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Good luck policing that one HD.

As Chico, p&y and others have previously pointed out, by U-15 the best players often start gravitating to one team. That would be your "super team", not necessarily the same "super club".

From "suffer" to "casualties"—wow—serious overstating of something that I believe would not happen.

And if someone doesn't get to go to Disney (and MOST never will) or WAGS (lucky them!), those players will have OTHER tournaments, right?

Why is there an argument that a Super Club would obliterate all other opportunities? There will be no casualties and no one will suffer with a Super Club. No one. A Super Club ADDS another option at the highest level; it doesn't take away a thing.

OTHER opportunities could also mean LESSER opportunities. If you don't think a team/kids suffer when they lose their best players to a super club you must have your head in the sand.

Social Darwinism.

I'm not a social darwinist—AND I do NOT think a player suffers when he/she is on a team that loses its "best" player.

No head in the sand either.

If the ten best players in an age group are on ten separate teams, I think EVERYONE is losing in that scenario. If those ten are on ONE team in the state and raise the bar for what is the best in that state, then EVERYONE wins.

Hurst66: I do regret sounding argumentative with you about this since I agree with where your heart lies. I love all players at all ability levels. However, I don't agree about what helps and/or hurts that range of interests and abilities.

p&y, no offense taken...all in the spirit of good discussion.

If we had the best 10 coaches/trainers in the southeast US, coaching 10 different U-17G club teams in South Carolina, would you still see the need for the 10 best players to come together on one club? Or can we reserve that for ODP?

i'd want the best players playing for the best coach—:)

and then i'd want that best coach to be gracious enough to share her/his expertise with all other levels of players as well—

but that is a much harder scenario—and i've never seen ODP as a good choice for anyone—but that's another thread. . .

P&Y,

C'mon on. A team from the lower part of the state is a R3PL caliber team, playing in Disney, etc. An upstate team fits the same bill.

Coaches and players decide to merge in order to form a super team. 1/2 the kids make it....1/2 the kids don't.

Do you really think the kid that went from a starter playing at Disney to being a starter on a watered down remnant of a team that competes at the St Patricks Day tournament in Columbia.....feels like all is well and good?

Call it what you want..its real. And in SC its still worth doing.....just don't think its win win. Someone always loses.

Nope.