Potomac ECNL Boys ID Sessions - anyone hearing anything?

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Anonymous wrote:From what I understand, most of the 2009 ENCL boys were brought over en mass from PPA.

True, at least half the team came from PPA.

PPA 2009's seemed to be a well coached high performing team. I wonder other than FOMO, what were the reasons

Two main reasons…first, their coach left, and no one really likes the coach that took over.
Plus, the lure of ECNL, since PPA tops out at EDP1.
And I don’t know about high performing. They were one of the best teams in the country a few years back, and then they lost their best players to DC United. They were mid-table in EDP1 before they left for Potomac.
That also explains why the Potomac 09 ECNL team is having such a poor season. It’s essentially a decent EDP team with a few extra players playing against established ECNL teams.

I thought PPA 09's won the State Cup the year after their top 3 went to DCU?

They did, two years in a row. Mediocre in league play, great in cup play.

So there was no benefit in switching then considering Potomac's ecnl record

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Anonymous wrote:From what I understand, most of the 2009 ENCL boys were brought over en mass from PPA.

True, at least half the team came from PPA.

PPA 2009's seemed to be a well coached high performing team. I wonder other than FOMO, what were the reasons

Two main reasons…first, their coach left, and no one really likes the coach that took over.
Plus, the lure of ECNL, since PPA tops out at EDP1.
And I don’t know about high performing. They were one of the best teams in the country a few years back, and then they lost their best players to DC United. They were mid-table in EDP1 before they left for Potomac.
That also explains why the Potomac 09 ECNL team is having such a poor season. It’s essentially a decent EDP team with a few extra players playing against established ECNL teams.

I thought PPA 09's won the State Cup the year after their top 3 went to DCU?

They did, two years in a row. Mediocre in league play, great in cup play.

So there was no benefit in switching then considering Potomac's ecnl record

They just started! It's their first year. Give them a break!

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Anonymous wrote:From what I understand, most of the 2009 ENCL boys were brought over en mass from PPA.

True, at least half the team came from PPA.

PPA 2009's seemed to be a well coached high performing team. I wonder other than FOMO, what were the reasons

Two main reasons…first, their coach left, and no one really likes the coach that took over.
Plus, the lure of ECNL, since PPA tops out at EDP1.
And I don’t know about high performing. They were one of the best teams in the country a few years back, and then they lost their best players to DC United. They were mid-table in EDP1 before they left for Potomac.
That also explains why the Potomac 09 ECNL team is having such a poor season. It’s essentially a decent EDP team with a few extra players playing against established ECNL teams.

I thought PPA 09's won the State Cup the year after their top 3 went to DCU?

They did, two years in a row. Mediocre in league play, great in cup play.

So there was no benefit in switching then considering Potomac's ecnl record

They just started! It's their first year. Give them a break!

+1 to this. Potomoac just started their ECNL program from scratch. Give them some time to recruit.

[Anonymous]

Just got an email from the club...the coach of the 2009 ECNL team "will no longer be involved with Potomac Soccer Association".

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Anonymous wrote:Just got an email from the club...the coach of the 2009 ECNL team "will no longer be involved with Potomac Soccer Association".

LOL was it a double decker bus?

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Anonymous wrote:From what I understand, most of the 2009 ENCL boys were brought over en mass from PPA.

True, at least half the team came from PPA.

PPA 2009's seemed to be a well coached high performing team. I wonder other than FOMO, what were the reasons

Two main reasons…first, their coach left, and no one really likes the coach that took over.
Plus, the lure of ECNL, since PPA tops out at EDP1.
And I don’t know about high performing. They were one of the best teams in the country a few years back, and then they lost their best players to DC United. They were mid-table in EDP1 before they left for Potomac.
That also explains why the Potomac 09 ECNL team is having such a poor season. It’s essentially a decent EDP team with a few extra players playing against established ECNL teams.

I thought PPA 09's won the State Cup the year after their top 3 went to DCU?

They did, two years in a row. Mediocre in league play, great in cup play.

So there was no benefit in switching then considering Potomac's ecnl record

They just started! It's their first year. Give them a break!

So there was no benefit in switching then considering Potomac's ecnl record

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Anonymous wrote:Just got an email from the club...the coach of the 2009 ECNL team "will no longer be involved with Potomac Soccer Association".

Interesting. Havw players from the NL team been planning to leave for Bethesda (is there even room at Bethesda) or other clubs? Go back to PPA? If many/any do, will Potomac promote from their RL team? Bring in outsiders? If they don’t feel like they can assemble the talent to compete in NL, would they drop the team down to RL (and have two RL teams)?

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Anonymous wrote:Just got an email from the club...the coach of the 2009 ECNL team "will no longer be involved with Potomac Soccer Association".

Interesting. Havw players from the NL team been planning to leave for Bethesda (is there even room at Bethesda) or other clubs? Go back to PPA? If many/any do, will Potomac promote from their RL team? Bring in outsiders? If they don’t feel like they can assemble the talent to compete in NL, would they drop the team down to RL (and have two RL teams)?

All I know is that the players and parents were very unhappy with him. Not being personally involved with that team, I'd rather not go into any more details. I haven't heard of any of the players leaving, although I don't know if anything was threatened.

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I think this mismanagement just botched the whole next year/season, across all age groups, in terms of team and player development, for existing and potentially new players. Hope no one paid a deposit yet!

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I don’t know BW well but one Technical Director leaving doesn’t doom the whole club. Heck, even if the Executive Director leaves doesn’t doom the whole club either. Calm down people.

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Anonymous wrote:I think this mismanagement just botched the whole next year/season, across all age groups, in terms of team and player development, for existing and potentially new players. Hope no one paid a deposit yet!

You’re obnoxiously funny. Oh no, the sky is falling.

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Anonymous wrote:I think this mismanagement just botched the whole next year/season, across all age groups, in terms of team and player development, for existing and potentially new players. Hope no one paid a deposit yet!

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know BW well but one Technical Director leaving doesn’t doom the whole club. Heck, even if the Executive Director leaves doesn’t doom the whole club either. Calm down people.

I tend to agree, the fact the departure would be midseason, when this individual has a family member in the program and now they’ve been wiped completely from the website…

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Anonymous wrote:Just got an email from the club...the coach of the 2009 ECNL team "will no longer be involved with Potomac Soccer Association".

Interesting. Havw players from the NL team been planning to leave for Bethesda (is there even room at Bethesda) or other clubs? Go back to PPA? If many/any do, will Potomac promote from their RL team? Bring in outsiders? If they don’t feel like they can assemble the talent to compete in NL, would they drop the team down to RL (and have two RL teams)?

All I know is that the players and parents were very unhappy with him. Not being personally involved with that team, I'd rather not go into any more details. I haven't heard of any of the players leaving, although I don't know if anything was threatened.

Many of these parents are unhappy 😡 no matter what
Unless their kid plays every minute of every game in their desired position and the team wins every game

[Anonymous]

He was the ECNL Director though I thought - wonder why they wouldn't just have him finish out the season and make changes after the big Memorial Day tournament.