Parker/Mak/Kwon:

You KEEP bringing up Lonestar, the Texans, AFC and AFU; and I KEEP responding (and this is exactly why I asked you to "read the words slowly and carefully, please") for you to "try and compare "before" and "after" rosters – I don't think it can be done." If you think those teams are the same, go get the "before" and "after" rosters and show it. Otherwise, you're just blowing smoke.

You said: "You yourself mention development but knowingly don't say anything about it being result driven" - sure, it IS "result driven" (if that's the term you wish to use) but the result they are "driving" for is most certainly not a state or regional championship. Have you figured out yet what it is?

You have not heard me make one comment about cesa, nor anyone else, using players during the state cup. There may have been an uproar (although, that seems a little dramatic of a word) but it had nothing to do with me and I wasn't a part of it – don't drag me into that one.

You have been misquoting me as three different people (who knows, maybe more) for quite some time now – I KEEP trying to tell you (yet again) that I am NOT against cesa. I AM against the self-righteous and the haters of the world. I do not dislike cesa. Have nothing against them. For the most part, I have nothing but respect for what they've done. I am all for increasing the level of soccer in this state as a WHOLE. Obviously, cesa has done more than their share of this. But what I do dislike are people who get on here and preach of the infallibility of cesa; and that if you aren't doing it "our" way (read: the cesa way), then you are doing it the "wrong" way. People like loc dog (who has been suspiciously quiet since this last time you changed your name) have made it very clear they care nothing about anybody in the rest of the state - he is all about cesa. THAT is the kind of attitude i have a problem with.

So when you say "What I don't have time for is you and your lackeys trying to make your club something it is not" all I ask is for you to show me where I have made "my" club out to be anything other than what it is. And I'm not teaming up with anybody here – please stop using other posters' quotes as somehow being thoughts of mine.

You also say "if CESA goes academy . . . when it was . . . apples to apples CESA dominated the state." I can tell you haven't gone to the Academy site yet, because you still aren't getting it. If cesa ever goes Academy, I don't know what you're gonna do with yourself, because all that stuff just doesn't matter anymore.

But because I care, I'll try one more, different approach to try and clue you in. Here goes: let's suppose, for a moment, that cesa does get in the academy. And let's suppose little johnny, who lives in charleston, drives all the way to greenville to be on the cesa academy team. You know what? I could care less. And it doesn't matter whether little johnny is a mediocre player, or if he's the next enzo. Do you know why? Because the way the Academy is set up, the players at my Academy team will get the exact same number of visits from US Soccer scouts and evaluators as your Academy team. Like I said, we all love to win, but in the Academy, it just doesn't have the same significance.