>>[soccersmylife] Did SCYSA ask any other club if they were interested in helping with this endevor? If not they should have.<<

Two scenarios are presented below. It's left to the reader to decide which one is more likely.

Tuesday Morning: Setting, CESA offices. Telephone rings.

Steve Ballentine: "Hello, this is Steve Ballentine, president of the SCYSA. May I speak to Pearse Tormey and Andrew Hyslop?"

Pearse Tormey, Andrew Hyslop: "Hello, this is Pease and Andrew. How ya' doing Steve? How's that golf game?"

Ballentine: "Fine, fine. Look, guys, the reason I'm calling you is that I want CESA to host the Region III regionals for South Carolina. I realize it's a lot of work, but the SCYSA will do the lion's share of all of it and CESA will sit back and rake in the dough. We in South Carolina need to get ambitious -- so we at the SCYSA want CESA to stop hiding its light behind a bushel basket, so to speak, and help lead our state forward. How about it?"

Tormey/Hyslop: "Uhhhh...Steve, it sounds awfully complicated. We're not sure we're the right ones for this."

Ballentine: "Dudes...of course you are! When me and my buddies here at the SCYSA were sitting around and drinking beer the other night, we all asked ourselves just what our favorite club is. And there's no doubt -- it's CESA! We love you guys. We'd do anything for you. Now we're asking that you do something for us."

Tormey/Hyslop: "Steve...it's kinda painful to bring up, but you really screwed us last year when you created those new rules out of thin air with respect to that whole Columbia kerfuffle. Some of us are still a little..."

Ballentine: "Guys, guys...you know it was all an act. We just had to make believe that we were being tough on CESA to get the other clubs off our back. You're our favorite, baby. We love you. We'd do anything for you. We'll never hurt you again. Just give us one more chance, please. You won't be sorry."

Tormey/Hyslop: "We don't know...last time you said you wouldn't hurt us again...and it just seems to happen again and again."

Ballentine: "We love you. We really do. We'll never hurt you again. Let's start over and make it work out. Let's dream big and make this regional event happen."

Tormey/Hyslop: "Okay...we guess we'll give it a try...we love you too..."

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An alternative scenario.

Tormey/Hyslop: "Steve, hey...this is Pearse and Andrew. As you know, we've built a multi-million dollar complex on our own that is privately owned. Based on all of the business we've driven to hotels, restaurants, and the like, we've gotten some local government agencies to agree to dramatically increase the size of our complex by co-locating a municipal field with our existing fields. We now have enough contiguous fields to make a bid to the USYSA to host the Region III tournament. As the state agency, we need your approval. If we do this, the SCYSA won't have to do anything but sign some forms and of course you'll get money. How about it?"

Ballentine: Okay.