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.
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Lmao, that’s insane. You want to attract top level talent but provide none of the facilities to compete with the teams on your platform.
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.
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.
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...
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 agree completely but it was the perception. I can't tell you how many times I heard it out of people.
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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