried about it. My younger academy kid actually had multiple play ups on her team as a U9. So I don't think it matters, no. I think it matters that it costs more. I think it matters that kids are more interested in their phones and Fortnite and minecraft than they are interested in sports. |
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Post by atlsoccerdad on Sept 1, 2019 21:37:02 GMT -5
Currently whoever made the schedules for the Publix Cup was “new”. They didn’t allot enough time for each game... The first game went 10-15 minutes over. After the second game was over, they were already running half an hour behind… By the time we showed up for our mid afternoon game, they were already an hour and a half behind (minimum). The frustrating part is that they didn’t notify anyone. Coaches, team managers - no one. I have no idea what time our evening game is going to actually start now… It's going to be pretty rough driving back home at midnight, then getting up at 5 AM to drive back for our other kids 9:00 am game... Our 7:15 pm game finally started at 9:05 pm. We were home by midnight and had to set the 7:30 am alarm for the nexts days game. 3 matches in 24 hours was rough on the team. |
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Post by girlsoccer on Sept 2, 2019 7:52:00 GMT -5
Currently whoever made the schedules for the Publix Cup was “new”. They didn’t allot enough time for each game... The first game went 10-15 minutes over. After the second game was over, they were already running half an hour behind… By the time we showed up for our mid afternoon game, they were already an hour and a half behind (minimum). The frustrating part is that they didn’t notify anyone. Coaches, team managers - no one. I have no idea what time our evening game is going to actually start now… It's going to be pretty rough driving back home at midnight, then getting up at 5 AM to drive back for our other kids 9:00 am game... Our 7:15 pm game finally started at 9:05 pm. We were home by midnight and had to set the 7:30 am alarm for the nexts days game. 3 matches in 24 hours was rough on the team. Were the Sunday games any better? |
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Post by soccerlegacy on Sept 2, 2019 8:32:37 GMT -5
It’s destroying the younger ages. Why do you think soccer numbers have drastically been going down since the age mandate? Do you honestly think a majority of families interested in soccer are going to put their 7 year old / 2011 born kid into a 9U Academy or even a 10U Rec team, because they aren’t. Most clubs 9/10U age groups have been cut nearly in half, especially on the girls side. So don’t try to argue this nonsense that it’s not hurting anyone anymore. It hurts the sport every season. I just think that is the nature of the generation and costs and other issues. I don't think people are too worried about it. My younger academy kid actually had multiple play ups on her team as a U9. So I don't think it matters, no. I think it matters that it costs more. I think it matters that kids are more interested in their phones and Fortnite and minecraft than they are interested in sports. I think most people think it is still a bad idea. I know my academy age player, who would have played along with her best friend in school hates it and doesn't understand why. So explain to me how it has helped and why again? There was simply no need for it and many more reasons why it should have never happened. The U15 split, college recruiting, their last season with half a team, as mentioned playing with friends, etc... and I didn't even know about the dropp off in participation numbers. And what was gained and for who? The less than 1%? A bad idea, is a bad idea whether it was this year or 3 years ago. They should wake up and change it back and just concede they made a mistake. It'll never happen, but I'm not shocked seeing how soccer in the USA is run in general. |
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Post by mistergrinch on Sept 2, 2019 8:55:20 GMT -5
I just think that is the nature of the generation and costs and other issues. I don't think people are too worried about it. My younger academy kid actually had multiple play ups on her team as a U9. So I don't think it matters, no. I think it matters that it costs more. I think it matters that kids are more interested in their phones and Fortnite and minecraft than they are interested in sports. I think most people think it is still a bad idea. I know my academy age player, who would have played along with her best friend in school hates it and doesn't understand why. So explain to me how it has helped and why again? There was simply no need for it and many more reasons why it should have never happened. The U15 split, college recruiting, their last season with half a team, as mentioned playing with friends, etc... and I didn't even know about the dropp off in participation numbers. And what was gained and for who? The less than 1%? A bad idea, is a bad idea whether it was this year or 3 years ago. They should wake up and change it back and just concede they made a mistake. It'll never happen, but I'm not shocked seeing how soccer in the USA is run in general. What good would changing it back do? The 'change' was the disruption (breaking up teams, etc).. once it's in place for a few years, it doesn't matter if it's school year or birth year. Pick one and stick to it. |
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Post by oraclesfriend on Sept 2, 2019 10:41:53 GMT -5
I just think that is the nature of the generation and costs and other issues. I don't think people are too worried about it. My younger academy kid actually had multiple play ups on her team as a U9. So I don't think it matters, no. I think it matters that it costs more. I think it matters that kids are more interested in their phones and Fortnite and minecraft than they are interested in sports. I think most people think it is still a bad idea. I know my academy age player, who would have played along with her best friend in school hates it and doesn't understand why. So explain to me how it has helped and why again? There was simply no need for it and many more reasons why it should have never happened. The U15 split, college recruiting, their last season with half a team, as mentioned playing with friends, etc... and I didn't even know about the dropp off in participation numbers. And what was gained and for who? The less than 1%? A bad idea, is a bad idea whether it was this year or 3 years ago. They should wake up and change it back and just concede they made a mistake. It'll never happen, but I'm not shocked seeing how soccer in the USA is run in general. I never said it was a better way of doing it. I just said it is done and everyone just needs to get over it. It would not help to switch it back now. It would just disrupt everything all over again. The previous date was an arbitrary date. IT WAS NOT A SCHOOL YEAR DATE! There were still over 8% of kids in Georgia that were not with their classmates and up to 33% in other states. There are/were plenty of states that do not use August 1 as their cut off day for school. Even here we are Sept 1. There are plenty of other sports who use January 1 as their cut off date. It is not just soccer. I hated the idea when they started it as my kid was one who had to jump age groups but I just don't think people should continue to harp on it. "Let it go" as Elsa says. Play the game and stop worrying about the rest. There are bigger fish to fry than a policy that happened 3 years ago. |
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Post by atlsoccerdad on Sept 2, 2019 12:24:04 GMT -5
Our 7:15 pm game finally started at 9:05 pm. We were home by midnight and had to set the 7:30 am alarm for the nexts days game. 3 matches in 24 hours was rough on the team. Were the Sunday games any better? Ours started on time so I assume they fixed the schedule. However it was a morning game so I don't know if they later games were delayed. |
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Post by crossbar on Sept 2, 2019 17:10:12 GMT -5
Our 7:15 pm game finally started at 9:05 pm. We were home by midnight and had to set the 7:30 am alarm for the nexts days game. 3 matches in 24 hours was rough on the team. Were the Sunday games any better? The Sunday games were fine all the way through to the finals. From what I could tell, they actually had the correct timing for Sunday from the beginning, so there was nothing to fix. It appears that they managed to butcher the schedule for one day while simultaneously showing that they knew how to do it right on the other day. |
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Post by justreading on Sept 2, 2019 18:07:25 GMT -5
Our 7:15 pm game finally started at 9:05 pm. We were home by midnight and had to set the 7:30 am alarm for the nexts days game. 3 matches in 24 hours was rough on the team.
Not to discount the massive schedule fail on Saturday, but aren't most Sat/Sun tournaments 3 games in 24 hours? With the possible 4th game (for finals) later that day?
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Post by soccergirlz on Sept 3, 2019 13:05:44 GMT -5
Currently whoever made the schedules for the Publix Cup was “new”. They didn’t allot enough time for each game... The first game went 10-15 minutes over. After the second game was over, they were already running half an hour behind… By the time we showed up for our mid afternoon game, they were already an hour and a half behind (minimum). The frustrating part is that they didn’t notify anyone. Coaches, team managers - no one. I have no idea what time our evening game is going to actually start now… It's going to be pretty rough driving back home at midnight, then getting up at 5 AM to drive back for our other kids 9:00 am game... Same thing happened at the AFC Resurgens Ortho Challenge a couple weeks ago. By Saturday afternoon, games were over an hour behind schedule with no notifications. This happened at McCurry as well. |
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Post by nole95 on Sept 4, 2019 12:59:51 GMT -5
We were at Lovejoy for the AFC Resurgens and did not run into any scheduling issues with our two games on Saturday. Even with built in water breaks, both started on time. Also looked like the games on the other fields around us also started on time.
Now on Sunday, our one game was 20 minutes late in starting. It was the third game of the day, so not quite sure why they were so far behind on Sunday, but seemed to manage Saturday without issue.
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Post by Keeper on Sept 4, 2019 13:12:08 GMT -5
We were at Lovejoy for the AFC Resurgens and did not run into any scheduling issues with our two games on Saturday. Even with built in water breaks, both started on time. Also looked like the games on the other fields around us also started on time. Now on Sunday, our one game was 20 minutes late in starting. It was the third game of the day, so not quite sure why they were so far behind on Sunday, but seemed to manage Saturday without issue. I was split between McCurry N & S and Lovejoy for Afc Lightning. McCurry N did run way behind due to not enough Refs for the Academy games on Saturday. Just another side effect of the Ref shortage. But McCurry S and Lovejoy were both on time, though Sunday at Lovejoy I know there was one significant injury that did lead to a game running behind. |
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Post by ultimatedad on Sept 4, 2019 13:49:05 GMT -5
This^^^ was the driving reason behind the creation of SCCL. There was already a bad taste in the mouth after the birth year mandate. It reinforced the idea that clubs had virtually no say in the soccer landscape. Add in a few more seasons of driving down to FL for R3PL play only to be turned back around for no refs or field space. GA Soccer is not alone in culpability for the current soccer landscape, it’s USYS too. USYS is not USSF. It was USSF that was responsible for birth year mandate. USYS and its regional leagues were no more responsible for that than US Club Soccer and its leagues. Agree Georgia soccer was not alone in culpability. State soccer associations all over the country needed a punch to the gut as provided by US Club Soccer leagues like SCCL & ECNL. Not sure why refs and field space werent provided in Florida and agree that that incompetence should be punished. Create a new league environment if you want, sanctioned by whoever you want, but dont leave out any clubs because they are not one of the good old boys. That's just more of the same. |
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Post by atlsoccerdad on Sept 5, 2019 11:26:17 GMT -5
Our 7:15 pm game finally started at 9:05 pm. We were home by midnight and had to set the 7:30 am alarm for the nexts days game. 3 matches in 24 hours was rough on the team.
Not to discount the massive schedule fail on Saturday, but aren't most Sat/Sun tournaments 3 games in 24 hours? With the possible 4th game (for finals) later that day?
You have a good point. But this seems a little different. Maybe the combination of playing a very late game start (9:00 pm) and the drive home / bedtime that felt different. Or maybe it was that the boys had no good time to eat dinner, since they were all waiting at the field at 6:00 pm (unit 10:30 when the game ended). Although they did manage to eat something LIGHT in the 1 hour they had after their afternoon game, it wasn't a meal... |
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