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So, by a club not complying with the law a kid could be declared ineligible for his school? This is good? Hopefully you are just making a point.
If what Mr. Pietras wrote is accurate, "What Tripp tells them is that if conflicts arise, they have to give preference to their club team." , then it sounds questionable to me. That is just my opinion.
I agree with your last statement only if said concessions are in accordance with the law.
End of discussion, at least my participation in it.

I dont know of many people who follow the "Laws" by every word. I know alot of players that play high school and club. They miss high school sometimes, and sometimes miss club, but nobody is going to crackdown on the school, coach, or player if the one of them breaks the "Law." And would anyone but the coach and player care?

Two of my sons played on the U14 team that we are speaking of last year. They now play on another team. One of the main reasons that we left was because that Tripp was going to allow player(s) to do their own thing and not be committed to the team in the fall and then try and get them to be committed in the spring. My sons (2 of them) team played this same team a few weeks ago. They only had 11 players due people quitting. They did have one very good player hurt, but that still only leaves 12 players. I do not believe that Tripp told his players that they could not play, but would rather that they didn't (I could be wrong, my eyes were opened in a major way about Tripp and where his allegiances lay). I have nothing against Tripp, except for the way that he treated my 2 kids AFTER they chose not to go his way. Maybe his allegiances laid with the wrong people (who knows). This team that Tripp coaches (U14 NECSA Impact) has some extremely good players and parents that are getting hosed because the cards weren't all laid out on the table at the beginning. I think that maybe this request (if it occurred) could be a little bit of panic because everything didn't pan out the way Tripp thought.

As for high school, we have been very fortunate that Wayne (unafraid to use his name, as am I) has chosen to work with us on this issue of dual participation. All he asked was that we furnish the letter from our club coach and that we put HS first. My son has been able to practice whenever there wasn't a conflict. As I said many times before, rational people can come to smart decisions. Thanks Wayne.

I am still and will always be for dual participation. Compromises can always be worked out that are the best for all of the players involved. Hopefully, more coaches (HS and club) will figure the best way to work with the needs of the players and the teams involved.

Good luck to the U14 NECSA Impact. If we can't win, I hope you guys do well. Great job - Sean, Mark, Jordan, Parker, Jonathan (both of you), Davis, Ian, Zack, David, Stiles and Kyle. Good luck to all of you in the future. All of you guys and parents are the committed ones on that team.

Thanks for the positive responses on this topic. I know that the boys in question would like to play both club and HS. The HS coach would not interfere with their choice. He would give them all of the support they needed. We are aware that some of the club coaches do train their players well and that the HS are the ones who gain from that quality training.

Actually Tripp, who is the director of coaching for NECSA, made this law club wide girls and boys all ages.

He could not stop any of the players from playing but he said that they had to make all the practices, which is not bad except they made no attempt in working the practices around the HS league. My daughter was willing to play both but NECSA forced her to choose, when there was no real reason, so she left the club to play HS only. All they had to do was make a HS friendly practice schedule and most of these teams would have had plenty of players for the season. While a good coach is a great thing, they do not play the game, so they have to learn to bend if they want the players.

That sounds like Tripp! NECSA is a great place to play if your goal is to play at Presbyterian or Wofford, but if you aspire to play real DI or higher play where you can have a chance without your coach dummying you down for DII!!! 29223 always breeds talent, but then problems for that talent arises and they never live up to their billing. Andy Kwon is the only exception! This is only soccer, not student-athletes! I'd like to see Tripp coach an average team with average players and not conglomerate teams - will never happen though! Name one team that Tripp has not brought in outside talent to win with?

Irmo has kept their kids at home with CSC in most cases with a few headed to other clubs - but our high school ALWAYS wins, with NO NECSA kids!

Hammer:

Difficult to read "tone" with e-mail, but sounds like you have an ax to grind.

Truth is that some NECSA players have gone beyond Division II. I don't pretend to have all of the facts/statistics available, but a few individuals come to mind. Ozmick (sp?) went to Maryland, but did not stay. There are several players at the Citadel, which I believe is Division I? Stacy Simpson and Amanda Brackett are at Furman. There have been others who could have played at Division I, but chose not to (James Danko for example--Vanderbilt on an acamdemic scholarship and decided not to play soccer).

As for bringing in "outside" talent--Tripp coaches the U15 Ambush. Still the same boys that were there two years ago, when Tripp took the team. You can look at their record--not great, but they have a good time playing soccer (still what this is about?).

Kind of funny. In other treads in this forum, NECSA is criticized for being an obstacle to consolidation (which we are not). Yet here, you criticize Tripp for consolidating talent on a team. Doesn't seem fair.