Get ready folks

US is playing catch up once again. Even some euro countries have gone to SY. Chaos will begin in November. If these clubs were smart communication letters should go out September 1st on direction.
 
I love sports and youth sports, soccer especially. I keep thinking the bubble is going to pop with each change made at the NCAA level, but keep gettign disappointed. On the men's side in the US, MLS is getting closer to the dream which is that every halfway decent prospect is in a club academy or MLS-Next Level 1 thru 452. That is where the men's side is headed and college soccer will be even more irrelevant (single tear running down my cheek as a former community college and NCAA player). However, the women's game isn't quite to that level yet. NWSL hasn't yet "cornered" the youth market racquet and all of the various leagues clamor for their slice of the pie. What I keep hoping is that the pro leagues will become so dominant that the rest of the youth systems outside of that can have more "common sense" and can't even claim to be a pathway to McDonald's let alone college or the pros. Let's make the very top of the pyramid hyper competitive and survival of the fittest. But let's make it more fun and less confusing (i.e. the alphabet soup of leagues) for the vast majority of players out there. Wishful thinking, but a guy's gotta dream right?!?
 
FlintDempsey said:
I love sports and youth sports, soccer especially. I keep thinking the bubble is going to pop with each change made at the NCAA level, but keep gettign disappointed. On the men's side in the US, MLS is getting closer to the dream which is that every halfway decent prospect is in a club academy or MLS-Next Level 1 thru 452. That is where the men's side is headed and college soccer will be even more irrelevant (single tear running down my cheek as a former community college and NCAA player). However, the women's game isn't quite to that level yet. NWSL hasn't yet "cornered" the youth market racquet and all of the various leagues clamor for their slice of the pie. What I keep hoping is that the pro leagues will become so dominant that the rest of the youth systems outside of that can have more "common sense" and can't even claim to be a pathway to McDonald's let alone college or the pros. Let's make the very top of the pyramid hyper competitive and survival of the fittest. But let's make it more fun and less confusing (i.e. the alphabet soup of leagues) for the vast majority of players out there. Wishful thinking, but a guy's gotta dream right?!?
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Ummmm the girls top of the pyramid is not confusing at all. It’s ECNL and only ECNL at the top. What’s the confusion? It is hyper competitive. Nothing gets more competitive than girls soccer in the Southwest Conference of ECNL. Everything you’re asking for is already there.
 
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