OK, which teams should we get rid of first? Probably just nix all of Tier 3 and the bottom half of Tier 2? Those kids can all play rec because kids who aren't really good don't need to play year round even if they love it.
The beast has already been created. There’s really no need, and not enough talent, to have more than 2 teams per age group within a club.
So there are DA and ECNL. Let’s push those aside.
Now you have flight 1. There are still too many clubs, but OK. Why can’t the top team at each club exist there? You can still have a champions league for the top teams and the Europa for the others.
But that’s it. Move everything else into a secondary flight. If this is truly about player development, move them to the top team.
This is not 2010 and the SCDSL isn’t new anymore. It started cleaner with the parent clubs, somewhat like CSL had.
We are in the land of disposable income,
So there’s no stopping it now. It’s ugly as it lies.
I’d say for any team looking to strengthen their games and schedules, they can play in some of these additional formats like CRL and NPL and WTF.