GDA is here and is only $2,000

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You are wrong. Every player in Oregon will pay a 33% higher card fee next year. Card fees raising from $18 to $24 per player. This is what is funding GDA and while it is "just" $6 per kid, it is $6 I am being forced to pay to underwrite a program that I don't support. What a great system.

Just think of it as another tax for the greater good.

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You are wrong. Every player in Oregon will pay a 33% higher card fee next year. Card fees raising from $18 to $24 per player. This is what is funding GDA and while it is "just" $6 per kid, it is $6 I am being forced to pay to underwrite a program that I don't support. What a great system.

I've been warning you dopes about this for months. You hand the clowns at OYSA a monopoly and then are surprised when they raise prices to pay for their pipe dream GDA program. And you still continue to bash ECNL and hope they fail. You're like the frog that doesn't know he's in the pot of slowly boiling water. Only you voluntarily hopped into the pot.

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You are wrong. Every player in Oregon will pay a 33% higher card fee next year. Card fees raising from $18 to $24 per player. This is what is funding GDA and while it is "just" $6 per kid, it is $6 I am being forced to pay to underwrite a program that I don't support. What a great system.

I was wondering where you were at. Wow. How many OYSA kids are there I wonder? How much is each club actually paying for this? What a coincidence the fee raises the same year they offer to foot the bill for GDA girls travel.

This is hilarious!!!! TA clubs paying for Thorns girls travel. LMAO!

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I think it's hilarious

1. It was pretty accepted that Ecnl is a joke in Oregon and it's crippling the clubs. It is not what people were sold on and not only are kids getting underdeveloped but entire age groups are falling apart.

2. Ecnl parents who figured out this are now trying to use the same logic used against them. The IRONY in that. Poor development and cost..hahahaha

3. The DA isn't even going yet and some DA coach is on here trying to say it's the best thing and already proven...

4. Top level clubs are pulling out of DA because of the crony regulations and politics that US soccer is trying to control. Good for them.

5. Thorns have yet to show any quality but they go on and hire washed up coaches that aren't even good but look ok on paper.


This entire deal is funny

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You are wrong. Every player in Oregon will pay a 33% higher card fee next year. Card fees raising from $18 to $24 per player. This is what is funding GDA and while it is "just" $6 per kid, it is $6 I am being forced to pay to underwrite a program that I don't support. What a great system.

OYSA card fee is collected by OYSA nothing to do with GDA or DA program. They (OYSA) are broke because all the revenue from Leagues, Cups & OPD/RTC goes to Peregrine.

You are supporting the Timbers/Thorns Peregrine by playing in an OYSA league or cup and Peregrine is starving OYSA of any capital, that's why OYSA's hand was forced to raise their only revenue stream player cards.

You don't know what your doing or where the money goes so I support you get a clue.

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I was wondering where you were at. Wow. How many OYSA kids are there I wonder? How much is each club actually paying for this? What a coincidence the fee raises the same year they offer to foot the bill for GDA girls travel.

This is hilarious!!!! TA clubs paying for Thorns girls travel. LMAO!

OYSA card fee is collected by OYSA nothing to do with GDA or DA program. They (OYSA) are broke because all the revenue from Leagues, Cups & OPD/RTC goes to Peregrine.

You are supporting the Timbers/Thorns Peregrine by playing in an OYSA league or cup and Peregrine is starving OYSA of any capital, that's why OYSA's hand was forced to raise their only revenue stream player cards.

You don't know what your doing or where the money goes so I support you get a clue.

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OYSA card fee is collected by OYSA nothing to do with GDA or DA program. They (OYSA) are broke because all the revenue from Leagues, Cups & OPD/RTC goes to Peregrine.

You are supporting the Timbers/Thorns Peregrine by playing in an OYSA league or cup and Peregrine is starving OYSA of any capital, that's why OYSA's hand was forced to raise their only revenue stream player cards.

You don't know what your doing or where the money goes so I support you get a clue.

Your last sentence is illegible and your grammar is atrocious. And you expect us to believe that COINCIDENTALLY our card fees go up the same year the GDA launches. We aren't as stupid as you are.

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I think it's hilarious

1. It was pretty accepted that Ecnl is a joke in Oregon and it's crippling the clubs. It is not what people were sold on and not only are kids getting underdeveloped but entire age groups are falling apart.

2. Ecnl parents who figured out this are now trying to use the same logic used against them. The IRONY in that. Poor development and cost..hahahaha

3. The DA isn't even going yet and some DA coach is on here trying to say it's the best thing and already proven...

4. Top level clubs are pulling out of DA because of the crony regulations and politics that US soccer is trying to control. Good for them.

5. Thorns have yet to show any quality but they go on and hire washed up coaches that aren't even good but look ok on paper.


This entire deal is funny

1. CU(ECNL only league club) & FC Portland a local club that plays in both the OYSA and ECNL leagues. No big deal if they chose the wrong level of play as long as parents want to pay for it, it's their choice and their money. Being prudent, practical and wise is not a requirement for participation.

2. Parents at CU & FC PDX don't have any chance to use logic, that was never on the table.

3. A savings of 8K on a 10K soccer product is actually the best thing ever for youth girls.

4. Top clubs (which we have none of) across the US have to make tough decisions play in GDA, play in US Club Soccers's ECNL or play in USYS leagues. The majority of clubs have stayed in the USYS and it looks like GDA and the US CLub soccer league each have about 60 to 80 clubs.

5. You need to understand coaching for girls is the least desired coaching job and gets the bottom of the barrel rejects across the GDA platform and all local clubs. Basically who coaches in the GDA is a non issue, just like the local club who don't have a stable of quality to choose from. If someone who is average wants to make a living coaching girls there are jobs a plenty in the college ranks for the females, they take them up first. Club soccer is left for soccer dads and ex pats trying to get income. Demand for girls coaches is much greater than the supply.

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Your last sentence is illegible and your grammar is atrocious. And you expect us to believe that COINCIDENTALLY our card fees go up the same year the GDA launches. We aren't as stupid as you are.

The OP is correct OYSA card fee increases, feed only the OYSA. The OYSA has nothing to do with the Timbers/Thorns DA & GDA programs. You have indeed spotted what's called a coincidence. The causality of the fee increase is due to Peregrine bleeding OYSA of any revenue streams, they must raise their membership fee or go out of business.

You just made a random assumption. But, it doesn't fit.

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Your last sentence is illegible and your grammar is atrocious. And you expect us to believe that COINCIDENTALLY our card fees go up the same year the GDA launches. We aren't as stupid as you are.

An extra $10 from every member is hardly noticeable by the members.

This makes travel soccer more affordable for the 36 girls who will be on the Thorns Academy roster.

Small price to pay to develop the next Mia Hamm.

Socialism at its best.

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Top players do not need to go into the GDA bubble and give up their lives to get into college. I think it will be a B team mostly.

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An extra $10 from every member is hardly noticeable by the members.

This makes travel soccer more affordable for the 36 girls who will be on the Thorns Academy roster.

Small price to pay to develop the next Mia Hamm.

Socialism at its best.

OYSA and GDA/DA are not even connected by any incoming revenue for ID Cards issued by the OYSA.

But Peregrine (Timbers/Thorns) are getting paid directly by clubs and OYSA members for Timbers/Thorns (OYSA sanctioned) leagues, cups, RTC & ODP. Nobody can track how Peregrine spends it's fungible income so it's actually capitalism at its best.

Hank Paulson was the flipping head of the Dept of Treasury for the US. his Son Merritt heads up the Peregrine Treasury with OYSA member $$$$ for non profit services.


MLS franchises have to think outside the box to generate profit, they did and we pay for it.

The ripple effect of all of this is the OYSA card increase. But it doesn't flow to the GDA/DA

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Man am I glad my daughter is a senior! Oregon soccer is a mess

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Man am I glad my daughter is a senior! Oregon soccer is a mess

You are the lucky one.

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1. CU(ECNL only league club) & FC Portland a local club that plays in both the OYSA and ECNL leagues. No big deal if they chose the wrong level of play as long as parents want to pay for it, it's their choice and their money. Being prudent, practical and wise is not a requirement for participation.

2. Parents at CU & FC PDX don't have any chance to use logic, that was never on the table.

3. A savings of 8K on a 10K soccer product is actually the best thing ever for youth girls.

4. Top clubs (which we have none of) across the US have to make tough decisions play in GDA, play in US Club Soccers's ECNL or play in USYS leagues. The majority of clubs have stayed in the USYS and it looks like GDA and the US CLub soccer league each have about 60 to 80 clubs.

5. You need to understand coaching for girls is the least desired coaching job and gets the bottom of the barrel rejects across the GDA platform and all local clubs. Basically who coaches in the GDA is a non issue, just like the local club who don't have a stable of quality to choose from. If someone who is average wants to make a living coaching girls there are jobs a plenty in the college ranks for the females, they take them up first. Club soccer is left for soccer dads and ex pats trying to get income. Demand for girls coaches is much greater than the supply.

I value your opinion.

-op