the less travel is not for socal to travel zero. the southwest (mostly socal) probably already has some of the least amount of travel out of all the regions. they will not bump up the travel distance farther for arizona and neveda to cut down socals 2 travel weekends out of state lol.
No, but they can add clubs in Arizona and Nevada. $$$
Q&A: ECNL prez Christian Lavers on a seismic week in youth soccer
SoccerWire caught up with Christian Lavers to discuss the youth soccer shakeup.www.soccerwire.com
"SW: For everybody, even the clubs at the top and the pro clubs, the travel costs of national play are just enormous. And it also seems like the marketplace’s appetite for that may fundamentally change depending on how bad the economic fallout is. Could we be looking at a more regionalized model for elite soccer in the future?
CL: From our perspective, we’ve been actively reducing travel in most areas of the country every year for the past several years, and that’s been deliberate. And that’s because people don’t want to spend nights in hotels over and over to play a couple soccer games. So our perspective has been, when you have to go spend the night in a hotel or you have to get on the plane, it better be for an unbelievable experience, like a massive showcase in front of hundreds of colleges that help prepare you for the next stage in your career. And so we’ve been expanding to kind of fill in density in our conferences to allow a much better travel balance.
The DA collapse, or whatever you want to refer to it as, I think will help in the sense that there will be clubs that drop into leagues that already have local members and that will help provide more local games. And I think that is a good thing. Coronavirus obviously is going to drive the market even further in that regard. At some point you have to travel when you get to a certain level of competition, because you need to find equivalent matches. But it’s a balance. We’re really going to be having these discussions at some level: When is a 2-2 game worth a hotel stay, when a 3-0 does not have one? That’s the balance that everybody’s going to try and figure out. I think it’s going to go very much more towards less travel for a while, and that’s not a bad thing."
Look, you're upset, I get it. You don't want your kid in a weaker conference when socal gets their own region. But I promise you when more clubs get added to ECNL especially in Arizona and Nevada, that is going to happen. At that point you will have to decide if you want to stay with ECNL. lets not pretend this isn't the path forward as literally 6 socal teams were recently added, a few of which are very strong clubs.
It is more than 900 miles from CA Thorns to Real Colorado. It is already an issue for NW.
I guess we will see. To me, its clear that ECNL is planning on adding more teams and regions to localize the travel. That's what I get from the article. If you read it a different way that's fine. time will tell.
Nothing wrong with trying to improve. But once again, its not our call. ECNL is already going in that direction based on the article I posted. If you read it a different way, then we will have to wait and see.
Depends on the team. Not every norcal team is good enough to justify an air travel game with Real Colorado.
MVLA, Mustang, and San Juan ECNL teams all play in NorCal Premier League. Thorns top teams will play their teams there as well next year, now that they don’t have GDA restrictions on preventing them from playing in that league. NorCal Premier is a non travel league.
AZ high school soccer is a winter sport
That lowers the quality of the league. Nevada and AZ do not have the depth of talent to field many more teams. You need to get off this thread. Go to the SCDSL thread because that is what you want. A So Cal league. It already exists. Have your kid play in it. ECNL is optional. Lavers is not changing anything for the southwest conference. He is added teams back east to make their travel more efficient. So Cal teams still will fly to New Jersey, and drive or fly to Phoenix and Las Vegas. Get over it. You are the nightmare parent no coach or parent wants on their sidelines.
LOL. Take it down a notch. All I'm saying is more teams will be added, probably more regions as well for less travel. That echoes what Lavers said in the article. You want me to get off the thread for that? you got some problems. With more socal teams being added, AZ and NV would logically seem move to a different region. No one knows for sure what will happen other than what Lavers said, and that's more teams, less travel, more localized. If you take that as only on the east coast I disagree, especially with the recent additions.
Actually no logically they would not. Denver is a 15 plus hour drive from Phoenix. Roughly 900 miles. Salt Lake City is 1012 hour drive and 700 plus miles.
