Absolutely. Would love to get her and her two best friends who play at Energy back to Tulsa before they graduate and help TSC make a run at nationals. Hoping she can commit to a college at the end of her sophomore year and take some of the pressure off.
I hope so. It would make a big difference in that age group.
It is wild how many kids go to places other than Tulsa. Back in the day, we had it out with OKC and parents did not go down there. I see how high the colleges that girls achieve at TSC and that they are able to get USYNT invites and wonder why they travel so damn far. I can understand there are some not-as-good markets, such as ours, where certain age groups are not as great as others.
That said, I know some coaches are hurt because they had it out with Barry or Eric or don't like the coach at a specific age. Whether they get fired or they quit, they start talking endless crap about the club. The team that JM used to coach is a prime example of this. His team went to the national finals in ECNL the next year they weren't as good because they couldn't
It is interesting.
It is wild. I know some of these of that things. Arkansas has kids that come over here because they done have they don't NL here. Some OKC kids come up here too. it is a little crazy
Back in the day, we friggin hated OKC teams. Celtic boys was actually the best OKC team and when we played them we had it out with them.
I know the owner of Scheels was promised things from the city that they never delivered. Every city (Tulsa,BA,Owasso,Edmond,Norman,etc,etc) have a soccer complex. Jenks nope. Jenks discussed purchasing when my friend did but they weren’t going to upgrade it. Scheels is breaking even in its first full year. Indian Springs is printing money for someone since tax dollars paid for all of it (who’s banking all that). I went by Scheels yesterday and the owner was unhappy with a few fields, the drought of Sept and Oct and floods in November have been hard. Looks like they will get the TSC tournament in and it’s up 20 teams over last year. I take it personally when anyone talks negatively about Scheels because the owner didn’t need to take that complex on.
For the record, I like Scheels a lot. I am three probablty 3-4 times a week. It is the only place other than Case on the west, which is way out on west side, that is close to anything. If he is doing as a passion project, that is even cooler.
Indian Springs only has that completely terrible convenience store that has been for at least 30 years now and has not improved at all.
West Bank is terrible. For some crazy reason Roger bush had this insane notion that they should get the city to dump 50 million so they could hold better tournaments, pay less for maintaining fields and make more money for himself. But at least he is a "non-profit," ?
I think all teams want to play on grass. If you don't, I question whether you are a real soccer player or not.
