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Sounds like he wants a handful to move to where ever he lands with the players he brought in...Problem is the stronger clubs are going to want only a handful and the rest will find themselves in the same boat..just somewhere else..If you want to be on the best team...Tryout for the best team..As far as the club offering competitive play..My daughter had no problem playing several years of region ball and high end tournaments..This is not a what's wrong with lowcountry or SCUMP soccer..It's what's wrong with a particular team soccer..

Actually SCUMP fielded 3 U15G (rising U16G) teams last fall- 2 challnge and 1 classic- albeit one challenge team had only 13 girls rostered for much of the season.

I really apologize for being sarcastic about the players, the truth is that they perform very well when they are not under his supervision.

it seems this mic/michael guy has a few followers. i have been around soccer long enough to know there are a lot of ignorant parents out there. as SCUMPY says - beware of the kool aid. seems strange to me at the very onset y'all mentioned his email was sent to a select few on his team. (but not ALL members of his team..?) it also seems strange that he certainly seems to have (and play) favorites. if anyone knows anything about coaching, those two combinations are B-A-D bad for team cohesiveness. he brought these girls from another team and, it seems, through the kool aid, got SCUMP to allow him to coach an Elite team. seems SCUMP can also be to blame for choosing a coach of his caliber to coach a team that should have easily been #1 in their group. wait - is this the same story i've heard floating around that this mic/michael character brings only 1/4-1/2 of his SCUMP team to tourneys using both a ton of guest players and the SCUMP 95 Elite name? i see the light now. what a sorry excuse for a man to call himself "Coach". shame on him.

and i might add, i've heard he brings the girls to higher end tourneys, places them in the lowest brackets and tells the parents this is a great opportunity. i wonder if these parents buy their Kool Aid at Harris Teeter, cause it's EXPENSIVE there!!! Drink up.

regarding the tourny accusation of 1/4 to 1/2 regular team players.....
tournys only allow so many guests, usually up to 4, but pool club players don't count as guests, so who knows...just want to keep this fair.

there is no team that would survive a season with 25-50% traveling to tournys

No bashing here..do not know enough about the situation..
My daughter played five years with a core group of players that were BFA/Coastal and SCUMP during that time the group stayed pretty much the same and we had three different coaches and I think the same could be said for the 92s at CESA..A core group that stayed together with different coaches between the two..Total was four championships and at least five runnerups..This was from U14 up..
Get the picture..It's not the coach but the core group that sticks together..I would hate to see these kids and parents shaking their heads after u18 and wonder what went wrong..

Girls are rostered through US CLUB, $25 and a signature will get you almost on the National Team.

What does a CESA 96 team have to do with a 95 age roup issue? No wait do not answer that on this post. How about starting a post on making excuses before the game is played.