Say bye-bye-bye to Girls and Boys DA

Nothing has changed except the shadow just departed and left us to fix all this. Gee, thanks a lot USSF!!! We all got hosed!!!!
 
SoccerGuru said:
Can anyone give the reason why ecnl doesn't want to allow legends or beach in even though they are big clubs with really good teams? Are you saying the Khourys have something to do with it? Is it a grudge or issues between club DOCs, etc?
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This is why the word “monopoly” keeps getting thrown around. Certain DOC’s are (allegedly) blocking other Clubs from entry into ECNL so that they can pull players from those Clubs rather than compete against them in the field.
 
full90 said:
If your son or daughter is on a DA team and the club isn’t going ECNL, there’s no reason to find an ECNL team to join. Your DA team and coach is still the same team. You’ll be in a good league and able to attend tournaments with college coaches watching. No need to panic or jump ship. Prior to today college coaches attended ecnl, DA and then normal big tourneys (surf cup, Vegas, Phoenix etc) so now switch DA with whatever there is now. It’s back to big tourneys and ecnl. Just like before DA. Lots of non ecnl kids went to great schools and had great experiences.
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except each year when all your fellow clubs apply to get into ECNL and each year there are a couple fewer clubs in your league because they've joined ECNL...then what?

maybe my kids will just run track. no bullsh** from the stopwatch.
 
suzysoccer1 said:
This is complete BS by DA. They are total cowards. To end DA is one thing, to do it during a global pandemic is what bitch ass punks do. You just dumped all these players who gave up and sacrificed so much for you. There was nothing you could do? It’s been ONE MONTH! You’ve been raping families of girls for 3 years, boys for what like 10 years? First chance you get to have an excuse to walk away and you take it. No spine, no fight, what weak ass people from top to bottom. The Fed has money, they could of figured it out if they wanted to. Also while I’m at it you DA clubs and DOC’s also are not immune from criticism. You got into bed with DA you share some of the blame for the product you sold. You took and are taking parents money. Where’s your accountability? Unless your a DOC who quit on his team in February and “moved” to Pullman to be a 3rd assistant, because he knew this was at least a possibility. Then your ok I guess. He wasn't there that much anyway. But the rest of you coolade drinking power hungry DOCs I’m sure you guys got lessons from Barry, or whatever nazi runs surf these days on how to be a snake so you guys gonna be fine. These DA minions for years preached, used propaganda, threats, coercion and anything else they could to force players and family’s to abide and follow or suffer. No high school ( unless you go to private school then sign the waiver ) if you go to public school F off. Travel restrictions, camp restrictions, No ODP, No outside leagues etc. etc. etc. How many times I had to listen to DOC’s talk complete nonsense after practice or before showcases or pre season meetings. How many times I sat at NTCs listening to dutch women talking out their ass. F them. Where you at now? Don’t hear them talking now. What no more insight ladies? No more DA, USSoccer crap to spew. Oh so now you might scout ECNL more? Is that where the new world class players gonna come from?. Maybe now they actually gonna try to find more players than just selecting kids from whatever dumbass DOC kisses your ass best this month or having your favorite soccer dads tell you who to take. ECNL is the same damn thing. Just more letters. They just the last ugly girl standing in the corner at the end of the night. So now we all go there? F that, I’d rather play AYSO. I guess LAFC is now the place huh. BTW Pick a name guys it’s not hard. Can’t wait til half of Beach FC girls leave for LAFC then LAFC cuts like 40 kids. I’m tired of it all. The whole system needs one big enima. How for the love of god we keep talking about leagues and the same bs is beyond me. I love my kids, I love soccer but this merry go round needs to stop. I’m out, Good luck guys. Peace.
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My god, get it together. GDA’s inevitable collapse was plain to see. Companies come and go, that is life. You hitched your wagon to a business that never made financial sense and you should have known better. You also hitched your wagon to a club that thought it (like you) could cut to the front of the line without having to put in the work, effort and investment that is needed to get your desired outcome. There are no shortcuts, however, and the idea that families don’t have to pay what it really costs for the best club services is a fantasy. The idea that clubs could jump their competitors by slapping a USSF badge in their uniforms is also a fantasy. Take responsibility for your role. Don’t be the next Ellejustus who keeps wondering why constantly barking at the moon doesn’t cause it to rain soccer money and college scholarship offers.

For those who failed to heed my advice and are now paying for it, I’ll give you another chance. There are only a handful of queenmaker coaches who really make a difference. They work at clubs that - go figure - have been around a long time and put in the years, the investments and the hard work that makes them well positioned to emerge from the GDA collapse. They are the clubs that the whiners at this site commonly complain are “monopolies”, have demanding coaches (which they often mistake as “abusive”), and expect you to pay for the valuable services they provide.

These coaches can help develop your daughter as a soccer player, but that is not what sets them apart. What sets them apart is they have earned the respect of college coaches. They have Cromwell and Radcliffe (and everyone) on speed dial, and colleges answer when they call. When they tell colleges they have a player for them, the recruiting process is 90% done. All your daughter needs to do is present well when she meets with the staff and not choke when they show up to watch her play, which they always will if you have the right coach. They also tell you they won’t make the call if they don’t think you are right for a program.

So here is my advice. Find the clubs that have these coaches. They are the top ECNL clubs and very few others. They earned their status, plain and simple. They aren’t the only path to playing in college but, if your daughter is college material, they make getting there much easIer and will almost always get her the best fit. If you don’t, you leave a lot to chance, and your kid’s college options may be limited to the sheer luck of whatever college coach happened to see your daughter play on some random day. Even if your kid is the greatest player on the planet, not playing at a top club is a red flag. You are leaving college coaches speculating what is wrong with your kid. Are you at a 2nd tier club because you’re cancer and the good ones didn’t want anything to do with you? Are you as good as you appear when you’re beating up weaker opponents? Because when your kid scores a hat trick against Albion, it’s hard to tell whether she’s legit. But if she does it against Blues ECNL, colleges know they’re looking at a winner because even their weaker players can still play. And if your kid plays for a lesser club, they’re probably still asking the ones they trust for insight into your kid.

The time for blaming others for your wrong decisions and hoping that your kid will get great college offers because she played for a club that had US Soccer DA badges on the jerseys is over. Get your s**t together and move forward.
 
Does the end of DA or what club get's into ECNL matter if new women's college soccer scholarships disappear for a few years? Loss of revenue from March Madness is going to have a big effect in college sports. If college football revenue is gone for this next season too then I could see there being no new athletic scholarships for a few years. Pro women's soccer is also marginal, how does it even survive? Why pay for club soccer if there is no future benefit?
 
This is the chance to bring things back to a local level and develop players without excessive travel. This is the chance to do what we've all been hoping for: improve the quality in local leagues and give our players more time to play and develop, not travel (for practice or games).

Forget ECNL or DPL and just go back to our local leagues : SCDSL, CSL, SDDA, and Presidio.

Clubs, parents and coaches - support your local economy. Put your money and efforts into what you truly believe. Make any closed league, not based on location, irrelevant in So Cal Club soccer. Club soccer will be consolidated, but do we continue on the same complicated process of spending more time on the road or do we go back to our roots.

Teams that want to travel for big showcases/tournaments still can.

Keep things simple.
 
SoccerFrenzy said:
Blues already has ECNL so their DA team will likely move to that spot
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So, how many players can they have on a team?? Can they absorb an entire second team, doubtful. So much change coming with a lot of tryouts everywhere if this comes to pass. Certainly a lot to think about not just for DA, DPL but also ECNL.
 
SoccerGuru said:
Can anyone give the reason why ecnl doesn't want to allow legends or beach in even though they are big clubs with really good teams? Are you saying the Khourys have something to do with it? Is it a grudge or issues between club DOCs, etc?

From what everyone has said on the forum surf actually had issues with ecnl owners but were allowed back in, the moves aren't making sense.
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I don't know about Legends, but Beach trashed the ECNL on the girl's side. The top of Beach on down, and I heard it, would rip ECNL and pimp the DA. It was the whole marketing plan. It was over the top and now they may have to pay the price.
 
Hired Gun said:
I believe West Coast boys dropped ECNL. Maybe clubs will be added in waves to ECNL?? DA did this a few years back. Maybe not this season but the following.
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No, West Coast (formally WCFC, then OC Surf, now WC again) has ECNL on the boys side.
 
Simisoccerfan said:
Does the end of DA or what club get's into ECNL matter if new women's college soccer scholarships disappear for a few years? Loss of revenue from March Madness is going to have a big effect in college sports. If college football revenue is gone for this next season too then I could see there being no new athletic scholarships for a few years. Pro women's soccer is also marginal, how does it even survive? Why pay for club soccer if there is no future benefit?
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Uh, do it because your daughter enjoys soccer and you can afford it. If you dropped that kind of coin expecting to recoup it in scholarship money or a professional career, well, good luck with that.
 
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