USYS REGIONALS - Hawaii

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Heard most Oregon state champions have declined their coaches Hawaiian vacation. How many teams rejected their bid and how many accepted it?

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Club estimates are $2500-$3500 per player for all travel expenses to Hawaii. That includes flight, hotel, rental vehicles, gas, food, etc. If you won state cup and just confirmed your qualification to go to FWR, your team has very little time to book travel... so flight, hotel, and rental van rates are high.

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Price tag for 18 players and two coaches is 50K for a team? Wow !!!

[Guest]

Heard most Oregon state champions have declined their coaches Hawaiian vacation. How many teams rejected their bid and how many accepted it?

You haven’t heard ish. No one has made that decision in under 24 hours

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Price tag for 18 players and two coaches is 50K for a team? Wow !!!

It’s how they develop players.

The cool thing is Oregon suckers will go and most states won’t so Oregon will win a record number of regional titles. Proving they develop players.

Hoohaw.

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Price tag for 18 players and two coaches is 50K for a team? Wow !!!

The flight from PDX to Honolulu alone is at least $850-$950 per player. Then a hotel in Hawaii for a week... so $3000 per player seems like it is in the ballpark.

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We were told today that United PDX is covering the costs across all the winning age groups. We are United.

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We were told today that United PDX is covering the costs across all the winning age groups. We are United.

Other United families being bilked for exorbitant fees for a crappy club are covering it.

There fixed for you . Nothing is free and I can’t believe you thought this was so great but a selfish club draws selfish families.

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Other United families being bilked for exorbitant fees for a crappy club are covering it.

There fixed for you . Nothing is free and I can’t believe you thought this was so great but a selfish club draws selfish families.

Looks like UPDX is trying to replicate the Crossfire Premier business model.

1) Get big (via merger) and get rich (apparently the club has a lot of wealthy backers, including the local shoe company).
2) Heavily subsidize the A team with the dues collected from the B teams and below.
3) Tell everyone that nobody gets to the A team without first spending time with the B team. And other than exceptions allowed under #3 below, make it clear that nobody will know their place until AFTER they sign their contracts, so players who don't make the A team are kinda stuck.
4) Of course, #2 is a lie, as B team players will be gladly passed over for all-star recruits poached from other clubs.

Will it work? Hard to say... UPDX is, by ECNL standards, still a middle-of-the-pack club, and most of their State Cup victories came in a watered-down girls league. And they're still several notches below Timbers Academy in terms of their draw, talent, and appeal--XF could hang with MLS academies back in the DA days, and probably still can, and their A teams belong in MLS Next, not ECNL. Sooner or later, Oregon is going to get a full ECNL boys' league; as the Washington teams don't really like coming down to play matches in the homeless camps UPDX uses for fields, and there's no reason (other than $$$) that UPDX deserves preferential treatment over longer, more-established clubs. And UPDX hasn't demonstrated they can develop their own talent, just recruit and shake the money tree.

[Guest]

Looks like UPDX is trying to replicate the Crossfire Premier business model.

1) Get big (via merger) and get rich (apparently the club has a lot of wealthy backers, including the local shoe company).
2) Heavily subsidize the A team with the dues collected from the B teams and below.
3) Tell everyone that nobody gets to the A team without first spending time with the B team. And other than exceptions allowed under #3 below, make it clear that nobody will know their place until AFTER they sign their contracts, so players who don't make the A team are kinda stuck.
4) Of course, #2 is a lie, as B team players will be gladly passed over for all-star recruits poached from other clubs.

Will it work? Hard to say... UPDX is, by ECNL standards, still a middle-of-the-pack club, and most of their State Cup victories came in a watered-down girls league. And they're still several notches below Timbers Academy in terms of their draw, talent, and appeal--XF could hang with MLS academies back in the DA days, and probably still can, and their A teams belong in MLS Next, not ECNL. Sooner or later, Oregon is going to get a full ECNL boys' league; as the Washington teams don't really like coming down to play matches in the homeless camps UPDX uses for fields, and there's no reason (other than $$$) that UPDX deserves preferential treatment over longer, more-established clubs. And UPDX hasn't demonstrated they can develop their own talent, just recruit and shake the money tree.

A Plastic club that should never be in the same sentence as Crossfire Premier

[Guest]

Heard most Oregon state champions have declined their coaches Hawaiian vacation. How many teams rejected their bid and how many accepted it?

If the winner doesn't go, will they invite the runner-ups?

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If the winner doesn't go, will they invite the runner-ups?

Winner is a very ironic label.