Originally posted by Unregistered
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The camps are still just daycare endeavors held at local club fields using summer interns and soccer enthusiats as coaches. Nothing different than 40 years of camps in our market.
ODP under the ‘Timbers’ banner has some of the worst coaching staff volunteers and players in the history of the state.
RTC is a Timbers invention and it resembles their daycare Camp product with Staffing and relevance. Simply no tangible or substantive reason to create this bottom rung of group training on the path to nowhere. Outside of a mailing list to solicit all things Timbers for sale.
OYSA ‘Competitive’ Leagues have grown under the Timbers branding but this is a coincidence of timing with more clubs/Teams being formed and no line of demarcation or standard implemented to create a cutoff for participation. It’s a sea of mediocre club teams playing in recreational leagues calling themselves competitive teams. In addition to the traditional leagues they created the OYSA/Timbers money grab events each spring and fall at Delta Park for 7, 8 & 9 year olds is truly shameful. The trickle down effect is the minions at local rec clubs are modeling this disaster at other venues in the fall and spring.
Cups with the Timber branding, seriously a Founders cup? was created by the Timbers which is a glorified rec tournament. The President’s Cup and State Cup are still around but nothing has changed to make them better ,as these events have their relevance dimished with RTC/ODP and Fall and Spring leagues play dates, that only allows only a 4 week window to squeeze in ‘playoffs. The meat of the entire structure competitive youth soccer ‘playoffs’ is not even an appetizer on the menu.
The one area the Timbers have a chance to make a difference and a improvement to the local landscape is their autonomous MLS & NWSL Youth Academies. Instead they hire local wanna be’s coaches as low rent staff, remove local players by the dozen each year from the program since they don’t make the grade of becoming future Timbers/Thorn and hire an ousted big city MLS youth Academy,director to run this craaap show, for boys so his kid can have a team a play for. The girls academy has no director and it’s left to be run by the 2 former OYSA flunkies who run OYSA operations under the shell of the Timbers Brand. This cycle is repeated year after year and is not able to reset.
Clubs have co-branded with the Timbers in naming rights, with an Imganiary alliance which is truly hysterical if you peel back the Timbers sticker, they are still the same product they have always been, now watered down by the removal of their best players to the Timbers/Thorns DA programs.
Somehow folks fail to recognize the leadership of the OYSA prior to the Timbers takeover is still in place (MS & EL) under the watchful eye of GW instead of a a 60K member families.
Yes, this is Great and better than ever. God Bless the OPL right?
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