ODP- is it still happening this year?

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At the $urf all club meeting last week they said $urf Oregon will host $urf Regional Training Centers all over OR and Vancouver. What does this mean for ODP boys and Timbers RTC? Whatever makes money I guess for $urf.

It means absolutely f**k all. Both ODP and RTC will be fine. I'm hearing that RTC might go away and a new program based out of the Timbers Academy for U10-12 boys players will be announced. Why would anyone openly sign up to a $urf training program

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It means absolutely f**k all. Both ODP and RTC will be fine. I'm hearing that RTC might go away and a new program based out of the Timbers Academy for U10-12 boys players will be announced. Why would anyone openly sign up to a $urf training program

Surely this would be some kind of OYSA violation if NW Delete....i mean $urf tried to run some kind of RTC program. Players registered to Clubs are usually only allowed to attend one (maybe 2) training sessions at another Club while being carded

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Hi Simon have the ODP West Region Talent ID Camp invites gone out for this year? I haven't seen any announcements from OYSA or USYS yet

we just posted them on our website!

Oregon ODP - Oregon Youth Soccer Association

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we just posted them on our website!

Oregon ODP - Oregon Youth Soccer Association

Yawn...

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we just posted them on our website!

Oregon ODP - Oregon Youth Soccer Association

Seen ecnl kids on the list.

Interesting

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Sounds like someone thinks that the only role OYSA should have in Oregon soccer is issuing player cards, sanctioning clubs and leagues, supplying referees, and running the cups; and beyond that really should p1ss off and leave things to the clubs.

Which strikes me as a stupid position to take.

As far as ODP goes.. if your kid isn't interested, don't sign up. If you think ECNL showcases are a better opportunity, then do those instead. But saying "I'm not interested, so the program should be cancelled", or "the program should only exist if it gets all the top talent, and the existence of travel leagues means it does not, so it should go away", are dumb positions to take. The only folks that benefit from this are the folks who run travel leagues and can act as gatekeepers if there is no alternate pathway, and that's what a lot of this "kill ODP" seems to be about--shutting off the alternate pathway.

Being a mandatory middleman is a lucrative business. Being an optional middleman is far less so.

There's a lot of kids out there for whom a travel league is not financially viable--or who live outside the major metros where the travel leagues are found (ECNL is never going to consider Bend Timbers, for instance), and ODP provides an alternative pathway for them, even if a lot of the top Portland kids won't be involved.

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Sounds like someone thinks that the only role OYSA should have in Oregon soccer is issuing player cards, sanctioning clubs and leagues, supplying referees, and running the cups; and beyond that really should p1ss off and leave things to the clubs.

Which strikes me as a stupid position to take.
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Fair point, over the last decade it has been a challenge for the oysa to deliver it's basic core foundationial non-profit services such as issuimg ID cards & the task of sanctioning clubs/leagues.

Whilst the services of supplying referees, running leagues/cups & odp/rtc was outsourced to Peregrine enterprises or other independent contractors for delivery to the ignorant oysa masses.

The structural and operational agreement between Peregrine and OYSA dissolved prior to this seasonal year, leaving the tin shack oysa ill equipped to manage and administer these inherited statewide Timbers/Thorns leagues, cups and rtc/odp scaled programs.

Adding as you mention the responsibilities of running cups and supplying referees to present day oysa staffers, strikes everyone, not just you as a stupid position to take, as they can't deliver even the stand alone basics efficiently.

An entity with such high staff turnover, deviod of any proven or capable leadership should learn to crawl 5 feet before attempting to sprint a marathon.

We are in agreement.

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Over the last decade OYSA role was solely to issue player cards and sanction leagues. That should be their role now too.

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Over the last decade OYSA role was solely to issue player cards and sanction leagues. That should be their role now too.

It's a challenging situation still.

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Nobody sprints a marathon, dumb azz.

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Nobody sprints a marathon, dumb azz.

except the fools at the oysa, who are in over their heads. Great point repeated by a simple dumb Azz like you.

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Nobody sprints a marathon, dumb azz.

Kipchoge runs 13.1 mph…that’s pretty close to a sprint if you ask me.

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Seen ecnl kids on the list.

Interesting

Lol an ECNL kid? What a joke. There isn’t a difference between kids that play in that league from Oregon and one’s that don’t.

scam.

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Kipchoge runs 13.1 mph…that’s pretty close to a sprint if you ask me.

This is no time or place for FACTS

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except the fools at the oysa, who are in over their heads. Great point repeated by a simple dumb Azz like you.

Are they in over their heads. Since the 70's OYSA is the only constant in Oregon Youth Soccer. Leagues come and go, clubs change names, but OYSA has always been here.