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Returned today from Columbia. First years doing this so I'm interested in peoples thoughts.

How did it go today? Turnout? Coaches?

There were 44 kids in the 96 group. There were six from CESA who were not there due to a tournament. I'm told they are coming to the make up. The other ages looked to have about the same number of kids.

I had an interest in the 96s. I'm not sure how they can select kids based on 4.5 hours of obervation. I guess it will all work out.

96 group - Wide size disparities within this age group and many still playing 8v8 and new to big field/11v11 it must be a tough task for coaches to evaluate talent. Easy to pick top 5 or 6 but choosing the next 12 or so could be a tough task. Taking 2 teams to sub-regionals should allow for players to show better and allow for coaches to make final roster picks.

my guess is the CESA or CUFC kids will be the ones picked

They had a parents meeting at the beginning and I thought it was odd that none of the costs involved in playing ODP were discussed. The 95 boys had about 45 players. The quality was there.

We were told they would only be taking players from CUFC and CESA (just joking).

I think the number of players will dictate the costs..so until you have a final roster..money will not come up..except for expenses for the interstate games

Folks that's why it's important to have your child play for a club like CESA, in life it's about contacts and CESA's are pretty good. With the short amount of time the ODP coaches have to evaluate a player, they feel pretty safe picking a CESA premier player over an unknown.

First of all they shouldn't even know where the kids play, second of all that should never matter, that's why it's called a trial. I'm realistic and know that it never works like that but ther are plenty of pretty good players around the state that don't play at CESA. If you think that picking a CESA player is a safe call at the age of barely 13, then you should go and have a look at CUFC, MPSC, DISA or Lexington at that matter. I know that they might have not been at the tryouts but you would be surprised that CESA doesn't have the monopoly at that age group anymore.