This is the dumbest thing I have read in a while and the parent mentality behind this post is part of why soccer in the US is hosed and these clubs succeed. Yeah the Blues U16/17 went undefeated last season and lost in the final yet they are in 9th place this season. The only reason teams are good in DA is most of the better ECNL players stayed with their clubs. My kid played at the top level for best club in the west and they were taught next to nothing by the coach who will not be coaching DA in 2 years because US Soccer won't allow it. I attended so many practice sessions and wondered what I was paying for. Just a bunch of good/athletic players all flocking to the same 'winning successful' club. And, many of those second-tier clubs you are dissing have the best training programs/coaches and US Soccer knows it - just not the best players (yet).
If you want to prove how much more knowledgeable you are about club soccer, your chosen example is a poor one. The Blues 2002 ECNL team (which
won the national U15 championship last spring) stayed largely in tact this season. (They are, in fact, the most notable exception to the dual clubs putting their top players on their GDA team.) Further, their U16/U17 GDA roster largely consists of girls that played on their 2002 SCDSL Flight 1 team last season (which finished 5th place in Champions and lost in the quarterfinals of the SCDSL playoffs). Despite that the Blues, overall, are still in the top 20 performing GDA clubs nationally. I posted all the club standings on another thread, but here's the top 20 (as of Feb. 16th):
Rank Club (W-T-L) Points per game average [3 per W, 1 per T]
1 NTH Tophat (50-8-2) 2.63
2 Penn Fusion Soccer Academy (39-4-10) 2.28
3 FC Dallas (41-7-9) 2.28
4 Legends FC (52-10-11) 2.27
5 Solar Soccer Club (39-10-8) 2.23
6 Crossfire Premier (33-8-8) 2.18
7 Sky Blue - PDA (42-7-12) 2.18
8 Real Colorado (33-10-7) 2.18
9 New York City FC (39-5-15) 2.07
10 San Diego Surf (39-14-12) 2.02
11 Michigan Hawks (33-11-11) 2.00
12 NC Courage (29-11-9) 2.00
13 Cincinnati Development Academy (29-7-12) 1.96
14 FC Fury NY (37-3-19) 1.93
15 LAFC Slammers (38-7-18) 1.92
16 Concorde Fire (35-12-14) 1.92
17 FC Virginia (37-5-19) 1.90
18 Beach Futbol Club (42-10-21) 1.86
19 Eclipse Select Soccer Club (27-5-15) 1.83
20 So Cal Blues Soccer Club (41-13-23) 1.77