>>[HappyDaddy] Sorry I scared you with the quotation marks. They were used because there might be a difference of opinion on what defines "success" and what defines "results."<<I'm sorry; I'm obviously using terminology with which you are not familiar.
From Wikipedia: Scare quotes is a general term for quotation marks used for purposes other than to identify a direct quotation. For example, authors might use quotation marks to highlight special terminology, to distance the writer from the material being reported, to indicate that it is someone else's terminology, or to bring attention to a word or phrase as questionable or at least atypical in some way.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quote>>I won't get into a point by point rebuttal. I said what I meant to say and I stand by all of it.<<Don't let logic get in the way, huh?
>>There are differences in the cultures of the big clubs in SC. I prefer ours (CUFC). CESA's and Bridge's may suit others better. That's fine. I guess it just depends on what one's looking for.<<How do you know what the differences in culture are among the big clubs in SC? I'm just wondering. How did you go about making the selection based on its culture? Did you select CUFC because of its culture, or because of its convenience, or for some other reason? This is truly fascinating stuff...I've heard lots of reasons people select clubs (social reasons, coaching, convenience, winning records) -- but I've never heard "culture."
>>I meant to add that I have no desire to limit anyone's choice about where to play, and don't know how you could have inferred that. As I said in the other thread, I do think clubs should refrain from recruiting. Everyone knows how to contact them. <<I realize that you don't want to go into a point-by-point rebuttal; but if you read a bit more closely you'll see that the sentence to which you're referring is part of a paragraph that is attempting to make the point (obviously quite poorly!) that a focus on club competition (that competition which you previously rejected) is a good thing in that it increases the diversity and level of services. Trying to limit choice by either hoping other clubs will fail (e.g., your questioning of why CESA-Columbia existed a while back) or pushing for regulations that try to prevent kids from playing at other clubs (e.g., the current state rules that forbid kids choosing to play for a team when that team already consists of more than 50% of players from outside that club's district.)
Actually, to put this more specifically, it's great to hope another club will fail as long as you're doing things that offer superior services so that more people want to come to your club. That's the right way to compete. On the plus side, by achieving higher numbers of finalists, CUFC will be offering a much broader ability to participate in RIIIPL-East than any club in the state other than CESA. That club-level competition is bound to be good for CUFC.
