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    Oregon's New Soccer Look

    What will Oregon soccer look like if all the Timbers team play OYSA and the non Timbers team play OPL.

    Will the OYSA or OPL be factor when deciding what club to play for.

    #2
    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
    What will Oregon soccer look like if all the Timbers team play OYSA and the non Timbers team play OPL.

    Will the OYSA or OPL be factor when deciding what club to play for.
    If this does take place it will be bad for everyone during league games. OYSA State champ will give a path to FWR (solid tournament). OPL will give you a solid regional tournament with NWCL (winner goes to Surf) and also OPL will give you a path to NPL Championship Cup

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      #3
      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
      What will Oregon soccer look like if all the Timbers team play OYSA and the non Timbers team play OPL.

      Will the OYSA or OPL be factor when deciding what club to play for.
      On the girls side the OPL will/is stronger, only 1 Timber team (Westside Copa U15) is stronger

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        #4
        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
        What will Oregon soccer look like if all the Timbers team play OYSA and the non Timbers team play OPL.

        Will the OYSA or OPL be factor when deciding what club to play for.
        Not much of a factor. League play is only a small part of the overall experience. Some top teams in NorCal don't even play in a league!

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          #5
          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
          Not much of a factor. League play is only a small part of the overall experience. Some top teams in NorCal don't even play in a league!
          All the top teams that I know of play in league. League is a great time to build chemistry and develop players. If leagues were useless you wouldn't see the pro teams playing in them.

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            #6
            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
            All the top teams that I know of play in league. League is a great time to build chemistry and develop players. If leagues were useless you wouldn't see the pro teams playing in them.
            Most teams play 50 games a year. 14 league games, of which half are cake walks in the OPL, doesn't really do all that much for developing players. Leagues are more for the parents than the kids.

            Pro team play in leagues because they need a steady revenue stream.

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              #7
              The only thing certain under this scenario is that all will pay more $. Teams will get bored playing the same old teams and seek to travel more to "get better competition". Translation, costs going up. Not good for anyone save for a few elites. And yes, most likely your kid is not one of them.

              Soccer in Oregon is in a negative cycle and splitting down the middle is far worse than the current OPL scenario we have. Worse, a split like this will only harden the ego's of those involved to make some sort of reconciliation possible. Until they have a money hit, this is going to continue...

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                #8
                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                All the top teams that I know of play in league. League is a great time to build chemistry and develop players. If leagues were useless you wouldn't see the pro teams playing in them.
                Unless I'm mistaken, the difference is that here in Oregon we use tournaments to prepare for league (the focus is league play) and in areas of higher caliber comp (CAS, CAN, Dallas, NE, etc.) they play league to prepare for tournaments. Their teams also, for the most part, cycle on the calendar year so they are hitting the big tournaments when they've already been together for 6+ month from tryouts, not 1 month.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                  The only thing certain under this scenario is that all will pay more $. Teams will get bored playing the same old teams and seek to travel more to "get better competition". Translation, costs going up. Not good for anyone save for a few elites. And yes, most likely your kid is not one of them.

                  Soccer in Oregon is in a negative cycle and splitting down the middle is far worse than the current OPL scenario we have. Worse, a split like this will only harden the ego's of those involved to make some sort of reconciliation possible. Until they have a money hit, this is going to continue...
                  You have no idea how little you pay here vs. other parts of the country.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                    You have no idea how little you pay here vs. other parts of the country.
                    Nike clubs v. Adidas clubs!

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                      Nike clubs v. Adidas clubs!
                      Doesn't matter how you slice it, there are still too many clubs.

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                        #12
                        to many leagues

                        and now to many leagues.

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                          Nike clubs v. Adidas clubs!
                          Nope. You clearly live in soccer isolation. Far from reality.

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                            Nope. You clearly live in soccer isolation. Far from reality.
                            IF

                            Timbers alliance combine teams at U-15+ and younger ones combine for good tournaments and state cup means 90% of all non TA teams will be playing for 2nd if not 3rd place. With some ages that a single TA club is better than the others it will be even worse.

                            My kid isn't part of a TA club but its pretty simple to see the writing on the wall. If THUSC, FC combined it would be a different story. OSSA is stuck signing their club away so they are sunk both ways.

                            Every TA club has multiple teams at each age group to play in league wh

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                              IF

                              Timbers alliance combine teams at U-15+ and younger ones combine for good tournaments and state cup means 90% of all non TA teams will be playing for 2nd if not 3rd place. With some ages that a single TA club is better than the others it will be even worse.

                              My kid isn't part of a TA club but its pretty simple to see the writing on the wall. If THUSC, FC combined it would be a different story. OSSA is stuck signing their club away so they are sunk both ways.

                              Every TA club has multiple teams at each age group to play in league wh
                              That's hilarious. The TA clubs could all combine and on the girls side they still wouldn't beat the majority of the FC, OSSA, and THUSC teams.

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