As a parent of one of those players stuck in limbo between BFA and MPSC/CUSC, I have some questions.

1. Why did the "mt pleasant rec person in charge" say no to BFA and yes to MPSC/CUSC merger? Who's really in charge?
2. With all the MPSC players going to BFA, why do they not have access to fields in MPSC? These players' parents paid and are still paying for the fields.
3. IF MPSC cannot field a competitive team for the higher level players, and it's about the kids, why can't MPSC share fields with clubs that do?
4. If it's about the kids, why is my child a nervous wreck because MPSC says you HAVE to be at tryouts on Monday night and BFA says you HAVE to be at tryouts on Monday night?
5. If clubs aren't trying to hold the kids "hostage", why weren't tryouts scheduled on different nights?
6. If MPSC wants to provide a place for challenge players, why do they have a high school coach? This puts the club in a position of LIMITING the amount of players from that coach's school because a high school coach has the #'s restrictions by the high school league rules?
7. If BFA wants to provide a place for ALL challenge players, why do they have a high school coach with #'s limitations? Both these coaches come from an area with only one high school.
8. What is it that BFA is offering or not offering, to MPSC (or the rec dept) and CUSC?
9. BFA what are you doing to get more central locations so players are not sitting in 60-90 minutes of dangerous rush hour traffic to get to practice?

In the beginning I could see the reluctance to merge with BFA. Hey, if you've got a good thing going, why give it to someone else?

However, with BFA "cherry picking" the good players one by one, it has become an environment of diluting the waters in the low country. The challenge or elite player has to make a team with a small pool of 15-16 from our entire tri county area to play at BFA. If not, they go back to their community club that now is really hurting for higher level players. Sigh, so you go back to a classic team where the parents and players are really nice, but are not really committed to soccer.

Folks, this is especially hurting our kids in the U15-18 group. You fought the BFA concept. The BFA concept seems to be working very well and looks like it is here to stay.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE get it together so our challenge level kids can be united to play with and against other challenge kids without having to participate in the circus we now have.