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I can’t spoil it, but if anything is announced it will be about TSC boys.
Everyone knows about the FC TULSA/Blitz merger. I’m hearing that TSC will unload their boys ECNL off to FC Tulsa and try and keep RL.
Splitting off the boys from girls would have to be a sale.
Doesn't seem like the best thing considering there are only a few teams per age group.
I still am amazed how many teams oefc, nokc and Edmond has per age group.
"We are the ONLY club that's prioritizing girls and young women."
"They are our focus"
The key is following through and making sure the girls all have the best coaches they can. For a long time, it has felt like the girls side at TSC was a second thought if a thought at all. They could change that.
"They are our focus"
The key is following through and making sure the girls all have the best coaches they can. For a long time, it has felt like the girls side at TSC was a second thought if a thought at all. They could change that.
Nah, ECNL boys don’t make any money for the club. Unload ECNL and hope you can keep RL, or get GA. Then maybe FC Tulsa makes a. move to merge with WSA down the road and get girls ECNL.
It’s a desperation move on TSC’s part on the boys side. They would have lost boys NL next year should they had kept it. Transferring it to FC Tulsa/Blitz is an attempt to keep it out of WSA’s hands.
As has been discussed, GA in this region is ECRL quality at best and the travel is problematic. Having someone like Celtic or Sporting as a travel partner is also far cry from their old status in ECNL. Probably the only move they have left though.
It’s just amazing to see where TSC is today compared to 24 months ago. Quite a fall from grace.
As has been discussed, GA in this region is ECRL quality at best and the travel is problematic. Having someone like Celtic or Sporting as a travel partner is also far cry from their old status in ECNL. Probably the only move they have left though.
It’s just amazing to see where TSC is today compared to 24 months ago. Quite a fall from grace.
I was really excited when Barry bought the club way back when. There was a vision in place and there was also the promise of TSC being the youth soccer branch of Tulsa Roughnecks/FC Tulsa, which is why they had a 3-yr uniform cycle back then instead of the customary 2. The thought was the TSC uniforms would match the FC Tulsa kits in color scheme. It was a bold vision...that collapsed and the club has struggled since then. We've talked about it how there's a lot of coach turnover at TSC because they are promised a lot and then those promises get dropped. It was the same for a lot of players who were promised additional training opportunities, opportunities to guest play on higher teams, GK group training plus GK 1 on 1 training with the GK director attending games to evaluate keepers.
Some of them happened sporadically...some of them happened because parents would squawk and follow up about the promises made. I can tell you the GK stuff NEVER happened. There was an attempt with the hiring of Brian Byars from FC Tulsa to be the GK director but when FC Tulsa's season ended, he quit and moved back to OKC. He was there for 3 months. He wasn't replaced for at least 2 years.
You can't keep promising everyone the world and not follow through on them. People get pissed about that and leave for other places regardless of whether or not that new club had the nation's top platform or not...and we all know the lower tier teams and players are the ones that prop up those top platforms. There is no way a club can field single teams in every age group in that top platform without several hundred thousands of dollars in sponsorships and subsidies or without charging the parents Holland Hall level tuition to play. It's just too expensive, so we all know the lower teams probably pay 25-50% more than what their actual operating cost would dictate they pay just so those top platform teams aren't paying exorbitant amounts. Which is another reason why TSC went to a single bill and pay each month vs the old model of paying the club $100/mo and then paying the manager $50 more per month to cover tournaments and other expenses. I think when we left we were paying about $225/mo. Last season at Blitz we paid $125/mo to Blitz and $55 to the manager. We played a hell of a lot of tournaments and in 2-3 different league platforms (OPL, FCL, RL). This was way more in terms of how much game and tournament play than my son's last season at TSC. But I get it...I understand that's the business model to make it work and still attract the best players. WSA uses a similar model because many of their top players on the boys' side don't pay anything more than maybe $25/mo if they're paying anything. Again, it comes down to what are you promising players and parents and are they being followed through on? If the promises Barry made were followed through on I don't think my son would have left TSC. He liked his coach and he had played with that group for several years.
I think it’s 2 fold. They might have lost it mainly because they will be fighting Greenwood SC for the top talent. FC Tulsa has the resources and pathway that the kids can see. It will be a huge power struggle now between FC Tulsa and Greenwood. Why would TSC want to be in that fight when 75% of those kids are scholarships? High paid coaches. I don’t know if TSC survives but I wouldn’t go down on the swords for ECNL boys. If TSC doesn’t get GA they are probably done. WSA has big issues they have to solve or they will lose NL in 2 years.
Giving NL to FC Tulsa/Blitz give NL boys a fighting chance in this market. It’s still viewed as a tier below MLS Next but FC Tulsa does give some creditably TSC now lacks. That said….most top level boys really want to play MLS Next.
TSC coaches have started to tell their players they are getting GA so I assume the announcement is imminent. They have a significant sales job in front of them to keep a majority of those NL players.
WSA is swinging for the fences on ECNL coaching hires. They need to hit on a few of those imo. WSA or TSC retreads won’t get people excited
You don't think the TSC girls are tired of trying to compete with the Solar's, Stings, and FC Dallas's of the world? GA players that are deserving will still get seen by plenty of colleges. Play in matches they can compete. playing at Scheels is way better than Westbank. My son actually asked about maybe trying out for the MLS Next but he loves golf more so I talked him out of it.
The lack of quality in the regional GA league along with the difficult travel will make it difficult to attract the NL girls imo. The two closest GA clubs (BVB and Renegades) simply aren’t very good and are fairly well know by TSC parents. TSC has the advantage of those girls knowing their coaches and training facilities. So they will at least have a shot at keeping some of that talent. My fear is we are going to end up with the high end talent split between two Tulsa clubs resulting in mediocre teams from both clubs
I think both the boys and girls will be divided. Girls because of club choice. Boys because of High School.
If we want to compete and win in MLS Next, we have to have the top boys teams in Tulsa in each age group, it can't be a question. They are going to try and get talent from Arkansas too.
So if you look at the group they have been placed in there is no FC Dallas, sporting KC or Rapids. Are they not going to be in tier one or are the MLS teams going to keep themselves away from all the other teams now like a bunch of arrongant pricks? They aren't even the most dominant youth clubs.
They plan on having teams in Tier 1 and Tier 2. Yes….they will need to draw kids from the OKC area as well as Arkansas to be competitive in Tier 1. I assume this will occur. Tier 1 MLS Next is a big draw
I didn't get to go check out sporting’s facility in OKC, but if they built like the pictures, it is 4x as nice as anything in OK.
Link to Photos? Last time my son played a Sporting OK team they played on some practice field out at a small Christian college. It wasn't nice.
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