CRL Academy

Isolate them into their own league making it impossible for the parents to distinguish whether or not their kids are playing on a high level team. It's crazy with all the divisions in the leagues. SCDSL is the absolute worst. If a top Champions team plays a bottom Europa team, it could be a 10-0 slaughter but they all get to go home and tell friends and family that their precious plays flight 1. At ulittles, a score difference like that is more understandable but by U13 or so, if there is no parity in your division, something is wrong.
 
I’d love to sit on a board meeting where the scdsl people make these decisions. I bet they are extremely proud of everything they have done. Do they know they suck?
 
I'm thinking they beat each other up in the CRL league in their own division, then top couple DPL teams meet top non DPL teams in the quarters, semi's and finals. Also heard DPL teams will be back playing National Cup as well.
 
timbuck said:
I’d love to sit on a board meeting where the scdsl people make these decisions. I bet they are extremely proud of everything they have done. Do they know they suck?
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Both leagues have their issues- A team forms from a disbanded team of top level players. The coaches know they are going to be good. In CSL they start at Bronze/ If they are lucky they can play silver kill each team they play, dont develop much and spend another couple years working their way up ( they players usually leave as the competition isn't there. IF you have a Gold team and they lose several quality players (and cant replace with quality players) they are sacrificial lambs the next season.
 
Galaxydad - That's not the way it works. CSL tries to place new teams in the right bracket to begin with whether it be bronze or silver elite or premier, although there is a bias towards a team needing to perform its way up the ladder. Clubs can petition to be promoted (or demoted) and if they make a good case based on performance it often happens.
 
The issue for DPL was many of their teams failed to qualify for CRL through play in last year and those that played this year failed to get the auto qualifier for next year. Simple solution- protect these teams and give the founding DPL clubs their own CRL bracket where they play each other. No qualification needed...basically a free pass plus you don’t have to play the sister club teams and CSL teams that had been beating you all last year. Genius!
 
HappyBeast said:
Anyone know what this is? Anyone heard of it? Is CRL having two pools of teams this year?
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Yes, Was told the DPL will play in one pool for Spring and CRL as was last season will play in other pool. The winners will advance to play one another eventually in playoffs. Top team in each pool chance to play Regional Games for National Cup
 
Overtime said:
The issue for DPL was many of their teams failed to qualify for CRL through play in last year and those that played this year failed to get the auto qualifier for next year. Simple solution- protect these teams and give the founding DPL clubs their own CRL bracket where they play each other. No qualification needed...basically a free pass plus you don’t have to play the sister club teams and CSL teams that had been beating you all last year. Genius!
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Completely untrue. Very few DPL teams played in the “play in” round and choose not to play CRL. The ones that played CRL this year earned their spots from play in and/or the prior year results. Reality: there were few DPL teams did not qualify for CRL based on play in tournament.
 
DPLLove said:
Completely untrue. Very few DPL teams played in the “play in” round and choose not to play CRL. The ones that played CRL this year earned their spots from play in and/or the prior year results. Reality: there were few DPL teams did not qualify for CRL based on play in tournament.
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Really? In the 02/03 age group Beach did not qualify for either and in the 02 LSGSD did not as well after getting beat up in CRL. Only the Legends 02 DPL has earned their spot.
 
So here’s what I know. This was told to us by our old club director. He went to Cal South to meet with them to create this CRL academy league for DPL teams. This happened the year after they lost ECNL and had a lot of kids leave to other clubs. So it sounds like they knew more kids were going to leave the following year so he made this happen. The 2 division winners in CRL Academy will play the top 2 “regular” CRL teams in some sort of playoff and the winner advances to Far West Regionals. So because he knows that DPL is not only unorganized but also not very competitive (which is what he said in a meeting to parents after tryouts) he did what he could to get kids to stay. So this gives the kids an incentive to stay and play DPL. Plus the new expansion of the DPL league I guess makes it more appealing to some. Maybe there are more reasons to play DPL but I don’t know what they are.
 
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