Friday was the registration deadline and they only registered a couple of teams outside of their NPL program. CJ and Larry are on BOTN begging people to be patient as Moussa scrambles to put other teams together.
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I don't know Michigan about SUSA but from surfing around Gpt Soccer it seems they have acquired other teams from Commack, FCLI, and now ISA. They strike me a patchwork quilt club with teams from various places. So why aren't they able to field teams in all ages? Did teams leave SUSA? -
Ha ha stupid autocorrect "much" not "Michigan." :)Comment
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This is my understanding as to what happened.
They pretty much only ran SUSA tryouts. They picked their players to form a few SUSA teams per age group and released the rest back to try making teams in their home clubs. Where this all went wrong is that SUSA made the assumption that everyone they accepted would actually follow through in joining the SUSA teams. Instead a number of these players chose to play elsewhere or simply weren't contacted to let them know they made the teams so SUSA ended up way short of where they expected to be. And now that the rest of the players went back to their home clubs to form teams they were no longer available to fill thte gaps. It was just poorly run.Comment
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So who was responsible for contacting the invited players? Does SUSA have an executive director who runs the business side?
The tryouts process sounds pretty pathetic, especially if "professionals" as supposedly leading the club. Makes you wonder what the fall soccer season will be like.Comment
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Patient, it's mid July?!Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
Tell CJ and Larry that everyone was too jealous to join SUSAComment
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The big problem is that SUSA got greedy. If they wanted to create one super team per age group pulling from each club, great. The would have had plenty of kids to choose from while leaving plenty of strong players at each of their affiliated clubs to also have strong teams. And if there was a problem where a few kids backed out, no big deal to squeeze a few more out of their affiliates.
But no, they tried creating as many SUSA branded teams as possible. Their plan was three to five teams per age group and only give scraps back to the affiliated clubs. This devastated the affiliated clubs travel programs and as the parents of the kids assigned to the SUSA B teams and especially the parents of the kids who got assigned to the C, D and E teams realized that they were being asked to pay uber-academy prices to be on weaker teams with no coaches assigned to them they walked away in large numbers. And they can't possibly pull that many kids from their now broken affiliated clubs to make up the difference.Comment
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So instead of taking entire affiliate teams and slapping the SUSA name on each one, they tried to take certain players and create new teams? Or take an entire affiliate team and put the players on B-E teams?
Why not just keep each affiliate team intact and pull up the best to the top team .... as feeder clubs (in theory) are supposed to do?Comment
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And now they are forced to field less teams but since they don't want to let go of any registration fees they are rostering 20+ per team.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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They attempted to create all brand new teams taking players from all of the affiliates. And by attempting to create as many teams as possible that means all the registration money would go to SUSA and NOT to the affiliated clubs.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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But the affiliate clubs continued to exist .... with rejected or unpicked kids? You can do that wth 1 top team .... but not with multiple teams. We not just take the teams over? Or merge like Surf/Westchester FC did?
SUSA does sound vety greedy. And frankly, quite stupid. MHO.Comment
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How is Larry spinning this debacle. I thought all this consoldation was purportedly good for Long Island soccer, lolOriginally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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CJ is spinning. Larry is noticeably silent.Comment
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Based off what I have read they are basically the same person and espouse the same beliefsOriginally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Larry promoting Surf AND SUSA? I guess there are no conflicts of interest when the goal is money.Comment
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