baller6988
BRONZE
So is LA Surf going ECNL?
Say bye-bye-bye to Girls and Boys DA
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All I can say is this USSF company has caused much pain and sorrow across the country. Parents are out thousands of dollars investing in the dream of one day becoming a world class player like Alex or Mia or Megan or Mallory or Sophie or the great OM. People who act and treat people like this are usually lawyer types. They have no empathy. I mean, zero empathy. They feel nothing and just bully and make fun of the victim. Their on here now making fun of all of us. Their trained to feel nothing and blame whatever side has the most money to pay and argue why the victim is to blame. Horrible job sometimes in this profession. Not all all of them act like this BTW
The Power-5 implemented this rule back in 2015. All athletic scholarships in the P5 are guaranteed.
The Facts About “Guaranteed” Multi-year NCAA DI Scholarships
NCAA Compliance Expert Rick Allen provides important facts about the new NCAA Division I rule which has the effect of “protecting” Division I student-athletes from having their athletic scholarship cancelled or not renewed for any athletic performance reason.informedathlete.com
The key will be revenues as others have stated. What could happen is the number of scholarships being offered/or budgets get drastically reduced, or programs could just flat out fold....
No. Not really. It was introduced as a "do it on your own time" thing and none of the girls were doing it. Our club does not mandate it and it really pisses me off. My DD will not go to train or play without doing the prevention exercise first. It's supposed to decrease risk by something like 80%. Clubs need to step in and mandate. We have an ACL thread if you're interested.
Surf Zombie
GOLD
SouthBayFutbol
BRONZE
Well the good news is that if you run out of Toilet Paper you can use this...
Note it says "athletic performance". It is designed to protect players who are injured. It says nothing about if the soccer season or program is cancelled. Although I would hope they honor all scholarships.The Power-5 implemented this rule back in 2015. All athletic scholarships in the P5 are guaranteed.
The Facts About “Guaranteed” Multi-year NCAA DI Scholarships
NCAA Compliance Expert Rick Allen provides important facts about the new NCAA Division I rule which has the effect of “protecting” Division I student-athletes from having their athletic scholarship cancelled or not renewed for any athletic performance reason.
From the Spot
SILVER
Its appears the two-tiered approach for ECNL maybe taking form, Pateadores just announced they accepted an invite to ECRL.
Having watched it over many, many years, Blues does not, I repeat does not, develop talent. They recruit talent, period. They are very good at recruitment and are not afraid to do it right in front of players, coaches and parents.
I am interested. The ACL thread seemed to be mostly about those who already had a diagnosis. "How do you get back to soccer?" seemed the main question.
I am more focused on prevention. Is there a thread with good info on that?
Both are fine clubs that I would classify as some of the “few others” outside ECNL that are worth considering. I don’t have the time or inclination to discuss the history of ECNL that is necessary to fully answer your questions. The very short summary, though, is they did not do the work of creating the league that you want them to be in. If they wanted to be the owners of the most elite league around, they needed to be involved in creating it, and they didn’t. Really, their failure to do so is pretty inexcusable, because Surf left all of SD County ripe for the taking when kept vetoing other clubs in the area. Shoot, GDA was very nearly able to kill ECNL in SoCal the very first year for this reason alone, despite being an otherwise crappy product.
The mere fact that you concede they are very good nationally recognized clubs contradicts your rhetoric that ECNL is a monopoly. There have always been many options, both leagues and clubs, to choose from in SoCal. It is not possible to explain to someone why these clubs did not deserve to be owners of something they did not create until they can comprehend why ECNL is not a monopoly. As long as people keep misusing the term “monopoly” to mean “I don’t think it’s fair that the people who built and own something I want shouldn’t be forced to just give it to me”, there is no helping them.
That Pats girls 04 team is tough and they play defense too. Will it still be fully funded?
100% correct. Tad never took or takes the credit for developing the goat. He recruits the goats and lets them play it out on the field.
This is what people are referring to when they accuse ECNL clubs of monopolistic behavior.
As long as one club can veto another clubs access to top level competition, people will accuse you of being a monopoly.
And your only defense will be sophistry over definitions: No, we aren't a monopoly. Look up the definition. We are more of a cabal.
(A cabal with horrible rates of child injuries, btw)
rainbow_unicorn
PREMIER
I wanted to see Slammers join DA...then you would have had the top SW clubs together. Not having the top teams together in the same league is annoying.
what if they haven't signed on the dotted line yet? That won't come until November... What does any of this mean for all the verbal commits?
Who in LV... LV Albion or Las Vegas Soccer Academy? are there other competitive clubs there.
GeekKid
SILVER ELITE
Not sure how the landscape will shake out. Oklahoma Energy seems to be the odd team out. Not sure how Sting Austin holds on seeing that Lonestar is in their backyard. Either that or Lonestar players migrate to Sting Austin. It also means that Sting Soccer has two ECNL teams in Texas. I've heard a bunch of people making predictions about who will hold on, who will be left out and who will be invited in. We'll see. It will be interesting to see what happens to Tophat, Beach, Legends, NEFC and FC Virginia. What a mess.