Cola Fan-
I agree with you 100%!!! There is absolutly no reason to have 10 clubs in Columbia!!!! There should be one big club fit to compete at the highest level then the smaller ones to continue to help as "feeder" programs to the high schools!
I see this happening in NC and ATL and even in g'ville but not here in Cola!! The main reason it works in NC is that w/ CASL Duke head coach John Reanie has taken the position w/ the club as basically CEO!!! Now with someone like that running the ship how could you go wrong! I read an interviw once that Reanie(sp?) said that if wanted players from NC to help his team than he had better help produce them! He went on to say that enough kids in NC play soccer to help his teams compete in the ACC!!!! This has come true over the past few years w/ the emergence of WF, UNC and Duke as the new powers in the ACC. Now my question is does Columbia have somebody like that who could draw qualified coaches? Yes will they no! USC could directly benefit from this happening! Yet Berson and staff would rather go to Utah, New Mexico or some other god forsaken place to get players!!! Now don't get me wrong there won't be 18 D1 players in SC but you could produce at least 5/6 a year!!!!Just recently GFC produced two Clemson Signees(Forbes and Cooper)and will send Eggert to USC this fall!!!!
None of this will happen until the clubs agree to work together and take a big step forward to improove the level of soccer in Columbia!!! Good luck b/c it is going to be a ***** to some of these guys to go along with the plan!!!1
