Basically, we were short players so we needed to borrow 2 players to have enough to play. However, if we dropped a few weaker players, we could bring in 8 ECNL girls (even though we only really needed 2, what the heck). With 8 ECNL girls on the pitch, our 6 other good flight 1 players could make a strong team. We had to decide whether to play National Cup, where literally every other Flight 1 team played and most top Flight 2 teams, but we thought with only 8 ECNL players and our Flight 1 players there was a chance we wouldn't win National Cup. Either Legends or Beach maybe could beat us. Probably not with 8 ECNL players, but they'd have a shot. So, we decided to appeal to play down, tell Cal South how weak a team we were, and go for the sure thing and play Presidents. That's competitive soccer. Every other respected ECNL coach would have done the same thing. President's Cup is supposed to be for "competitive" play. It's just like AYSO all-stars or select. Also competitive. If you guys can't handle it, you should have sanbagged and played governors. And, once we get ahead by 4 or 5, the coach even puts in the lesser Flight 1 players on the team to sit the ECNL girls. Our original girls are playing a lot because we are able to get some good leads.