Say bye-bye-bye to Girls and Boys DA

Simisoccerfan said:
It is amazing to see the rise of DPL which was the most hated league on this forum among many of the long term posters.
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And I was one of them I was only mad that I was sold ECNL on Monday and then the next week it was called DPL. It was pitched to me as way for my goat to have permission to play HS soccer, developed her game better at the DPL and then come and play for the GDA, if the call up comes and she she performs up to the DPL standards.
 
MacDre said:
Too many type-A parents in youth soccer. ECNL will be the new prized patch. The writing is on the wall. I think I can hear the fat lady starting to sing.
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Yes, she is singing loud and clear. The light is on now for all to see. They got what they wanted but not this time. America the beautiful is changing and I can;t wait.
 
EOTL said:
A singular league with promotion/relegation would be the worst thing possible for youth soccer. Development depends on high quality clubs with high quality coaches, providing consistent, high quality training for many years. That, in turn, requires that clubs and coaches have financial incentive to do what they are doing. If a real club risks losing $80,000 in fees per team every year when players scatter to yahoo clubs because the team got relegated, the good coaches go away to find real jobs. The possibility that their only source of income might instantly vaporize if a 12 year old girl gets hurt is no way to make a living, and even dumbest soccer people understand that. So you end up with only daddy coaches. All promotion/relegation does at the highest level is destabilize youth soccer and drive the best coaches to find other occupations.

Even aside from the inevitable drop in quality of training as daddy coaches take over, promotion/relegation gets in the way of development in other critical ways. Suddenly every U12 game becomes critical to win at the expense of long term development. Kids are forced to play hurt when an entire team’s worth of fees are on the line. No coach is going to emphasize possession soccer at young ages, because young kids make a lot of mistakes playing possession, and that will inevitably cause them to lose games and get relegated.

And why would we be doing this? Because some cheap ass daddies whose self-esteem depends on how many soccer games their 12 year old daughter wins want it. Because those idiot daddies can’t see past tomorrow and fail to grasp that the real purpose of elite girls soccer is not to win a U12 game, but is really college opportunity. They don’t want to pay for or receive high quality training and development because all they care about is that their daughter wins a soccer game today.

That said, it is possible but doubtful that ECNL may create a very limited 2 tier system, but only to the extent it won’t cause kids to switch clubs if a team moves to the lower tier. It would do this through geographical restrictions so that new clubs are not on top of existing ones geographically.
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ULittles play in pro/rel all over the place. all it does is give us mostly fair games within a short drive.

I have not had a problem with a coach asking dd to play hurt. He knows injury rate is #1 for us, and has been great. Just need a good relationship with the coach.

I think EOTL's main objection is that pro/rel would weaken the market power of the big clubs like Blues.
 
sdklutz said:
I think the question that should be asked is not what your DPL team is doing but what are your former DA teams doing? Are they becoming part of DPL?
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Would be interesting to hear from DA families if the teams in general, and girls specifically, will stay with this DPL league. I imagine that Beach, ALbion and Legends are calling the other clubs that are not in the ECNL to try to get them to join. Liverpool.... which others?
 
ToonArmy said:
There's 2 tiers academy tier or like you said gal and dpl tier. Who knows if clubs are considering it?
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Not much of a choice it seems. Good luck to all those in the GAL league. I like that better than DPL. I hated those letters for obvious reasons. Not at all the people playing and supporting DPL, just how it was tricked on so many who were sold ECNL one day and then DPL the next. Don't expect ECNL to have the warm & fuzzy feelings for those clubs who sold ECNL and then tricked customers into the new DPL. I do notice they have the three Surf Teams in the GAL league so that's cool too.
 
pokergod said:
Would be interesting to hear from DA families if the teams in general, and girls specifically, will stay with this DPL league. I imagine that Beach, ALbion and Legends are calling the other clubs that are not in the ECNL to try to get them to join. Liverpool.... which others?
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Some might just do what the Pats are doing?
 
Ellejustus said:
Some might just do what the Pats are doing?
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They may, but that is a huge ego blow. Pats DA, as set forth in many previous posts, did not have quite the success as Legends and Beach. I can't see Legends and Beach accepting regional relegation, even with a path forward (I also think they know their best players and coaches will jump ship if they take that route). The business model for beach is based on da and development toward da. That way, they can keep tons of absolutely shitty flight iii teams with bad coaches, with the promise of a better tomorrow. Those excellent top teams keep the $$$$$ coming in to fund the "non profit". Without that promise of a better tomorrow, the wheels come off.
 
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