go go goooal,
Why do you feel that CSC would not attract Sumter area kids due to distance. We have three kids traveling to GFC to play already. The distance is not a factor to players who are serious about playing on top quality teams. A merger would help all players from the columbia, Sumter, etc. areas. Distance will not matter to those would would make the teams anyway. There are many advantages to a merger and CSC seams to have an edge in being the club that others would merge into. The smaller clubs would still be abkle to operate they would just do it with out the elite players from each age group. That would only result in 3 or 4 players from each age group from each club. The merger would be great for all of Columbia not just the Irmo area kids.