>>Chico, you have got to be kidding me. Who do you think you are fooling, talking about choice?
I made the point in an earlier post about the number of CLubs in Columbia area already. Its not as if there is only one.<<
There are more SCYSA affiliated clubs in the Greenville and Charleston areas than the Columbia area. Moreover, if you denominate by population, the gap grows larger.
This causes your "point" that you made in the earlier post to be precisely as accurate as your contention that CASL NC and CASL VA are unrelated clubs.
>>Hypothetically.....if a really really good player moved into the Upstate, lets say.....Duncan. And lets say this kid was not only ODP level, but good enough to make a regional team. His choices to play are.....one?<<
Depends on where they move and how far they want to travel. I know of ODP kids in the upstate that play at CESA...but also that play at CFC, USA, CASC, and outside of the state in Atlanta.
>>Your argument isn't about underpriveledged kids or choice. All you want is the upper hand.<<
I actually want two things. First, I'd like Columbia area kids to have more choice than they have today. Secondly, I'd like to see soccer penetration increase dramatically in South Carolina -- which to me means hitting the underserved markets in the metropolitan areas.
I've been posting for several years on this theme of the need for soccer to penetrate underserved markets; it's not a newly created whim designed solely to buttress some recent argument.
>>And I stand by my comments about CESA. I don't begrudge them for they attempted. In fact I give them props for being creative and proactive. But like DeNiro said in the Deer Hunter, "Dis is dis." Don't dress this up as something other than what it was. The poor kids from Columbia will figure out how to get 'r done on the pitch. <<
When you say things like this, it is vaguely reminiscent of Marie Antoinette and her "Let them eat cake." remark. South Carolina has a lower penetration rate than almost any other Region III state. Our soccer teams are almost entirely made up of relatively affluent caucasian kids. And yet you somehow believe that the "poor kids" will figure out how to play socccer -- somehow. I guess you leave the details of that to someone else, huh?
