Argh, do any of you understand anything? ECNL is a creation of its members. ECNL will not go down unless the bulk of the member clubs go out of business. That will never happen for many reasons. First, it doesn’t take much to keep a soccer club in existence. Second, soccer junkies who run these clubs are like cockroaches. It doesn’t matter how much you deny them water, or air, or even money, they still manage to survive somehow. Third, you find that the wealthy white folk who constitute the bulk of the elite girls soccer customer base did not lose their jobs.
With ECNL there is not that much travel, and even what does exist can be easily curtailed to the extent it is compelled by financial constraints. Unlike GDA, most ECNL regions have clubs all within driving range, and no one who matters needs to get on a plane just to play a league game. ECNL can ditch its showcases until things turn around, or at least loosen up attendance requirements for those with financial constraints. Easy peasy. Thank god @outside!’s club isn’t in ECNL, though, because we know some of those families are whiners and would never pay jack even when money isn’t tight. In fact, although many clubs like @outside!’s will probably go down as a result of this, few to no ECNL clubs will. That is because ECNL only allows clubs that are the most stable financially. They don’t allow yahoos that have done well by riding one or two 12 year olds really hard. In the end.
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