How did thornz acad end up such a mess?

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No. tied once, and CU won by 3 second game.

FCP has a few players and CU only has that kid they stole from Westside. CU DOC was desperately recruiting for the team. Team chemistry must be better on the CU team. Surprised that CU won.

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FCP has a few players and CU only has that kid they stole from Westside. CU DOC was desperately recruiting for the team. Team chemistry must be better on the CU team. Surprised that CU won.

Way too many clowns on here that think team wins/losses are important. Never seen a team get recruited to college. Club is all about individual development. If you want to worry about team success then get all jazzed up about HS soccer.

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Way too many clowns on here that think team wins/losses are important. Never seen a team get recruited to college. Club is all about individual development. If you want to worry about team success then get all jazzed up about HS soccer.

But if you are like Fcp and cu and get killed every game against crappy competition. You are literally failing development individually and collectively.

CU has a team that scored 4 goals the entire year...ask yourself how good their striker will be only scoring one goal all year. Ask the entire team how good they will be when they spend their game chasing actual good teams around.

Wins aren't everything but failing to compete or find success leads you to...well CU Ecnl.

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But if you are like Fcp and cu and get killed every game against crappy competition. You are literally failing development individually and collectively.

CU has a team that scored 4 goals the entire year...ask yourself how good their striker will be only scoring one goal all year. Ask the entire team how good they will be when they spend their game chasing actual good teams around.

Wins aren't everything but failing to compete or find success leads you to...well CU Ecnl.

Well the striker on that Crossfire team committed to a D1 school the summer before her junior year so I would say she's pretty satisfied with her experience. It's sad that folks continue to value cheap wins over playing real competition at college level game speed.

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Swing and a miss.

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Well the striker on that Crossfire team committed to a D1 school the summer before her junior year so I would say she's pretty satisfied with her experience. It's sad that folks continue to value cheap wins over playing real competition at college level game speed.

Yes it's possible for a rec team to have a division one player history made Oregon . As for getting the chance to play with friends at the local right club she calls it a win win.

Welcome to the mindset of the Oregon soccer parent

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I realize one of the big arguments is that ECNL put 40 girls into college soccer last year and thorns got zero. Even TA teams have put a bunch of girls into college. But what that thinking misses is the cost. Thorns is only 2200-3200 per year. Timbers Alliance is about $3000 if they go to lot of tournaments/showcases . ECNL is 5300. That's a big savings. Almost 1900 per year.

Sometimes the point is to save money.

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I realize one of the big arguments is that ECNL put 40 girls into college soccer last year and thorns got zero. Even TA teams have put a bunch of girls into college. But what that thinking misses is the cost. Thorns is only 2200-3200 per year. Timbers Alliance is about $3000 if they go to lot of tournaments/showcases . ECNL is 5300. That's a big savings. Almost 1900 per year.

Sometimes the point is to save money.

Not if you want quality. Save a bit of money to drive a Yugo?

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Wow. Just looked at some scores. There's no match for Crossfire Premier U18/19 (haven't looked at other age groups yet). 6 wins, goals allowed 1, goals for 25. Clearly most clubs put their B squad in DA. I see they beat reign 4-0. Reign beat Thorns 1-0. Yikes.

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Wow. Just looked at some scores. There's no match for Crossfire Premier U18/19 (haven't looked at other age groups yet). 6 wins, goals allowed 1, goals for 25. Clearly most clubs put their B squad in DA. I see they beat reign 4-0. Reign beat Thorns 1-0. Yikes.

Thornz put "B" teams in DA also. They don't have any "A" teams.

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Not really a reflection on the Thorns per se, but this Burlingame + PSV thing in their division is a laughing stock along the west cost . . . flying to play 1 game and getting blown out.

Literally twice as a bad a situation as it was for the worse Oregon ECNL teams last year (at least they got 2 games when they traveled).

Does the GDA kick those clubs out?

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Great share.

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Wow. Just looked at some scores. There's no match for Crossfire Premier U18/19 (haven't looked at other age groups yet). 6 wins, goals allowed 1, goals for 25. Clearly most clubs put their B squad in DA. I see they beat reign 4-0. Reign beat Thorns 1-0. Yikes.

How is that much different than Crossfire Premier's 00 team record in ECNL last year?

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How is that much different than Crossfire Premier's 00 team record in ECNL last year?

Or 02s or 03s for that matter.