I just got an email from SUSA that they are holding NPL/METRO tryouts.... How is this any different from the ones they had in the spring?? are they just trying to pad up the B, C, and D teams with more players?
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Well, on the girls side they have ECNL, NPL, NPL Northeast and Metro teams to fill. And they aren't 4 teams team in every age group so they have a real problem.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostI just got an email from SUSA that they are holding NPL/METRO tryouts.... How is this any different from the ones they had in the spring?? are they just trying to pad up the B, C, and D teams with more players?
“We are excited about the opportunity to provide more players on Long Island the opportunity to play at the NPL level” - Moussa Sy, President of SUSA
Additional tryout dates will be announced for the 2000-2007 age groups soon
For more info contact Chris Colley at chris@susaacademy.com >>
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostWell, on the girls side they have ECNL, NPL, NPL Northeast and Metro teams to fill. And they aren't 4 teams team in every age group so they have a real problem.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostSome age groups actually do already have 4 teams, most others have 3 with relatively large rosters. I'd bet they have enough already to fill out 4 teams each, would just be a matter of reshuffling a bit...
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostSome age groups actually do already have 4 teams, most others have 3 with relatively large rosters. I'd bet they have enough already to fill out 4 teams each, would just be a matter of reshuffling a bit...
The Susa way #SUSALIFE hahaha
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostSome of you outside players that came for ECNL may be playing NPL, don't be surprised....
I wondered how that would work with the NPL team playing in NYCSL against all different clubs with different schedules and locations and such, but now that they have NE NPL as well, it makes more sense.
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This just seems like a total disaster and pure money grab. No real focus. If your not ECNL, then you're just a number
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThis just seems like a total disaster and pure money grab. No real focus. If your not ECNL, then you're just a number
You guys can bash the club as much as you want, it was the best option for my kid. It may not be perfect, but it's perfect for us!
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThis just seems like a total disaster and pure money grab. No real focus. If your not ECNL, then you're just a number
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostIt just seems like you want to bash Susa, which is sad because I'm actually talking about my kid. My kid who decided she wants to explore playing in college and felt the opportunity to play ECNL would give her a stronger platform. We live a solid hour from East Meadow and my kid is a 3 sport athlete in school, so having her finish school sports at 5pm on practice days and race out to East Meadow to train for 2 hours and then back another hour just wasn't as feasible an option as Susa. Plus, she's coming off an NPL team so I'm not even sure she would've gotten any playing time at East Meadow either. At least with Susa, if she doesn't get a decent amount of playing time on ECNL, she can play on another team, that wasn't an option at all with East Meadow because their ECNL and NPL teams are completely seperate entities.
You guys can bash the club as much as you want, it was the best option for my kid. It may not be perfect, but it's perfect for us!
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostIt just seems like you want to bash Susa, which is sad because I'm actually talking about my kid. My kid who decided she wants to explore playing in college and felt the opportunity to play ECNL would give her a stronger platform. We live a solid hour from East Meadow and my kid is a 3 sport athlete in school, so having her finish school sports at 5pm on practice days and race out to East Meadow to train for 2 hours and then back another hour just wasn't as feasible an option as Susa. Plus, she's coming off an NPL team so I'm not even sure she would've gotten any playing time at East Meadow either. At least with Susa, if she doesn't get a decent amount of playing time on ECNL, she can play on another team, that wasn't an option at all with East Meadow because their ECNL and NPL teams are completely seperate entities.
You guys can bash the club as much as you want, it was the best option for my kid. It may not be perfect, but it's perfect for us!
If you are on one of their A teams you generally get excellent training, access to high end leagues, access to high end tournaments and all that for what I consider to be a fairly reasonable price.
However, if you are on one of their lower teams you are paying the same money to be on low division mediocre teams at best that are essentially town teams, receive poor and inconsistent training and are lucky if your assigned coach bothers to show up to your practices and even your games. Plus you get rescheduled constantly and have about zero chance of being moved up to one of the top teams despite claims to the contrary. Oh, and you are playing on the same crappy fields you played on before.
But my biggest problem is how they got most of their teams in the first place. Plan A is that they approach club presidents privately and Eddie Hackett offers huge sums of money, personally to the club president, to bring over all their teams. In our clubs case the sum offered was $50,000, and we are a small club. I suspect that the presidents of Dix Hills and Commack got two to three times that figure. If they fail to persuade the club President they then go directly to the coaches and trainers and Eddie offers them straight up cash bribes to bring the teams over. From what my coaches are telling me they were offered between $3,000 and $5,000 per team to make the move.
I want to make it very clear that this money was not going to the club or anywhere else where it would benefit the players and their families. This offer was for money paid secretly to specific individuals as straight up bribes to bring the teams over. Then after a year when the parents realize that they are paying a lot of money for no reason they leave. Then the coaches that were bribed to bring those kids over don't have their "contract" renewed. And what would have otherwise been a nice town team is broken up after on one year, but hey, at least SUSA got to pump as much money out of the parents as they could for that year so it's all good, right?
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostI bash SUSA all the time, but for good reason.
If you are on one of their A teams you generally get excellent training, access to high end leagues, access to high end tournaments and all that for what I consider to be a fairly reasonable price.
However, if you are on one of their lower teams you are paying the same money to be on low division mediocre teams at best that are essentially town teams, receive poor and inconsistent training and are lucky if your assigned coach bothers to show up to your practices and even your games. Plus you get rescheduled constantly and have about zero chance of being moved up to one of the top teams despite claims to the contrary. Oh, and you are playing on the same crappy fields you played on before.
But my biggest problem is how they got most of their teams in the first place. Plan A is that they approach club presidents privately and Eddie Hackett offers huge sums of money, personally to the club president, to bring over all their teams. In our clubs case the sum offered was $50,000, and we are a small club. I suspect that the presidents of Dix Hills and Commack got two to three times that figure. If they fail to persuade the club President they then go directly to the coaches and trainers and Eddie offers them straight up cash bribes to bring the teams over. From what my coaches are telling me they were offered between $3,000 and $5,000 per team to make the move.
I want to make it very clear that this money was not going to the club or anywhere else where it would benefit the players and their families. This offer was for money paid secretly to specific individuals as straight up bribes to bring the teams over. Then after a year when the parents realize that they are paying a lot of money for no reason they leave. Then the coaches that were bribed to bring those kids over don't have their "contract" renewed. And what would have otherwise been a nice town team is broken up after on one year, but hey, at least SUSA got to pump as much money out of the parents as they could for that year so it's all good, right?
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