>> [Big Daddy] [...] Younger teams moved en masse to CSC where they are distinct teams. But make no mistake, there is no partnership. They are registered CSC teams wearing CSC colors. [...]<<
Okay...going back to basics on this.
From Miriam-Webster:
partnership: (1) The state of being a partner.
partner: (1) one that shares, (2) one associated with another especially in an action, (3) a member of a partnership.
Now let's go back to the SCYSA decision regarding partnerships:
*SCYSA does not recognize the “partnership” between any SCYSA clubs. Each and every SCYSA club is an organization member of SCYSA and responsible for its own individual members and their own actions, as noted in SCYSA Bylaws 211, 212 and 231.
*All SCYSA clubs, including CESA, will immediately cease the advertising or promoting of a “partnership” with any other SCYSA clubs.
It appears from reading this that Northside may partner with CSC or any other North Carolina club because the decision only refers to SCYSA clubs not being permitted to partner with other SCYSA clubs.
But as far as "registered CSC teams wearing registered CSC colors", I think there continues to be a misunderstanding here. If you look at the process by which teams are rostered, there is no way a team from one club may be rostered with another club and there is no way a team can be rostered with two clubs. Furthermore, there was never any expressed intent to do this as per the CESA/CRSA partnership announcement. And I can tell you as someone who has asked about what was going on with this announcement that there was no implied intent to do this either. This is a case where the SCYSA rules are quite clear as per their actual rostering process.
You can't say that a registered team wearing a club color means that clubs aren't involved in a partnership -- if so, no club has ever expressed a desire to be in a partnership. Instead, you have to go back to the definitions and find out what a partnership is (synonyms: alliance, cooperative venture, etc.) -- which is working together in any manner -- to understand what the SCYSA appears to have outlawed.
And I say "appears to have outlawed" because of the totality of the two decisions. The second partnership decision, as folks have noted, only disallows the advertising or promoting of a partnership and not a partnership itself. But I believe that the first partnership decision was intended to outlaw partnerships, even though what it really does is simply state that the SCYSA does not recognize partnerships. However, the SCYSA made most of this decision out of whole cloth, i.e., they didn't use their bylaws to create this decision, instead, they created a decision based on what the bylaws don't say. Thus, it would be in line with their thinking that the SCYSA not recognizing something means that it can't exist.
By the way...based on this...since the SCYSA bylaws don't say anything about message boards...I believe that this message board doesn't exist and (poof!)...
