Say bye-bye-bye to Girls and Boys DA

Ellejustus said:
I have no idea. I want it to all work out for all everyone involved. I was hoping the Girls Academy League would be for the top 2% and the true pathway to the pros but it's about college, just like ECNL. Socal will have many teams to choose from. Does GAL have a price point to reserve a spot?Tournaments will be fun with GAL and ECNL teams battling it out for fun.
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This past summer, Surf Cup, had top teams from ECNL and DA. So this thought isn't something new....
 
socalkdg said:
Sending my oldest off to college this year with a major in nursing. Sounds like your kids are well on their way to becoming great adults.
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Thanks! Not sure if you nursing kid plays soccer but we found out that college soccer is not compatible with a nursing major. Too many all day upper division clinic classes. So she changed to Health Sciences major (essentially premed). She can still be a nurse by going to grad school or an accelerated nursing school but now wants to go to PA school.

My other daughter just finishing her Soph year at Chico. In CA almost all public schools require undergrad nursing majors to reapply. The admissions standards are way harder then undergrad. Plus each school only has an upper division class of about 40. You end up with several hundred Soph applying from the school plus every Soph from every other school plus everyone that went to Junior College. Its insane! Going out of state to a direct entry nursing program makes more sense. At this point she is going private the last two years at West Coast. It costs a lot but she can live at home.
 
SoccerGuru said:
I thought DPL was becoming GAL? So there will still be a DPL even with GAL being created?

So for instance Beach would look like this:
1st team ECRL
2nd team GAL
3rd team SCDSL

Albion:
1st team GAL
2nd team DPL
3rd team scdsl

Do I have that right? Really confusing and like you said, a bigger mess. Let me know if I got it wrong somewhere.
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www.topdrawersoccer.com

DPL announces new Girls Academy League | Club Soccer | Youth Soccer

Some of the teams that used to compete in the Girls Development Academy have joined the Development Players League, it was announced this week.
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Simisoccerfan said:
Thanks! Not sure if you nursing kid plays soccer but we found out that college soccer is not compatible with a nursing major. Too many all day upper division clinic classes. So she changed to Health Sciences major (essentially premed). She can still be a nurse by going to grad school or an accelerated nursing school but now wants to go to PA school.

My other daughter just finishing her Soph year at Chico. In CA almost all public schools require undergrad nursing majors to reapply. The admissions standards are way harder then undergrad. Plus each school only has an upper division class of about 40. You end up with several hundred Soph applying from the school plus every Soph from every other school plus everyone that went to Junior College. Its insane! Going out of state to a direct entry nursing program makes more sense. At this point she is going private the last two years at West Coast. It costs a lot but she can live at home.
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Is it different in different states? My niece is in nursing at a regional state school in the midwest. Straight out if HS and not too expensive.

Definitely a heavy workload, though.
 
SoccerGuru said:
I thought DPL was becoming GAL? So there will still be a DPL even with GAL being created?

So for instance Beach would look like this:
1st team ECRL
2nd team GAL
3rd team SCDSL

Albion:
1st team GAL
2nd team DPL
3rd team scdsl

Do I have that right? Really confusing and like you said, a bigger mess. Let me know if I got it wrong somewhere.
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The layer upon layer will certainly vary based on what each club has access too. In the example you provided it could be slightly even deeper than that for Beach if they can retain depth and some semblance of fielding that many teams into these leagues:

Beach 1st Team - ECRL
Beach 2nd Team - GAL
Beach 3rd Team - DPL
Beach 4th / 5th / 6th / Etc Team - SCDSL (Multiple Flights in SCDSL)

Still very fluid situation and because of that, the picture may not be clear for some time.
 
EOTL said:
I disagree with you on a number of counts. First, the HS ban was critical to its failure, and there is no legitimate basis for believing otherwise. Club after club left for that express reason. Those clubs realized they were losing their customers, becoming less competitive with their competitors and would eventually go bankrupt If they stayed. Once they lost most of the best clubs due to the HS ban, GDA went into an irreversible death spiral. The amount of money USSF made (or didn’t) was irrelevant to GDA’s failure because, even if USSF were raking in billions, it would not have changed the fact that the HS ban would eventually put the clubs that participated in it out of business.

Second, you are wrong about the MNT being their main moneymaker. For many years the WNT has driven USSF’s main sources of revenue and profit, namely the Nike and VW contracts. USSF’s misogynistic accounting practices that fail to give the women credit for that, in the hope that it will dupe people like you into believing the MNT drives revenue, doesn’t make it true. Winning the WC continues to fill USSF’s coffers through those deals. All you need to do is look at the advertising backlash after USSF’s misogynistic court filings went public to realize that. Furthermore, the WNT has also caught or passed the MNT even with TV and ticket revenue.

USSF also has not done a poor job developing the MNT as a moneymaker. It is just a terrible entertainment product. The team is bad, lacks anyone with even the slightest shred of personality, and there doesn’t seem to be any real hope in sight going forward. The “next generation” can hardly find the field at their mostly middling level clubs and most of them still can’t displace the weak sauce players who couldn’t even qualify last time around. And although the men are not the reason Nike paid that much money to USSF, it has done everything that could possibly be done to build the MNT brand. If Nike could not help USSF wring more value out of the MNT, it cannot be done.

Claiming the WNT shouldn’t be paid equally because USSF can’t find a way for the turd that we call the MNT to generate as much revenue is about as misogynistic as it gets. Claiming (inaccurately) the WNT doesn’t drive USSF’s main sources of revenue is also pretty misogynistic. The fact is the women are responsible for much more of USSF’s revenue, and also the most profitable revenue. You can believe what you want, but the reality is that USSF is going to pay dearly for your way of thinking.
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Where would we be if the USMNT had at least tied Trinidad Tobago? Does a few extra 10's of millions of dollars move the needle?

from:
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How The U.S. Men Missed The World Cup, And What It Means For Soccer In America

U.S. Soccer is likely to lose out on tens of millions in revenue, and more dual-nationals may choose to play elsewhere. Fox Sports' $425-million payout to air the next two World Cups looks rough, too.
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Financially, U.S. Soccer will miss out on at least $10 million in prize money awarded to each country at the World Cup. They're also likely to lose tens of millions of dollars in potential sponsorship deals, merchandise sales and television licenses. U.S. Soccer brought in about $100 million total in 2014, the year of the most recent World Cup. That would put a significant dent in the organization's revenue, and potentially set back the country's next generation of soccer talent.
 
gunner said:
like this?
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Nice chart! Although, I believe the more accurate way to look at Legends would be DPL --> GAL in your example. Also, I'm not convinced that each 1st team at each age in each of the ECRL/GAL clubs will play in ECRL. I think it will be highly dependent on certain directives at each club, and possibly certain team/family dynamics at the various age groups within those clubs. We shall see, but I think its safe to say that it's going to be confusing for awhile, and not something we'll be able to chart out with 100% accuracy.
 
kickingandscreaming said:
Where would we be if the USMNT had at least tied Trinidad Tobago? Does a few extra 10's of millions of dollars move the needle?

from:
www.npr.org

How The U.S. Men Missed The World Cup, And What It Means For Soccer In America

U.S. Soccer is likely to lose out on tens of millions in revenue, and more dual-nationals may choose to play elsewhere. Fox Sports' $425-million payout to air the next two World Cups looks rough, too.
www.npr.org www.npr.org

Financially, U.S. Soccer will miss out on at least $10 million in prize money awarded to each country at the World Cup. They're also likely to lose tens of millions of dollars in potential sponsorship deals, merchandise sales and television licenses. U.S. Soccer brought in about $100 million total in 2014, the year of the most recent World Cup. That would put a significant dent in the organization's revenue, and potentially set back the country's next generation of soccer talent.
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When the MNT qualifies for the WC, they do not earn the money that FIFA pays soccer federations. Do you know who earned it? England, Brazil, Germany, France, and all the countries that people tune in to watch generate the revenue that gives rise to higher prize money. In fact, revenue was 25% higher in the last WC than it was in the prior one in which the US actually qualified. Claiming the MNT earned s**t by qualifying out of CONCACAF is an absolute joke. It’s like saying the Washington Generals earned the ticket revenue when they played the Harlem Globetrotters, or a directional school when they rolled in to Tuscaloosa only to get trounced 100-0. The MNT can’t even play a home game against Mexico in a real stadium like the Rose Bowl. The MNT actually generates negative revenue because they won’t sell 70000 tickets to Mexico fans but instead hide in the small stadiums in some of the remotest whitest parts of the country because they’re p**sies. But even if they weren’t, they’d still owe Mexico all that money if were going to give to to who earned it.

The women, on the other hand, are single-handedly responsible for the WWC’s very existence. Virtually every penny USSF gets from the WWC, every penny every other country gets, is attributable to the WNT because there would be no WWC if the WNT weren’t a soccer juggernaut. The WNT carries the entire load, and every other country that qualifies is essentially a freeloader. The MNT, on the other hand, is the freeloader at the expense of the countries that get things done.
 
Simisoccerfan said:
Thanks! Not sure if you nursing kid plays soccer but we found out that college soccer is not compatible with a nursing major. Too many all day upper division clinic classes. So she changed to Health Sciences major (essentially premed). She can still be a nurse by going to grad school or an accelerated nursing school but now wants to go to PA school.

My other daughter just finishing her Soph year at Chico. In CA almost all public schools require undergrad nursing majors to reapply. The admissions standards are way harder then undergrad. Plus each school only has an upper division class of about 40. You end up with several hundred Soph applying from the school plus every Soph from every other school plus everyone that went to Junior College. Its insane! Going out of state to a direct entry nursing program makes more sense. At this point she is going private the last two years at West Coast. It costs a lot but she can live at home.
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I’ve heard nursing and sports don’t mix. It’s my non playing older daughter. Going to Point Loma in their nursing program.
 
socalkdg said:
I’ve heard nursing and sports don’t mix. It’s my non playing older daughter. Going to Point Loma in their nursing program.
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A nurse who is a family friend played club soccer in college, graduated in a major appropriate for nursing training, and became an RN in less than 2 years attending a year-round nursing school in Ohio that is set up for just that kind of student - recent college grad with the right subjects who wants to go into full-time year-round nursing training.
 
EliteSoccerDad said:
Interesting. They are leaving the High School decision up to each conference. At least one of the conferences is pushing for No High School.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1255610585472892928
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Three years of DPL? That is not true at all. Try one and half I think. Maybe he means GDA was for two and half? I can;t believe I'm reading what I'm reading. Look, I will not comment any longer about this new league. Good luck everyone and I hope it all works out and we can scrimmage each other or play some tournaments together in the future. All the clubs have a lot ahead of them and I don;t want to be "Picky Paul" so I will take a chill pill :)
 
Ellejustus said:
Three years of DPL? That is not true at all. Try one and half I think. Maybe he means GDA was for two and half? I can;t believe I'm reading what I'm reading. Look, I will not comment any longer about this new league. Good luck everyone and I hope it all works out and we can scrimmage each other or play some tournaments together in the future. All the clubs have a lot ahead of them and I don;t want to be "Picky Paul" so I will take a chill pill :)
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This was the 3rd yr of DPL.
 
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