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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThere seems to be a lot of speculation about the Weston alliance, GDA and funding on here recently. I wanted to share the limited information that has already been provided to Weston parents. I do expect an official announcement soon, but below is the current plan that has been provided.
Alliance Members:
Weston
West Pines
Sunrise
Pinecrest Premier
Palm Beach Gardens
Plantation-PSG
1-2 more clubs TBD
At U8-U12, these clubs will play each other in their own league. They can do outside tournaments if they wish, but league play will be internal. This allows clubs to save time on meaningless travel, and will keep the league registration fees internal - basically, they will pay themselves to run their own league. Controls the cost, and can use that money as the alliance determines.
Funding - each club contributes some funds to be managed within the alliance. The league money mentioned above will go to this. They will also do fundraising/sponsorships together, and they will host a new tournament in the fall to raise additional funds. Part of this money will be used to partially fund the GDA; not fully fund, just partial to alleviate some of the costs.
Coaching - JS at Weston, and the other DOCs will implement coaching instruction to raise the level of all coaches in the alliance. They will try to coach a similar style of play with high standards across the board.
GDA - they have not yet provided full details on how this will impact the GDA. It appears that most of the higher level players will play GDA at Weston full time, and then they will pull Part time players from the other clubs as needed. Other clubs will continue to have higher level teams play in appropriate leagues; NPL, FSPL, Region 3, or whatever. This will allow some girls to play high school should they chosoe and get some GDA games.
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For real. We were at a club like that when our kid first started. The first and only year we were there they put all the new kids on the "B" team and charged an arm and a leg. Then our money sent the "A" team to tournaments while the "B" team couldn't get a coach for practice. Such a bad way to run a club.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostFor real. We were at a club like that when our kid first started. The first and only year we were there they put all the new kids on the "B" team and charged an arm and a leg. Then our money sent the "A" team to tournaments while the "B" team couldn't get a coach for practice. Such a bad way to run a club.
Sounds like the individual clubs will continue to have autonomy and have their “A” teams, no different than now. Players that want to play for their clubs and want / need that level...not a lot will change.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostWill this alliance be getting ecnl too like the Georgia teams?
This common sense modification by GDAs would put ECNL out of business!
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThere seems to be a lot of speculation about the Weston alliance, GDA and funding on here recently. I wanted to share the limited information that has already been provided to Weston parents. I do expect an official announcement soon, but below is the current plan that has been provided.
Alliance Members:
Weston
West Pines
Sunrise
Pinecrest Premier
Palm Beach Gardens
Plantation-PSG
1-2 more clubs TBD
At U8-U12, these clubs will play each other in their own league. They can do outside tournaments if they wish, but league play will be internal. This allows clubs to save time on meaningless travel, and will keep the league registration fees internal - basically, they will pay themselves to run their own league. Controls the cost, and can use that money as the alliance determines.
Funding - each club contributes some funds to be managed within the alliance. The league money mentioned above will go to this. They will also do fundraising/sponsorships together, and they will host a new tournament in the fall to raise additional funds. Part of this money will be used to partially fund the GDA; not fully fund, just partial to alleviate some of the costs.
Coaching - JS at Weston, and the other DOCs will implement coaching instruction to raise the level of all coaches in the alliance. They will try to coach a similar style of play with high standards across the board.
GDA - they have not yet provided full details on how this will impact the GDA. It appears that most of the higher level players will play GDA at Weston full time, and then they will pull Part time players from the other clubs as needed. Other clubs will continue to have higher level teams play in appropriate leagues; NPL, FSPL, Region 3, or whatever. This will allow some girls to play high school should they chosoe and get some GDA games.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostNo need.. all the GDA has to do is move to a “ modified high school model”... allow girls to play a maximum of 2 High games per week and require attendance at 2 GDA practices per week... except the week of the December GDA Showcase.. no HS Soccer allowed that week.
This common sense modification by GDAs would put ECNL out of business!
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Kids need as many touches as possible , games and more games , look at the European youth leagues , those kids play all the time -
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostSo you’re talking about 2 games each week, plus HS training and on top just to meet regulations 2 GDA sessions which could really only be recovery sessions from the HS games. Your proposal will blow multiple ACLs aside from getting two different coaching perspectives because HS and clubs don’t work together in beenfit of player development. There is no motoring of minutes, etc. BAD Idea! GDA will be successful in a few years, once Colleges start recruiting from GDA league play and not HS (happened with the boys already). It’s a matter of time.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostNo need.. all the GDA has to do is move to a “ modified high school model”... allow girls to play a maximum of 2 High games per week and require attendance at 2 GDA practices per week... except the week of the December GDA Showcase.. no HS Soccer allowed that week.
This common sense modification by GDAs would put ECNL out of business!
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThere seems to be a lot of speculation about the Weston alliance, GDA and funding on here recently. I wanted to share the limited information that has already been provided to Weston parents. I do expect an official announcement soon, but below is the current plan that has been provided.
Alliance Members:
Weston
West Pines
Sunrise
Pinecrest Premier
Palm Beach Gardens
Plantation-PSG
1-2 more clubs TBD
At U8-U12, these clubs will play each other in their own league. They can do outside tournaments if they wish, but league play will be internal. This allows clubs to save time on meaningless travel, and will keep the league registration fees internal - basically, they will pay themselves to run their own league. Controls the cost, and can use that money as the alliance determines.
Funding - each club contributes some funds to be managed within the alliance. The league money mentioned above will go to this. They will also do fundraising/sponsorships together, and they will host a new tournament in the fall to raise additional funds. Part of this money will be used to partially fund the GDA; not fully fund, just partial to alleviate some of the costs.
Coaching - JS at Weston, and the other DOCs will implement coaching instruction to raise the level of all coaches in the alliance. They will try to coach a similar style of play with high standards across the board.
GDA - they have not yet provided full details on how this will impact the GDA. It appears that most of the higher level players will play GDA at Weston full time, and then they will pull Part time players from the other clubs as needed. Other clubs will continue to have higher level teams play in appropriate leagues; NPL, FSPL, Region 3, or whatever. This will allow some girls to play high school should they chosoe and get some GDA games.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThis is hilarious and this model won't work. Great job alliance. Parents will never buy in to this. So few spots available for GDA and no one is excited to play NPL and travel all over for a sh!!t show including FL State Cup! LMAO
Those clubs all currently have teams doing it. The vast majority of players in Florida do exactly that, so obviously you are very wrong.
The only thing that definitely won't work is to continue to follow the same broken model that SF currently has...no alliances, no cooperation, no truly competitive teams.
Think big. Why can't SF evolve into a regional with nationally competitive teams? It can, with vision and organization.
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