Maybe our club won’t be one for much longer if they don’t get their sh*t togetherSeems like an issue you should take up with the powers that be at your son's club. Maybe the board needs to hold the employees to a higher standard...
Maybe our club won’t be one for much longer if they don’t get their sh*t togetherSeems like an issue you should take up with the powers that be at your son's club. Maybe the board needs to hold the employees to a higher standard...
And back to that league pillar thing: UBC is hosting an ID camp for 2003 boys this weekend. You’d think that every single player in BCSPL would be notified. Nope. You’d think my son’s club (Fusion) would notify their 2003 boys team. Nope. I mean what the actual f*ck?
Is it an open tryout? Or is it by invite only?1) It’s no secret that UBC mostly looks at Whitecaps players.
2) Fusion is not a club that UBC normally takes seriously.
3) That said, the best university soccer program in the province is holding an ID camp and neither league nor club notified its stakeholders. When your league’s mission is to place their athletes into university soccer programs this is straight up negligence.
Maybe UBC already picked the players (before try-outs) which is OK if UBC has a good scouting system in place.
It would not be the first time that try-outs are being organized just as a formality to satisfy some requirements and collect some money through try-out registrations. If that indeed is the case then attending such try-outs would be a total waste of time (and money).
Is it an open tryout? Or is it by invite only?
I know Mosher does not put much stock into recruiting local HPL/youth players...
That came out of U18 HPL? Which players are you referring to?Not true, look at UBC roster for last 5 or 6 years, totally dominated by HPL players.
That came out of U18 HPL? Which players are you referring to?
Case in point his top first year recruit this season, Sebastian Dzikowski, is from Alberta. The only 1st year player on this season's roster who lists a BCSPL team as their previous club is Sam Aiello (Mountain United) and from my understanding he has played most of the season with "Richmond" (aka UBC reserves) in the VMSL.
Some of the older fourth and fifth year guys may have come out of BCSPL back when it was first getting started (Einarsson, Pannu, Bains) and I am sure almost all of the BC based players would have played HPL at some point (ie U13, U14, etc.). However, the number of kids going to UBC Men's soccer straight out of HPL is almost non-existent.
On the women's side it is much higher. In fact there are only seven or eight non-HPL based players on that roster. In my limited and infrequent conversations with Mosher he has expressly told me that BCHPL is just not up to the standard he is looking for with the UBC program, hence why he continues to look to other sources for recruitment.
My guess about why HPL clubs did not tell their players UBC was holding a tryout was because UBC likely made no effort to tell them to begin with...
That's a great example to illustrate the decline in HPL recruitment at UBC in recent years.I have quickly looked through the UBC roster and counted HPL U18 graduated players.
UBC Roster Year Number of players who played HPL U18
2013-2014 4
2014-2015 7
2015-2016 12
2016-2017 17
2017-2018 13
2018-2019 9
2019-2020 7
You are hard working poster here but on this issue you are being so lazy. By the way you are doing a great job in weekly writeups about local soccer.That's a great example to illustrate the decline in HPL recruitment at UBC in recent years.
Further, how many of the 7 you have listed on this year's count are either first or second year players?
That's a great example to illustrate the decline in HPL recruitment at UBC in recent years.
Further, how many of the 7 you have listed on this year's count are either first or second year players?
God forbid somebody else do some research around here...You are hard working poster here but on this issue you are being so lazy. By the way you are doing a great job in weekly writeups about local soccer.
Maybe UBC already picked the players (before try-outs) which is OK if UBC has a good scouting system in place.
It would not be the first time that try-outs are being organized just as a formality to satisfy some requirements and collect some money through try-out registrations. If that indeed is the case then attending such try-outs would be a total waste of time (and money).
1) It’s no secret that UBC mostly looks at Whitecaps players.
2) Fusion is not a club that UBC normally takes seriously.
3) That said, the best university soccer program in the province is holding an ID camp and neither league nor club notified its stakeholders. When your league’s mission is to place their athletes into university soccer programs this is straight up negligence.
Not true, look at UBC roster for last 5 or 6 years, totally dominated by HPL players.