When and where are the ODP Pools announced?

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Oysa website

Under the odp link. Then look for a link that says pool players
for your kids age group. Usually posted within 72 hours after
tryouts conclude.

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http://www.oregonyouthsoccer.org/about/odp.aspx

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Notify

Each player will be notified with giant bill in the mail. In return for your money you will get crap coaching and your child will want to give up the game they love now because some adult professional youth coach has ruined your player.

All that and much much more.

I like that "adult professional youth coach". Little league baseball just has morons coaching, soccer we pay them.

PS they should take out the word development in ODP very little of that going on.

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Each player will be notified with giant bill in the mail. In return for your money you will get crap coaching and your child will want to give up the game they love now because some adult professional youth coach has ruined your player.

All that and much much more.

I like that "adult professional youth coach". Little league baseball just has morons coaching, soccer we pay them.

PS they should take out the word development in ODP very little of that going on.

Spoken like a true disgruntled parent. We can all make our own choices without listening to you whine and bitch. So your player didn't make it, go tell someone who cares.

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Will have to disagree

Each player will be notified with giant bill in the mail. In return for your money you will get crap coaching and your child will want to give up the game they love now because some adult professional youth coach has ruined your player.

All that and much much more.

I like that "adult professional youth coach". Little league baseball just has morons coaching, soccer we pay them.

PS they should take out the word development in ODP very little of that going on.

Last season was our first experience with ODP; my child was a 98G who did the regionalized and state pool training.

Cost was incremental depending on how far along in the process you wanted to go and were chosen to go. We never recieved a "giant bill", and the biggest expense for us was the travel costs related to the state pool training.

My daughter and I thought the coaching was good. I had concerns with some coaching aspects (mostly related to fairness and percieved biases), but these were relatively minor. Her marked improvement was likely due to both the coaching and the training with exceptional age-group players.

She certainly loves and respects the game more now than before. And I was quite pleased with her development during ODP. Notably, she wants to do ODP again this year.

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Last season was our first experience with ODP; my child was a 98G who did the regionalized and state pool training.

Cost was incremental depending on how far along in the process you wanted to go and were chosen to go. We never recieved a "giant bill", and the biggest expense for us was the travel costs related to the state pool training.

My daughter and I thought the coaching was good. I had concerns with some coaching aspects (mostly related to fairness and percieved biases), but these were relatively minor. Her marked improvement was likely due to both the coaching and the training with exceptional age-group players.

She certainly loves and respects the game more now than before. And I was quite pleased with her development during ODP. Notably, she wants to do ODP again this year.

Our experience with our boy in the 98 program was similar. Happy with the coaches and excited for another year. Our player is more motivated and excited than ever after his experience this past year.

Could it improve, of-course. But overall it was still a very positive experience.

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98/99 RTC pools

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Most of the Boys 98 & 99 pools are now posted; Eugene's are pending.
No Girls 98/99 yet.

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Most of the Boys 98 & 99 pools are now posted; Eugene's are pending.
No Girls 98/99 yet.

No surprises ~ Boys 98's and 99's very predictable.

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Odp

What do you mean no surprises?

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What do you mean no surprises?

Essentially, there are three types of players that get selected:

1) talent (the kid is naturally good, stands out, aggressive, good movement on the field and with the ball)
2) politics (Generally speaking a good relationship with Kony and/or John Bain and Jim Rilatt is recommended if you hoped to give your kid a shot in W/E Portland and neither of #1 or #3 apply)
3) size (98/99's most are in some stage of puberty.... the larger the kid, tall/muscular, the more likely the coaches were taking a 2nd look)

If your kid didn't get picked, then I would say it's because one of those three didn't apply ~ Good luck to all the kids!

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There were like only 18 kids that tried out for portland east. Not to hard to make that team.

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There were like only 18 kids that tried out for portland east. Not to hard to make that team.

Yeah, I saw that. Several of the East side boys came and tried out on the West side. There were close to 50 98's and they selected 24, includes 2 goalies. Said they were only going to pick 20, but I guess they had a hard time making up their minds. Funny thing is, kids that were cut 2 months ago from the state pool, turned around and made it this time and kids that made it to the state pool, were cut, so it's hard to figure out what the coaches are looking for. On any given day, they could change their mind again. Best to just keep your kid in soccer and loving the game, the ODP process is subjective to a large degree.

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Wake up call...

the ODP process is subjective to a large degree.

So is life. Better get used to it now.

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So is life. Better get used to it now.

Agreed. It only gets better from here right? Next year we have highschool to look forward to and a whole different set of subjective criteria :')