No one said divided equally.
Those even full time jobs?
Any DOC paid $65k is underpaid. I’m a coach at a local club and there isn’t a number that would have me be a DOC for any local club. It’s a thankless job where you work during prime family time. Being a DOC is the #1 job in the country that causes a divorce. Yet parents bitch and moan about them. The job is a minimum $110k job to deal with what they deal with. Personally I wouldn’t do a DOC job for less than $160k
This is the longest PCU has ever been discussed on this board.
Like I said, they have a low D-bag factor; their parents/coaches likely don't show up here, and they have few bashers. (Other than boosters of other clubs that like to take potshots at the quality of the soccer).
But PCU is a great club. It's fine if UPDX wants to focus on being an elite-level club, but badmouthing PCU is simply unwarranted. PCU is focused on a more important mission, and still manages to field competitive teams.
any doc paid $65k is underpaid. I’m a coach at a local club and there isn’t a number that would have me be a doc for any local club. It’s a thankless job where you work during prime family time. Being a doc is the #1 job in the country that causes a divorce. Yet parents bitch and moan about them. The job is a minimum $110k job to deal with what they deal with. Personally i wouldn’t do a doc job for less than $160k
"overpriced rec league soccer"? PYSA (the rec program PCU runs) costs about the same as THJSL or other local rec leagues.
PCU's competitive program is quite reasonably priced, too ($1500/year). And if memory serves me correctly, they beat the snot out of your 04 team in state cup last year, which is why you had to steal Westside's. This despite having most of the TA washouts on your roster.
PCU is a class organization, on and off the field. Show some respect for your betters.
PYSA isn't run by PCU. It is comprised of 20 clubs. It is interesting to see Brandon listed as one of its board members.
Other than that point, I agree with everything else you've posted.
Don't see Westside people here talking smack about Aloha after getting schooled by them in the State Cup.
Likewise with FC and HSC.
Tool.
The only ones bringing up PCU on this thread are highway 26 commuters. When someone from UPDX says we don't want to be PCU you try to spin it as a trashing PCU.
But I am glad to see a single game last spring had such a positive impact on your life. Were you are a starting left back for PCU in that game? Do tell.
The only ones bringing up PCU on this thread are highway 26 commuters.
Don't commute on 26. Sorry.
When someone from UPDX says we don't want to be PCU you try to spin it as a trashing PCU.
That's because your tone towards PCU has been more than a bit disrespectful. If you say "we want to focus on training elite players", that's fine. Instead, PCU gets accused of being a second-rate club--which is an odd position for you to take given last year's results. And PCU has long made it clear that their focus is on community soccer, not on trying to compete with old powers like WT or FC, or new contenders like ADF, which do focus (especially ADF) on the elite player.
What it sounds like UPDX wants is to be the next FC or Westside back in the day (or for the girls, a CU); a destination club that can corner the market on the best players, clean up in state cup, do well in travel tourneys, claim credit and win accolades for the staff, and which everybody else dislikes.
You've got the "everyone else dislikes you" down pat. Rest needs some work.
But I am glad to see a single game last spring had such a positive impact on your life. Were you are a starting left back for PCU in that game? Do tell.
No, like I said before I've no connection to PCU. But given that you tried to jump the queue by hoovering up the ex-TA players (aided and abetted by the Timbers cutting a bunch of kids in late fall, after club and high school teams had formed already), I did enjoy seeing PCU do a number on you. I'd have more respect for UPDX if y'all focused more on developing your own players and less on recruiting. BM can coach, as can a lot of other people there. Have confidence in your abilities.
That's because your tone towards PCU has been more than a bit disrespectful. If you say "we want to focus on training elite players", that's fine. Instead, PCU gets accused of being a second-rate club--which is an odd position for you to take given last year's results. And PCU has long made it clear that their focus is on community soccer, not on trying to compete with old powers like WT or FC, or new contenders like ADF, which do focus (especially ADF) on the elite player.
What it sounds like UPDX wants is to be the next FC or Westside back in the day (or for the girls, a CU); a destination club that can corner the market on the best players, clean up in state cup, do well in travel tourneys, claim credit and win accolades for the staff, and which everybody else dislikes.
You've got the "everyone else dislikes you" down pat. Rest needs some work.
No, like I said before I've no connection to PCU. But given that you tried to jump the queue by hoovering up the ex-TA players (aided and abetted by the Timbers cutting a bunch of kids in late fall, after club and high school teams had formed already), I did enjoy seeing PCU do a number on you. I'd have more respect for UPDX if y'all focused more on developing your own players and less on recruiting. BM can coach, as can a lot of other people there. Have confidence in your abilities.
Fine, but the posts on this thread come across as condescending - "your neighbor club knows its place, why can't you".
I like my neighbor too, doesn't mean I want to be them.
What age group teams were just dissolved due to lack of players? Why didn’t this happen at tryouts in late spring rather than in November? Families not happy.
What age group teams were just dissolved due to lack of players? Why didn’t this happen at tryouts in late spring rather than in November? Families not happy.
First teams, or are these B and C teams getting dissolved? And are club fees being refunded, partially at least, so the players can go somewhere else? Sometimes clubs will form a team with an incomplete roster, hoping to fill in over the summer. Sometimes teams have no keeper--and cannot recruit one or convince any field players to make the switch into goal (or play tag-team keeper, with the expected results). And sometimes kids leave and teams fall apart. It happens even though the club had the best intentions. But if it does happen, the club needs to issue at least a partial refund of the dues, and make sure all players are released from any remaining obligations so that there are no obstacles to them joining another. And ideally the DoC in that situation will call his peers at other clubs looking to find the kids a spot.
That said, I know LOTS of ex-BSC families who are very unhappy about what now sounds like a hostile takeover of a financially-distressed club.
What age group teams were just dissolved due to lack of players? Why didn’t this happen at tryouts in late spring rather than in November? Families not happy.
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