The Revolution Academy needs to make some changes.

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BS post. I know of no former Revs player who was cut at season midpoint and joined either Seacoast or Bolts teams that are tearing it up in the DA.

There are a few that left for prep schools at DA season end with Revs. Some are waivered HS/DA and some are with club teams.

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just proved my point!

Yes they do Bryan. Nice try distracting us with the crazy town posts. Revs absolutely cut mid year. And you totally screw over the players who then need to scramble to find a club or team to play on.

Bryan I guess you’re forgetting your phone call to me mid December to tell me my kid wasn’t going to be getting any play time going forward and he’s be better off going somewhere else. That’s called cutting. Mid season.

idiot.

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There are a few that left for prep schools at DA season end with Revs. Some are waivered HS/DA and some are with club teams.

Does BOLTS or SEACOAST allow waivers?

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Pretty simple

Not that poster and of course players shouldn't stay if it isn't the right fit. But 1)they should be given detailed feedback and given a chance to improve 2) shouldn't be told the organization will support them the whole year when it's anything but reality. If it were a pay to play club doing that they'd go out of business. The Revs dik people over because they think they can.

Are you a kra-Z snowflake or WHAT???

Adequate feedback is given by your starting times and playing up. It's up to the player to pursue and ultimately outdo the competition. Not being able to means they are not the top players for whatever reason - probably because they are NOT THAT GOOD.

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Does BOLTS or SEACOAST allow waivers?

Non-MLS teams allow waivers.
IF you comprehend the purpose of an MLS DA as a pipeline to the pros, it makes sense. Several MLS clubs are doing this successfully now - though it took them a while.

Unfortunately until there's a Youth Director @ the revs who gets that, it won't happen. Though none of the whiny BMW helicopter parents on this board get it either.

At least they finally hired an actual soccer coach for the first team.

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Proves my point

Dotard. Again. Your kid didn't develop. They didn't cut him. He cut himself. Congrats to him that he's able to be happy and doing well in his new team.

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But I wanted to call out the idiot who keeps saying "revs don't cut mid season". They committed to my kid for the full year, if he wasn't developing the way they wanted then the coaches should have addressed it. But they never spoke to him.

Obviously they scouted him for a reason, they had a full year before that to develop him and he was a starter and did just fine. If his skills were declining and he just didn't have whatever they wanted then he would have bailed out by now and moved on to something else (or dropped to an NPL/ECNL team). But he's a starter on his DA team, a high scorer, and being recruited to some great schools. So Revs don't know how to develop players. Which is the point of over a thousand pages of this thread.

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There are a few that left for prep schools at DA season end with Revs. Some are waivered HS/DA and some are with club teams.

Nobody is leaving mid season to go to prep. You can't just start at a prep school mid year. Applications for the following year are due in Jan/Feb/March. There is no "late start" in the prep world.

And prep soccer is over in Nov. So if someone left DA mid year for prep they'd be playing zero soccer.

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For the umpteenth time, there are no cuts. KellyAnn is pulling a double shift denying culpability for murdering asylum seekers children and spreading her ... fake ... noobs.

The kids listed all left voluntarily. We all know that. We all know who's leaving voluntarily now for better pastures. Do what is best for you at the time available. It may never come again. For her, it's obviously long long l o o o n g past.

One last time - the Revs don't cut mid-year period

They cut my kid mid year.

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Dotard. Again. Your kid didn't develop. They didn't cut him. He cut himself. Congrats to him that he's able to be happy and doing well in his new team.

Everyone knows what the Revs do - they cut midseason. You look even more foolish trying to push the Revs agenda.

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Nobody is leaving mid season to go to prep. You can't just start at a prep school mid year. Applications for the following year are due in Jan/Feb/March. There is no "late start" in the prep world.

And prep soccer is over in Nov. So if someone left DA mid year for prep they'd be playing zero soccer.

I think he said "at the DA season end". You obviously missed that one.

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Non-MLS teams allow waivers.
IF you comprehend the purpose of an MLS DA as a pipeline to the pros, it makes sense. Several MLS clubs are doing this successfully now - though it took them a while.

Unfortunately until there's a Youth Director @ the revs who gets that, it won't happen. Though none of the whiny BMW helicopter parents on this board get it either.

At least they finally hired an actual soccer coach for the first team.

DA teams as a general rule do not allow High School waivers. The Development Academy is a full calendar year commitment. Some MLS and non MLS affiliated teams will allow for a selected few. Scales took a hardline stance against all waivers in 2017. That's at his discretion.

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DA teams as a general rule do not allow High School waivers. The Development Academy is a full calendar year commitment. Some MLS and non MLS affiliated teams will allow for a selected few. Scales took a hardline stance against all waivers in 2017. That's at his discretion.

It's why his 17 team is imploding.

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DA teams as a general rule do not allow High School waivers. The Development Academy is a full calendar year commitment. Some MLS and non MLS affiliated teams will allow for a selected few. Scales took a hardline stance against all waivers in 2017. That's at his discretion.

yes it's working out well for them. It absolutely is the Revs choice and some clubs don't allow any. But with two other DA clubs in the area and poor performance they should reconsider. Personally I think the idea is stupid - either apply the no HS rule to all or none, not a "selected few" but USSF caved on that.

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It's why his 17 team is imploding.

One of many moronic decisions Scales has made on behalf of his employer. Not the most astute soccer mind in the region.

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DA teams as a general rule do not allow High School waivers. The Development Academy is a full calendar year commitment. Some MLS and non MLS affiliated teams will allow for a selected few. Scales took a hardline stance against all waivers in 2017. That's at his discretion.

Check out the 2019 college commitments thread. The Prep players are obliterating our beloved MLS affiliated academy.