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The thread is now 7 takes long. Sorry we got off your track. You want competitive balance?

1) Club Directors should agree to work WITH, not AGAINST, each other with a goal of player development.
2) Clubs MUST stop recruiting each other's players (a scummy practice that smacks of commercial self-interest);
3) Parents must be constructively educated by a multi-club collective on the relative values of high-quality training (high) and winning (not wildly relevant); and
4) Clubs should mutually agree to a 90-mile-radius service area, or attendance zone, for their players, with kids OUTSIDE any zone limited to the closest club.

The sad truth is, we have DOZENS, maybe even HUNDREDS, of kids in this state who spend more time in cars traveling to and from training than actually training. That's an indictment of a system that is more concerned with profit and State Cups than the good of teenaged student-athletes.



Actually, a pretty good post. Thanks!!

Yes, I like competitive balance....but what I really want is 2 or 3 other clubs in this state to step up as CESA has and raise their game to match. That way the balance is achieved constructively and not restrictively.

I would think SCYS could play a part in facilitating some of that, but at the end of the day the responsibility lies with individual Boards and DOC's.