2018-2019 DPL Season

And another DPL question - What happens when a DPL team (Team A) loses a coach? And the team wants to follow the coach to his/her new club? And that club already has a DPL team. (Team B)
Is a club allowed to have 2 DPL teams in an age group?
If team A follows the coach and they won't be a DPL team any longer, does that club need to fill in a team? Or will the remaining games on the schedule be forfeits?
 
timbuck said:
And another DPL question - What happens when a DPL team (Team A) loses a coach? And the team wants to follow the coach to his/her new club? And that club already has a DPL team. (Team B)
Is a club allowed to have 2 DPL teams in an age group?
If team A follows the coach and they won't be a DPL team any longer, does that club need to fill in a team? Or will the remaining games on the schedule be forfeits?
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No Club can have 2 DPL TEAMS.
 
Being a bit of a jerk here- but why not? It’s just a made up league anyway? Can’t the clubs change the rules if they want?
 
Wouldn't it be nice if every team, from Presidio, DPL, SCDSL, CSL, ECNL, DA or any other league I missed had a tournament where they would play and we could see which teams were the best. :) Or have each league send 2 representatives after their league cup and have them all meet in a tournament. Never happen, too much to lose for some leagues. Imagine DPL or CSL teams beating ECNL or DA teams. Yikes. Reminds me of when we have the AFL and the NFL before they merged giving us the AFC and NFC and a Super Bowl.
 
socalkdg said:
Wouldn't it be nice if every team, from Presidio, DPL, SCDSL, CSL, ECNL, DA or any other league I missed had a tournament where they would play and we could see which teams were the best. :) Or have each league send 2 representatives after their league cup and have them all meet in a tournament. Never happen, too much to lose for some leagues. Imagine DPL or CSL teams beating ECNL or DA teams. Yikes. Reminds me of when we have the AFL and the NFL before they merged giving us the AFC and NFC and a Super Bowl.
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You don't have to imagine too hard; a DPL team beat an ECNL team last weekend Surf College Showcase. Not bad for a plucky little team that won't give up.
 
socalkdg said:
Wouldn't it be nice if every team, from Presidio, DPL, SCDSL, CSL, ECNL, DA or any other league I missed had a tournament where they would play and we could see which teams were the best. :) Or have each league send 2 representatives after their league cup and have them all meet in a tournament. Never happen, too much to lose for some leagues. Imagine DPL or CSL teams beating ECNL or DA teams. Yikes. Reminds me of when we have the AFL and the NFL before they merged giving us the AFC and NFC and a Super Bowl.
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I think it's just that know one cares except the few posters here that want to declare who is the best team. I know the kids don't care.
 
Simisoccerfan said:
I think it's just that know one cares except the few posters here that want to declare who is the best team. I know the kids don't care.
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I completely agree the kids don't care.

We parents may actually care for other reasons than you think. How our team plays vs other teams gives me an idea how the team is developing. Having guest played as well, my daughter has had a chance to face DPL teams, Flight 1 SCDSL teams, and Gold teams from CSL. The opportunity to play different levels of teams gives us an idea how she is developing and how the team is developing, well beyond the final scores.
 
MyDaughtersAKeeper said:
You don't have to imagine too hard; a DPL team beat an ECNL team last weekend Surf College Showcase. Not bad for a plucky little team that won't give up.
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Yup, and a non-DA, non-ECNL, non-DPL team beat a whole bunch of DA teams at Surf Cup over the summer. The horror! When the teams do get to play it becomes obvious the names of the leagues are little more than just that, names.
 
socalkdg said:
I completely agree the kids don't care.

We parents may actually care for other reasons than you think. How our team plays vs other teams gives me an idea how the team is developing. Having guest played as well, my daughter has had a chance to face DPL teams, Flight 1 SCDSL teams, and Gold teams from CSL. The opportunity to play different levels of teams gives us an idea how she is developing and how the team is developing, well beyond the final scores.
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My kid cares - not necessarily about declaring that she plays on the "best" team, but playing against the best competition possible, especially teams she normally wouldn't get a chance to play against. When she found out her ECNL team was playing some of the top GDA teams in last summer's Silverlakes Showcase, she was pumped.
 
socalkdg said:
I completely agree the kids don't care.

We parents may actually care for other reasons than you think. How our team plays vs other teams gives me an idea how the team is developing. Having guest played as well, my daughter has had a chance to face DPL teams, Flight 1 SCDSL teams, and Gold teams from CSL. The opportunity to play different levels of teams gives us an idea how she is developing and how the team is developing, well beyond the final scores.
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Exactly. And if my kid were on an ECNL team with a coach we liked and was developing and that league got her on a stage in front college scouts I could care less if a random flight 1 or dpl team beat her team plus in this sport many times the score in a single game sample size doesnt always tell the truth
 
Kids care a little bit. When their friends at school talk about how great their team is, but they don't get a chance to play against each other, the kids start to talk about it.
 
So I am looking at my DD's schedule once HS season is over. There are quite a few DPL teams playing in CRL and noticed there are quite a few conflicts between DPL and CRL schedules. But the big glaring issue that I noticed is that most of the Legend teams don't have any scheduling conflicts and have already played 15-18 games by the end of fall season where some teams have only played 8 in a 12 week period. Apparently, it freed up their schedule to play all the Spring CRL games with no conflict. Hmmmm...how convenient.
 
Why would dpl teams also play in crl? Aren’t they supposed to follow the DA philosophy of more training and less overall games? (But the games they play are more “meaningful”?
 
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timbuck said:
Why would dpl teams also play in crl? Aren’t they supposed to follow the DA philosophy of more training and less overall games? (But the games they play are more “meaningful”?
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There are least 3-5 clubs throughtout all the age brackets that are in both DPL and CRL, not sure why the clubs are playing but whatever the reason, no team can be at two places at once. What sucks is that CRL even mentioned on their website that they were going to be strict regarding the scheduling but yet these clubs still proceeded to enter and play. Ours being one of them. I just want to know where we are playing because we have at least 5 conflicts of scheduling starting in March.
 
futboldad1 said:
Yup, and a non-DA, non-ECNL, non-DPL team beat a whole bunch of DA teams at Surf Cup over the summer. The horror! When the teams do get to play it becomes obvious the names of the leagues are little more than just that, names.
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which team and what age group? How many games? Would really like to know.
 
LadiesMan217 said:
U19, 3 games, SoCal Academy.
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They were brilliant, no doubt about it. But that is an indication of a team that was already good before the DA was established.

I may be very wrong here, but also likely that many of those players were already committed to college before the season and had no reason to leave and finally, the team is a credit to great coaching. Why leave a good thing if you have one.
 
Lulu said:
So I am looking at my DD's schedule once HS season is over. There are quite a few DPL teams playing in CRL and noticed there are quite a few conflicts between DPL and CRL schedules. But the big glaring issue that I noticed is that most of the Legend teams don't have any scheduling conflicts and have already played 15-18 games by the end of fall season where some teams have only played 8 in a 12 week period. Apparently, it freed up their schedule to play all the Spring CRL games with no conflict. Hmmmm...how convenient.
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yep wondering the same here....our team is 8 games in (something like that) and last league game is 7/1. What a joke
 
Speed said:
yep wondering the same here....our team is 8 games in (something like that) and last league game is 7/1. What a joke
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Even the games in early June are ridiculous especially since most teams start try-outs in April/May and the new players start playing in the end of May/June. The 00/01 players by that time are thinking more about graduating HS than club ball so they probably won't even finish the "so-called season" which is unfortunate.

I appreciate the Fall/Spring schedule but make it fair to all clubs so that every team gets 12 games in Fall and 12 in Spring. Not this CRAP, where teams are getting 18 games while others are only getting 8, that is a 10 game disparity which is totally ridiculous!!! Also, the schedules were all mixed-up for the Silverlake Showcase and now for the upcoming Vegas Showcase as well, it looks like the DPL was an afterthought when it came to scheduling for these tournaments. DPL needs to get their s#!+ together and figure out a better program because this ain't working!!!

My DD could have stayed on a Tier 1 team, there she would still have played against competitive teams and have consistant scheduled games and tournaments. Like everyone on this thread has mentioned, there are teams out there that can kick butt on some of these DA, DPL and ENCL teams, the only advantage to being on any of these teams is the exposure if you DD wants to play college ball.
 
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