Sporting California! What are they doing?
- Thread starter Keepitrealdad
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P4 schools don't look below ECNL/GA, but mid majors, lower D1's, D2's and lower hit up the next level all the time for girls soccer. Guys soccer is just screwed with only 2000 scholarships at D1, or about 500 per year, and 1/3 of those going to international players. Good luck.
The official name is RL. S.Cal G09. ECRL is not a thing.
RandomSoccerFan
GOLD
Correct - but to differentiate ECNL and ECNL-RL, RL has been abbreviated for years as ECRL as a shorthand that was easily understood. And any league just below RL has been referred as ECRL2, as when it was being discussed, that made it clear to most what people were talking about. This 3rd league (such as the one in Texas, and now the one in California), now that it has kicked off, has the official name you listed. But I imagine that people will use ECRL2 or RL2 to refer to it going forward.
JeterwastheBEST
SILVER ELITE
Marketing 101 and charge an RL2 $100 discount or full on ECNL-RL prices???
sounds like you have first hand knowledge of what's transpiring? thats a hefty portion of a team all at once
I have friends on many of her teams...it's the talk of the soccer town
Any knowledge on why the suspension, how long the suspension and reason girls are leaving?
JeterwastheBEST
SILVER ELITE
Not sure what is going on with Coach Jenny but wished I had listened to my gut when wanting to leave this joke of a club Sporting after the challenge game nonsense. Several of my daughter's teammates have been told that they will not be rostering in their RL game this weekend since it's a "must win" game against SD Surf. Although there's less than 17 girls on the RL roster, the coach is planning to bring down a bunch of NL players for this "must win" game thereby displacing the RL players. Curious as to other clubs - now that NL plays mainly on Saturdays and RL plays on Sundays, is this happening with other clubs too? NL players playing for the RL team just for the win? I guess it's allowed under the ECNL rules but seems fishy and wrong. Not to mention their NL team at this age group is in dead last so not sure how much help these players will be anyway against a much superior club.
ScrParentSocal
BRONZE
I will speak on Legends due to having friends on their NL teams. (with the reverse problem). A coach told his team that the RL players will be playing instead of the actual rostered NL players because they are better. And that if the NL player is not rostered for game day, they can go help the RL team or the RL2 team.
Technically this is how ECNL and ECRL is designed to work since both teams players are in the same player pool. Parents hate this kind of action and fight against it.
It's on the boys side too with MLS Next. Only core players are exclusive to MLS Next. Futures players are allowed to play a certain number of games in MLS Next and otherwise with the second team. Reserve players can guest up on the MLS Next side but otherwise (at least in the ideal) are usually suppose to play with the second team (but the issue is the double practices). They are supposed to be interlocking, which is why sometimes the teams in second tier with MLS Next Teams over them can fluctuate in performance. Also a reason why the east coast clubs broke out of EA (to give more flexibility in their ability to interlock).
The stupid parts of this are "must win" (there's no such thing...maybe make a case for national championship rounds)...and the RL kids playing up on the NL (that means the coaches either made mistakes in placement, or worse, sent some weaker players down to RL in order to make that team competitive and filled the bench with fillers).
ask Blues
RandomSoccerFan
GOLD
Yep. NL parents would hate it, while the RL parents in question not so much. Especially if the kid took the RL spot since they were promised they could guest NL games from time to time.
Willy Falcon
SILVER
ask Blues
Is the Blues/Sporting merger true? Lots of dots are connecting in the background,
no idea, what would actually merge though? Blues would take on all those teams and then they would be blues teams so blues would have double spots at all age groups? Or it would be like Legends/Sharks and Sporting would call themselves Blues CA or something?
diamondcoach
SILVER
Can’t speak to the current issues with Sporting, but will say that both of my girls played for them at one point. Oldest chose to leave (after 4 years with the club) because she wanted a fresh voice from a coaching standpoint, and wanted to be surrounded by better players. Her experience with Sporting was mostly positive as the only real frustration was simply losing to better teams.
My youngest, who is still in the NL, played a year + for Sporting. Her coach was nothing short of an ass. Loved the girls when they won, berated them if they lost. Honestly, someone who, in opinion, should not be coaching. Got to the point where she didn’t even start… And this was on a mediocre/bad team.
We left and went to a better club. Where she immediately started, they’ve made the national finals two years in a row, and she was named first team all conference. Amazing the difference a better coach/club can make.
My youngest, who is still in the NL, played a year + for Sporting. Her coach was nothing short of an ass. Loved the girls when they won, berated them if they lost. Honestly, someone who, in opinion, should not be coaching. Got to the point where she didn’t even start… And this was on a mediocre/bad team.
We left and went to a better club. Where she immediately started, they’ve made the national finals two years in a row, and she was named first team all conference. Amazing the difference a better coach/club can make.
Futbol Dad
BRONZE
Good oneask Blues