The Revolution Academy needs to make some changes.

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Now this is the way an MLS Academy is supposed to be run. A 91st minute segment on a typical day at the New England Revolution Academy would consist of being in gridlock traffic on I95 for 2 hours, dropping your kid off at a shi*ty facility with an empty lot. 20 something clueless coaches with high school resumes trickling in with beat up Civic's. No athletic trainers or facilities for the boys, no nutritional people and the training barely lasts an hour and a half. Bryan Scales (the boss arrives on scene and yells obscenities to the boys). Cold pizza and Subway on bus rides to and from games. What an absolute laughing stock of an Academy that is!!

Watch this Revs parents:

http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/the91...new-short-doc/

The Revolution suspend a U18 national team player for training during the off month. hahahaha!! What tools!!

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What a shame. New England of all places. We have such a rich sports tradition and market. New ownership needed fast. Stephon Gilmore gets $60 million, the Revs Academy players get a Subway spicy Italian. They are wearing 2015 Revs away kits for crying out loud!

True but they still look sharp on the field on the surface. It's the holes in the sweats, socks, and practice shirts that makes them look like, well, you know.

You can still get good coaching without alot of money and nice uniforms. You can still have a pro-team philosophy and coaches, who act like role models. You can have coaches who know what each player needs to develop. Whatever.

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True but they still look sharp on the field on the surface. It's the holes in the sweats, socks, and practice shirts that makes them look like, well, you know.

You can still get good coaching without alot of money and nice uniforms. You can still have a pro-team philosophy and coaches, who act like role models. You can have coaches who know what each player needs to develop. Whatever.

The Revs don't have any of that

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Now this is the way an MLS Academy is supposed to be run. A 91st minute segment on a typical day at the New England Revolution Academy would consist of being in gridlock traffic on I95 for 2 hours, dropping your kid off at a shi*ty facility with an empty lot. 20 something clueless coaches with high school resumes trickling in with beat up Civic's. No athletic trainers or facilities for the boys, no nutritional people and the training barely lasts an hour and a half. Bryan Scales (the boss arrives on scene and yells obscenities to the boys). Cold pizza and Subway on bus rides to and from games. What an absolute laughing stock of an Academy that is!!
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What's your agenda? If it's about change , making this statement here will not change anything. It needs to be somewhere where it will be embarrassing to the revs . Should add all the shenigans the u16 and u18s do when at away hotels. The lack of adequate supervision , the hypocrisy and mediocrity of Scales and his lemmings etc etc

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True but they still look sharp on the field on the surface. It's the holes in the sweats, socks, and practice shirts that makes them look like, well, you know.

You can still get good coaching without alot of money and nice uniforms. You can still have a pro-team philosophy and coaches, who act like role models. You can have coaches who know what each player needs to develop. Whatever.

The reality is that only 1 or 2 players in each age group stand even a small chance of developing into pro players, and those are the ones the Revs favor. The problem is that being so transparent in their favoritism they signal to the others that they are not valued and they signal to the "chosen ones" that the team doesn't really matter. No fitness training, no strength or diet advice, crap food on away trips, no passion in the game coaching. They really are doing everything wrong. As the best option in NE don't expect anything to change without a change in ownership.

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RR had a hissy fit yesterday. Such a great inspiration to our young impressionable players. Said they all sucked save for his favorite who happened to be injured. College soccer is a better fit for this guy. Bye bye.

World Class targeted certain players to cover. They also left a few players wide open as they obviously did not see them as a threat. You know, like small players. Wide berth. No sweat. Shut down easily, in time. Open your eyes, buddy. Can you see the way the game unfolds, like at all?

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What's your agenda? If it's about change , making this statement here will not change anything. It needs to be somewhere where it will be embarrassing to the revs . Should add all the shenigans the u16 and u18s do when at away hotels. The lack of adequate supervision , the hypocrisy and mediocrity of Scales and his lemmings etc etc

How do you suggest we "embarrass" the Academy? Twitter? This is merely a heads up for anyone considering that organization for their boy. It's not run professionally, has no real credible exposure (other than playing in the USSDA), the staff is the equivalent of town soccer volunteers and there's a youth director there who actually believes he's operating a legitimate MLS soccer youth Academy system. He' either incredibly delusional or he realizes his academy is a farce and is just playing a role. Development comes to a screeching halt for any child that has innate ability. It's very, very palpable. I would venture to say, it's probably the worst assembled soccer organization I have ever seen in this region, and that includes the small, medium and large pay to play club programs. I have been through many of them with 3 boys in the sport.

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World Class targeted certain players to cover. They also left a few players wide open as they obviously did not see them as a threat. You know, like small players. Wide berth. No sweat. Shut down easily, in time. Open your eyes, buddy. Can you see the way the game unfolds, like at all?

Well duh the uncovered player played the best. Obviously.

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How do you suggest we "embarrass" the Academy? Twitter? This is merely a heads up for anyone considering that organization for their boy. It's not run professionally, has no real credible exposure (other than playing in the USSDA), the staff is the equivalent of town soccer volunteers and there's a youth director there who actually believes he's operating a legitimate MLS soccer youth Academy system. He' either incredibly delusional or he realizes his academy is a farce and is just playing a role. Development comes to a screeching halt for any child that has innate ability. It's very, very palpable. I would venture to say, it's probably the worst assembled soccer organization I have ever seen in this region, and that includes the small, medium and large pay to play club programs. I have been through many of them with 3 boys in the sport.

It's not a viable MLS youth soccer academy. Established in 2007 and it has not reaped dividends. Doesn't take an insider to realize what the Revs Academy needs to do to right the ship. The experiment of hiring Rhode Island based former low level collegiate players is over. They do not know Massachusetts, its players, leagues, clubs or the general landscape. They have no viable scouts, don't attend showcases, and pretty much rely exclusively on RDS. What the Revs Academy needs is to go back to the grassroots. Have a youth director that intimately knows Massachusetts and all its leagues and levels. Employ coaches that have extensive experience with the pay to play system and its clubs. Coaches that know the rising players, that have watched them play, that have strong ties and relationships with other coaches and clubs/leagues. The Cornell guy (Scales) is out of touch. His staff have absolutely no familiarity with the plethora of Mass leagues and playing levels and have no ties with anybody surrounding the sport. You need highly licensed local coaches who have been involved in the Massachusetts soccer landscape. The only permitted outsider would be a known International Sporting Director that oversees every facet of the Youth System and works closely with the first team as well.

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It's not a viable MLS youth soccer academy. Established in 2007 and it has not reaped dividends. Doesn't take an insider to realize what the Revs Academy needs to do to right the ship. The experiment of hiring Rhode Island based former low level collegiate players is over. They do not know Massachusetts, its players, leagues, clubs or the general landscape. They have no viable scouts, don't attend showcases, and pretty much rely exclusively on RDS. What the Revs Academy needs is to go back to the grassroots. Have a youth director that intimately knows Massachusetts and all its leagues and levels. Employ coaches that have extensive experience with the pay to play system and its clubs. Coaches that know the rising players, that have watched them play, that have strong ties and relationships with other coaches and clubs/leagues. The Cornell guy (Scales) is out of touch. His staff have absolutely no familiarity with the plethora of Mass leagues and playing levels and have no ties with anybody surrounding the sport. You need highly licensed local coaches who have been involved in the Massachusetts soccer landscape. The only permitted outsider would be a known International Sporting Director that oversees every facet of the Youth System and works closely with the first team as well.

Agree with all above. Rhode Island has lost its soccer luster many years ago. Majority of players are from Mass. That should be the epicenter of operations.

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It's not a viable MLS youth soccer academy. Established in 2007 and it has not reaped dividends. Doesn't take an insider to realize what the Revs Academy needs to do to right the ship. The experiment of hiring Rhode Island based former low level collegiate players is over. They do not know Massachusetts, its players, leagues, clubs or the general landscape. They have no viable scouts, don't attend showcases, and pretty much rely exclusively on RDS. What the Revs Academy needs is to go back to the grassroots. Have a youth director that intimately knows Massachusetts and all its leagues and levels. Employ coaches that have extensive experience with the pay to play system and its clubs. Coaches that know the rising players, that have watched them play, that have strong ties and relationships with other coaches and clubs/leagues. The Cornell guy (Scales) is out of touch. His staff have absolutely no familiarity with the plethora of Mass leagues and playing levels and have no ties with anybody surrounding the sport. You need highly licensed local coaches who have been involved in the Massachusetts soccer landscape. The only permitted outsider would be a known International Sporting Director that oversees every facet of the Youth System and works closely with the first team as well.

Bilello, Burns, Heaps and Scales should be all sacked. It should start with Scales.

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The reality is that only 1 or 2 players in each age group stand even a small chance of developing into pro players, and those are the ones the Revs favor. The problem is that being so transparent in their favoritism they signal to the others that they are not valued and they signal to the "chosen ones" that the team doesn't really matter. No fitness training, no strength or diet advice, crap food on away trips, no passion in the game coaching. They really are doing everything wrong. As the best option in NE don't expect anything to change without a change in ownership.

The irony is that now the best players (the actual best and the Revs-designated ones - sometimes there's overlap) have figured out being at the Revs isn't the best pathway. So you have the #2 draft pick staying away at the Bolts, players leaving to try Europe even if they burn bridges. Soon enough some quality players just won't join and will go to Bolts or Seacoast or Oakwood or will try the ISL route.

And I doubt the Revs will care too much. They'll still attract a lot of players and it doesn't matter much anyway because no one cares about the senior team (neither fans nor ownership).

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World Class targeted certain players to cover. They also left a few players wide open as they obviously did not see them as a threat. You know, like small players. Wide berth. No sweat. Shut down easily, in time. Open your eyes, buddy. Can you see the way the game unfolds, like at all?

Whatever World Class did it seemed to work. Interesting result.

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Lol. So much hate. I'm guessing the outright untruths being spouted here are from the pay-2-play DA academies or parents whose kids were cut.

First, the Revs have local developmental camps and relationships with town programs for "grassroots" recruiting. Those camps are run in RI, CT, and MA, the regions wich will arguably commute to Gillette if they find that "diamond in the rough".

Then they have RDS, which is better training than you'll find on most club teams. Yes, there are some coaches in club land that do an excellent job, but on the level, if you've watched RDS it is a step above most. They also run multiple coaches with the groups, so the player to coach ratio is usually better than 18-1 you get in club. Those that stand out get invited to special RDS and RDC sessions where they pick the best candidates for their academy teams.

Last, they have their feeder clubs in pay-2-play, Valeo, NEFC, and Bayside. Thise clubs now hold DA teams from u12-u14. The Revs coaches regularly meet with those clubs and teams to get an idea of the best talent available in the clubs. Very few kids will just show up at a club at u15-16 and not be on anyone's radar and be DA caliber. The Revs and the local clubs know who the players are and the relationships are there to get them into DA if the talent warrants it.

As to the senior team, the Revs were up 3-0 at the half against Seattle at Seattle. While it's disappointing that they didn't win, scoring 3 while away and coming away with a draw on the road is a decent performance. Fagundez, Nguyen, and Agudelo are top quality with Nguyen and Agudelo on the NT radar.

Sounds like the same haters here day in day out. Let it go. Your kid didn't make it and your pay-2-play club isn't fully funded. #FirstWorldProblems

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Whatever World Class did it seemed to work. Interesting result.

They covered very well. You have to adjust and play like a team. Revs did not.