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Anonymous
What news? DPL becomes GA2? It is literally full of trash teams taking advantage of soccer's family to force C team players to travel to play. |
Anonymous
We will know it in 2 weeks. One thing is for sure. It will Not be a wasted year. It is not ECNL way doing things. You must be new to ECNL 🤣 ECNL is a shtshow, but it does one thing very well, it gets girls into college soccer. If “not be a wasted year” means business as usual…you’re right! If you mean anything other than “business as usual” you don’t understand the platform. |
Anonymous
GDA 2.0 funding from where? From your ass I guess. |
Anonymous
You’re a bit too energetic with your predictions. Yes, GA is making changes that ECNL can’t / won’t. Yes that is good for ECNL. Yes, it looks like GA is setting up a pro-pathway. ECNL is doubling down on NCAA (and NCAA looks super shaky for non-rev sports). But you don’t get the basis for ECNL. There are not many girls that want to play professional soccer. Between the parents that Poopoo it because of the salaries, and the way coaches talk about women’s professional soccer not being “like the men’s game,” girls just don’t dream of playing pro. Many girls in ECNL don’t really want to play college soccer either! But they use it as a school vehicle. Most girls are out of college athletics after 2 years. NCAA soccer is a terminal destination in soccer careers. |
Anonymous
I think the only person without funding is you. Everyone else is moving on. Get with the program or be left behind. |
Anonymous
Sounds like a plan. And if I bump into any college coaches, I’ll make sure to ask if they also know of you, since you’ve decided to roll out the “I know a guy, therefore I am an expect” justification for your opinion. I think you think college coaches are more adept than they actually are. Once upon a time they absolutely were the pinnacle of US soccer coaching - that ship sailed 20+ years ago. The best coaches in the US are in the club-to-pro pyramid. I’ll grant you that you may personally know the two most inefficient college soccer coaches in the country, two of whom also apparently have unlimited amounts of time, resources and potentially an analytics team on staff to help them with their inefficiencies - after all they do end up with recruiting classes I assume. Also, apparently your college soccer coach friends are stuck in a recruiting system that was based on the HS pyramid, because you all went through it together when you played, and nothing ever changes according to your friend group. And yes, college coaches, all knowing experts that they are, only need to see once or twice to make a snap decision. Thats why they waste all that extra time with private invites for practices and camps. And those kids on their shortlist that they go see live for the 3m on ball out of an 80-90m match, well if they’re off the shortlist the coaches just mosey over and watch some random team to find their target replacement…genius! Dude…take the L…you’re an idiot, and you don’t know what you’re talking about. |
Anonymous
Please say sth intelligent. Can't believe how stupid a GA hat can distort reality this much. |
Anonymous
Well said. |
Anonymous
My kid guest plays both ECNL and GA. I don’t see the problem with two string soccer structures for girls. But how exactly is ECNL going to fail? The NWSL has a few youth soccer teams in GA and they are not doing super terrific. I just don’t think girls care about being soccer pros like boys do. I don’t think a pro pathway is what the majority of girls and families are looking for. |
Anonymous
I’ve been through the college soccer recruiting process and talk to two friends who are D1 soccer coaches, but you still claim to know more than me and the two guys who do it for a living. Love your ignorance and blind confidence. Not sure who you think said the coaches “just mosey over and watch random teams”. But the college coaches have relationships and connections with lots of the club teams at showcases and tournaments. Most (all?) ECNL teams have people whose sole job is to network with college coaches and get the college coaches to come and watch their players at these things. And when the college coaches come over to watch those TEAMS play, they will also scout the team they are playing against. (Not sure why you think the college coaches wouldn’t use the opportunity to scout every player on the field.) At these showcases, college coaches will also check out promising players that sent them tape. But when they do, they are scouting every player on the field in that game (not sure why you think they wouldn’t use the opportunity to scout every player they see play.) And if your team makes the elimination round at one of these showcases or tournaments, there will for sure be college scouts randomly watching those teams/games. College scouts know that good players are on teams that make it to the elimination round of these events. The main purpose for these showcases is for college scouts to find and recruit players that they have not yet seen, met, or heard of. While they’re at it, they’ll also take a moment to check out any players that reached out to them who will be playing in the showcase. The coaches will also scout players that go to soccer camps put on by the coaches at that school. So if there is a college that your son/daughter wants to play at, see if that school has a soccer camp they can attend. Take it or leave it. I lived it and have two friends who do it for a living. I’m posting here simply for the benefit of those parents who want to know how it works. If your son/daughter is a good player, even if they are on a mid-level or not good team, they will have scouts watching them at these events - even if the scout was there to watch another team or to see a different player in the game. And colleges are always looking for impact players, regardless of position. |
Anonymous
Yep. That happens more than people know. |
Anonymous
You are 100% wrong. All players dream of playing professionally at one time or another. You might prefer to shoot low. Don't put that mentality on others. |
Anonymous
I couldn’t make it through this response too long, too dumb. You’re an idiot. |
Anonymous
You absolutely don’t live the current recruiting landscape AND grew up with two current college coaches. You’ve got no idea what you’re talking about. Sorry you are so defensive that you’re unable to be wrong. Yes, many coaches that don’t have a specific target recruit watch the finals but they aren’t scouting teams, they are scouting needs. Coaches aren’t there “doing favors” for ECNL and scouting whole teams. And again, congratulations for either being too myopic to understand what your college coach friends told you, OR, being friend with their two least efficient college coaches in college coaching. And that’s saying something, because college coaches as a whole are not the most impressive stock of football coaches. (You also make a lot of assumptions that others on here haven’t gone through the recruiting process, and that others on here have had kids going through, or players, or have “college coach BFFs” - loose said yesterday, just because it came from your brain, doesn’t make it right) |
Anonymous
Yea…that’s not true. And I can say most parents burn that dream out of kids when they do have it. |