Soccerfan2
GOLD
I don’t know all the ins and outs of what’s going on, but I don’t think HS discussion has anything to do with any delays. Any delays are just due to waiting on ECNL application feedback.
Nor Cal GDA Teams - What's Next
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kickingandscreaming
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Weird. Literally a block from me (in Santa Clara county) a childcare facility has been open for essential workers for days.
For recreational or educational purposes in childcare or summer camp settings....
I think regardless it's the first big positive step since this all started. Hopefully it continues in the Bay Area and all of California soon!
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Childcare establishments, summer camps, and other educational or recreational institutions or programs providing care or
supervision for children of all ages that enable owners, employees, volunteers, and contractors for Essential Businesses,
Essential Governmental Functions, Outdoor Businesses, or Minimum Basic Operations to work as allowed under this Order.
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gotothebushes
GOLD
All 3 DA teams in NorCal have applied but no team has been accepted yet. Heard the club had a meeting last night and no word if ECNL will accept them.
The grapevine is ripe with rumor these days. Thorns is the old Force?
ECNL should probably think about booting Rage and adding Lamorinda in the East Bay (not saying they will...they just should consider it). Rage has been somewhat reduced to a feeder for Mustang as they aren't run as well and the geographical proximity to Mustang even during rush hours makes it easy for players to choose either. Lamorinda almost never loses players to Mustang for soccer reasons (usually only if a player/parent gets really pissed over something). Over the past couple of years Rage has been losing players not only to Mustang but also the lamorinda DA teams. That is not good.
While lamorinda is geographically almost as close to Mustang they are really far apart time-wise during rush hour traffic (when kids practice!) and they are positioned to make a more logical division of East bay players. Makes way more sense for Mustang to draw from regions south of their location (since they already do despite having Rage right there) down the 680 corridor and then east towards Livermore/Tracy and west towards Hayward/Castro Valley. Lamorinda would draw from their own area and then west into Oakland/Berkeley/Richmond and north to Benicia/Vallejo. Players in the Walnut Creek/Concord area could choose either with similar travel times. Essentially this would put two ECNL teams positioned in such a way that one or the other is reasonably reachable by the majority of the East Bay at commute times. Only issue for lamorinda is their size (they are really small) as they already have like 3 other soccer organization sharing their small area.
While lamorinda is geographically almost as close to Mustang they are really far apart time-wise during rush hour traffic (when kids practice!) and they are positioned to make a more logical division of East bay players. Makes way more sense for Mustang to draw from regions south of their location (since they already do despite having Rage right there) down the 680 corridor and then east towards Livermore/Tracy and west towards Hayward/Castro Valley. Lamorinda would draw from their own area and then west into Oakland/Berkeley/Richmond and north to Benicia/Vallejo. Players in the Walnut Creek/Concord area could choose either with similar travel times. Essentially this would put two ECNL teams positioned in such a way that one or the other is reasonably reachable by the majority of the East Bay at commute times. Only issue for lamorinda is their size (they are really small) as they already have like 3 other soccer organization sharing their small area.
youthsportsugh
SILVER ELITE
Force on the Boys side, Thorns on the girls
youthsportsugh
SILVER ELITE
There were 4 DA teams in the "Bay Area" -- Lamorinda is a nice little club, but I am not sure how they were accepted into DA; although their older age group last year and this were good. The younger ages were struggling it seemed like.
kickingandscreaming
PREMIER
From my perspective, similar in many ways to PSV - good quality and training, short numbers.
That's a good comparison.
While Lamorinda has had a few nice teams, Rage is still a much bigger club. I do agree Rage has fell off in recent Tims but they aren't being kicked out. I don't think Lamorinda has the best reputation with other clubs. For any club to get into ECNL in the East Bay, you better have a decent relationship with Mustang unless you're a very good club talent/coaches wise.
youthsportsugh
SILVER ELITE
That seems like it could be accurate and PSV only made it 1 year of DA because of size and rules they didn't get results because of the full product they could put on the field
This is wild speculation on my part but if Thorns gets the nod, I wonder if that means Earthquakes will no longer support the Girls teams. If that is the case, it could influence access to fields. Perhaps Thorns and EQ girls merge? Who knows...
That is a "wild fire" of speculation bro.
youthsportsugh
SILVER ELITE
I would think there is still some pretty fresh wounds (even over 3 years) that Quakes and Thorns don't mix. Someone mentioned Barcelona Bay Area somewhere, which I think the Quakes could go there with the connection to that club with one of the coaches at Quakes. Then I wonder if BBA tries to get into ECNL from their current NPL status.
I don't think BBA has the power to put forward an ECNL team without a Quakes merger. I was looking for them in NPL, and didn't see much.
youthsportsugh
SILVER ELITE
Totally agree