Girls DA vs ECNL

[mahrez]

On the boys side, you can also request an exemption to play HS soccer if you are on scholarship at a private school and the scholarship is connected to you playing soccer for the school.

You can play HS but once you go inactive on the roster I haven't seen anybody returning. In other words up into HS starts player can be full-time da but after HS ends it's often too late to get back on the active roster or the team has used up all the adds

Once on a roster DA players have to ask permission to tryout or train for/with any other DA teams. Approval & proper notification to the league and all parties must be done otherwise a transfer can be rejected.

 

[espola]

Slide 6 of the Girls DA Webinar states that players can play HS for now but later they will be prohibited.

They can't "prohibit" any player from playing high school. However, they can prohibit a player from coming back after playing high school.

 

[espola]

On the boys side, you can also request an exemption to play HS soccer if you are on scholarship at a private school and the scholarship is connected to you playing soccer for the school.

Before doing that, make sure it is legal in your CIF Section (or other sports authority) for the school to offer athletic scholarships.

 

[mahrez]

They can't "prohibit" any player from playing high school. However, they can prohibit a player from coming back after playing high school.

Bingo and that's what happens

 

[Harrypotter03]

Does anyone know if you are in a DA program, If you can play other sports in high school besides soccer?

 

[MakeAPlay]

http://www.soccerwire.com/news/club...fc-declines-girls-da-invite-sticks-with-ecnl/

 

[MakeAPlay]

With LA Galaxy fully funding their DA there could be some unintended consequences. If a program can't fully fund the playing field isn't level. Not sure if a club wants to be at a disadvantage where a DA close cold poach players after the fact by offering paid roster spots to their top players. Chaos could reign. Didn't two guys win the Nobel Prize in Economics this year working on a similar subject?

 

[Dos Equis]

With LA Galaxy fully funding their DA there could be some unintended consequences. If a program can't fully fund the playing field isn't level. Not sure if a club wants to be at a disadvantage where a DA close cold poach players after the fact by offering paid roster spots to their top players. Chaos could reign. Didn't two guys win the Nobel Prize in Economics this year working on a similar subject?

You only need look at the Boys Academies in Socal to witness the results.

The most interesting point made by Match Fit to me is their comment about level of competition for the non-DA teams. While true, I am not sure what staying in the ECNL will do for them if the other clubs in the over-saturated market move to the DA.

Similarly, adding a new DA league in any market, even Socal, will have a very negative impact on the level of competition in the remaining leagues. DA teams playing in their academy league, ECNL teams (primarily B teams from ECNL/DA clubs) playing in ECNL, and one can only wonder what SCDSL Flight One, CRL and CSL Premier will be like. Not to mention National League. There are too many leagues.

Or are the rumors true -- will ECNL pull a CSL and demand top teams play in their league, or leave?

 

[Kicknit22]

I could be dead wrong, or maybe it's wishful thinking, but I thought I read somewhere that Girls DA would not start informing the NO HS rule for a couple years. Am I wrong?

 

[gkrent]

I could be dead wrong, or maybe it's wishful thinking, but I thought I read somewhere that Girls DA would not start informing the NO HS rule for a couple years. Am I wrong?

The DA may not enforce it but I know some clubs planning on enforcing it right out of the gate.

 

[Kicknit22]

LMAO, I know where I read that! Earlier in this thread! Thanks 3TP

 

[eastbaysoccer]

GDA is falling apart in Nor cal. Teams pulling out. Time for ECNL put their foot on US SOccer's neck.

ECNL or you are gone.

 

[eastbaysoccer]

CIF will protect high school soccer and will have no problem going head to head with US Soccer. It will be war.

 

[espola]

CIF will protect high school soccer and will have no problem going head to head with US Soccer. It will be war.

No more than it is now. Because CIF is composed of public schools (and some private schools that wish to compete with CIF cannot public schools) they are constrained by laws that do not apply to USSF or US Club Soccer. CIF cannot prohibit players from participating in extra-curricular activities any more than they do now, which is limited to making them ineligible to play on CIF-sanctioned teams and forfeit games in which they play. About the only weapon they have left is the ODP exemptions, and eliminating that would lose a battle starting at the school board level.

 

[Justafan]

GDA is falling apart in Nor cal. Teams pulling out. Time for ECNL put their foot on US SOccer's neck.

ECNL or you are gone.

Which ones?

 

[Bananacorner]

GDA is falling apart in Nor cal. Teams pulling out. Time for ECNL put their foot on US SOccer's neck.

ECNL or you are gone.

Ha, Nice try "ECNL" I recognize your gloom and doom about GDA from Nocal discussion board.

 

[timmyh]

It's been said that in order for a DA club to retain their ECNL spot and be allowed to put their 2nd teams into the ECNL, they must have at least 3 teams from the club make the Champions League this year.
I wonder how many clubs won't make the cut and will willingly forego the DA and simply keep their ECNL spot?

 

[Dos Equis]

It's been said that in order for a DA club to retain their ECNL spot and be allowed to put their 2nd teams into the ECNL, they must have at least 3 teams from the club make the Champions League this year.
I wonder how many clubs won't make the cut and will willingly forego the DA and simply keep their ECNL spot?

At some point, let us hope the ECNL will clearly state their policy regarding DA clubs and their B teams participating in the league.