Did anyone see the ID camp at AFU?

Yes I was there.

Thats a lot of girls, especially at this age... where were they coming from??

It was only easy to tell the few from UFA because they wore UFA gear.  I saw 1 GSA shirt and maybe 1 or 2 Concorde shirts.  Otherwise I have no idea where they came from because they didn't wear club specific gear.

My kid was one of them. We came straight from a game. Most kids wore some of their current gear. In my experience when a kid has no club gear at a tryout it gives the appearance that they’re coming from rec.

If a player needs to wear club attire to get attention, their play obviously isnt up to the level needed. My next comment would be that a player could wear (insert big club name here) gear but play on the lowest team at the club. Again at a tryout or showcase, coaches watch the player not the jersey they wear.

You could have gone if you wanted to know so bad.

Interesting detailed information. In some ways I am not surprised about UFA's camp or Concorde's. UFA coaches pretty much always know who they are taking or not before the tryouts. They have recruited outside players. They know who they are dropping from current teams (though many times the players don't know that until too late). AW and IM work that way. I don't know if CH is the same. Two years ago when AW decided to split his 05/06 group up into their own age groups (mostly) he should have had 6-7 spots open but when the girls arrived at the ID camp he told them there were 1 maybe 2 spots available. The top teams always do this. Even the second teams there are mostly locked in. I do think it is disrespectful to the players there to wander off though.

Concorde never seems that organized to me. I have been amazed at games that we have had with them at academy ages where the whole opposing team is waiting outside the locked gates before anyone from Concorde gets there. Or games that are canceled last minute for a variety of reasons. Back in the Athena days it was also just as bad. But they too always have had conversations with people beforehand so unless you talked to them they probably do not know about you.

Maybe that was the intention at the GSA camp, but for the '07G age group it wasn't reality.  Yes the ECNL team wore red, as did one of the SCCL-P teams.  However, the SCCL-C team wore black, as did the other SCCL-P team.  All of the non-club players wore black, with the exception of 1 that wore light blue.  If the intention was to have the SCCL-C team wear red, it was never communicated, which should not be a surprise since communication at the club absolutely sucks.

There was no official check-in, so players did not wear numbers.  My daughter said none of the coaches (there were 5 out there) approached her to ask who she was, and that seemed to be status quo from others she spoke with.

Essentially for the '07 girls, all 4 of their teams were there, along with about 6 or 7 out of club players...mostly from Athens.  The girls mainly played 7v7 games as they were all on a single 11v11 field.  There were some times the coaches watched, but for the most part they didn't seem very engaged.  At the end the ECNL coach spoke to the players.  One of the comments he made was that this was not a tryout or evaluation session, but rather a showcase to show how far GSA has come (per my 14 year old).  She & her teammates had no idea what that even meant.