Travel Soccer teams around NOVA let's discuss Part II
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
Would have had made sense to also include the MD teams as well since MD is part of the Mid-Atlantic. The explanation from McLean seems to be centered around allowing boys to play HS soccer as most of the games are during the fall and HS games are in the Spring. I thought and I've heard from reputable coaches that the better players are better served sticking to Travel only and not having HS negatively impact their ability to play travel |
Anonymous
| ^^^What happened to the school spirit fostered by playing for your HS team? Is that a totally dead sentiment? Plus, boys who want to play other sports?? |
Anonymous
Could McLean actually see players leave the club after this move to either join a DA team or to avoid that frequent horrendous travel to the Carolinas? |
Anonymous
Looks like a new rivalry will be created between McLean and BRYC. Arlington will no longer be McLean biggest rival. |
Anonymous
Likely their CCL team, which would now be their 2nd team, will be much more competitive. |
Anonymous
I don't think anyone here cares if the current NCSL administrators administer this one league many of us want. Nor do we care if it's called NCSL. You can call it CCL for all we care, it just needs to be a local pro-rel league with the general league structure and general geographical reach of NCSL, open to any club that meets the basic field requirements and agrees to whatever player development values the league organizers think are important. Bring your fancy score reporting software if you want, and by all means have the administrators be customer friendly. |
Anonymous
I believe one of the draws to CCL was that the travel coach could be at more of his team's games without having to travel hours across the DMV or use a secondary coach for his other teams. |
Anonymous
| There are so many teams in the DMV. As a parent, I find it hard to believe I need to drive to Wilmington, NC to find competiton. What is the point of joining ECNL other than HS play? |
Anonymous
Bizarre that they would not place BRYC / Mclean in same conference as MD United and the Baltimore team assuming they are still in ECNL. They need to figure this out better or Boys ECNL will flop. |
Anonymous
| ECNL is dividing up conferences the same way for girls and boys. The girls already drive to NC and don't play MD teams. Annoying. |
Anonymous
I agree. I also don’t see the point in a 2-hour drive one way to West Virginia for an 8–year old’s regular season game. 4 hours in the car for 60 min—with each kid playing 30 min. |
Anonymous
| So McLean is only going to be playing 7 other teams, with no pro/rel? Yea... I don’t care what you’ve been told or sold, that lack of competition will not make players better. You’ll be driving for several hours to the Carolinas just to have the “status”. |
Anonymous
Things would be much different if they really cared about how to best develop players...USSF should come in and set underlying rules on how to organize leagues to serve players instead of clubs. |
Anonymous
You are absolutely right, there are a number of teams in the DMV and you are free to have your kid play for any of them and not have to drive to NC for a league game. |
Anonymous
|
If the boys' side works like the girls' side, then ECNL doesn't begin until U15, with U13 and U14 playing a modified pre-ECNL schedule that involves less travel. So no 8 year olds are going to NC to play an ECNL league game. The younger teams play in a league of their club's choice.
Also, it was my understanding that ECNL re-organized geographically to align regions based on when the high school season occurred. So for example, VA teams whose HS season is in the spring would play other ECNL clubs from states whose HS season is also in the spring. But I could be wrong. I know that's why our region no longer includes Ohio and Indiana like it did last year. |