Despite the crappy made-up "DPL" league, a handful of the '02 DPL teams are comprised of players that were the original U15 ECNL team from last season, that is the reason I referred to them as high level. Not to mention that '02 Eagles team is much stronger than most SCDSL Flight 1 Champions Division team as well as Coast's Premiere teams. Secondly, if you look at the 02 DPL bracket, you will see who belongs in the stronger Players Cup bracket. Not to mention, all DPL teams were guaranteed a spot in Players Cup, yet some DPL teams were only accepted a few days ago. You would think that the top three DPL/Academy II teams in their league would be in the top flight. However, only '02 Beach (4th place in DPL), Albion (5th place in DPL) are playing is the USYS and '02 RSC (2nd place in DPL) are in Ceasar's bracket but that 02 Eagles team who tied RSC for 2nd place in the DPL league were placed in the lowest bracket, Luxor, w/Pateadaores 02 who lost every game but one in the same DPL league. Nope, if I were those families the word "luck" would never enter the equation.
Yes, college coaches will go to Kellog and Ed Fountain, but most will stay at Bettye Wilson unless players are already on their radar which is exactly the point - all top level teams should play at Bettye Wilson so those girls who may not be on the radar would get the oppy of exposure they will not get playing on the other fields.
@Simisoccerfan we all know DPL is a sham, but when a DA club makes their second team DPL, those families didn't have a choice but to play DPL, especially when the '01/'02 DA teams were made up of 96% 2001 players. The only 0ther choice they had was to leave the club; not much of a choice.