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Grace T. said:
1. Clubs are because of the rising fees moving their focus from poorer areas to the richer areas. Laufa/Albion for example moved its focus from downtown Los Angeles/Griffith Park to Long Beach and then now southward to Torrance, the OC and even sending MLSN teams to Santa Monica. If anybody has the Chula Vista/Nomads story, I would love to hear it because that's been another shift.
2. The big mega Clubs are increasingly relying on satellites for expansion. you have the Bulls for example spread out from the Val to LA West Side, LASC now in the San Gabriel Valley, Albion having acquired 4 clubs.
3. If Clubs are advertising this late into June for EA2, EA and even MLS2 teams, the reorg on those middle levels is a pretty substantial shakeup. Who is left in Socal League? It seems increasingly a place for just youngers. Is E64 gone on the boys side? What about the other non-ECNL letter leagues?
4. MLS2 at least anecdotally right now isn't shaping up to be the big integration that it was supposed to be with the first tier. Seems like it might be headed just for being the new EA, except with all the teams/players scrambled.
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Anecdotally, I had heard the Nomads simply began forfeiting numerous MLSN games at various age levels early in the year. The league apparently sent an email to the players parent's advising of the removal from the league. In all honesty, it could be good in the long-run as it gives them the opportunity to rebuild in SoCal League or another lower level letter league if they can gain access. Right around this time is when Sporting San Diego got MLSN II in no small part from their MLS pro veteran I am sure. If they do well I would not be surprised if they get promoted to full MLSN status. No idea what happened to Chula Vista

I tend to agree, SoCal seems to be a place for youngers before the ABC leagues really kick into gear. I thought E64 was going away as well but haven't seen any confirmation of that.

I also agree MLSN II initially seems to simply be a rebranding of EA teams, EA is a rebranding of the EA2 teams and EA2 is a rebranding of Flight 1/2 teams. It does allow for more shuffling of players within the club to various levels based on ability (if the players/parents agree to the switch). I am also seeing multiple EA teams bio-banding players for the 25/26 season which is interesting.
 
Scrub It Kook said:
Anecdotally, I had heard the Nomads simply began forfeiting numerous MLSN games at various age levels early in the year. The league apparently sent an email to the players parent's advising of the removal from the league. In all honesty, it could be good in the long-run as it gives them the opportunity to rebuild in SoCal League or another lower level letter league if they can gain access. Right around this time is when Sporting San Diego got MLSN II in no small part from their MLS pro veteran I am sure. If they do well I would not be surprised if they get promoted to full MLSN status. No idea what happened to Chula Vista

I tend to agree, SoCal seems to be a place for youngers before the ABC leagues really kick into gear. I thought E64 was going away as well but haven't seen any confirmation of that.

I also agree MLSN II initially seems to simply be a rebranding of EA teams, EA is a rebranding of the EA2 teams and EA2 is a rebranding of Flight 1/2 teams. It does allow for more shuffling of players within the club to various levels based on ability (if the players/parents agree to the switch). I am also seeing multiple EA teams bio-banding players for the 25/26 season which is interesting.
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Chula Vista seems on the ascendancy as a result of the fall of nomads

How it will work for the non mlsn mls2 teams depends really on how many players the bigger clubs drop from mlsn either permanently or for play time. Some of them are carrying very bloated rosters. The issue is reserve and futures players seem reluctant to play down for fear of being permanently sent there. But it doesn’t really work to interlock unless mlsn and mlsn ii share practice at the same branch: otherwise the mls ii players are just getting benched by strangers coming down or you force players to attend double practices.
 
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