>>[2004striker] I will make this my final(yeah right!)statement concerning my 'Dream' for a club merger of midlands teams.....and what I think what would be in the best interest of SC club soccer and benefit the many soccer players in SC at all various levels. The 'Dream' is to have 3 major competitive clubs geographically located in the state -
Upstate - CESA/Spartanburg/Rock Hill area
Midlands - NECSA/CSC/LCSC/Aiken area
Lowcountry - Bridge/MPSC/CUSC/Coastal area
Can you imagine the wars the big 3 would have? Beating each other up and creating a more competitive soccer environment in SC. With this geographical arrangement, all players in those areas would travel only at most 90 min. to the central club.<<
Your proposal leads me to a quasi-Swiftian question:
If you're going to travel 90 minutes for practice, why not just have Bridge and CESA and let Columbia elite players choose between them? You could ease the travel by having Bridge and CESA both offer training in the Columbia area.
By limiting the number of elite clubs, you'd have a better chance of competing against the best teams in other states. That way many of our kids wouldn't be quite so surprised when they won a South Carolina state championship and then were beaten like drums when they go to regionals and/or play in RIIIPL-East.