OCYS Consolidated Thread

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Not only does OC have ECNL but they have a multi-year contract so it is good next year and several more after. With MLS coming in 2015, OC will also be part of the NWSL expansion in 2016. The goal is to have ECNL fully funded, like the DA, before the 2016 season.

The OP is the original FKK Troll that posted AH and DT were being fired and replaced by Brazilian coaches. I am happy to report AH and DT are alive and well and coaching at SSC several months after these rumors were started.

If you would like your daughter to play in CDL which has lost teams to FPL and FSPL, then go ahead and check out FKK. If your daughter shows real talent and you would like her to play against the best of the best, then have her check out OC ECNL. If they are as poor as FKK claims, she should have no trouble making the team and playing quality minutes in front of 600 college coaches.

The bottom line is there is no harm in trying-out for both clubs. Many did it last year and, ultimately, you go where the best fit is for your daughter. To be clear, FKK will not be playing in FPL, FSPL, R3PL or NPL next year. If you go there, you will play CDL.

Those are the facts. The choice is yours to make.

Your comment about FKK only playing in cdl is not correct. The leagues will be announced at tryouts.

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Letter to ECNL Parents last year

Dear ECNL Parents,

Over the course of the past six months, Orlando City Youth Soccer (OCYS) has
been working hard to bring together two youth soccer cultures and build a new
professionally-led youth soccer club. During that time we have reviewed the club
as a whole, the initial structure, job roles & responsibilities, taken feedback
from parents, Coaches, Directors and outside experts. We have also assessed the
willingness and ability of our staff to work together to build a new, exciting
and leading-edge youth soccer club.

It is against this background that the Board of Directors has taken the decision
to release Director of Soccer Operations & ECNL Program Manager, Hue Menzies,
from his duties at the Club.

We recognize that change is never easy and that there will be questions about
coaching and support for your daughter. We have thought through those questions
and have a plan to ensure that the girls get the highest level of coaching,
support and advice that will allow them to perform at their very best. Steve
Crane, Girls Senior Academy Director, will communicate that coaching plan to all
ECNL parents in the next few days.

We appreciate your support and look forward to providing the best possible
environment for the ECNL girls to continue to develop in the game.


OCYS Board of Directors

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First Hue then Steve - turnover!

Letter from Jan of 2013

Dear ECNL Parents,

Over the course of the past six months, Orlando City Youth Soccer (OCYS) has
been working hard to bring together two youth soccer cultures and build a new
professionally-led youth soccer club. During that time we have reviewed the club
as a whole, the initial structure, job roles & responsibilities, taken feedback
from parents, Coaches, Directors and outside experts. We have also assessed the
willingness and ability of our staff to work together to build a new, exciting
and leading-edge youth soccer club.

It is against this background that the Board of Directors has taken the decision
to release Director of Soccer Operations & ECNL Program Manager, Hue Menzies,
from his duties at the Club.

We recognize that change is never easy and that there will be questions about
coaching and support for your daughter. We have thought through those questions
and have a plan to ensure that the girls get the highest level of coaching,
support and advice that will allow them to perform at their very best. Steve
Crane, Girls Senior Academy Director, will communicate that coaching plan to all
ECNL parents in the next few days.

We appreciate your support and look forward to providing the best possible
environment for the ECNL girls to continue to develop in the game.


OCYS Board of Directors

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Wow, that is bitter way to talk about our old coach. He is a good coach but his decision to coach super y put him on the outs with fca. To bad but I think girls will make their own decisions with or with out him. I think the problem is the better players know they have the option to make the move but the ones who already worry about their position is trying to keep everyone there.

And the clubs lose, the coach loses and the biggest losers are the girls, teams who work well together. Never seems to be about the kids

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Dear ECNL Parents,

Over the course of the past six months, Orlando City Youth Soccer (OCYS) has
been working hard to bring together two youth soccer cultures and build a new
professionally-led youth soccer club. During that time we have reviewed the club
as a whole, the initial structure, job roles & responsibilities, taken feedback
from parents, Coaches, Directors and outside experts. We have also assessed the
willingness and ability of our staff to work together to build a new, exciting
and leading-edge youth soccer club.

It is against this background that the Board of Directors has taken the decision
to release Director of Soccer Operations & ECNL Program Manager, Hue Menzies,
from his duties at the Club.

We recognize that change is never easy and that there will be questions about
coaching and support for your daughter. We have thought through those questions
and have a plan to ensure that the girls get the highest level of coaching,
support and advice that will allow them to perform at their very best. Steve
Crane, Girls Senior Academy Director, will communicate that coaching plan to all
ECNL parents in the next few days.

We appreciate your support and look forward to providing the best possible
environment for the ECNL girls to continue to develop in the game.


OCYS Board of Directors

Wonder if they will communicate their probation/losing ECNL in the same manner?

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Wow, that is bitter way to talk about our old coach. He is a good coach but his decision to coach super y put him on the outs with fca. To bad but I think girls will make their own decisions with or with out him. I think the problem is the better players know they have the option to make the move but the ones who already worry about their position is trying to keep everyone there.

Every single girl on that FCA team could replace any U15 girl currently playing at OC.

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When was this email sent? So can OCYS own the results of last years ECNL teams after HM bring fired?

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Wonder if they will communicate their probation/losing ECNL in the same manner?

Why are you just making stuff up? You are the worst part of soccer. If you want your kids to play at another club that is your decision. Why are you intentionally making up bold faced lies about someone else's decision of what club is best for their daughter? You are a sick person.

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Letter from Jan of 2013

Dear ECNL Parents,

Over the course of the past six months, Orlando City Youth Soccer (OCYS) has
been working hard to bring together two youth soccer cultures and build a new
professionally-led youth soccer club. During that time we have reviewed the club
as a whole, the initial structure, job roles & responsibilities, taken feedback
from parents, Coaches, Directors and outside experts. We have also assessed the
willingness and ability of our staff to work together to build a new, exciting
and leading-edge youth soccer club.

It is against this background that the Board of Directors has taken the decision
to release Director of Soccer Operations & ECNL Program Manager, Hue Menzies,
from his duties at the Club.

We recognize that change is never easy and that there will be questions about
coaching and support for your daughter. We have thought through those questions
and have a plan to ensure that the girls get the highest level of coaching,
support and advice that will allow them to perform at their very best. Steve
Crane, Girls Senior Academy Director, will communicate that coaching plan to all
ECNL parents in the next few days.

We appreciate your support and look forward to providing the best possible
environment for the ECNL girls to continue to develop in the game.


OCYS Board of Directors

OCYS will be in constant flux until they fire the leadership at the club. They have no vision and no concept of how to take care of the kids. The one man in the State that could hand ECNL they railroaded out of town because he was not an a-- kisser.

Did you know AH asked HM about the coaching staff at OCYS at the NSCAA convention last year? One by one he told him what he thought about the wonderful people at OC. AH went to Phil and the rest is his tore reeeee.

Goodbye HM and say hello to a battle in Orlando for years to come.

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Both AH and HM are not at the level. OCYS was smart to get rid of HM, however they need to clean house now. Do a national search and bring in quality people. Time for changes.

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Why are you just making stuff up? You are the worst part of soccer. If you want your kids to play at another club that is your decision. Why are you intentionally making up bold faced lies about someone else's decision of what club is best for their daughter? You are a sick person.

I assume you will post apologizing to me after it happens. Fair?

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Both AH and HM are not at the level. OCYS was smart to get rid of HM, however they need to clean house now. Do a national search and bring in quality people. Time for changes.

Word is out, Any coach who move here for the job will demand a kings ransom! They will eventually get someone but it will cost them a fortune.

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OC didn't recruit JA, he went to them. Now if OC had shown any professional ethics they would have told JA they wouldn't talk to him until after his season was over at FCA. Instead they thought (or maybe JA sold them) that his FCA girls would follow him, so they jumped on the offer and gave him a Super-Y spot for the summer. I guess we'll see come tryouts week whether he can actually deliver and whether OC will keep him for next year. If karma has any say he'll be out of a coaching job by fall. FCA girls seem to be doing better without him.

Even FCA would not agree with this distortion of the truth. OC made an offer to JA for Super Y work during June and July. OC made the offer to JA after FCA already had held its Super Y tryouts (FCA had not offered JA a Super Y job.) FCA did not offer JA a Super Y job until after JA told FCA about this. JA remained committed to his teams and was prepared to honor his contract with FCA until the end May. FCA tried to encourage JA not to do the OC Super Y work and stay with the club, but that did not work out. FCA made a business decision that allowing JA to fulfil his current FCA contract thru May was not what they wanted so they let him go. FCA has not disputed any of these facts. As others have said, the people this hurt are the players and families who had no say in all this. Some older FCA girls may look at OC next year, especially if they want to do ECNL, but not because JA went there -- word is JA would not be an ECNL coach anyway. Everyone else has done what they feel is in their best interests. When tryouts happen, the players and families will do the same.

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OCYS will be in constant flux until they fire the leadership at the club. They have no vision and no concept of how to take care of the kids. The one man in the State that could hand ECNL they railroaded out of town because he was not an a-- kisser.

Did you know AH asked HM about the coaching staff at OCYS at the NSCAA convention last year? One by one he told him what he thought about the wonderful people at OC. AH went to Phil and the rest is his tore reeeee.

Goodbye HM and say hello to a battle in Orlando for years to come.

So hue tells you his personal conversations and that is taken as truth without the other sides point of view.

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Even FCA would not agree with this distortion of the truth. OC made an offer to JA for Super Y work during June and July. OC made the offer to JA after FCA already had held its Super Y tryouts (FCA had not offered JA a Super Y job.) FCA did not offer JA a Super Y job until after JA told FCA about this. JA remained committed to his teams and was prepared to honor his contract with FCA until the end May. FCA tried to encourage JA not to do the OC Super Y work and stay with the club, but that did not work out. FCA made a business decision that allowing JA to fulfil his current FCA contract thru May was not what they wanted so they let him go. FCA has not disputed any of these facts. As others have said, the people this hurt are the players and families who had no say in all this. Some older FCA girls may look at OC next year, especially if they want to do ECNL, but not because JA went there -- word is JA would not be an ECNL coach anyway. Everyone else has done what they feel is in their best interests. When tryouts happen, the players and families will do the same.

This ^ is 100% factual. Nice to actually see some truth on TS.