Lowerstate--
You bring up some better teams (thanks b/c i could not think of them) but my point was made by Nino.....
you cannot compare high school and club teams b/c club teams are usually single ages (with maybe one or two players playing up one age group) while high schools are a 4-5 year difference. This creates unfair match-ups on the field.
Therefore, those of you who want to bash high school soccer and say how bad even the best teams are, ask yourself how a U-15 club team would do against the Irmo varsity team. I would hope that most people who know soccer would realize that in this situation, the club team would not succeed. On the other hand, Irmo may have a hard time handling one of the teams Lowerstate mentioned.
For a hypothetical instance, what if the #1 U-18 player who plays for Irmo is marking the #1 U-15 player who plays for GFC. Now lets say that since Irmo is a great high school program, that same team also has the #2-#5 U-18 players and the #1-#4 U-17 players.... even if the club team has the #1-#8 U-15 players, they will be marked by better, older and more experienced players. This puts the club team at a disadvantage versus a top level high school team!!!
Most of you who constantly bash high school soccer imagine the perfect situation where a GFC team or that one Aiken Fire team is playing a donkey high school team and then you base your entire argument on that one situation.
The high school versus club argument cannot be solved in absolutes b/c there are plenty of instances where top level club teams would be at a significant disadvantage versus a high school team and vice versa.
