Too complex for time/resource constrained college programs. So if you want to go to a private school (Santa Clara, USC, etc) you should play in a percieved lower tiered league?
I will be interested to see if GA can keep the college coach attendance at this level next year. I think there were enough holdover players on GA teams last year and maybe even this year to keep college coaches attention. We will see if that is still true next season.
I am sure some ecrl players get some ecnl time, but we haven't seen that happen too much. At one club we know well, they even told the families up front that there would be zero opportunities for their ecrl players to get ecnl time. At the showcase this weekend, we saw plenty of 2007 ecnl players for multiple clubs getting time on the 2006 ecnl team instead of 2006 ecrl players getting that opportunity.
Thank you for sharing. I’ve been saying it for a few years. Ecrl is a scam that makes money for the clubs and that’s it. There’s no benefit outside to say that your player belongs to a four letter program.
If you're kid is a bottom 1/3rd ECNL player, ECRL is their opportunity to get PT (at the expense of the ECRL kids literally). That's been the trend lately.
This is insightful and spot on. There is huge disparity in goal differential in both ECNL and GA between the top and the bottom across the regions this year. I'd say an argument that best in fact is not playing the best, gotta be some personality issues at play.
I agree that bubble ECNL players are playing ECRL so they can get more minutes. This is what I'm seeing at different clubs as well. It's fairly obvious when most of the ECNL team is ok and 2 maybe 3 are WAY better than all the rest.
This implies that ECNL will take in any club that has a demonstrated history of good leadership. You'll have to forgive me if I don't believe this is true. I expect there are some very well run clubs that would love to get into ECNL, have applied, and have been rejected for some other reason.
This is when club Board of Directors need to step in and replace current leadership with those that have ECNL contacts + can get you into the league.
I would be surprised if BOD's actually have that power at many clubs.
So it is not about whether you can actually run a soccer club, it is whether you are one of the good ole boys. Got it.
My experience has been that ECRL (and some ECNL) players are more likely to "play down" on to a teams SoCalLeague roster than they are to play "up" to the ECNL roster.
I agree that this is happening but its going both ways. ECNL/RL players want to play in 2 games per day + playing in different leagues allows this. Socal players are being asked to play in ECNL/RL games because they dont have to follow the 1 game per day rule and can be used to fill our a roster on game day.
DPL teams “nipping” at the heels of ECNL teams this time next year? That’s funny. “Top” ECNL teams…please.
The club and team doing this should be ashamed. Their entire ecrl team should leave at once and go somewhere else. Or, just play high school this winter and not return till tryouts somewhere else. No college scout is interested in a 2007 player anywhere right now. Since the entire purpose of last weekend was college looks, playing 2007s over available 2006s is disrespectful and completely anti-player. Unless no 2006 player on that ecrl squad wants to play college soccer. On every team last weekend, every player on the roster should have gotten PT. My kid's 2005 team played everyone in every game, and likely didn't perform as well because of it. But that's completely okay and the way it should be. W/L don't matter to the scouts.
Of course that is also by design to make sure no DPL team ever gives an ECNL team a good game.
