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I would bet dollars to donuts that you made every bit of that up to push your point of view..
2018-2019 DPL Season
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I would bet dollars to donuts that you made every bit of that up to push your point of view..
RE: CRL/National Cup - What I understand is that our team/club was told we could not play CRL or National Cup (DPL teams) as it was against league (DPL) rules and there would be heavy fines for doing so. The club was perplexed, and not happy, then when other clubs had DPL teams playing in both CRL & National Cup.
RE: Disparity - There seems to be a fair amount of disparity with teams. DD's team won on Saturday 7-0, then tied 2-2 on Sunday. Sunday they gave up 2 goals which matches the goals against for the whole season up until that point. Teams was missing 5 players (3 played with DA, 1 injured & 1 spring break), but this was a team we handled in Las Vegas last month.
RE: Being treated like 2 seasons - another local club had DPL tryouts in January and asked for commitments and $ for the 2019-2020 season even though the current season goes until early June.
RE: Roster changes - yes, there have been DA offers to girls on our DPL team, and (allegedly) girls on a local DA team have not been told they won't be back with DA teams, yet their teammates have found out that there are roster changes on DPL, with the affected players names on the DPL roster.
I believe that there will continue to be movement right up until roster freeze deadline. It is a stressful time of year for many.
I have no idea if his claims are true.
But both leagues (DPL and Discovery) have really only been around for a year (dpl “sort of “ existed for 1 year longer).
I’d say look at Discovery, champions, Europa and probably even flight 2 if you want to do a proper comparison.
Wrong! You see, everything you said up until these three sentences was absolutely fine, no problem with any of that. The problem is the DPL parents who can’t help themselves by throwing digs at other leagues in order to make DPL the superior league, at least in their eyes. Tell me these weren’t digs at Premiere and discovery? The problem has never been with DPL per se, the problem has always been with its creation (they do could have done everything they do now without creation of a new league just as everything that is done with ‘discovery’ could be done without creating the ‘discovery’ league) and people arguing its superiority over other leagues and teams.
DPL was originally called "DAII" by a local SD club. At the roll out of the DA & DAII information the club provided a slide show explaining how "DAII" was going to work (yes I saved the digital handout). A website for usdaii.com was registered to an individual that works for the same club. The verbiage in the handout went something like this: "....is collaborating with other Southwest Conference DA clubs to form a DAII league that will bridge the gap for aspiring academy players not yet ready to make the commitment to the full DA. Program designed to mirror the DA program. Will follow same gaming rules as DA."
It seems to me that the DPL, originally "DAII", was pitched as a path for DA caliber girls not ready to commit to DA. What DPL is, clearly is something different than what was originally pitched, a second team for clubs that cannot offer DA & ECNL (which I believe that we are down to 1 here in So Cal). My kid is on a DPL team and while I have been disappointed with many things, the coaching and competition at her practices has been excellent. Perhaps some parents still believe what they were told by club DOCs.
I know what DPL is. My kid knows what DPL is, and my kid is happy, therefore I am happy. Good luck to all the kids, no matter what league they play in.
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When is roster freeze for DPL?
That I do not know. I think it is around August 1st (sort of educated guess).