SC Soccer Forums SCSoccer.com Forums Club Soccer & ODP CESA College Combine - January 2008

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Chico-

Again, this has nothing to do with my child or my child's team. We have a wonderful rivalry with the CESA team in our age-group and the kids know, like, respect and enjoy each other. There is zero chance of any of our players being lured away to CESA. They tried to get a couple over the years but it isn't happening. I admire CESA on many levels and always root for its teams when they are playing anyone but CUFC. My only complaint about it is what I believe to be its harmful practice of overly aggressive recruiting of players from other clubs. We've had that discussion before and don't need a general re-hashing of it.

I have personal knowledge of players at the ODP/CESA scrimmages being handed folders with their names printed on them, the folders being clearly recruiting material. Others (parents and players) were talked to during the weekend about playing for CESA.

The "rule" quoted in my earlier post is typically (for SCYS) ambiguous. The qualifier, "during the seasonal year," makes it unclear to me whether the rule was violated. That the general recruiting rule bans recruiting during the seasonal year would seem to make the "no ODP recruiting" rule superfluous as written. Either way, I'm not interested in filing complaints. I am interested in the integrity of the ODP system. It would have been great to have a weekend of scrimmages without wondering what else was going on behind the scenes. Maybe it would have been better to have them at some time other than the in the middle of club tryouts!

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