Is that an improvement on society?Laxxal22 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 11, 2023 8:11 pmIt's admirable but a little like trying to get people to keep riding horses after the invention of the automobile. Even the great town teams won't have the depth of talent of a top club. 3DNE has posted Instagram clips of their "training camp" this weekend, and they are absurdly high level.Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Sun Jun 11, 2023 7:16 pmI like Vonas approach. Wish more would side with him.Laxrules10 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 11, 2023 6:25 pm The top down anti club stance at LS has accelerated their decline in the last few years. Many players either leave for private or quit club to the point now they have 1-2 on the entire team this year. Hard to compete with teams that have 10-20 kids that play competitive club events in summer and fall for years versus a couple HS summer events only. Those reps create a more skillful player over time.
I get it though picking at the metaphor (guys twig and berries are far more comfortable not on a horse!) and could see this (and soccer too) cannabalizing and collapsing on itself over another generation. I see it down in Atlanta here. Youth rec league I started coaching in last year struggling to maintain or grow numbers. And you know there’s problems if they asked me to coach! But at my age the ones we’ve lost have crappy parents who don’t know anything about the game, are mostly pathetically un athletic and the genes don’t support the thesis they’re kid will ever see a scholly and are blind to reality.
Maybe it’ll come back around Vona isn’t that old.