Enough Choices - why build a new team

Why would anyone join a brand-new team being built for Competitive play in the Fall at this time? Surely there are enough good teams that have a structure, a history, and a track record of some accomplishments that will be bettered by adding more talent.

It's a "hard row to hoe" to get an Academy team ready for the better Select leagues. Starting from scratch in February 2012 puts everyone at risk and benefits few - except the cash-recepients.

Any ideas how many 02G teams play in the Colleyville /Grapevine /Southlake area? Check it out.

IMHO

Maybe starting a new team at this time has some benefits?

There will be plenty of players asked to leave their current team, and maybe those players/parents will be fed up with the big soccer machines and look to the smaller up start clubs to call home. The smaller upstart clubs may benefit from the big clubs attrition.

Just a thought.

For as good a job that many of the clubs do in promoting the sport of soccer and making it fun there are still many situations where due to lack of communication by the club/coach, lack of direction for a team, etc... that causes many players/teams to become disgruntled and want to leave and go independent. I've seen many a young player go from a middle of the road kid and marginally enjoying soccer, to a real contributor and someone who just loves the game of soccer simply by making a switch.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to pull the trigger and make the switch. Far too often parents are too afraid to leave a team or make the right decision for their child because they get so tied up in the "prestige" of playing for a certain club. Doesn't matter if they are one of 4 teams in that club and probably the worst of the bunch, they still get to claim they play for that club.

Obviously 6 months prior to making the big jump isn't ideal BUT if they aren't enjoying it then I see no problem going independent or starting a new team. Plenty of kids are being told (after years of being told the team is going to stay together for ever and ever) that they probably aren't going to have a spot for them in 6 months that still love soccer and should have a place to play.

PositiveSoccer6 wrote:Why would anyone join a brand-new team being built for Competitive play in the Fall at this time? Surely there are enough good teams that have a structure, a history, and a track record of some accomplishments that will be bettered by adding more talent.

It's a "hard row to hoe" to get an Academy team ready for the better Select leagues. Starting from scratch in February 2012 puts everyone at risk and benefits few - except the cash-recepients.

Any ideas how many 02G teams play in the Colleyville /Grapevine /Southlake area? Check it out.

IMHO

Most of the select teams will end up with only a core of their academy teams anyway. Academy is supposed to be about getting the players, not teams, ready and never was supposed to be select lite. As far as getting ready for the better select leagues it does not matter. Half the teams in D1 wont be there in a few years and by the time your DD hits U15 teams that have more than 4 or 5 original players will be the exception. You are talking about 10 year girls playing a game. By the time they hit high school many of them will have quit playing club. As they get older the better players and occasionally full teams all migrate to D1. Relax and enjoy.

FC Premier was doing well as a new club to build new teams, for the 02 girls. They brought in an 02 girls team, and now the team maybe having more issues do to the Bonnie Forzie. Will this lead to this team, and others to fall apart. They have at least one 02 girls team that looks good enough to make Lake Highlands Classic (FC Premier North) hope they can keep that team.

My daughters team has played both teams and the North Team is the stronger of the two current 02 girls teams.