FC Bucks 2006 ECNL - Girls

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Back room deals are alive and well with this club and this team. Go elsewhere.

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You do know PDA has strong way before MO came to be the DOC? None of this makes a difference. PDA are the best girls club in NJ and have always been the best girls club in NJ. This is not to say that there aren't other good clubs. One thing we can all say, FC Bucks are a sinking ship.

Agreed.

Facts: PDA had three ECNL championships and one runner up this year. Places kids at high level D1 schools.
Facts: Bucks had one team qualify for the bottom tier of post season play. Places kids at St.Joes (very good school) because DM’s wife is the head coach there.

Pretty easy to see which is the better club.

Opinion - if your kid wants to go to a top level D1 school PDA is the place to be.

Questions - Does PDA have strong leadership? And does that leadership allow parents to coach their kids? Not trying to bash just curious.

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A few things:

1. It is 50 miles
2. Ironically basketball is the only sport where this by law doesnt apply
3. The rule has many loopholes and is interpreted this way... a coach can not recruit a player if s/he coaches or trains that player at the club level and the player resides outside of the 50 mile radius.
4. This info can be found in the ncaa bylaws

So how did one of Rutgers/PDA GK's originally from NJ reside in FL last year (played GDA at IMG Academy) and become part of Rutger's roster. Seems like some are finding their way around the loopholes like the pay to players in the college admissions scandal (btw - IMG academy guy was part of it).

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How he lose his say on YNT call ups?

He would recommend kids (his club kids) since he was on the Board of ECNL. Not the case anymore. And many of his recommendations are now playing or graduated from Rutgers.

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FC Bucks are not doing well. FC Bucks are one of the worst clubs in the ECNL, that info is based off of league stats and can be found on the ECNL website. Do people at Bucks really trust DM or CF to help them get out of this mess? Fact, either DM and CF go, or FC Bucks is asked to go, say bye to ECNL. Your future playing in the ECNL won't be much longer if things continue to move in the same direction. As far as I know, no changes have been made to improve the club. How have things been since DM and CF took control?

Maybe for some their ECNL days would be over. My kid will just go to another ECNL kid.

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Maybe for some their ECNL days would be over. My kid will just go to another ECNL kid.

Exactly. People want to rail into this specific club but who really cares?? Go for it. The parents will just move their child to another ecnl or Gda club if they need to. People rarely have loyalty to any one club. They will pick up and move to the next.

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So how did one of Rutgers/PDA GK's originally from NJ reside in FL last year (played GDA at IMG Academy) and become part of Rutger's roster. Seems like some are finding their way around the loopholes like the pay to players in the college admissions scandal (btw - IMG academy guy was part of it).

Read the bylaws. Even though she went to school and lived in Fla part of the year she was stil a NJ resident.

Why such an axe to gring with MO? Would you rather he not be allowed to coach at PDA? All this would accomplish is removing 100's of qualified coaches from the youth ranks. The place we need them the most. You cant complain abiut daddy coaches one day and complain about the rules for college coaches the next day.

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Read the bylaws. Even though she went to school and lived in Fla part of the year she was stil a NJ resident.

Why such an axe to gring with MO? Would you rather he not be allowed to coach at PDA? All this would accomplish is removing 100's of qualified coaches from the youth ranks. The place we need them the most. You cant complain abiut daddy coaches one day and complain about the rules for college coaches the next day.

Why don't all the college coaches run clubs then? Yes, he should not be allowed to coach or run PDA. Seems like a disproportionate advantage being able to get money from the kids you plan on training, sending for high level training (to camps) and then bringing them onto your college roster to play the style you taught them to play in club.

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Read the bylaws. Even though she went to school and lived in Fla part of the year she was stil a NJ resident.

Why such an axe to gring with MO? Would you rather he not be allowed to coach at PDA? All this would accomplish is removing 100's of qualified coaches from the youth ranks. The place we need them the most. You cant complain abiut daddy coaches one day and complain about the rules for college coaches the next day.

Hahaha. Seems funny that MO would allow her to not play ECNL to continue to go to camps/tournaments with US YNT and play for IMG Academy GDA. Seems like MO is always looking for the loopholes. Most just try to play by the rules not look for ways around them.

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Why don't all the college coaches run clubs then? Yes, he should not be allowed to coach or run PDA. Seems like a disproportionate advantage being able to get money from the kids you plan on training, sending for high level training (to camps) and then bringing them onto your college roster to play the style you taught them to play in club.

Almost every college from coast to coast has coaches coaching club teams. Once again its one of the many reasons ECNL doesnt schedule against HS, they are really trying to avoid scheduling against the ncaa.

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Almost every college from coast to coast has coaches coaching club teams. Once again its one of the many reasons ECNL doesnt schedule against HS, they are really trying to avoid scheduling against the ncaa.

You aren't understanding. HE is the DOC. HE is receiving money from these kids, he is picking the kids that are going to PDP (and when he had control, call ups) and then using those same kids that he is getting paid to (and profiting from it) train [exactly the same style he plays at Rutgers so no retraining necessary], putting on his roster and getting the advantage of plug and playing them (literally).

Coaching and coaching/running the show (as the DOC does) being involved in all aspects of the business are different.

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You aren't understanding. HE is the DOC. HE is receiving money from these kids, he is picking the kids that are going to PDP (and when he had control, call ups) and then using those same kids that he is getting paid to (and profiting from it) train [exactly the same style he plays at Rutgers so no retraining necessary], putting on his roster and getting the advantage of plug and playing them (literally).

Coaching and coaching/running the show (as the DOC does) being involved in all aspects of the business are different.

You are the one who doesnt understand that his situation is not unique. Your very own DOC at FC Bucks is a college coach. But lets whine about MO and PDA because they do it so much better than your club.

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You aren't understanding. HE is the DOC. HE is receiving money from these kids, he is picking the kids that are going to PDP (and when he had control, call ups) and then using those same kids that he is getting paid to (and profiting from it) train [exactly the same style he plays at Rutgers so no retraining necessary], putting on his roster and getting the advantage of plug and playing them (literally).

Coaching and coaching/running the show (as the DOC does) being involved in all aspects of the business are different.

Although a really bad college coach, the FC Bucks DOC is coaching at the college level. He can't manage FC Bucks and is now running PSA Abington into the ground.

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You are the one who doesnt understand that his situation is not unique. Your very own DOC at FC Bucks is a college coach. But lets whine about MO and PDA because they do it so much better than your club.

DI is a lot different. Money/scholarships involved. The pay to play parents going involved in the college scandal weren't looking into DIII options were they? Maybe you don't understand the differences. Seems right.

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DI is a lot different. Money/scholarships involved. The pay to play parents going involved in the college scandal weren't looking into DIII options were they? Maybe you don't understand the differences. Seems right.

D3 money is often more than D1 money.

Really though since Rutgers doesnt care and the NCAA doesnt care you shouldn't care either. Especially, since no rules are being broken.