GIRLS DAII

Wait did someone sign a NLA and didn't tell anyone? Are we still talking about 03s and 04s?
 
chargerfan said:
If you've been paying attention, he has given a lot of insight. I appreciate the advice of parents who have "been there, done that".
Click to expand...
If you were paying attention, I was commenting on a post that he had no insight to give at all. It was strictly a put down toward a player he has no idea who he is talking about. To me, that's someone who has a chip on his shoulder for some reason or another.
 
I can't help but notice that our Men's National Team is made up of old men, without any young guns on the horizon ready to step in and replace them. What young blood we have seems to have come out of the European system rather than the DA system. Can anyone explain this phenomenon to me? It concerns me that I have yet to see any results on the mens side and they are planning on taking over the womens side of the game.

Our younger YNT's do well but for some reason, the players can't seem to make the jump to the full MNT. What gives?

Has anyone researched the success, or the percentage of DA boys players that have gone onto D1 schools?

I am willing to bet that the level of play for our local community college girls programs will be improving dramatically in the coming years.
 
Sandypk said:
If you were paying attention, I was commenting on a post that he had no insight to give at all. It was strictly a put down toward a player he has no idea who he is talking about. To me, that's someone who has a chip on his shoulder for some reason or another.
Click to expand...

I didn't see a put down at all. And considering the success his daughter had had, I can't imagine he has any sort of chip on his shoulder. It seems to me that his comment must have struck a nerve with you.
 
chargerfan said:
I didn't see a put down at all. And considering the success his daughter had had, I can't imagine he has any sort of chip on his shoulder. It seems to me that his comment must have struck a nerve with you.
Click to expand...
No, not at all. I actually don't mind and get a chuckle out of their egos. I take in what I feel is good insight and I also understand that anytime you go against some of the old poster's ideas/thoughts you will get bashed. It's a given.
 
Sandypk said:
No, not at all. I actually don't mind and get a chuckle out of their egos. I take in what I feel is good insight and I also understand that anytime you go against some of the old poster's ideas/thoughts you will get bashed. It's a given.
Click to expand...

I always take it more as a "buyer beware", which is how I am with about everything anyway. Doesn't bother me.
 
El Clasico said:
I can't help but notice that our Men's National Team is made up of old men, without any young guns on the horizon ready to step in and replace them. What young blood we have seems to have come out of the European system rather than the DA system. Can anyone explain this phenomenon to me? It concerns me that I have yet to see any results on the mens side and they are planning on taking over the womens side of the game.

Our younger YNT's do well but for some reason, the players can't seem to make the jump to the full MNT. What gives?

Has anyone researched the success, or the percentage of DA boys players that have gone onto D1 schools?

I am willing to bet that the level of play for our local community college girls programs will be improving dramatically in the coming years.
Click to expand...
Do you think the "best male athletes" in the USA pursue soccer as a primary sport versus American football, basketball, baseball, etc?
 
Sandypk said:
Sounds just like SCDSL

I love your put downs when you have no insight to give. You're right, I will stop posting when my dd decides to stop playing and if/when she goes to college. I won't be mocking younger's parents when my dd is in college.
Click to expand...
Put downs? You want some insight? Here you go.....you just posted you didn't care if your DD played college soccer or not. It's not about the college scholarship or playing college soccer. That you have money saved for her college education. I thought you posted she was playing purely for the love of the game? Like I posted prior, keep telling yourself that!
 
NoGoal said:
Put downs? You want some insight? Here you go.....you just posted you didn't care if your DD played college soccer or not. It's not about the college scholarship or playing college soccer. That you have money saved for her college education. I thought you posted she was playing purely for the love of the game? Like I posted prior, keep telling yourself that!
Click to expand...
I am :)
 
NoGoal said:
Actually, I didn't drink a lot of the club Kool-Aid. You see, I was what they call a club hopper and ALWAYS did what was best for my DD. She played for ulittle top teams, a B team and ECNL for 2 years only. I learned by reading player college bio's when she was a ulittle player that it is ALL about the individual player accolades which college coaches covet the most. If that wasn't the case, you would be seeing more ECNL Strikers and Arsenal players committing to Power 5 schools.

Even being the #1 team in an ECNL conference and winning an ECNL Championship doesn't mean.....all those players will be committing to Power 5 schools. Just research and see where the G98/99 WCFC ECNL players are committed.
Click to expand...
NoGoal said:
Exactly, a player going 2 additional days to club practice a week in which I guarantee will lead to burn-out for several players once they add in their HS homework.
Click to expand...
Some girls can handle it, others can't. That is ok, whatever path your daughter decides she can handle is fine.
 
chargerfan said:
This isn't why I don't believe Da is the exclusive route to a college scholarship. Nobody has the monopoly on top players right now. But I do think your daughter should be on a da, ecnl or Flight 1 A team. This could change if the top ecnl and flight 1 A team girls start gravitating to da.
Click to expand...
Bingo, there are many paths to get to the finish line. There are players committing from ECNL, National League, CSL Premier, SCDSL and in some cases the big club B teams. Girls DA is not revolutionizing college recruiting more like adding another platform to college recruiting.
 
Lambchop said:
Some girls can handle it, others can't. That is ok, whatever path your daughter decides she can handle is fine.
Click to expand...
I agree some will strive and some will wilt, but adding 2 additional days with limited substitution...will unfortunately accelerate it. Especially, when the girls hit HS age and start thinking for themselves.
 
Sandypk said:
If you were paying attention, I was commenting on a post that he had no insight to give at all. It was strictly a put down toward a player he has no idea who he is talking about. To me, that's someone who has a chip on his shoulder for some reason or another.
Click to expand...
I thought you said, you knew my DDs story? Well I guess you don't after all.

Let's just say, my family heard the she is not fast enough, not strong enough, not athletic enough, gets bumped off the ball, dribbles to much from these so called, club soccer DOCs and parents who thought their DDs were the star players experts from U9-U14. Surprise, surprise....aren't they eating their words. #pac12
 
GoWest said:
Do you think the "best male athletes" in the USA pursue soccer as a primary sport versus American football, basketball, baseball, etc?
Click to expand...
I use to think it didn't matter that we didn't have the best male athletes playing soccer in the US, because the vast population size of our country. So, it's either we have players 6'0" and shorter who are not athletic enough paired with the Boys DA system not developing their true potential or we really do need the best male athletes who end up playing football, baseball, basketball, hockey and track and field to be successful at the international level.

Then there is 5'8" Christian Pulistic who has dual citizenship and advanced his developed in Germany at 16. Now he is on the US MNT at 18 and playing for Dortmund. So, I'm going to say....we don't have the coaches who can develop a players true potential.
 
NoGoal said:
I thought you said, you knew my DDs story? Well I guess you don't after all.

Let's just say, my family heard the she is not fast enough, not strong enough, not athletic enough, gets bumped off the ball, dribbles to much from these so called, club soccer DOCs and parents who thought their DDs were the star players experts from U9-U14. Surprise, surprise....aren't they eating their words. #pac12
Click to expand...
I figured as much...
 
MakeAPlay said:
I like that set up. I wonder how it will work for multi-sport athletes.
Click to expand...

It's not the set up we were told. We are allowed to have her play the other sports until high school- that's a long way away anyway so tons can change.
Interestingly I listen to my daughters perspective about this and she's pretty insightful. She says the thing that is really weird is that the summer is usually the ramp up to the pinnacle for her which was always Surf Cup- then CRL and league. The energy is different now- and she's having some adjustment because it's a slow ramp up to Aug 1, then shift to 4 days a week, and rather than tapering off in Dec when basically tryouts would start and coaches would start calling her, it will then grind through the next summer.
For her that will affect her Spring sport because she usually has that soccer downtime (because honestly State Cup was a culmination and they always did well but it never stressed her out) so essentially she will possibly start having her Spring sport affected. We have options to do more of a club one in Fall but that's her main concern at this time.
Her friends on ECNL aren't happy - they say "their team sucks". The little middle schoolers are funny!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top