• The Board approved the SCYS Committee List, as posted on the website.
• The Board discussed the USSF World Cup Bid Participation proposal and decided to wait before committing funds to this program.
• The Board went to Executive Session to discuss the matter of the grievance and complaint against US Youth Soccer, SC Youth Soccer and four other State Associations.
• The Board approved fines against seven clubs and leagues for failing to comply with the Risk Management Policy.
• It was announced that the 2008 / 2009 financial audit report and Federal 990 forms have been completed and posted on the web site.
• Don Mikell will head a committee of club representative from each District to consider changes to the format and dates of the President’s Medal State Cup, with recommendations from this committee to be presented at the March 21st BOD meeting.
• The Board approved a motion to pay the entry fee for all SCYS Championship teams advancing to the 2010 Southern Regional Tournament.
• The Board approved a motion to pay the entry fee for all SCYS Championship teams advancing to the 2010 Region III President’s Cup.
• The Board approved a motion to eliminate the coach’s meeting at State Cup events and provide a forfeiture of the team performance bond for failing to comply with the team registration process.
• The Board approved to continue using fourth officials at the Bob Brantley Publix Challenge State Cup for all semi-final and final matches.
• The Board approved to continue allowing referee assessments at all youth league and State Cup matches.
• The Board approved a motion to make Red Card Tracking procedures consistent between all league and cup rules, to include the notice must be submitted within 3 days and a $200 penalty for coaches or assistant coaches who are ejected from matches.
• The Board failed to approve a motion to increase fees for Leagues and State Cups.
• The Board approved the purchase of four new advertising banners with the SCYS and USYS logos.
• The Board approved a raise for league administrator, Dennis Cook.
• The Board approved to pay the travel expense and provide a stipend and local transportation for all referees required to attend the 2010 Southern Regional Tournament.
• The Board approved the following rule changes: Rule C.19 Player Address to read “the player’s residence address including street (or p.o. box), city, state, zip code and a household email address; and Rule C.38 Youth Player to read “is an individual who is an amateur player …”. .
• The Board approved a motion to amend rule C.35.g Transfers to change the dates from December 1 until January 15 to December 1 until January 30.
• The Board approved a motion to adopt a new “Notice of Complaint” form, as a means for filing complaints with SCYS (see website)
• The 2011 ODP Sub-Regional event for girls has been awarded to SCYS and games will be played at CESA’s MeSA Complex in Greenville
• Recreation Director, Doug Gaddis, would like to provide the USYS Coaching Manual to clubs and coaches.
• Recreational Director, Doug Gaddis, discussed creating a state recreational manual with the Director of Coaching Education using the USSF Best Practices Guide as a resource.
• Recreational Director, Doug Gaddis, will coordinate and establish free training clinics for all U10 players in each District this spring.
• The Board approved a motion for SC Youth Soccer to adopt and use the US Youth Soccer website platform provided by American Eagle and accept the reduced rate offered by US Youth Soccer to small state associations.
• The Board decided the January Planning Meeting will now be defined as the Calendar Planning Meeting and will not be open to the membership.
• The Board decided the June BOD meeting will now be comprised of one day Strategic Planning Meeting, which will be open to the membership to attend and one day as the SC Youth Soccer Board of Directors meeting, which will continue to be open to the membership.

Proposal to change to Presidents Medal State Cup format similar to that of Challenge Cup, with the top teams from league competition competing in a “first round” event then advancing to a “final four” competition.

1. What does SCYS consider the “purpose” of our present State Cup event?
2. What are the concerns for making such a change

• Too many teams participating
• Not enough fields
• Shortage of referees
• There are only a limited number of clubs able to host the event due to the number of fields required

3. Consider separating the event into a Boys and a Girls events to reduce the number of fields required to host
4. Recommendation: appoint a committee, chaired by Don Mikell, with representatives from each district to study this proposal and report their findings to the BOD for consideration at the March meeting.
   

STATE CUPS – GENERAL

1. Is it necessary to have a coaches meeting for State Cup, considering the present means of communication available today?
2. Is it necessary to have “fourth” officials at State Cup?
3. Do not allow any referee assessments at State Cup events
4. Require clubs hosting State Cup to provide practice facilities for teams
5. Move “first round” of Challenge Cup before Thanksgiving
6. Provide shirts for teams competing at Southern Regionals
7. First round State Cup – alternate scheduling?

RULES

1. Adhere to the present rule which requires new clubs must have a minimum of 100 players to form a club, otherwise new clubs will continue to form with disgruntled parents or coaches and just a few players being recruited from existing clubs
2. Conflict of Interest – Any BOD member should recuse themselves from decisions in which they have an interest or the appearance of an interest.
3. What are the guidelines for club alliances or club partnerships?

DIRECTOR OF COACHING

1. SCYS needs to strongly consider hiring a “full time” director of coaching, the benefits of having a full time DOC would far outweigh the cost and clubs would agree to a fee increase for such;

• Provide better coaching education
• Provide assistance to clubs
• Provide summer camps within the state
• Assist with ODP
• Recruit new member organizations and players

ODP

1. Cost of ODP is too high
2. Training is insufficient
3. Club coaches should be more involved in the player selection process
4. Proposed new SCYS DOC position should select coaches and assist with training
5. Separate administrative duties from coaching duties
6. Provide Regional Camp subsidies for players
7. Subsidize first year of participation for players to allow exposure to the program
8. All coaches were not wearing SCORE apparel at recent tryouts

REFEREES

1. Referees are not accountable to SCYS for their actions or performance
2. Lack of communication between referees and SCYS
3. More State Referee Committee meetings and involvement with SCYS

1. SCYS should change to the Demosphere platform for our web site
2. SCYS needs to be more active with the coaching committee and other committees