by ontheblack » Thu Jul 12, 2012 9:37 am
In Canada we just lost to Japan.
Its arrogant to think that we can throw anyone one the field and be dominate. More importantly, that is not the point of the beef here.
Some of you are saying dont like it, play ASA because they make the rules. OK, lets run with that and extend it to the USA Womens National Team, also under the umbrella of ASA.
If you can justify ASA's right to do what they want, are you good with ASA applying a similar selection criteria to the Women's team? For instance, the player must have participated in previous ASA championship play in order to be eligible, or they must be ASA registered.
If the trend were to continue with the top teams in the West playing PGF over ASA, its conceivable that the West's best 2015s, 2016s and 2017s never play ASA championship play. That makes them ineligible for the JNT. What is to prevent this new JNT criteria from being a criteria for the Women"s National Team? Are you going to make the same argument then that they should have played ASA and if they didnt, tough, they are SOL?
ASA has only one defense they can make here, and that would be to argue that the JNT is not subject to the same open criteria as the Women's National Team. If they do that, they lose the argument Haning is making.
ASA will lose this battle, and the casualties are kids.
FWIW, I hate the chicken shiite attitude of "it only effects a few so big deal". What happened to just freakin doing the right thing? Doesnt matter whether its my kid or yours.
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ontheblack on Thu Jul 12, 2012 9:48 am, edited 1 time in total.