GPS - Oregon

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I wouldn't say bitter. It's just rather hilarious that after a year of Crossfire ECNL 03 parents bragging about how fantastic their snowflakes are because they paid $10k for a patch, they overlooked the fact the KL doesn't develop players. So now a year later they are staring at a defeated team who is split with one half hating the other, and a DOC who cold called nine GPS families telling them he needed to replace nearly half his team with better players and offering them absurd incentives to walk away from GPS. A year ago some of those GPS girls might not have made ECNL and now ECNL parents are frothing at the mouth to get them on the roster. It's just gross. Hold your club accountable for developing your girls.

What's abhorrent is the way CU ECNL treats the pineriders. Weren't the coaches the ones who selected all the players at tryouts so these players were good enough to make the teams. It's a cycle of selecting players, then getting rid of players, etc instead of developing players. What a scam. Definitely not worth the $6K to $8K.

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Please provide some clarification. Is GPS a club or part of Hillsboro and IFC? We played N IFC team in state cup and they had Bayern Munich jerseys. Is that GPS?

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What's abhorrent is the way CU ECNL treats the pineriders. Weren't the coaches the ones who selected all the players at tryouts so these players were good enough to make the teams. It's a cycle of selecting players, then getting rid of players, etc instead of developing players. What a scam. Definitely not worth the $6K to $8K.

This is crazy talk. I'm at CU and we all seem to get along well. This group you are talking about isn't recognizable to me. Maybe faces change after tryouts, maybe even my DD changes. But all will remain friends. You guys are nuts.

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You GPS people are really bitter. Your coach has been recruiting our kids for 12 months. No issues hear, that's how this thing works. Just relax, it'll be over in about two weeks.

That IS how it works. Girls work hard, coaches develop talent, and then someone lacking talent and creativity comes along to try to buy it. Been there, done that. How do the girls and their parents you are trying to replace feel about their 12 month investment right now? Did you sell them on the level of competition needed to get to college and how you could deliver? They stuck with you through a horrible year, but now they are looking over their shoulder at girls that never played ECNL being offered their spot because they are better. Too bad for the replacements if they accept your offer. Good riddance. Read Aesop. Did you find a bigger bone? They will find someone who will take their spot next year. And no I am not MJ or DL.

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Those GPS girls really are better than our CU girls.

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Oregon ECNL = The race to nowhere.
You guys get that if you have an intelligent child with a good grades she can get an academic scholarship right? Also it's easier to get on D1 teams if your not looking for $$. You nimrods know that.. right???
Makes me think the ECNL parents have below average learners so this may be their ONLY pathway to college.

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Oregon ECNL = The race to nowhere.
You guys get that if you have an intelligent child with a good grades she can get an academic scholarship right? Also it's easier to get on D1 teams if your not looking for $$. You nimrods know that.. right???
Makes me think the ECNL parents have below average learners so this may be their ONLY pathway to college.

Girls soccer = race to nowhere.

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Those GPS girls really are better than our CU girls.

Hopefully the kids come but the parents stay at GPS. They seem kinda crazy.

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Hopefully the kids come but the parents stay at GPS. They seem kinda crazy.

Only a few are truly crazy. More like a cult than eastside yellers, but that is enough.

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That IS how it works. Girls work hard, coaches develop talent, and then someone lacking talent and creativity comes along to try to buy it. Been there, done that. How do the girls and their parents you are trying to replace feel about their 12 month investment right now? Did you sell them on the level of competition needed to get to college and how you could deliver? They stuck with you through a horrible year, but now they are looking over their shoulder at girls that never played ECNL being offered their spot because they are better. Too bad for the replacements if they accept your offer. Good riddance. Read Aesop. Did you find a bigger bone? They will find someone who will take their spot next year. And no I am not MJ or DL.

Elite teams have to be this way or they won't be elite.

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Those GPS girls really are better than our CU girls.

Two of them were not as good as we were told. Not starter material here.

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I wouldn't say bitter. It's just rather hilarious that after a year of Crossfire ECNL 03 parents bragging about how fantastic their snowflakes are because they paid $10k for a patch, they overlooked the fact the KL doesn't develop players. So now a year later they are staring at a defeated team who is split with one half hating the other, and a DOC who cold called nine GPS families telling them he needed to replace nearly half his team with better players and offering them absurd incentives to walk away from GPS. A year ago some of those GPS girls might not have made ECNL and now ECNL parents are frothing at the mouth to get them on the roster. It's just gross. Hold your club accountable for developing your girls.

This is correct from what I've seen and heard.

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That IS how it works. Girls work hard, coaches develop talent, and then someone lacking talent and creativity comes along to try to buy it. Been there, done that. How do the girls and their parents you are trying to replace feel about their 12 month investment right now? Did you sell them on the level of competition needed to get to college and how you could deliver? They stuck with you through a horrible year, but now they are looking over their shoulder at girls that never played ECNL being offered their spot because they are better. Too bad for the replacements if they accept your offer. Good riddance. Read Aesop. Did you find a bigger bone? They will find someone who will take their spot next year. And no I am not MJ or DL.

This is exactly how it is done. It is good to teach the girls how the world works at a young age. This is really a great learning experience for everyone involved.

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Not sure what the big deal is. There are 22 2003s in the pool at Gps. MJ told all the 2003 families he was capping the top team at 18 next year and there would either be cuts or a "training roster". It shouldn't surprise anyone that a few kids are looking. 'Tis the season.

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Some of the GPS parents are losing their bearings and sending their DDs to FCP and CU for the guaranteed spots. They are will to play 'down' into ECNL because of the logo. Some are considering the DA because of the $2000 and playing down. This 2003 GPS was monumental, a National contender (like Seabiscuit in a way) because they played through such adversity.