Attack on trainers and managers

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Correct! Long line of developing top level players but sad that ECNL has to swoop in and continually steal them.

I love this concept of 'stealing' players lol

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Very true and very sad actually. Developing talent is not a core competency for coaching, but recruiting talent developed elsewhere definitely is. Just the name of the game today, why develop what you have in ECNL when you can just steal all the top players from GaL.
GAL develops all the talent and ECNL swoops in and steals in away.

Truth!

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I love this concept of 'stealing' players lol

Great business model ain’t it? It has destroyed youth soccer around here.

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We are the shore!

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Omg this is so true. There’s some coaches that never, ever shut up. We just laugh at them on the sidelines. I can think of one particular coach in south Jersey that is really bad.

Most coaches from overseas and from here are really bad. Screaming idiots on the sidelines. Never taught the right way to coach.

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I can think of 3 or 4 in north jersey. They are hilarious.

Omg this is so true. There’s some coaches that never, ever shut up. We just laugh at them on the sidelines. I can think of one particular coach in south Jersey that is really bad.

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We are the shore!

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Youth soccer clubs always forget a very basic business principle. The customer is always right. Calling your customers clueless and crazy will only serve to further damage your business.

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Youth soccer clubs always forget a very basic business principle. The customer is always right. Calling your customers clueless and crazy will only serve to further damage your business.

The advantage clubs (and really most of youth sports) have is there's always a fresh supply of new, naive customers. Even when some leave, clubs can usually fill in on the back end with new ones.

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The advantage clubs (and really most of youth sports) have is there's always a fresh supply of new, naive customers. Even when some leave, clubs can usually fill in on the back end with new ones.

You are correct, always a new league, pathway or next best thing to seek the next naive customer. What many fail to realize is that the likelihood of playing D1 is 1-2% and now with the Covid impact on recruiting and classes overlapping that % has gone down even more likely halved. Academics are in reality still your best pathway and oftentimes saving the 10k per year in travel and other expenses to put towards college may be better bang for your buck.

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The advantage clubs (and really most of youth sports) have is there's always a fresh supply of new, naive customers. Even when some leave, clubs can usually fill in on the back end with new ones.

The solution to cut that supply and stop youth sports corruption is to eliminate the sports scholarship so parents can stop dreaming about the impossible.

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The solution to cut that supply and stop youth sports corruption is to eliminate the sports scholarship so parents can stop dreaming about the impossible.

So many fools fall for this crap it’s easy money for these places. If your kid makes it they take all the credit, if the kid fails it’s never the academy’s fault. To see players grown and developed is almost a rarity. They just aggregate players developed elsewhere....like ECNL stealing players and teams developed by the DA/GA. Shameful.

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So many fools fall for this crap it’s easy money for these places. If your kid makes it they take all the credit, if the kid fails it’s never the academy’s fault. To see players grown and developed is almost a rarity. They just aggregate players developed elsewhere....like ECNL stealing players and teams developed by the DA/GA. Shameful.

ah....all clubs do that, even those in DA/MLS/GAL. Youth soccer is a big funnel and it tightens at the end of middle school enormously. Players will always jump for better opportunities for either competition, college exposure even a possible but highly unlikely pro path. That's how it works. There's also plenty of clubs that aren't big on customer satisfaction or quality training. No one forces anyone to jump ship, they leave for a reason.

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The solution to cut that supply and stop youth sports corruption is to eliminate the sports scholarship so parents can stop dreaming about the impossible.

Well said.