Say bye-bye-bye to Girls and Boys DA

dreamz said:
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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Here in the north east division there are 15 clubs. Each club has an ECNL team and an ECNL regional team. Is that the nation wide roll out or are you hearing something different?
 
espola said:
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.
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Free enterprise, courtesy of a non profit?

This sounds like it is a step worse than comiccon. Those excess fees are generated by the non profit, but then a slice goes to the board members. It is a dodge around the tax law that governs nonprofits.

They route it through Maverick because they can't legally transfer the money without the shell.

Hard to imagine in soccer, I know.
 
Copa9 said:
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.
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My DA kid does and she’s a very serious, committed player. She knows it’s crappy soccer but wants to play with her friends and be involved with her school.
 
dreamz said:
Your crystal ball looks pretty clear From where I’m sitting.

I could see some movement within ECNL moving some of the weaker ECNL clubs (LA Breakers, DMCV, Rebels) to either a ECNL 2 or ECNLRL. With Surf, Blues, Legends and Beach moving to ECNL (not confirmed but it’s pretty close to being finalized) there is no way DMCV, Breakers or Rebels can compete. LV Albion in Vegas is on the losing side of this deal along with Albion, City SC, Pats and most likely West Coast. Especially since West Coast dropped Boys ECNL. I don’t see them getting back in to ECNL. The unknown is RSC. They should get back in to ECNL but if SD Surf worked a deal for LA Surf to get a spot and Eagles are already in ECNL, that may not leave an opportunity for RSC.

I think by 4/15 this will all be clearer.
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dreamz said:
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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Which current DA clubs are in a world of hurt do you think?
 
I am curious how ECNL would decide which clubs would be playing in the lower tier ECNL league as opposed to the top tier. What I mean is - say a club has a few stronger teams and a few weaker teams. Clubs are not always consistent across age groups. Of course some are obvious top tier clubs, and some are obvious bottom feeders. But the middle of the pack clubs are much harder to differentiate across the board (success of their different age groups vary significantly).
 
GT45 said:
I am curious how ECNL would decide which clubs would be playing in the lower tier ECNL league as opposed to the top tier. What I mean is - say a club has a few stronger teams and a few weaker teams. Clubs are not always consistent across age groups. Of course some are obvious top tier clubs, and some are obvious bottom feeders. But the middle of the pack clubs are much harder to differentiate across the board (success of their different age groups vary significantly).
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I am hoping it is year by year. Even the top 60 clubs would include a lot of mediocre teams if you have to include all 6 teams from every club.
 
A truly top national league with pro / rel where clubs were replaced for poor performance would a good thing for soccer on this country, I want our ladies to keep winning world cups and inspiring our DDs......asking for a list of "bottom feeder" GDA teams is only going to get people naming the clubs they do not like......I work in an unglamorous "essential" industry where a large part of my job is crunching figures for ordering amounts, weights and percentages of mixes.....it will take me or any one else who wants to step up a half hour max to give the rankings for GDA based on actual standings........there is 5 age groups and 14 Southwest teams in each of those......I will try to do it in my lunch break if nobody else has done it by then.................
 
Awful lot of detail timely dripping out from only one single person on this Board despite there being hundreds/thousands of people here involved in both ECNL and DA.
 
As we all wait for youth soccer to sort itself out today, enjoy 28:26 of some serious sports moments. I love sports and mess it dearly. I will never take my sports for granted ever again. Go America and go Soccer!!!

 
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