Or maybe the league should have thought about this before.
Isn’t this just one game during the first round? I get maybe making it optional for flight 2/3 teams but flight 1 and above need to play. There’s a huge commitment level difference for the top teams.
I really like this idea. They should have a parent advisory committee. It is hard when you are stuck in the weeds. I think intentions are good they just don't know what they don't know
We are sucking in Discovery NPL due to lots of injuries. I agree with all you said and will gladly take the relegation.
What local venues are they supposed to play at ? Great Park would be only one that would work. They can't have the event at 36 2-3 field locations. I think overall it’s a small minority that have gripes about the locations. Plus depended where you live. We live right on the LA/OC border and we have no complaints about Silverlakes or Oceanside on any of our teams. A couple grunts about Galway but that’s about it. Most people appreciate the field quality at those venues and understand that kinda travel is part of errrrrrr travel ball. And again depends where you live. If your from San Clemente or SD than Oceanside is no big deal. Of your from Santa Clarita that’s gonna suck but then again you can’t move to Santa Clarita and except convenience when it comes to travel.
No home games. Lower competitive level. Two strikes against Discovery.
Well Maybe your kid should not be playing in Discovery NPL league. Even the premiere league in the Coast League is having all of those games in OC Great Parks. They have a few teams driving from Bakersfield to OC Great Parks for 1 game a week and that commute one way can be 3 hours long.
How many parents/kids "picked" Discovery league?
I totally know how flights work in Socal League. But what I meant was when they inform parents your kids team is going to be say Discovery/Premiere teams they informed parents that there games will be in certain facilities and traveling is involved.
Lower competitive level? Compared to what? It also depends on if you are talking boys are girls. For boys, It's not ECNL or MLS Next, but you could argue its just as good as EA. There are also some pretty weak teams in ECNL and MLS next as well. All leagues are watered down these days, there's just too many of them fighting to be the next best thing.
We won and got moved. I am pissed and I hate driving to silver lakes but I wasn't going to move my kid because of the location. We are vested with the team and club. We certainly wouldn't have left a good solid team/coach because of location of games. But still hate the driving and will complain about it.
I hear you on driving but. It just comes down to where your starting point is for the drive.
For example, Blues and slammers. Their top teams are in ECNL, then ECRL and third best is in Discovery or SoCal Flight 1. Big gap between ecnl and discovery, even more so this year with so many teams thrown into discovery that don’t belong.
You’re talking talking about the girls side, and your talking about 2 or maybe three teams that are that deep. You also got to look at the teams that have their top team in discovery…one problem this year is discovery let everyone in so it’s hard to even say what is what, but I can say the top teams in discovery can compete and are probably better than any ecrl team.
05 girls Discovery. Tudela and Real So Cal LAFC White two examples of teams that can compete with ECNL teams and beat ECRL teams. I know both teams really well.
Two good teams, sure—One is from a super club—and they’re winning their games easily, showing the strength of 05 discovery. The average team in their league would not compete with the ecnl/ECRL teams.
