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15 league games so 7 or 8 home league games. 4 weekends.
And who knows what happens with FC Tulsa Academy and the formerly known as Titan facility. If they sink some money into it as a practice facility capable of hosting games, that may free some space up at Scheel's for WSA to host NL games out there....TSC won't be needing it for that purpose 😆 I can't see Barry paying that money to rent the turf fields for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th tier games...then again I can't see the Bushes paying money to get out there. I wonder if Ryan can use his ORU connection to run NL games out at ORU for a good rental price but I will tell you they will get blasted for the parking situation at ORU if they do that. You have to park down the hill closer to the Mabee Center than to the actual soccer field.
 
They must be figuring some girls will leave to play GA rather than RL Texas? How many fields have lights at West bank? The drive for anyone east of 169 will be brutal at 5pm.
 
They must be figuring some girls will leave to play GA rather than RL Texas? How many fields have lights at West bank? The drive for anyone east of 169 will be brutal at 5pm.

Leaving RL TX for GA in this region would be a mistake, right?
 
Leaving RL TX for GA in this region would be a mistake, right?
Nobody on this side of the state has even announced GA, that would be a crazy assumption to think people are leaving for a platform that currently doesn’t exist.
 
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Leaving RL TX for GA in this region would be a mistake, right?
RL TX is a better league than the regional GA option imo but being on the top team at a club has its advantages compared to being the #2 team. Top team players at any club are just viewed and treated differently than second team kids.
 
Yes….all competitive teams train there
Maybe we should get their parents' email addresses and give them some info of what is below the topsoil layer there. They would never let their kids spend time on those pitches. There's a reason why they haven't pulled the trigger on turfing the whole complex yet...because the remediation of the contaminated soil below the surface would cost maybe 10x what just laying turf would cost.
 
Reading your posts, I can see precisely what I have said.

Tulsa has talent. However, if you spread that talent out, it will be very hard to compete because the talent pool is thin due to the city's size.

Lawpoke just typed out that the 2010s should be good. It is awful that we can't have them come together and stomp out some Texans. There is a lack of trust in the coaching.


The great WSA, Greenwood, and Blitz with FC Tulsa look amazing. It is new and hot. They don't have Barry, who 95% of people haven't talked to but is to blame for everything for their specific child and seemingly have a relationship with.

Things will start to happen:

The coach will yell at a girl or boy
They will think they are better than they are.
The coach cuts them or places them at a lower level. They get mad and put them somewhere else.
They don't like the vibe.
Terrible facilties
The team lost a lot of games and the parents start to get pissed
The coaches start yelling at Referees and other coaches and get tossed out of games, so they are horrible people and should never be around other people.
Many others on the list

Eventually, WSA, Blitz, and Greenwood will also be called for-profit POSs. It always does in club soccer. Hopefully, it doesn't, but I doubt it. Eventually, people will want to move on because Tulsa is a B market for coaching. Many of these places are full of people with many more local ties who are not trying to get their next gig outside of here, which doesn't help.

It will be interesting to see what happens with this private equity money at Greenwood as it expands. We now have three for-profit clubs in Tulsa: Blitz, TSC, and Greenwood. That was a lot of the criticism at TSC.

When things don't go right at any of those places, it won't be..." for the kids." It isn't like they exactly set the prices of volleyball courts for kids at Titan.


Tulsa needs to get bigger.

Oklahoma City, windy, flat, and ugly as hell, managed to bring in 400,000 people, SGA, Chet, and Jalen, build a big half-full 900-foot tower, steal 100s of millions in government money from the FAA, DOD, and NIH, create a big empty corporate campus, and steal their citizens' money to pay for a new palace for their billionaires to have SGA and boys play in.

We can do similar things!

Slowly, though, Michael Bates, Jarrin Jackson, Cody Rodgers, and the utterly pure a-holes or needlessly insane seem to be disappearing and being put down. I am hopeful!

I digress, though...
 
I’m not sure I understand the obsession with for profit versus non profit clubs. I personally don’t give a damn. I will always choose the club which provides the best training, development and college options for my kid. I couldn’t care less which tax return they file.
 
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I’m not sure I understand the obsession with for profit versus non profit clubs. I personally don’t give a damn. I will always choose the club which provides the best training, development and college options for my kid. I couldn’t care less which tax return they file.
I agree completely but it was the perception. I can't tell you how many times I heard it out of people.
 
Holy crud, just saw an announcement that FC Tulsa Academy is doing their tryouts and signings next week At Titan (Ascension St. Johns Sportsplex is the new name). Seems really early
 
Holy crud, just saw an announcement that FC Tulsa Academy is doing their tryouts and signings next week At Titan (Ascension St. Johns Sportsplex is the new name). Seems really early
Have they officially announce which platform they are playing on?
 
Have they officially announce which platform they are playing on?
I haven't seen that. This tryout announcement was for boys only. It says all ages and level (there are separate times for the different age groups along with field assignments...and apparently they've been working to get the other fields at Titan available for the youth academy stuff.

I would assume they're still playing RL in whatever league they were in. They also were doing FCL again but in a different league, not the same one in TX they did previously which was a disaster for the OK teams because TX sides were rolling out their NL teams in that league as a practice league between NL weekends.

I haven't been to any of the open houses and parent meetings that have been introducing the FC Tulsa part of things to players and parents since I don't have a kid playing at that level anymore but I'd be interested in knowing what they're saying. If I run into my son's old coach anytime soon, I'll ask as I'm sure he'd be up front with me. He seemed pretty positive about the partnership and at least right now they're trying to do the right things in terms of strategic planning for player development. Of course all of these endeavors always sound great at first.
 
I haven't seen that. This tryout announcement was for boys only. It says all ages and level (there are separate times for the different age groups along with field assignments...and apparently they've been working to get the other fields at Titan available for the youth academy stuff.

I would assume they're still playing RL in whatever league they were in. They also were doing FCL again but in a different league, not the same one in TX they did previously which was a disaster for the OK teams because TX sides were rolling out their NL teams in that league as a practice league between NL weekends.

I haven't been to any of the open houses and parent meetings that have been introducing the FC Tulsa part of things to players and parents since I don't have a kid playing at that level anymore but I'd be interested in knowing what they're saying. If I run into my son's old coach anytime soon, I'll ask as I'm sure he'd be up front with me. He seemed pretty positive about the partnership and at least right now they're trying to do the right things in terms of strategic planning for player development. Of course all of these endeavors always sound great at first.
Let us know. They’re playing on a 5th tier platform. I would be shocked in they’re able to attract high level talent to play in an ECNL-RL Regional league
 
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I’ve heard Celtic did in fact pass on GA. This puts TSC in a tough spot as far as the girls program. The regional GA teams apparently aren’t thrilled about traveling for a single to Oklahoma so a traveling partner appears to be needed. I actually heard the crazy rumor that TSC is accepted to GA on the condition it plays all of their games on the road. Something either way will need to be finalized in the next two weeks.

TSC boys did get a waiver from ECNL to have tryouts early to try to combat the new MLS Next club. I’m very curious to see how the numbers shake out on the boys side between FC Tulsa, TSC and Greenwood.
 
I’ve heard Celtic did in fact pass on GA. This puts TSC in a tough spot as far as the girls program. The regional GA teams apparently aren’t thrilled about traveling for a single to Oklahoma so a traveling partner appears to be needed. I actually heard the crazy rumor that TSC is accepted to GA on the condition it plays all of their games on the road. Something either way will need to be finalized in the next two weeks.

TSC boys did get a waiver from ECNL to have tryouts early to try to combat the new MLS Next club. I’m very curious to see how the numbers shake out on the boys side between FC Tulsa, TSC and Greenwood.

Is Celtic a part of RL Texas or Frontier?
 
Is Celtic a part of RL Texas or Frontier?
Celtic is ECRL Texas. I’ve heard TSC has a GA option but would have to play all games on the road (no home games). Can’t imagine that would be an option for parents. GA travel is brutal
 
Celtic is ECRL Texas. I’ve heard TSC has a GA option but would have to play all games on the road (no home games). Can’t imagine that would be an option for parents. GA travel is brutal

Yeah, leaving rl tx for ga would be strange.

TSC is in a real pickle.
 
Yeah, leaving rl tx for ga would be strange.

TSC is in a real pickle.
TSC and Energy have both received permission from ECNL to start signing players this week. So almost a month earlier than otherwise permitted. This is being done to combat MLS Next now being in the Oklahoma market. I assume they will tell kids they have to sign to insure they have a spot. Will be interesting to see how this works.
 
TSC and Energy have both received permission from ECNL to start signing players this week. So almost a month earlier than otherwise permitted. This is being done to combat MLS Next now being in the Oklahoma market. I assume they will tell kids they have to sign to insure they have a spot. Will be interesting to see how this works.
Is this on the boys and girls side? If it does include the girls I’m guessing WSA received permission also?
 
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Is this on the boys and girls side? If it does include the girls I’m guessing WSA received permission also?
It was done as a blocking action on the boys side against MLS Next. I was told ECNL had to make it a club wide authorization so girls side signings would be permissible as well. WSA doesn’t have ECNL boys thus they weren’t part of this decision
 
It was done as a blocking action on the boys side against MLS Next. I was told ECNL had to make it a club wide authorization so girls side signings would be permissible as well. WSA doesn’t have ECNL boys thus they weren’t part of this decision
Gotcha, I wonder how this will work for Energy considering several teams will make the playoffs.
 
This is crazy. I hate this kind of stuff. Are they going to tell the best talent to leave? Why were their little egos hurt for trying out or pissed at loss of a potential source of income also hurting them? Seems dumb either way.

Is WSA looking at OPL talent to rock out the Texas league with the boys? Dang. No worries. They can go throw the greatest of great, great, great high school coaches at them and turn them into superstars.
 
This is crazy. I hate this kind of stuff. Are they going to tell the best talent to leave? Why were their little egos hurt for trying out or pissed at loss of a potential source of income also hurting them? Seems dumb either way.

Is WSA looking at OPL talent to rock out the Texas league with the boys? Dang. No worries. They can go throw the greatest of great, great, great high school coaches at them and turn them into superstars.
Nothing has really changed to WSA on the boys side. They are still and RL level club and will continue to attract that level of player. Especially the west side kids. They do offer quite of few scholarships on the boys side which aids their numbers
 
Nothing has really changed to WSA on the boys side. They are still and RL level club and will continue to attract that level of player. Especially the west side kids. They do offer quite of few scholarships on the boys side which aids their numbers
It's always interesting to me how much East Tulsa gravitates toward them. I know they have that hidden-away East Tulsa complex in the woods.

I have always wonder a few thing:

What percentage of their club is on scholarship vs not?
What percentage of their boy's side is funded by girls (random observation says that could be possible) ? Just saying....
What percentage of their "tournaments" are just internal scrimmages called tournaments to pay out Roger Bush?
Does West Bank's excellent facilities mean that no one wants to come in to play soccer at those tournaments?
Will they push to get the boys NL division? If their boys are 60% on scholarship, how do they afford NL travel? I guess they are sort of doing it with RL. Is it different in the NL stuff or about the same?
What is the ETA on ECNL telling WSA that the Roger Bush Masterpiece in Sand Springs has to be substituted for something like BA's turf?Won't be too West Sidey at that point.

Self before side...
 
It's always interesting to me how much East Tulsa gravitates toward them. I know they have that hidden-away East Tulsa complex in the woods.

I have always wonder a few thing:

What percentage of their club is on scholarship vs not?
What percentage of their boy's side is funded by girls (random observation says that could be possible) ? Just saying....
What percentage of their "tournaments" are just internal scrimmages called tournaments to pay out Roger Bush?
Does West Bank's excellent facilities mean that no one wants to come in to play soccer at those tournaments?
Will they push to get the boys NL division? If their boys are 60% on scholarship, how do they afford NL travel? I guess they are sort of doing it with RL. Is it different in the NL stuff or about the same?
What is the ETA on ECNL telling WSA that the Roger Bush Masterpiece in Sand Springs has to be substituted for something like BA's turf?Won't be too West Sidey at that point.

Self before side...
The soccer club formula I’ve heard is you need 1.5 girls for every 1 boy to pay the bills.
 
It's always interesting to me how much East Tulsa gravitates toward them. I know they have that hidden-away East Tulsa complex in the woods.

I have always wonder a few thing:

What percentage of their club is on scholarship vs not?
What percentage of their boy's side is funded by girls (random observation says that could be possible) ? Just saying....
What percentage of their "tournaments" are just internal scrimmages called tournaments to pay out Roger Bush?
Does West Bank's excellent facilities mean that no one wants to come in to play soccer at those tournaments?
Will they push to get the boys NL division? If their boys are 60% on scholarship, how do they afford NL travel? I guess they are sort of doing it with RL. Is it different in the NL stuff or about the same?
What is the ETA on ECNL telling WSA that the Roger Bush Masterpiece in Sand Springs has to be substituted for something like BA's turf?Won't be too West Sidey at that point.

Self before side...

There’s always the possibility that, like many TX teams, WSA plays at a local high school.
 
There’s always the possibility that, like many TX teams, WSA plays at a local high school.
That used to happen a lot at DA sides in CO.

Jenks wants an insane amount to use their practice facility (which is the nicest in town). I told someone they should use it as a recruiting tool since you have open district transfers now.
 
There’s always the possibility that, like many TX teams, WSA plays at a local high school.
That isn't very Tupac like. That name is on the thing bruh.
That used to happen a lot at DA sides in CO.

Jenks wants an insane amount to use their practice facility (which is the nicest in town). I told someone they should use it as a recruiting tool since you have open district transfers now.
 
FC Dallas closes Toyota several times a year for rather lengthy periods so the grass can recover. They train at local high schools during these periods. Pretty common in Texas
 
MLS Next is a different model. I have no idea what MLS Next clubs pay to MLS or how much if any is subsidized by MLS.
I mean MLS Next would probably be cheaper than the Patriot and golf lessons for my son but how much is it going to cost? Where are they going to practice and play? Having MLS NeXT is super cool. JM is the best trainer around here. But at the end of the day how do you pay for it? No girls teams to supplement?
 
I mean MLS Next would probably be cheaper than the Patriot and golf lessons for my son but how much is it going to cost? Where are they going to practice and play? Having MLS NeXT is super cool. JM is the best trainer around here. But at the end of the day how do you pay for it? No girls teams to supplement?
Those are all very good questions. Questions which probably should have already been addressed
 
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