Originally posted by Unregistered
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Some BOD members and membership know that if DA goes, so goes competitive high level soccer. They are stuck more or less. US Soccer doesn’t seem to mind the performance level, and there are far worse DA clubs in the DA so they are able to stay under the radar. The SE conference on the boys side is very good and when BU play outside the region/conference they do ok. College placement doesn't matter in the eyes of US Soccer, so it's not something anyone at the club really worries about.
The ECNL was a major life-line for the club and they piggybacked it into the GDA. Gotta give EE credit for seeing what was important for the future of the club. They needed to keep the female membership in order to pay the bills. Without a high-level playing option for girls they would have lost players to Team Boca or Weston. Girls soccer would be dead and that would have hurt the bottom line. When ECNL brought the Florida clubs into the league Team Boca were out performing BU and the other Palm Beach Co. clubs, but TB leadership failed to seize the opportunity. I do think EE wanted high level soccer for girls and wanted to be the first Palm Beach Co club that get ECNL. Again, he did what he needed to do to keep the club floating.
I don’t have a pony in the race. I don’t have kids involved anymore so I feel I can express what I have seen and what I perceive to be the situation. The only people coming on here to defend what is going on at BU are the people getting paid. You heard a response of go run for a BOD spot if you want change, but no defense of what is going on at the club. Good coaching, college support, results on the field, they can't really say those things are going well. I must say that EE is a good coach and he does have a couple guys on the staff that are also very good coaches, but not many, they are not deep. Much of the coaching staff are poor, and should not be coaching at the DA level. They also couldn't tell you the difference between Broward or Brown, and don't have the connections to get either college coach out to see you play. Parents and kids do much of what is needed for college recruiting. It is what it is.
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