That was my guess in regards to girls ECNL 2nd league. No one kicked out but they could have a few tiers potentially. I guess my question is leagues will need to be regionalized still but maybe showcases are more tiered now like nationals?
Say bye-bye-bye to Girls and Boys DA
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In the new world we will be living in, will anyone want to get on a plane and stay in a hotel for soccer?
I'm not a worrier - But I'm going be to very, very selective going forward about air travel and crowded places. For a while at least.
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I don't know a single player on dd DA team who wants to play high school. I am sure there are areas of the country where the parents and players like the rah rah of high school soccer, good for them. Sort of the big fish in the little pond, stokes their egos for some sort of recognition. If that is what they want, go for it.
All good points but for the sake of keeping sane, the DA/ECNL talk helps lol
It's more than possible no flying takes place until end of winter and spring events
Maybe both DA and ECNL go away! Wouldn't that be great!!
The death rate is different than population based rate. The population based rate is used so a country doesn’t have a hysteria. Regardless of fear mongering, the population rate shows it’s not something more than what it’s made out to be so far.
Nope, no more showcases! When we were in ECNL, championship games were on crap fields, terrible. There is no point to have championship games. It is just bragging rights for clubs. Does not benefit players at all. Let them play locally, those who are good enough will be picked up and go on to play in college.
Isn’t there a stand alone forum topic or Corona Virus? Why would people fowl up this thread with a completely unrelated topic?
It isn't a discount. The rates are higher than the other hotels offer.
If it were a discount, you wouldn't have to require it as a condition for being allowed to play.
That End of the Line fella was really dialed in early on the inevitable failure of GDA.
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Any final requests from the GDA Mafia before the final execution? @Simisoccerfan? @MarkM? @Kicker4Life? @coachsamy? Maybe one last cigarette? Or can we dispense with the formalities and move straight to “I TOLD YOU SO.”
Play High School or Not?
I know two elite players that played high school together two years ago together and had the best time. Both left high school last year to play in the DA. One left the DA and is playing high school again while the second one is still in the DA. The one playing high school is laughing and...
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Any final requests from the GDA Mafia before the final execution? @Simisoccerfan? @MarkM? @Kicker4Life? @coachsamy? Maybe one last cigarette? Or can we dispense with the formalities and move straight to “I TOLD YOU SO.”
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I think this is the solution to dilution, etc.
So GDA goes away. ECNL grabs a lot of those clubs. Now for instance is not the time to cut.
- put standards in place
- if OVER the various age groups a club has if they cannot compete lets say in 3 yrs they lose ECNL status.
- what that does is takes care of clubs NOW...but at the same time allows ECNL to move back to an ELITE league.
- So over time they start to eliminate non performing clubs and do that until they get down to lets say 65 clubs or so. However just because at some point you are in the 65 membership doesn't mean that if the club stops performing you are safe. A Lack of performance over time still puts the spot at risk.
So GDA goes away. ECNL grabs a lot of those clubs. Now for instance is not the time to cut.
- put standards in place
- if OVER the various age groups a club has if they cannot compete lets say in 3 yrs they lose ECNL status.
- what that does is takes care of clubs NOW...but at the same time allows ECNL to move back to an ELITE league.
- So over time they start to eliminate non performing clubs and do that until they get down to lets say 65 clubs or so. However just because at some point you are in the 65 membership doesn't mean that if the club stops performing you are safe. A Lack of performance over time still puts the spot at risk.
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What does this mean, each ECNL club will have a top team and a RL team in each age group?
Not all of them. The top ones will have 2 teams in ECNL. One in the top division. The other in the RL. lower level teams will get 1 team. Existing may have 1 team in RL if they are bad in regular ECNL already (think DMCV, Breakers, clubs like that). Not everyone gets 2 teams.
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Thanks for clarifying this for me. Don't most current ECNL teams have RL already? Would the underperforming clubs lose their RL teams?
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I wasn’t surprised when I was told last week of this DA termination as they’ve been floating the idea for quite sometime now, but I must say I was surprised of the lack of transparency from the federation to their membership clubs in the past few days. One DOC of the DA clubs I spoke still haven’t had any communication from the federation as of today. I’m amazed with the incompetency of the people in charge with this organization
I’m sure there are a ton of details to be hammered out. If I was on a lower level ECNL team or the B team of a lower level ECNL RL league, I’d be worried. But I haven’t heard those details. Again, I think that all has to be figured out once the dust settles on all of this.
As history shows, you were consistently on the attack. Record also shows I never dispelled ECNL either.That End of the Line fella was really dialed in early on the inevitable failure of GDA.
Play High School or Not?
I know two elite players that played high school together two years ago together and had the best time. Both left high school last year to play in the DA. One left the DA and is playing high school again while the second one is still in the DA. The one playing high school is laughing and...
Any final requests from the GDA Mafia before the final execution? @Simisoccerfan? @MarkM? @Kicker4Life? @coachsamy? Maybe one last cigarette? Or can we dispense with the formalities and move straight to “I TOLD YOU SO.”
Carry on...
It's an old trick - a locale bids for the right to host an event, provides free or deeply-discounted room rates for the deciders, and then makes it up in the rates charged the masses. Comic-con in San Diego is an obvious example, but I also encountered the effect one year when the boys' team was doing well in National Cup so we looked into hotel rates in Albuquerque, where Western Regionals were to be held that year. Teams were required to book through the local organizing committee, and the rates they offered were about 20% above the rates one could get over the internet with a credit card. That someone would add another layer of profit is no surprise - just free enterprise.
What is the criterion for "cannot compete"? Who decides it?
It’s too late to hide in the crowd. You’ve been outed.
I warned everyone for years why GDA was bound to fail - and did so with panache. Well, other than when I was busy stuffing @Simisoccerfan’s head in the toilet for kicks.