So...what can be made of these results?
Only four teams in 8 years make it to the finals.
One State Cup in 8 years and that one State
Cup is a team of players from the East side of the State playing
underneath a west side name.
There have been glimmers when it appears as if
someone is going to breakthrough and then it fades.
GVP, of course, was the Premier Club prior to 2005.
For a variety of reasons it was
absorbed by GRASA and the new club was named the Grand Rapids Crew.
West Michigan Fire appeared and started getting
teams into State cup but collapses under what could charitably be described as
mismanagement.
TKO Premier puts a team or two in every year but
those teams tend to fade away as they age through.
From the very beginning, the newly formed Grand Rapids Crew has
been the only club from the west side of the state to consistently
put teams into State Cup and get consistent results.
The fact that they haven't won any State Cups is,
in my mind meaningless.
Soccer is a brutal sport and sometimes that ball
just will not go in the net even though it should have.