What's to play in High School OYSA?

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I know the split league thing has made both the OPL and OYSA look pretty pathetic, but are there even High School aged teams still playing in the OYSA League? I'm talking girls, no one cares about the boys.

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I know the split league thing has made both the OPL and OYSA look pretty pathetic, but are there even High School aged teams still playing in the OYSA League? I'm talking girls, no one cares about the boys.

Thorns Academy will be there :)

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Thorns Academy will be there :)

Sounds delightful, not.

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I'm talking girls, no one cares about the boys.

Nice Attitude...

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I know the split league thing has made both the OPL and OYSA look pretty pathetic, but are there even High School aged teams still playing in the OYSA League? I'm talking girls, no one cares about the boys.

There will be a lot more teams than in the OPL B team league.

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There will be a lot more teams than in the OPL B team league.

Don't bet on that. And don't bet on there being any good teams in OYSA.

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Isn't this what the newly formed 'thorns academy' will be playing in or are they just doing FWRL?

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Don't bet on that. And don't bet on there being any good teams in OYSA.

What is the obsession that all the ECNL folks have with what competition will exist. Your comments are sadly predictable. "ECNL will face glorious competition. " next breath you will say "OYSA will have no competition"

So let's look at this logically. ECNL took roughly 40-50 kids per age bracket. By previous angry accusation on here very few OYSA kids came across. So that means the top 2-3 teams outof each OPL age have moved. Looking at past years league results, if you take away the Timbers teams, plus take away the top 40 OPL girls you are left with a ton of at best mediocrity. Consider now OYSA by your same admission above, not many players left OYSA teams, these will largely be the same brackets as last year. Not a lot of drop in competitiveness. Sorry but logic bears out the opposite of your conclusion.

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What is the obsession that all the ECNL folks have with what competition will exist. Your comments are sadly predictable. "ECNL will face glorious competition. " next breath you will say "OYSA will have no competition"

So let's look at this logically. ECNL took roughly 40-50 kids per age bracket. By previous angry accusation on here very few OYSA kids came across. So that means the top 2-3 teams outof each OPL age have moved. Looking at past years league results, if you take away the Timbers teams, plus take away the top 40 OPL girls you are left with a ton of at best mediocrity. Consider now OYSA by your same admission above, not many players left OYSA teams, these will largely be the same brackets as last year. Not a lot of drop in competitiveness. Sorry but logic bears out the opposite of your conclusion.

But most of the H.S. aged teams in the OYSA sucked. So I guess OPL and OYSA would now be on par with each other.

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What is the obsession that all the ECNL folks have with what competition will exist. Your comments are sadly predictable. "ECNL will face glorious competition. " next breath you will say "OYSA will have no competition"

So let's look at this logically. ECNL took roughly 40-50 kids per age bracket. By previous angry accusation on here very few OYSA kids came across. So that means the top 2-3 teams outof each OPL age have moved. Looking at past years league results, if you take away the Timbers teams, plus take away the top 40 OPL girls you are left with a ton of at best mediocrity. Consider now OYSA by your same admission above, not many players left OYSA teams, these will largely be the same brackets as last year. Not a lot of drop in competitiveness. Sorry but logic bears out the opposite of your conclusion.

History does not bear out yours. Meaning your a parent of a dd U14 or below. your logic only goes that far. You'll see. OPL has all the strong hs clubs. OYSA does not. ECNL or not it's still the league with clubs that have the HS teams. Any player that wants to play club soccer in HS will move to one of those clubs (as they always do) So again your logice is skewed as is your league.

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What is the obsession that all the ECNL folks have with what competition will exist. Your comments are sadly predictable. "ECNL will face glorious competition. " next breath you will say "OYSA will have no competition"

So let's look at this logically. ECNL took roughly 40-50 kids per age bracket. By previous angry accusation on here very few OYSA kids came across. So that means the top 2-3 teams outof each OPL age have moved. Looking at past years league results, if you take away the Timbers teams, plus take away the top 40 OPL girls you are left with a ton of at best mediocrity. Consider now OYSA by your same admission above, not many players left OYSA teams, these will largely be the same brackets as last year. Not a lot of drop in competitiveness. Sorry but logic bears out the opposite of your conclusion.

Are you new to club soccer? obsession to which league has the best competition was around before ECNL or the Academy were here. More OYSA kids came across than you think. At HS ages even more OYSA kids will come across, they always do. OPL will be the place to be for HS girls. ECNL or not. Academy will end up playing OPL league games in a year or two.

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What is the obsession that all the ECNL folks have with what competition will exist. Your comments are sadly predictable. "ECNL will face glorious competition. " next breath you will say "OYSA will have no competition"

So let's look at this logically. ECNL took roughly 40-50 kids per age bracket. By previous angry accusation on here very few OYSA kids came across. So that means the top 2-3 teams outof each OPL age have moved. Looking at past years league results, if you take away the Timbers teams, plus take away the top 40 OPL girls you are left with a ton of at best mediocrity. Consider now OYSA by your same admission above, not many players left OYSA teams, these will largely be the same brackets as last year. Not a lot of drop in competitiveness. Sorry but logic bears out the opposite of your conclusion.

No worries, the next thing I see happening in Oregon is a new league for HS age. It's the next logical step in the split. OPL has the advantage in numbers for HS age. OYSA will need someone to play. It will probably be where the leagues united or create something entirely new.

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Are you new to club soccer? obsession to which league has the best competition was around before ECNL or the Academy were here. More OYSA kids came across than you think. At HS ages even more OYSA kids will come across, they always do. OPL will be the place to be for HS girls. ECNL or not. Academy will end up playing OPL league games in a year or two.

Not new at all, I have been around since before the first split and then some, and my experience has been each time OPL folks hoot and holler about something the opposit has proved to be true.

All the noise they are making now about competitiveness is only meant to confuse the general soccer consumer and hopefully bolster the OPL numbers. In reality I don't see that happening. OPL is going to face a long road for the non ECNL teams. If as a league they had any concern for their customers they would give up on the smoke and mirrors and encourage folks to play in an unified league.

Obviously that won't happen...

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Not new at all, I have been around since before the first split and then some, and my experience has been each time OPL folks hoot and holler about something the opposit has proved to be true.

All the noise they are making now about competitiveness is only meant to confuse the general soccer consumer and hopefully bolster the OPL numbers. In reality I don't see that happening. OPL is going to face a long road for the non ECNL teams. If as a league they had any concern for their customers they would give up on the smoke and mirrors and encourage folks to play in an unified league.

Obviously that won't happen...

Amen brother!!

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Not new at all, I have been around since before the first split and then some, and my experience has been each time OPL folks hoot and holler about something the opposit has proved to be true.

All the noise they are making now about competitiveness is only meant to confuse the general soccer consumer and hopefully bolster the OPL numbers. In reality I don't see that happening. OPL is going to face a long road for the non ECNL teams. If as a league they had any concern for their customers they would give up on the smoke and mirrors and encourage folks to play in an unified league.

Obviously that won't happen...

If the Timbers wanted a unified league, there would be a unified league. It's as simple as that. Timbers don't want the competition from the OPL clubs.