Southeast

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Southeast are about development. They develop great players and have strong teams. Their coaching staff stacks up with any club in the state. Many of their players are winning state championships for their HS and many many will go on to play in college.

U18s are 6th
U16s are 4th
U15s are 11th
U14s are 7th

So the girls side is slightly better than the boys. SE does "fine" and that's it. Better players bolt well before HS. Club state championship titles these days are a joke. What HS championship teams have any SE players been on? Where's their college commit list?

If you're going to make these claims, have some data.

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Old Saybrook Boys
Hand HS Boys
Old Lyme Girls

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They will lose 1-2 players a year to Oakwood. That’s it. High level of retention because families are very happy with incredible coaches and club culture. There is no real reason for many to make trip up to Portland. Just a couple that are chasing a dream.

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no they're not. U17s are 14th. If you're going to brag about your club, try to have actual facts to back it up.

U17s https://home.gotsoccer.com/rankings/...T&search=&pos=

U18s 11th
https://home.gotsoccer.com/rankings/...T&search=&pos=

U16s 3rd https://home.gotsoccer.com/rankings/...T&search=&pos=

U15s 8th https://home.gotsoccer.com/rankings/...T&search=&pos=

If they have a U14 team it doesn't even show up on GS.

Please tell me this isn't how you justify how a team is. Got Soccer is a bunch of bs, where rankings mean absolutely nothing. Teams have to play in Got Soccer ranked events to get points, and if they don't they fall lower and lower, which doesn't mean they are a bad team, just aren't getting Got Soccer points.

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Please tell me this isn't how you justify how a team is. Got Soccer is a bunch of bs, where rankings mean absolutely nothing. Teams have to play in Got Soccer ranked events to get points, and if they don't they fall lower and lower, which doesn't mean they are a bad team, just aren't getting Got Soccer points.

Can't have it both ways. "GS is bad for one set of teams but hey one of our teams is #1."? No. GS doesn't accurately include teams that are best in the state. Sorry but ECNL and DA teams would easily dominate in any match ups with Southeast. Perfectly fine club but that is all.

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Can't have it both ways. "GS is bad for one set of teams but hey one of our teams is #1."? No. GS doesn't accurately include teams that are best in the state. Sorry but ECNL and DA teams would easily dominate in any match ups with Southeast. Perfectly fine club but that is all.

Just looking at Spring results shows 2 ties against sporting 2002s and another 2 vs AC CT 2002s. Neither team is very strong. I guess you should keep playing out of state to keep up that ranking.

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Old Lyme. 'nuff said.

This is hilarious. That old lyme coach is a dolt. Launch the ball over the top. You just proved to all that you know Jack

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Can't have it both ways. "GS is bad for one set of teams but hey one of our teams is #1."? No. GS doesn't accurately include teams that are best in the state. Sorry but ECNL and DA teams would easily dominate in any match ups with Southeast. Perfectly fine club but that is all.

Not disagreeing, but to use Got Soccer as the way to justify if the team is good or not is not the correct way. ECNL and DA is completely different because all those teams play each other, then go to most showcases, so their rankings are more accurate.

Got Soccer isn't a accurate representation. I say this because, you could have a good team, but decide for whatever reason, you don't do Thanksgiving Showcase, you lose out on Got Soccer points, then you don't do March College showcase, you lose out on Got Soccer points. Other teams that do this, just hurdle that team, and on paper it says "X" team dropped 5 spots to #12 or whatever number.

Not saying the #1 team wouldn't be #1 regardless, they may or might not be, but Got Soccer isn't a level playing field. More you play in events more chance you have to move up.

Just saying person posted, use actual facts to back up data, based off of poor rankings seen on GS. You can go through most age groups, and look at the teams and see "State Cup Champs/Finalists" and find them ranked out of the top 10. Those teams must have beaten others in the state to get there. You can also see win percentage, some teams in top like in the u18 link posted, #2 is Everton, win percentage at 33%, they must be top team right? So how do they get to the top, most likely played in a Got Soccer event that was ranked highly and did well in that one event..

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Old Saybrook Boys
Hand HS Boys
Old Lyme Girls

Lol. Hand is a solid HS program with players from all over. Also it's class L. Old Saybrook is Class S and had a cakewalk to the title this year. Old Lyme class S as well. Great. they won. But let's not pretend these are top HS teams in the state.

Poster asked for college placements. If SE is going to claim that they need to prove it.

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Southeast are about development. They develop great players and have strong teams. Their coaching staff stacks up with any club in the state. Many of their players are winning state championships for their HS and many many will go on to play in college.

In all honesty, how many of those state championships are being won at the Class L or LL level?

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They will lose 1-2 players a year to Oakwood. That’s it. High level of retention because families are very happy with incredible coaches and club culture. There is no real reason for many to make trip up to Portland. Just a couple that are chasing a dream.

Sos there is no dream chasing going on at SE soccer?

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In all honesty, how many of those state championships are being won at the Class L or LL level?

see post above - the last three had one in L (Hand boys) other two S.

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see post above - the last three had one in L (Hand boys) other two S.

And how do you respond to the statement that the JV program in my town could best those Class S programs without much concern?

And in those Class S programs, what percentage of the players actually play for SE? And for those Hand boys, how many of them are playing club soccer for SE?

Wouldn't that be an important factoid here to justify your claim?

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Southeast are about development. They develop great players and have strong teams. Their coaching staff stacks up with any club in the state. Many of their players are winning state championships for their HS and many many will go on to play in college.

Which is great for the club. But do not come on here and brag about their Got Soccer ranking. Ask yourself this-

Do you really think that Southeast is the best U17 girls team in CT?

Do you think that the CFC United ECNL U17 girls, that currently have 16 players committed to D1 schools, won the Northeast ECNL conference and is 4-0 this Spring, is not a very good team because they aren't ranked highly on Got Soccer?

I am sure Southeast is doing a great job developing players in that region of CT but stop with the Got Soccer ranking nonsense. You put a bullseye on our clubs back and make us look foolish.

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Look, I am tired of always hearing about CFC, FSA, and the usual suspects. Southeast Soccer Club is one of the finest clubs in the state. Easily one of the best staff’s without question. They have many of their coaches coaching at the college level and, arguably, their 1-2 best coaches coach at the youngest ages, building for the future. It’s probably the best model having your best coach laying the developmental foundation for all the players. Could coach at any college in the country but has committed to the young children. There is no other club within 60 miles that does what Southeast does. They are clearly the best in that part of the state and are most definitely one of the top 6-8 clubs in the entire state.

No competition. Thay have a lock on the entire area down there. It's too easy for them since they have a large pool of kids. It's actually the way it should be done but that doesn't mean they are the best in the state. If give the same advantage (no competition) all the other clubs would have better teams too. Imagine if all the kids in the New Haven or Hartford area only could play for one club and they only had one team per age group.