SCDSL Splitting Off from Cal South

[notintheface]

I'm glad my kids are ageing out soon.
I just saw there is also another new league coming to a club near you: https://thescnl.com/

"Select Clubs National League (SCNL) is a newly formed platform that will be focusing solely on player development through highest level of competition and maximum exposure for players to college coaches. The SCNL will operate with all competition planning and participation being conducted by member clubs and not by a soccer association. "

I am going to go out on a limb and say that the pandemic is going to make this much, much worse. As we start to see contraction at a local level, larger clubs are going to be ever more desperate to be able to squeeze parents for more money. The easiest way to do that is to convince them that their Flight 1-and-a-half team is now good enough to play at a national level, if they'll just pony up another couple grand plus travel expenses.

There has been absolutely no thought put into this beyond "we have to make more money". No thought whatsoever. Planning by clubs only, get the hell out of here, I can guarantee this is an overly optimistic tournament director who thinks that regional league play will be the exact same workload. This will benefit precisely zero kids. Zero. None.

For all of you club administrators out there who are looking at pay cuts and having to lay off coaches for lack of kids, guess what, welcome to the buzzsaw. Spinning up yet another multi-state travel network isn't going to magically get your balance sheet back on track and after a year when all of your families are bailing because they see through the scam, you're going to be in even worse shape. ("We're flying to Nevada for this?!?") Stop trying to stick your fingers in the dam and work with your local ecosystem to get things back on track.