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Not ripping you or your post, because I somewhat agree that parents know the game better than 20-30 years ago. But you lose me when you say this... “ many played college level themselves and understand the nuance of the game quite well.” I wholeheartedly disagree that many played college level soccer. How many parents on your kids team played college soccer? Be honest.

I have a question for you. How many parents of the 5 chosen ones are the most un-athletic blobs ever seen? Be honest.

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Not ripping you or your post, because I somewhat agree that parents know the game better than 20-30 years ago. But you lose me when you say this... “ many played college level themselves and understand the nuance of the game quite well.” I wholeheartedly disagree that many played college level soccer. How many parents on your kids team played college soccer? Be honest.

Played or played at a decently high level. We've got a dad who played D3 at some tiny school. He's worse than some parents who never played at all.

Then how many have any coaching experience? I've none outside of ulittle rec soccer. Once I was out of my element I passed my kids on to people who have much more experience than I do. I drive my kids to games and cheer on the teams. That's it.

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Not ripping you or your post, because I somewhat agree that parents know the game better than 20-30 years ago. But you lose me when you say this... “ many played college level themselves and understand the nuance of the game quite well.” I wholeheartedly disagree that many played college level soccer. How many parents on your kids team played college soccer? Be honest.

Not the OP but at ulittle do the parents really have to have played soccer to see that there isn't much of a difference?

Does OW teach tactics at ulittle? No they don't they focus on individual technical training.

How hard is it to see if a kid is beating another kid in a 1 on 1 drill or doing good in a rondo?

So again OW coach, why does OW only care about 5 kids at ulittle and treat the rest like a training cone?

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Not ripping you or your post, because I somewhat agree that parents know the game better than 20-30 years ago. But you lose me when you say this... “ many played college level themselves and understand the nuance of the game quite well.” I wholeheartedly disagree that many played college level soccer. How many parents on your kids team played college soccer? Be honest.

I count 5...OK maybe not "Many" but enough that assumptions shouldn't be made wholesale

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I think your post supports what the others are saying. At u15 and below ALL the kids that make the team should be treated the same and the OW staff should strive to develop them all. 3/4 of the kids stop caring at 14 because they finally had enough of being a training cone for the other 1/4 of the team.

More Wa wah wah. The kids stop because they aren't that good and Mom?Dad force them to go and they hate it. It's always the 10% who get the extra touches, practices and game. They deserve it because they will continue to be in the top 10%. The young studs will still ben the better of most clubs, there might be 1-2 that can jump in to the top 10%, but the rest are good to average 5-18. It is always the parents of the 10-18 kids that are jealous and spout off with, "If my kid got the extra love, she would be the same as 1-5"........Which is BS. Stop complaining and know where your kid stands and enjoy their ability and their drive to compete no matter if its GDA/ECNL/ECRL/NPL/Travel. Just stop complaining and let your kid play to the best of their ability and enjoy watching the studs because you'll someday say that your lil Mia was on that kids team when they were young. SMH

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More Wa wah wah. The kids stop because they aren't that good and Mom?Dad force them to go and they hate it. It's always the 10% who get the extra touches, practices and game. They deserve it because they will continue to be in the top 10%. The young studs will still ben the better of most clubs, there might be 1-2 that can jump in to the top 10%, but the rest are good to average 5-18. It is always the parents of the 10-18 kids that are jealous and spout off with, "If my kid got the extra love, she would be the same as 1-5"........Which is BS. Stop complaining and know where your kid stands and enjoy their ability and their drive to compete no matter if its GDA/ECNL/ECRL/NPL/Travel. Just stop complaining and let your kid play to the best of their ability and enjoy watching the studs because you'll someday say that your lil Mia was on that kids team when they were young. SMH

Yes, the latest OW commit lists bear this trend out for sure.

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Yes, the latest OW commit lists bear this trend out for sure.

What does the commitment list have to do with the 10%? I'm not sure who is the coach with connections at OW? It seems that its pipeline was too UHart or local coaches that had a connection and now are head coaches somewhere else. (CC)
FSA has MD doing all their talking and he is the only one.
CFC has TP and he does plenty of calls that the coaches don't help with because they are trying to scoop them up for themselves. (MM, DC) SD will help also.

So it's pretty simple that the best kids will go where their best chance to play at the next level gets them seen. Kids will email and if they play on a better team, then they'll be seen by a better group of schools. If they don't, then they are limited and the local coaches that will pick up the scraps.

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More Wa wah wah. The kids stop because they aren't that good and Mom?Dad force them to go and they hate it. . SMH

Are you saying the 5 chosen ones don't have the parents that are making them go? If you are then you are not at OW. The 5 chosen ones are the epitomy of what you wrote above. The parents of the chosen ones corner the coaches at every opportunity, make nice-nice to DF and RD. Have their personnel cell numbers. They know what is going on before any other parent on the team or before it is emailed out by the coach.

They are the parents that force their kids to train everyday, yell at them constantly and are vocal about other kids besides their own.

So I keep asking OW coach. What is the criteria to be a chosen one? It is not the best player on the field. Is it the best parent back in the coaches office? Why do you refuse to answer?

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It's always the 10% who get the extra touches, practices and game. They deserve it because they will continue to be in the top 10%. . SMH

This another falsehood. If you have been there from ytl to u15+ you will see their chosen ones at ulittle are the ones that don't develop as good as the kids they ignore. The chosen ones at ulittle aren't playing up by u14 and if they are still there they aren't even getting good minutes.

Why because OW sucks at talent identification at ytl and ulittle. Their must be other reasons why they choose who they do because I can't believe they are really that bad.

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This another falsehood. If you have been there from ytl to u15+ you will see their chosen ones at ulittle are the ones that don't develop as good as the kids they ignore. The chosen ones at ulittle aren't playing up by u14 and if they are still there they aren't even getting good minutes.

Why because OW sucks at talent identification at ytl and ulittle. Their must be other reasons why they choose who they do because I can't believe they are really that bad.

What does ytl mean?

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This another falsehood. If you have been there from ytl to u15+ you will see their chosen ones at ulittle are the ones that don't develop as good as the kids they ignore. The chosen ones at ulittle aren't playing up by u14 and if they are still there they aren't even getting good minutes.

Why because OW sucks at talent identification at ytl and ulittle. Their must be other reasons why they choose who they do because I can't believe they are really that bad.

Do any ytl remain at U15 ... they replace most of them between u12-u14 for failure to develop.

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Are you saying the 5 chosen ones don't have the parents that are making them go? If you are then you are not at OW. The 5 chosen ones are the epitomy of what you wrote above. The parents of the chosen ones corner the coaches at every opportunity, make nice-nice to DF and RD. Have their personnel cell numbers. They know what is going on before any other parent on the team or before it is emailed out by the coach.

They are the parents that force their kids to train everyday, yell at them constantly and are vocal about other kids besides their own.

So I keep asking OW coach. What is the criteria to be a chosen one? It is not the best player on the field. Is it the best parent back in the coaches office? Why do you refuse to answer?

There you go again. Criteria is the potential of being the best of the group. You keep complaining about the brown nosing and it’s your kids ability that isn’t there. Some kids have more than others. It’s that simple. If DF or RD didn’t give you the line to their bat phone, then you aren’t Commissioner Gordon. You just another parent of an average kid.

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This another falsehood. If you have been there from ytl to u15+ you will see their chosen ones at ulittle are the ones that don't develop as good as the kids they ignore. The chosen ones at ulittle aren't playing up by u14 and if they are still there they aren't even getting good minutes.

Why because OW sucks at talent identification at ytl and ulittle. Their must be other reasons why they choose who they do because I can't believe they are really that bad.

For the past 5 years that I’ve seen. The u-littles that graduated or are graduating this year have been their chosen 10%. You people complain when the Prep kids come back and take the starting jobs over and don’t sacrifice HS. Those kids are your chosen ones and didn’t quit as a previous poster stated.

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For the past 5 years that I’ve seen. The u-littles that graduated or are graduating this year have been their chosen 10%. You people complain when the Prep kids come back and take the starting jobs over and don’t sacrifice HS. Those kids are your chosen ones and didn’t quit as a previous poster stated.

Oh, but the prep school ones did give up HS, right?

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There you go again. Criteria is the potential of being the best of the group. You keep complaining about the brown nosing and it’s your kids ability that isn’t there. Some kids have more than others. It’s that simple. If DF or RD didn’t give you the line to their bat phone, then you aren’t Commissioner Gordon. You just another parent of an average kid.

You think they would learn based on how wrong they always are. But anyway I don't buy it. I see who they choose and it doesn't make sense.