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Post by mightydawg on Oct 1, 2019 16:57:58 GMT -5
There was discussion on another thread about a SCCL-P Crossover Event the weekend of October 19-20. Has anyone gotten any details on this event? Is it happening?
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Post by weekendwarrior03 on Oct 1, 2019 18:53:28 GMT -5
Not sure if I want to know what a “crossover event” is. I think the kids are confused enough these days.
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Post by footyfan on Oct 1, 2019 18:57:43 GMT -5
There was discussion on another thread about a SCCL-P Crossover Event the weekend of October 19-20. Has anyone gotten any details on this event? Is it happening? A friend was notified his daughters team was in it and was playing on the AFU fields I believe. |
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Post by Shesakeeper on Oct 1, 2019 19:53:07 GMT -5
We were notified today that girls are playing in Greenville. We don't know much more than that right now, but team manager is looking into hotels.
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Post by Keeper on Oct 1, 2019 22:29:12 GMT -5
We were notified today that girls are playing in Greenville. We don't know much more than that right now, but team manager is looking into hotels. What age group? Because we were told a couple weeks ago we’d be in Atlanta. |
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Post by oldcoach on Oct 1, 2019 22:41:44 GMT -5
We were told it would be in Atlanta also.
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Post by Shesakeeper on Oct 2, 2019 5:17:09 GMT -5
U15, but the email said all girls teams, unless he misread. We initially were told it would be local as well. We were notified today that girls are playing in Greenville. We don't know much more than that right now, but team manager is looking into hotels. What age group? Because we were told a couple weeks ago we’d be in Atlanta. |
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Post by slickdaddy96 on Oct 2, 2019 7:34:32 GMT -5
My son is on a boys SCCL-p team and we were told it would be metro Atlanta. It seems from the posts here the girls got changed and the boys probably stayed the same though I have not heard anything else from our coach or team manager about it. It is kind of getting crunch time if people need to make reservations for hotels. This is bad bad communication on SCCL's part. I was hoping communication would be better.
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Post by SoccerMom on Oct 2, 2019 7:44:25 GMT -5
Girls are we n Greenville, SC
Boys are in North Mt. Carmel
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Post by footyfan on Oct 2, 2019 8:56:41 GMT -5
Meet the new leagues, same as the old leagues.
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Post by atlfutboldad on Oct 2, 2019 9:17:49 GMT -5
The only downside is that its 2.5 weeks away, and now may require an overnight stay for those who don't want to drive 2 hours 2 days in a row (which wasn't expected). The idea of an inter-divisional weekend is a good one. Regardless, someone will have to drive (be it the SC clubs or the GA clubs or both).
The real problem with the league is that the SC clubs didn't fully buy in. In one age group there are less SC teams. I assume they will match up the top 2 from each age group, then the next 2, etc?
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Post by footyfan on Oct 2, 2019 10:11:05 GMT -5
The only downside is that its 2.5 weeks away, and now may require an overnight stay for those who don't want to drive 2 hours 2 days in a row (which wasn't expected). The idea of an inter-divisional weekend is a good one. Regardless, someone will have to drive (be it the SC clubs or the GA clubs or both). The real problem with the league is that the SC clubs didn't fully buy in. In one age group there are less SC teams. I assume they will match up the top 2 from each age group, then the next 2, etc? What SC clubs? What ages? Sorry, too lazy to look 😁 |
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Post by slickdaddy96 on Oct 2, 2019 10:58:09 GMT -5
Meet the new leagues, same as the old leagues. Communication could be better and that is my only complaint right now. As far as quality of matches, amount of games, extra stuff like this crossover showcase weekend, I am happy with all of that. Communication is bad from GA soccer and the Athena/Classic leagues as well with less games and no crossover showcase or anything like that. So it is what it is on that. |
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Post by interestedspectator on Oct 2, 2019 11:11:44 GMT -5
My understanding for the delay was that they were making sure that they:
1. Had field space, they were hoping to do everything in one place.
2. The 2nd issue was referee's once they realized the refereeing would be an issue that is when they had to split up the event to make sure they would have enough referee's.
Yes the late notice is not great but at least they are trying to make sure it would be a success.
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Post by SoccerMom on Oct 2, 2019 13:25:01 GMT -5
Meet the new leagues, same as the old leagues. Communication could be better and that is my only complaint right now. As far as quality of matches, amount of games, extra stuff like this crossover showcase weekend, I am happy with all of that. Communication is bad from GA soccer and the Athena/Classic leagues as well with less games and no crossover showcase or anything like that. So it is what it is on that. Is the communication from the whole league or per club. UFA sent information to all their teams yesterday, I don't know about the rest. Full schedule should be online by Thursday. Reason why games had to be moved is because there just wasn't enough fields available. |
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Post by atlfutboldad on Oct 2, 2019 18:41:12 GMT -5
What SC clubs? What ages? Sorry, too lazy to look 😁 Only SC United has a team at every age group. There are a few others that are in 5 of the 6 age groups (Mt Pleasant, GPS Coastal, etc). But the only age group where SC has less teams than GA is 05 (on the girls side, no idea about the boys). |
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Post by atlfutboldad on Oct 3, 2019 7:56:16 GMT -5
Is the communication from the whole league or per club. UFA sent information to all their teams yesterday, I don't know about the rest. Full schedule should be online by Thursday. Reason why games had to be moved is because there just wasn't enough fields available. The dragging of feet wasnt that big a deal other than they should have announced "SCCL-P Crossover weekend is coming October 19-20, save the dates!" Especially considering the Greenville curve ball. Most people at our club have no idea about the event. Hopefully the schedules do go out today... |
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Post by SoccerMom on Oct 3, 2019 8:11:51 GMT -5
Is the communication from the whole league or per club. UFA sent information to all their teams yesterday, I don't know about the rest. Full schedule should be online by Thursday. Reason why games had to be moved is because there just wasn't enough fields available. The dragging of feet wasnt that big a deal other than they should have announced "SCCL-P Crossover weekend is coming October 19-20, save the dates!" Especially considering the Greenville curve ball. Most people at our club have no idea about the event. Hopefully the schedules do go out today... You weren't told about the event at all? We knew about it beginning of August. This seems to be an issue at your club and their communication |
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Post by atlfutboldad on Oct 3, 2019 8:27:19 GMT -5
Perhaps our club isn't involved? The team managers were told about it and to block off the weekend, but since then, no info from the club or the league. Tbh, the clubs and all leagues SUCK at communication. Indie bands on Facebook have a better grasp of PR.
But I mean a league announcement. Given that this is an event that affects THOUSANDS of people, there should be something official on the SCCL website.
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Post by ultimatedad on Oct 3, 2019 8:51:16 GMT -5
Meet the new leagues, same as the old leagues. |
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Post by slickdaddy96 on Oct 3, 2019 9:02:29 GMT -5
Perhaps our club isn't involved? The team managers were told about it and to block off the weekend, but since then, no info from the club or the league. Tbh, the clubs and all leagues SUCK at communication. Indie bands on Facebook have a better grasp of PR. But I mean a league announcement. Given that this is an event that affects THOUSANDS of people, there should be something official on the SCCL website. If you club has SCCL-P then it will be involved. Our team knew about it around August as well. Then nothing else was heard about it till I saw this info on here. Honestly sometimes I get more info from this board sometimes then I do from my own club and coach. If you didn't hear about it maybe your coach is just bad at forwarding stuff to the team manager, or the team manager is horrible about distributing info. In our case I asked about it after seeing it here, and there was an email that went out to the coaches but not the team manager. |
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Post by atlfutboldad on Oct 3, 2019 9:43:11 GMT -5
Meet the new leagues, same as the old leagues. Remember that time GA Soccer setup a crossover weekend with Alabama club soccer teams? Yeah, me neither. They had ALL the power, but NONE of the imagination. 8-9 games should be fine they said. |
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Post by SoccerMom on Oct 3, 2019 12:05:59 GMT -5
Perhaps our club isn't involved? The team managers were told about it and to block off the weekend, but since then, no info from the club or the league. Tbh, the clubs and all leagues SUCK at communication. Indie bands on Facebook have a better grasp of PR. But I mean a league announcement. Given that this is an event that affects THOUSANDS of people, there should be something official on the SCCL website. As far as I know, it involves all teams in SCCL-P. Have you asked your club/coach/TM for info? It seems someone is not relaying the info back to the teams in your club. |
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Post by footyfan on Oct 3, 2019 12:16:45 GMT -5
Remember that time GA Soccer setup a crossover weekend with Alabama club soccer teams? Yeah, me neither. They had ALL the power, but NONE of the imagination. 8-9 games should be fine they said. GA Soccer is, well, Georgia. So they only do soccer stuff in/for Georgia. But your point is a valid one and should have been addressed at some point: inter-state organization of tournies by willing state associations. Not sure if that was USYS failure or the state associations. |
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Post by Keeper on Oct 3, 2019 17:06:30 GMT -5
Remember that time GA Soccer setup a crossover weekend with Alabama club soccer teams? Yeah, me neither. They had ALL the power, but NONE of the imagination. 8-9 games should be fine they said. GA Soccer is, well, Georgia. So they only do soccer stuff in/for Georgia. But your point is a valid one and should have been addressed at some point: inter-state organization of tournies by willing state associations. Not sure if that was USYS failure or the state associations. Failure of Region 3 and those State associations. Just imagine if they made more mini Regional play with teams near the border. Atlanta teams playing Chattanooga. Augusta playing Columbia, Carrollton/West Atlanta Metro playing Birmingham and all those clubs in between. |
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Post by ultimatedad on Oct 3, 2019 19:59:30 GMT -5
It makes sense to make leagues around population centers and then maybe have a National playoff inter league to determine the champion.
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Post by oraclesfriend on Oct 4, 2019 6:22:13 GMT -5
It makes sense to make leagues around population centers and then maybe have a National playoff inter league to determine the champion. You just described ECNL and DA, not your beloved USYS. It was the population centers that threw off your argument. Regardless all of the leagues have their national playoff and have a qualification for it. |
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Post by SoccerMom on Oct 4, 2019 12:50:29 GMT -5
Update on the crossover weekend.
Only u16 and up teams will be participating on Oct 19-20 crossover weekend. All games will be at Mt. Carmel
The rest of the teams will have the event in the Spring
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Post by soccerdad97 on Oct 4, 2019 12:53:39 GMT -5
How is a u15 team going to participate in the spring when most girls will be playing high school and they don't have an "official" spring season?
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Post by atlfutboldad on Oct 4, 2019 13:25:08 GMT -5
How is a u15 team going to participate in the spring when most girls will be playing high school and they don't have an "official" spring season? I had the same thought. But I also remember someone saying that SCCL might try to have a U15 Spring season this year. I believe I heard the same for NL Piedmont (Spring season U13-U15)...but no idea if either is true. |
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