San Diego Surf SC Welcomes New Affiliate, New York Surf SC

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Go for it. We can do tournament scores too. It works also be nice to know which teams came over from other places or if they are brand new teams.

I don't understand why Surf is so pumped to be going to CASL and Disney when the don't have any kids listed on TDS for commitments. You'd think SD Surf would be advising them.

omg you are pathetic - go back to BOTN losers - oh wait they won't let you on - this is now the troll cave lol

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omg you are pathetic - go back to BOTN losers - oh wait they won't let you on - this is now the troll cave lol

Larry, no one said you could speak. Shut up and be a good boy.

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No shame in losing to that team. They are the younger half of the team that won state cup and was runner up at npl nationals last year. Very technical and very smart players. Pretty athletic too, lots of speed.
Good luck in your other cup games.

If we lost playing like our defense normally does I wouldn't have posted anything about us and just complimented NYSC. Playing in the offensive 1/3 was not a good idea against this team. I spoke to a NYSC parent at half time and told him that his kid's team reminded me of PDA. They are very, very similar. I firmly believe the parents for that team are definitely getting their money's worth.

Thanks and good luck to this team and your kid's team too.

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omg you are pathetic - go back to BOTN losers - oh wait they won't let you on - this is now the troll cave lol

Have to agree that the trolls have found us...

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Have to agree that the trolls have found us...

I am not so sure that was a troll post

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Surf brought it onto themselves. All spring and summer Larry was touting Surf as the next greatest thing. Parents were salivating at the prospect of their kid instantaneously becoming the equivalent of a Man U player by throwing on a Surf jersey. That rarely works, unless your kid is playing football and your coach's is named Jim Harbaugh.

Surf claimed they would not rehash old, stale area coaches and bring in new ones outside the area. They lucked out with the new SB coach and got Clinton but that's not really importing new coaches because those coaches are already in the area. They still have no girls DOC. They didn't get the GDA that Larry swore they would get. We're rolling into October with no DOC and no ECNL announcement. And now it looks like they are going to being bringing over other club's teams that help bail them out.

Of course some of the U16 Surf parents bragging about CASL and Disney just keeps the bullseye on their back. But that's on them. They're just keeping the gallery with more popcorn-munching opportunities.

But perhaps the best is watching Larry try to pick himself back after the Surf debaucle and attempt to reassert his top-dog soccer know-it-all status. He himself will keep us in business until next summer.

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Surf brought it onto themselves. All spring and summer Larry was touting Surf as the next greatest thing. Parents were salivating at the prospect of their kid instantaneously becoming the equivalent of a Man U player by throwing on a Surf jersey. That rarely works, unless your kid is playing football and your coach's is named Jim Harbaugh.

Surf claimed they would not rehash old, stale area coaches and bring in new ones outside the area. They lucked out with the new SB coach and got Clinton but that's not really importing new coaches because those coaches are already in the area. They still have no girls DOC. They didn't get the GDA that Larry swore they would get. We're rolling into October with no DOC and no ECNL announcement. And now it looks like they are going to being bringing over other club's teams that help bail them out.

Of course some of the U16 Surf parents bragging about CASL and Disney just keeps the bullseye on their back. But that's on them. They're just keeping the gallery with more popcorn-munching opportunities.

But perhaps the best is watching Larry try to pick himself back after the Surf debaucle and attempt to reassert his top-dog soccer know-it-all status. He himself will keep us in business until next summer.

I will not say which Surf team my kid plays on, but we are having many issues. I cannot get specific for obvious reasons, but parents are not happy. We can't leave now as we are kind of stuck. We will definitely not be returning. We are trying out for a club we should have been on when leaving our last club. I am regretting this decision now. Also, Larry may have had an impact on others, but he had nothing to do with our decision. We put our trust in others and it did sound like Surf would be the next big thing. It's just another club with different BS.

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I will not say which Surf team my kid plays on, but we are having many issues. I cannot get specific for obvious reasons, but parents are not happy. We can't leave now as we are kind of stuck. We will definitely not be returning. We are trying out for a club we should have been on when leaving our last club. I am regretting this decision now. Also, Larry may have had an impact on others, but he had nothing to do with our decision. We put our trust in others and it did sound like Surf would be the next big thing. It's just another club with different BS.

Pretty sure Surf LI will pack it up next year and the focus will be Westchester.

PR outsmarted Larry again and got the Suffolk GDA franchise. ECNL will become what NPL is to boys, a nice competitive league but not one to produce many collegiate players.

I also predict if SUSA builds the CI project along with their other indoor assets they will be bankrupt within 5 years. The market just is not big enough to support this much build out and middle of the road teams will not pay premium prices for something they don't need. SUSA is massively overestimateing the potential market in Suffolk and thus their neeeded revenue stream to give them an acceptable ROI and support an even modest debt load.

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I will not say which Surf team my kid plays on, but we are having many issues. I cannot get specific for obvious reasons, but parents are not happy. We can't leave now as we are kind of stuck. We will definitely not be returning. We are trying out for a club we should have been on when leaving our last club. I am regretting this decision now. Also, Larry may have had an impact on others, but he had nothing to do with our decision. We put our trust in others and it did sound like Surf would be the next big thing. It's just another club with different BS.

Dude sorry. Hope it improves. I don't think any of us are surprised about Surf though.

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Pretty sure Surf LI will pack it up next year and the focus will be Westchester.

PR outsmarted Larry again and got the Suffolk GDA franchise. ECNL will become what NPL is to boys, a nice competitive league but not one to produce many collegiate players.

I also predict if SUSA builds the CI project along with their other indoor assets they will be bankrupt within 5 years. The market just is not big enough to support this much build out and middle of the road teams will not pay premium prices for something they don't need. SUSA is massively overestimateing the potential market in Suffolk and thus their neeeded revenue stream to give them an acceptable ROI and support an even modest debt load.

SUSA will be out of business from the way it treats it's players, nevermind the building project. Wins and dollars at the cost of development.

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Pretty sure Surf LI will pack it up next year and the focus will be Westchester.

PR outsmarted Larry again and got the Suffolk GDA franchise. ECNL will become what NPL is to boys, a nice competitive league but not one to produce many collegiate players.

I also predict if SUSA builds the CI project along with their other indoor assets they will be bankrupt within 5 years. The market just is not big enough to support this much build out and middle of the road teams will not pay premium prices for something they don't need. SUSA is massively overestimateing the potential market in Suffolk and thus their neeeded revenue stream to give them an acceptable ROI and support an even modest debt load.

I don't think Surf will be packing it up on LI anytime soon. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if you see more teams get added on the girls side in the spring.

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I don't think Surf will be packing it up on LI anytime soon. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if you see more teams get added on the girls side in the spring.

How does that work? Do parents have to pay again if their team is acquired by Surf? Have to buy new kits? Why switch banners mid-season?

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How does that work? Do parents have to pay again if their team is acquired by Surf? Have to buy new kits? Why switch banners mid-season?

Ask the boys who thought they had a Surf team and followed Jerry only to find out there wasn't enough players. These kids have no club now because they thought they were on a Surf team well into summer that never was. It's stories like that that have badly tarnished the Surf brand on LI.

You won't find that on BOTN because it's the truth and not spin.

At this point they could make the pope DOC and it wouldn't matter, they are done. They made the fatal flaw of thinking you can franchise a soccer club like opening a McDonalds. It's just not that simple.

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Ask the boys who thought they had a Surf team and followed Jerry only to find out there wasn't enough players. These kids have no club now because they thought they were on a Surf team well into summer that never was. It's stories like that that have badly tarnished the Surf brand on LI.

You won't find that on BOTN because it's the truth and not spin.

At this point they could make the pope DOC and it wouldn't matter, they are done. They made the fatal flaw of thinking you can franchise a soccer club like opening a McDonalds. It's just not that simple.

Successful franchising first and foremost requires brining in a franchisee with good management skills who knows the market. But in the case of Surf it was more like opening a branch office. But they didn't do enough due diligence to understand the local customer or competitors before opening up, didn't build the right infrastructure (secure fields) or hire the right people (some great coach hires but not all, and then there's LM...).

That said I don't think they're "done." I do think they will scale back and re-group. They've fully realized (at last I hope so - it's right there plain as day) that a shotgun approach to the market wasn't the way to go; a more tightly targeted approach is better and then they can build from there.

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Ask the boys who thought they had a Surf team and followed Jerry only to find out there wasn't enough players. These kids have no club now because they thought they were on a Surf team well into summer that never was. It's stories like that that have badly tarnished the Surf brand on LI.

You won't find that on BOTN because it's the truth and not spin.

At this point they could make the pope DOC and it wouldn't matter, they are done. They made the fatal flaw of thinking you can franchise a soccer club like opening a McDonalds. It's just not that simple.

That explains why no teams are listed on the Surf website.

Perhaps focusing on the girls side all summer - and publicly announcing that strategy - lead parents of boys to think they were just a financial pawn to launch the other side.