sccrstd18,
I actually agree totally. You are making my precise point. As I said, "the fact is that the upstate area is not better demographically, just better organized." I DID mean that the Greenville/Spartanburg area is better organinized club wise. I also intended to point out that numbers-wise, Columbia/Aiken/Augusta HAS the talent, they just can't get their act together.
I really think it is silly to have so many clubs in one area around Columbia and Aiken. I can think of at least 6 or more in the area, all trying to pull talent together. What you end up with is a lot of mediocre teams with a few good teams sprinkled in amongst them. When you think of a huge city like Raleigh/Durham that really only has two clubs - the behemoth CASL that is 8000+ players strong, and TFC, also very strong, you know why the Raleigh area consistently fields national championship teams.
