How do leagues stack up?

[dad4]

Could it be ECNL girls and their coaches are more aggressive recruitees' and well connected?

I don’t think it’s just visibility/aggression.

GA clearly advocates for their players. The early stages of the YNT selection process had a ton of GA kids. The showcases have scouts. That wouldn't happen if the coaches and clubs were slack.

 

[Carlsbad7]

I don’t think it’s just visibility/aggression.

GA clearly advocates for their players. The early stages of the YNT selection process had a ton of GA kids. The showcases have scouts. That wouldn't happen if the coaches and clubs were slack.

One thing I've noticed that's happening in both GA and ECNL is the top clubs have a large funnel of feeder clubs underneath their umbrella of leadership. As an example Legends has 5-6 locations outside of Norco but their top players play on the Norco ECNL team, Slammers does the same with Koge, and City does the same with CitySC Carlsbad + all the different City teams in Socal. I think Surf kind of does this with all it's affiliates but I'm not really sure.

I would expect using Legends as an example that they have one person that represents all players and teams to college recruiters. What this would translate to is more connections with College coaches than a club without a large umbrella of teams. Here's an example, say a recruiter called the Legends college liaison reguarding a player. First there's a relationship being made. Second if that particular player isn't available the liaisons job would be to offer 2-3 "just as good" alternatives.

The end result is with a club with multiple satellite locations will have more college connections and more college commits.

 

[dad4]

One thing I've noticed that's happening in both GA and ECNL is the top clubs have a large funnel of feeder clubs underneath their umbrella of leadership. As an example Legends has 5-6 locations outside of Norco but their top players play on the Norco ECNL team, Slammers does the same with Koge, and City does the same with CitySC Carlsbad + all the different City teams in Socal. I think Surf kind of does this with all it's affiliates but I'm not really sure.

I would expect using Legends as an example that they have one person that represents all players and teams to college recruiters. What this would translate to is more connections with College coaches than a club without a large umbrella of teams. Here's an example, say a recruiter called the Legends college liaison reguarding a player. First there's a relationship being made. Second if that particular player isn't available the liaisons job would be to offer 2-3 "just as good" alternatives.

The end result is with a club with multiple satellite locations will have more college connections and more college commits.

Coach connections help, but there is a simpler reason Surf, Slammers, and Legends have a lot of college commits:

Their players keep kicking our asses on the pitch.

 

[JeterwastheBEST]

I don’t think it’s just visibility/aggression.

GA clearly advocates for their players. The early stages of the YNT selection process had a ton of GA kids. The showcases have scouts. That wouldn't happen if the coaches and clubs were slack.

Lets be honest here ("YNT") at any girls level could sport 8-10 teams (if not more) and beat any country at any one time....