DA and ECNL
- Thread starter Desert Hound
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Surf will do anything to keep ECNL. That's a lot of $$ to give up.
In a few months. Not sure why pick Force, but that is who they are talking too.
Why not let OC Surf/West Coast keep DA and have SD Surf keep ECNL.
Isn’t that what slammers and lafc are kinda doing?
I’m sure they can find some kind of loophole to make it happen. (And by “it”- I mean keep or make more money)
Desert Hound
DA
So the club specifically told you that they lost ECNL?
I heard GPS will get ECNL. They're already using the Polo Fields as their home field this year and only have a few teams so Surf can keep all their teams in tact and GPS will just add their few good teams to the program.
What do I win? Is that story as likely as yours?
sdklutz
SILVER ELITE
Whatever the situation is here it is unfortunate for the girls impacted by all of this. It seems like the only thing consistent over the 5 years of club soccer for my DD has been chaos. Whether it be club mergers, new leagues, birth year changes, field issues and lots of politics. Hard to teach/learn a team game under these circumstances...
Nothing. It is sad that the club is not being truthful with parents that have paid a deposit already for ECNL at Surf, when whether is is GPS or Force, it is something other than what they signed up for.
To many snakes in club soccer, just sad.
I don't feel like (most) people involved in soccer are trying to screw things up as bad as they have. Everyone just operates in such a vacuum that they can't see any downstream impacts on decisions that they make.
I'd love to sit in a strategy meeting at a club like Surf or at an ECNL or DA Board Meeting to observe how they make decisions.
We might need to bring in some more "business people", because the "Soccer people" at the youth level can't seem to get out of their own way.
Because several Board members at SD Surf have 03 and 04
dds.
Is GPS playing Presidio under Surf’s name since they did not even try to get into Presidio? I can’t find anything on the number of teams they have.
Wrong you have it backwards. The reason they screw it up is because the “business people” are looking to make quick $. They don’t care about soccer other than for the sake of advancing their own kid (Surf) it it makes them money.
When I hear that Club "XX" is supposed to get ECNL or DA it's usually parent generated and doesn't happen. ECNL is pretty tight-lipped about who they are really considering before they announce who's in. Not much was said about FC Breakers before they were accepted and prior to GDA there were always rumors about Legends gaining acceptance. They probably should have been accepted but despite all the rumors it never happened.
Maybe you are right. It just seems that nobody is looking more than 1 foot in front of their face with any decision lately.
outside!
DA
So let's run some scenarios. If Surf gives up ECNL and SD Force and possibly SDSC
Wait. Do you mean that Surf BOD members would manipulate things to benefit their own children? Shocking!
No idea. I just threw them out because it seems as likely as Surf "giving" Force their ECNL.
So you don't have a clue and just made this up? Are you mental?
Yes, and no.
I don't believe anyone here who says Surf has already "lost" ECNL. I think it's made up.
Is it a given that DA is more valuable than ECNL in the long run? I'm not sure that's the case.
What value are you looking for?
for us, on any level it has not been demonstrated that DA is more valuable