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Kids play sports because they find it fun. Eliminate the fun and soon you eliminate the kid.
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Wow, the implications here are huge. We have all been in-fighting over which club in our state is the strongest and we are about to be pushed aside by a SC team compromised of mostly NC players. Since high school soccer is played in opposite seasons between SC and NC, this creates not only a year round club program, it also create a predominately NC team competing for SC spots in Region III.
After running some quick numbers based on 2006 Census Bureau statistics, the player pool in Mecklenberg County, is over 50% of Greenville, Spartanburg, Richland, Lexington, Dorchester and Charleston counties combined.
Touche' its going to get rough.
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Wow, the implications here are huge. We have all been in-fighting over which club in our state is the strongest and we are about to be pushed aside by a SC team compromised of mostly NC players. Since high school soccer is played in opposite seasons between SC and NC, this creates not only a year round club program, it also create a predominately NC team competing for SC spots in Region III.
After running some quick numbers based on 2006 Census Bureau statistics, the player pool in Mecklenberg County, is over 50% of Greenville, Spartanburg, Richland, Lexington, Dorchester and Charleston counties combined.
Touche' its going to get rough.
do not read so much into this.the charlotte part is a branch of charlotte united. there is not going to be a mad rush of teams crossing the border.
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If I'm not mistaken, doesn't SCYSA have a 50% residency rule or was that changed?
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The majority that benefit from this are SC players and to give the BU15-18 chance to pool players to contend for State in the next few years. SC HS age boys have limited choice here. Girls are OK with system in place.
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My understanding is that the 50% rule is alive and well. There won't be any influx of NC kids into SC, nor will there be NC teams coming into SC to play.
My take is that this Alliance will be the vehicle to allow SC kids from York County to flow back and forth across the border and play where it makes sense. At the younger ages....that means NC and Charlotte United. As the kids get older (U13) they'll flow back across into SC and play for CSSC. Will also provide, as you pointed out, a logical path for rising U15 boys who have been playing in Charlotte to come back and compete at a pretty good level.
But I really think this is more about U9-12 kids being able to play in a more local settting.
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Big Daddy or anyone else who can answer,
Won't this really help out CSSC? How many kids from that area play for United at the Palisades? If I read this correctly, a team deemed by the DOC to be in the top 3 in SC will play in SC. Wouldn't that mean that a good team at United would come down and try to win state in SC? That would work if the team is made up of mostly SC kids, especially considering that it will be much easier to win state in SC than NC. That would also give CSSC a number of teams who may be able to win state in SC.
"Boys, even if it means dying on the pitch, we must win!" Marc-Vivien Foe 1975 - 2003
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cid,
This has nothing to do with Charlotte United teams. There are no CUFC Gold teams that are made up of primarily SC kids. Gold teams typically pull from the entire Charlotte metro area.....a normal Gold team would have 1-3 SC kids on the roster. In weird, rare cases....maybe 1-2 more.
To re-state, there will be no CUFC Gold teams rolling into SC to try to win state championships.
This has to do with Carolina Select teams, whose kids will now be rolling into CUFC at the Palisades, which is geographically contiguous to SC/Tega Cay. Those kids will now form teams and play in NC as CUFC Palisades teams. As those teams hit U13 a decision will be made as to whether or not they can successfully compete as a top 2-3 team in SC with the CESA's and Bridge's and Mount Pleasant's and Columbia United's.
When you hit a team that can do so.....and if it meets the 50-50 rule in SC....they will slide back to CSSC and compete in SC. Otherwise they'll stay in NC and play at a lower level with a lot less travel and headache.
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Big Daddy,
I guess I will ask in a different way. ON the United website. there are 3 teams listed as classic teams on the girls side (which would be challenge in SC). If those teams are over 50% SC kids, doesn't it make sense for them to come over to SC and try to win the SC Challenge division as opposed to the NC division? If I am correct, isn't the 15 or 16 group made up of a lot of the Clover varsity? If that is true, as talented a group as they are, I can see them competing for a state title at that age group. Or are there teams that can be merged together to make a strong SC challenge teams in multiple age groups?
"Boys, even if it means dying on the pitch, we must win!" Marc-Vivien Foe 1975 - 2003
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