I said I would never, ever, ever again say anything about a Cola area merger, because I finally realized, thanks to frequent counseling sessions with my personal sports therapist and also thru the wisdom I gained from reading Chico's rational posts; that a merger can never happen here due to the goals/priorities mindset of the multiple clubs. So I will couch my comments here to reflect more on the current BridgeFA/MPSC situation. I am not familar at all with the lowcountry clubs and their goals, but I venture to say that none of them -SSC,JIYSA,MPSC and now BridgeFA- had or have as their primary goals to serve as nurturers for their respective area high school soccer teams or to provide a neat, convenient social setting for satisfactory soccer. I believe their goals were and are always focused on producing the best possible club competitors. These goals are in great contrast to what we see in Cola., where one club admittedly serves to primarily prepare players for their area high school; another club serves to have a semi-social setting for its area players who desire average, but not too intense soccer; another club has great facilities, but no one has yet been able to determine why they don't desire that more than adequate soccer be played there; and then only one club that is trying hard to combat the 'CESA menace' and strives to field teams that seek championships. This Cola environment is in extreme contrast to that at 'monster CESA' and what is now coming out of the lowcountry where the obvious, specific goals are to field great and competitive teams. Therefore, with all that garbage said, it is a no-brainer to participate in the alliance when you have 2 clubs -BridgeFA(after an obviously successful merger of SSC & JIYSA) & MPSC- with the same ideals and goals of producing high quality club teams, but who can not yet come to a mutual agreement to compete under the one alliance. BridgeFA & MPSC - that kind of alliance cannot and will not, ever happen in Cola., but you are so close to a great thing. You need to resolve any differences, assuage any egos, and purposely seek what is truly the best alliance of the lowcountry players. With such an alliance, maybe one day in the not too distant future, I may hear (from my nursing home bed), that the 'evil Red CESA machine' sputters and spits and frets when it attempts to compete with The Bridge. Tell me where I am possibly wrong in any of my many assumptions here. I still do not think too clearly due to my many head balls in my youth.
