Frienship Cup ** Updated Info

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93-96 do well against the SoCal/NoCal ODP teams (girls side), and those age groups don't come because of weak competition at 97/98? Give me a break. As an aside, I would bet big money that the 97 girls would tie or beat the WA 97 girls. No, they are not a joke.

Dude. You have got to be kidding right? If you think the 97 girls can hang with WA 97s, that means you also think that they can hang with both CA teams, North and South. Keep dreaming my man...no way OR 97 girls could keep a close score with Cal South. Did you see the what happened the last time those 2 teams met? What was it, 9-0? I lost count it was so bad. And I was there in support of OR odp. Had it not been for the amazing skill of the OR keeper, the score would have been much, much higher. Its nice to support your daughter, but let's keep things in perspective now.

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To fill out the schedule, THUSC had to throw together a team from their U15, U16 and U18 teams; and a few ex-Neon players! That's not a "team" that's a collection of available kids. Definately not what we signed up for and paid $100 for the privledge. If OYSA is using any part of the $ collected as a fundraiser, ir should be refunded to the families after paying refs, etc.

Actually this team handed the 94 ODP squad a 1-1 tie yesterday. I'd say that's pretty much what they signed up for, a team that can play with and potentially beat them.

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Dude. You have got to be kidding right? If you think the 97 girls can hang with WA 97s, that means you also think that they can hang with both CA teams, North and South. Keep dreaming my man...no way OR 97 girls could keep a close score with Cal South. Did you see the what happened the last time those 2 teams met? What was it, 9-0? I lost count it was so bad. And I was there in support of OR odp. Had it not been for the amazing skill of the OR keeper, the score would have been much, much higher. Its nice to support your daughter, but let's keep things in perspective now.

Dude. It's a different team with different girls.

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What was the score of the Or G97s vs BC 97s?

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Or lost 1-0

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Or lost 1-0

Can anyone confirm? And is this The OR team 1?

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Or lost 1-0

pretty sad if true. The Wa 97s beat BC's 96s a couple weeks ago using only about 6-7starters and the rest of the girls in attendance were pool players. Wa won easily 4-0. Whoever the guy is that's trying to put Or in the same leauge as Cali and Wa is sorely mistaken.

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pretty sad if true. The Wa 97s beat BC's 96s a couple weeks ago using only about 6-7starters and the rest of the girls in attendance were pool players. Wa won easily 4-0. Whoever the guy is that's trying to put Or in the same leauge as Cali and Wa is sorely mistaken.

You can't read anything to that. For that game and todays, 97 coach mixed up the first and second teams, had some of the strongest players play with team 2 and had a few others from team 2 play with team 1 to give them a chance to prove themselves. Coaches are just using this weekend to finalize rosters for camp.

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Dude. It's a different team with different girls.

Agreed, without all the playups, many new additions, and much better coaching, this is a much better group than last year!

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Friendship Cup IS a joke. Certain parents can defend it, if they want and that's fine. Others (myself included), who take a realistic view of the situation are appalled by what has been fed to us as a "competitive tournament" is in fact a series of glorified scrimmages against other Oregon ODP teams and a couple club teams that so far haven't really given our girls much competition.

To fill out the schedule, THUSC had to throw together a team from their U15, U16 and U18 teams; and a few ex-Neon players! That's not a "team" that's a collection of available kids. Definately not what we signed up for and paid $100 for the privledge. If OYSA is using any part of the $ collected as a fundraiser, ir should be refunded to the families after paying refs, etc.

As far as the lack of out of state ODP teams being a result of the economy, that's not completely accurate. I spoke to one of the coaches who confirmed OYSA's lack of funding (due to OPL clubs leaving) meant no travel to other states' ODP events. Participation in ODP events is very much a "you do my tourney, I'll do yours" arrangement. With Oregon not supporting any other state's ODP events, the dominoes were set to fall. After SoCal, cancelled, NorCal saw no reason to come, nor did Utah or even Washington. That left only BC's team and the subsequent scramble for club teams. Oregon ODP knew this was taking place weeks ago and should have cancelled, or made other arrangements. Sadly, for some kids, this lame excuse for a tournament was their only opportunity to use the ODP uniforms we all had to pay for.

I don't know what the ultimate solution is, but I suspect OPL will need to take over ODP as they are the only association of clubs who can properly fund it.

Off to the fields for another scrimmage...

At the end of the day each parent can weigh for themselves what they are willing to spend their money on. For us.. (see the private training thread) ODP is a very good training outlet. My DD gets to train and play and scrimmage with the best and she gets to do it under the direction of a University of Oregon coach. Not bad for $100. How much is private training??

We choose to believe that at least a few of the groups will stick it out and let the program get their finances together. As for the 95 and 96 girls they have done so well. These are two groups that need to keep the momentum and I have heard that Mac is still coaching next year. That is a huge plus. Everyone wants their kid to be seen by college coaches right (they all know each other) and what better way than playing under their direction.

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pretty sad if true. The Wa 97s beat BC's 96s a couple weeks ago using only about 6-7starters and the rest of the girls in attendance were pool players. Wa won easily 4-0. Whoever the guy is that's trying to put Or in the same leauge as Cali and Wa is sorely mistaken.

The scores are meaningless. That is not what they're working on in the tourney for the most part. This is not set up as "no. 1" being the no. 1 team and so on. You need to look at the players. I can guarantee you that the top OR 97 would be very competitive with the top WA 97 team at this point.

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Can anyone confirm? And is this The OR team 1?

split squad, just like all the other ages.