"merits of holding a ONE day only tryout"
vs "taken more players to Concord"
These two comments are unrelated, everyone knew there was only a single day tryout and the players with DESIRE showed up - GOOD ON THEM - the coaches can only go with that and that's how the teams were formed.
"I know of a few good players who were assigned alternate positions for their ODP squad this year yet they are starters on their PREMIER club teams and were on the "A" team last year.
What's that all about?"
Not everyone on a Premier team is Premier caliber, it just means that the team as a whole was better than the rest of the teams. ODP is comprised of individuals with talent (out of the pool that shows up), a Classic player may in fact be ODP material, however their club team may even be mediocre. Also, I know of some of SC's best players who for their own reason chose NOT to participate in ODP, perhaps more VG players tried out and thus displaced the ones you know.
