Chico,
First of all I’d like to say that I agree wholeheartedly with your first post about the conflict of interest in soccer clubs. I have no idea who Trip Miller is, nor do I have any idea what his affiliation is with the club, nor frankly do I care one way or the other. But I do know that if you have a person who is the DOC and they have an outside interest in a company that is profiting from decisions that he makes at the club, then you have what is know as a conflict of interests. Now you can easily excuse that if it’s a politician that’s awarding unsolicited contracts at the taxpayers expense, but we’re talking about peoples children here.
You are completely right, if a club wants to have a conflict of interest then so be it. But that conflict of interest should be fully disclosed. Like the reference you use for CESA, the person in charge should be able to make his profits from the club public. Or even better, the person in charge should dissolve those conflicts.
Now your second post I have to disagree a little. While I do believe that most players will gravitate towards a certain team, the local clubs will still convince some better players to stay with the club. Now the club will typically use various rational to convince the player, and yes the ultimate decision is the players. But usually that player will be convinced by people that have the clubs best interests at heart, not the players.
I have to go back to the comment that 2004striker made about the U18 boys. We have the CESA U-18 boys that are ranked 27th nationally by GotSoccer getting knocked out by an unranked team. They lose one game and now we have an unranked team representing SC at regional’s. I haven’t seen either team play so I have to assume that both are good, but that’s about all we can say… they’re good. Now if we had a single team with the best players from those teams we might have a top 10 national team. Instead we have two good teams.
