Please, someone, tell me why any club will sign up for the "Y" me league, some of the clubs with older players will not go to the Surf tournament or any other high profile tournaments where very good college scouting occurs, because they will be playing at the Y league or will not have the budget to do both. My personal opinion it will not help on the girl's side but on the boy's side is a different story they will have the Usl to look forward if education is not the main focus.
I disagree that it won't help girls. Here is why:
First, the Super-Y league is not an all-inclusive league on the same level of Presidio, SCDSL or CSL. It is intended to be similar to leagues such as, ECNL, CRL, NPL, DPL, EGSL, etc. Clubs joining the Super-Y league simply have another venue for some of their top talent (players on the "elite" path) to play in. Those same teams may play in CSL-Premier or SCDSL Champions (3 months Sept-Nov), Super-Y (2 months June-July), NPL (Mar-May) etc. If you really want to view it through a good lens, then think of the Super-Y league as a summer National Tournament Series, with the top teams being invited to play in the December "Super Y National Championship" in Florida each year.
Second, it helps with identification on both the boys and girls side because it is limited to only the "top" teams.
With regard to "girls" the play is simply getting your elite girls in front of additional college coaches in December and being on a Super Y team (just like a CRL, ECNL team is resume bling). From a club perspective it also provide a safety net for top talent. If a team doesn't make the CRL, they continue to have opportunities in SuperY. (list of college coaches from last year's finals -
https://www.sylsoccer.com/2017-finals-scouts)
With regard to boys, the play is even better because Super Y (y stands for Youth) is the youth program for the USL's amateur and professional tiers (PDL --> USL Div. 3 --> USL Div. 2). Boys registered in the SuperY league are in a baby DA type league (attached to USL). You will see clubs with Academy programs consider putting their off-year DA teams and/or their Academy II teams in NPL (spring) and then SuperY (summer). Its a carrot for these players to stick with the club. For those clubs without a DA program (like the founding 5), it gives them a sales pitch that let's parents know they boys are in a league within a professional path and USL scouts and coaches will be watching the development of these players.
Finally, the only losers with the announcement of the Super Y are those tournaments that seek to bring in some of the better teams, which may be conflicted out. It should not impact tournaments in August (Surf Cup) because its easy to schedule around that weekend. With 5 teams (today ... there will likely be more before June), you have 8 games if they play each team twice and 26 play dates (13 weekends) to figure it out, which makes it easy to schedule around CRL play dates and Surf Cup.
