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    #31
    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
    CFC must not upset the handbag mafia. There are players on ecnl that obviously should be on ecnl2. And players on ecnl2 that should be on ecnl. But changes are few and far between. Don't want to upset certain folk even if it means last or near last place again.
    Some of those players wouldn't move anyway. They wouldn't want to deal with the drama. And cfc won't move down other players that are untouchable for a variety of reasons no matter how bad or selfish they play. And so it will continue.......

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      #32
      Having a shaky defense and missing a dominate scorer really hurts that team. And throw in some selfish play and bad team chemistry into the mix and it gets ugly.

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        #33
        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
        The problem with CFC is that the club has no culture. It is a hodge-podge of coaches with no clear leadership at the top and no clear style of play. Year to year the players are subjected to new styles of play (some of which is contradictory to what was taught the prior year!). What you end up with is a hot mess - no spirit, no teamwork, and lack of competitiveness.

        For such a large organization it is astonishing that these issues still plague the club. The lack of structure could be stemming from the fact that the club is "side income" for the college coaches who run the club and they do not have the time, or skills, or the caring to change things.

        As the ECNL is a "closed system" and a college placement marketing machine - what is the incentive for change? The money is rolling in, so why bother?
        It would be nice to have a club style of play taught through the years. Our experience is that there's very little discussion/teaching of style of play or tactics.

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          #34
          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
          It would be nice to have a club style of play taught through the years. Our experience is that there's very little discussion/teaching of style of play or tactics.
          The egos of the college coaches prohibit standardizing on a consistent style of play -- they all are set in their ways, and feel they have figured things out already themselves.
          They are all independent "know it alls" that don't want to be bothered.

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            #35
            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
            The problem with CFC is that the club has no culture. It is a hodge-podge of coaches with no clear leadership at the top and no clear style of play. Year to year the players are subjected to new styles of play (some of which is contradictory to what was taught the prior year!). What you end up with is a hot mess - no spirit, no teamwork, and lack of competitiveness.

            For such a large organization it is astonishing that these issues still plague the club. The lack of structure could be stemming from the fact that the club is "side income" for the college coaches who run the club and they do not have the time, or skills, or the caring to change things.

            As the ECNL is a "closed system" and a college placement marketing machine - what is the incentive for change? The money is rolling in, so why bother?
            Yet FSA is more consistent and look at where that gets them. Nowhere. Their consistency is pick the big fast athletic kids early and stick with that. In fact there are complaints about BDA coaching and play becoming too robotic and predictable, lacking creativity. To a certain extent any club, no matter the size or how good and influential a DOC is, is going to have variations in coaching style.

            As a paying customer I'm more concerned about the overall quality of the coaching staff than whether or not they all teach the Club ABC "way".

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              #36
              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
              The egos of the college coaches prohibit standardizing on a consistent style of play -- they all are set in their ways, and feel they have figured things out already themselves.
              They are all independent "know it alls" that don't want to be bothered.

              Practices and games should be videotaped and viewed by coaches and management. Coaches should also switch practices with other teams in the same age groups and check out the other players. And then talk to each other about what they observed, Things need to change and teams need to be shook up. The dream team is leaving. Now the work starts.

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                #37
                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                Practices and games should be videotaped and viewed by coaches and management. Coaches should also switch practices with other teams in the same age groups and check out the other players. And then talk to each other about what they observed, Things need to change and teams need to be shook up. The dream team is leaving. Now the work starts.
                Agree 100%.

                Panic will set in as the losses mount...and they all will be looking for some leadership. They will be pointing fingers at the players in an effort to guise their complacency.
                There is no captain directing the Titanic.

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                  #38
                  Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                  The club owners have checked out. Between the D1 coaching jobs they have and management of the club, they do not have the time or energy to worry about the play on the field, development of players or assisting with players recruitment to others schools that are not their own. It has really gone down hill over the past 5 years
                  This is what it comes down to. All these guys have real jobs coaching in college. This is their side gig and they give it as much attention as you would expect. These teams are not their first priority. They do enough to keep you paying. To expect more is naive.

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                    #39
                    nothing has changed, horrible teams.

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                      #40
                      Does anyone have a link to CFC current commits? Also FSA to compare

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                        #41
                        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                        Does anyone have a link to CFC current commits? Also FSA to compare
                        use Top Drawer. It's probably 85% complete. As a class this year's seniors are a very strong class by CT standards. Counting a few that aren't on that list, as a state we'll probably have almost 30 players heading into the D1 ranks in the fall. A few major universities, Ivies and Mid Majors

                        As usual, CFC has the most but Oakwood and FSA had great placements as well.

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                          #42
                          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                          use Top Drawer. It's probably 85% complete. As a class this year's seniors are a very strong class by CT standards. Counting a few that aren't on that list, as a state we'll probably have almost 30 players heading into the D1 ranks in the fall. A few major universities, Ivies and Mid Majors

                          As usual, CFC has the most but Oakwood and FSA had great placements as well.
                          TDS is woefully incomplete. ECNL comes out with a more complete list usually around this time of year. Both clubs are terrible with updating their websites and OW buries their commits by lumping everyone together.

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                            #43
                            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                            The egos of the college coaches prohibit standardizing on a consistent style of play -- they all are set in their ways, and feel they have figured things out already themselves.
                            They are all independent "know it alls" that don't want to be bothered.
                            Problem our team has had is MN and JA from UB are never around in the fall and send others to fill in for practices and even games. They are bringing down the once powerful Arsenal brand

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                              #44
                              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                              TDS is woefully incomplete. ECNL comes out with a more complete list usually around this time of year. Both clubs are terrible with updating their websites and OW buries their commits by lumping everyone together.
                              CFC typically does a social media splash but I haven't seen it. Pictures of a few individual kids signing but nothing that summarizes the class. Probably because they aren't all done!

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                                #45
                                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                                Problem our team has had is MN and JA from UB are never around in the fall and send others to fill in for practices and even games. They are bringing down the once powerful Arsenal brand
                                Come on arsenal hasn't been good in 5 years

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