The BRYC thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is an "ECNL Composite" team? BRYC has two listed on their website.

It is the U16/17/18/19 aged players who (1) play private/catholic high school soccer (fall season) and who therefore are not available to play the fall ECNL season, or (2) are not good enough to make the 18-20 team roster in their age group.

The composite teams play similar compilations of players from other clubs, plus tournaments, plus NCSL.

The coaching staff site has "U14 ECNL Composite" also. Must have something to due to the numbers rostered last year to U13. Probably a way to bring more girls into the DP status rather than what they tried in 2017.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is an "ECNL Composite" team? BRYC has two listed on their website.

It is the U16/17/18/19 aged players who (1) play private/catholic high school soccer (fall season) and who therefore are not available to play the fall ECNL season, or (2) are not good enough to make the 18-20 team roster in their age group.

The composite teams play similar compilations of players from other clubs, plus tournaments, plus NCSL.

Basically, girls the Girls ECNL Director has no interest in...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is an "ECNL Composite" team? BRYC has two listed on their website.

It is the U16/17/18/19 aged players who (1) play private/catholic high school soccer (fall season) and who therefore are not available to play the fall ECNL season, or (2) are not good enough to make the 18-20 team roster in their age group.

The composite teams play similar compilations of players from other clubs, plus tournaments, plus NCSL.

Basically, girls the Girls ECNL Director has no interest in...

You're probably right about that. I wish clubs, both DA and ECNL would stop this process of stringing along players on the cusp by giving them these titles while the A team carries a roster in excess of the game day maximum. In this scenario, the terms development or discovery player are nearly meaningless terms that have no net positive effect for the players. In most cases, they will never see the field since there are already unrostered A team players. The DP terms serve mainly as tools for the club to retain players who might otherwise go shopping for an FT spot at the top tier of another club. This is an instance where the club hopping tendency of families in this area causes clubs to do things like this.

Most players at this level would be best served if the club shortened the A team roster slightly, leaving space for B team players who are excelling to level up. This is motivation for all B team players, not just those who have the DP title. Additionally, academy style training with girls of all levels training together would allow coaches and players to develop alongside each other. Despite the name, even clubs in the Development Academy do not really run academy style training.

My guess is the 04 ECNL composite team is composed of discovery and B team players, however the team will not actually play in ECNL. It may be in the same useless category of pre-ECNL or pre-DA.

[Anonymous]

Chicken or egg? The Clubs that want revenue add more and more teams and the quality of the product and resources is strained for lower teams. Add in Politics and toxic parents.

Yep. I pull my kids out of that sh@t. Club hopper? Guilty.

I know nothing about BRYC now, but my sibling and I won a National Championship with them in the 80s and the coaches and culture back then were fantastic. I have boys and we don’t live close enough considering area traffic so I don’t follow them. I do know they f@cked some good coaches over in the past.

[Anonymous]

I’m guessing the u14 group for ECNL & Composite will have majority as DP and then they can move the girls around and get them game time throughout the year versus having a group of 10 sitting out each weekend.

Is there a limit min/max on ECNL roster types?

[Anonymous]

So DPs are limited to 2 or 4 by age. Must be some other way they are maximizing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m guessing the u14 group for ECNL & Composite will have majority as DP and then they can move the girls around and get them game time throughout the year versus having a group of 10 sitting out each weekend.

Is there a limit min/max on ECNL roster types?

And I'm guessing there's a snowball's chance that any of those U14 girls on the composite team see any ECNL time.
ECNL director and U14 girls coach believes in winning every game --- it's not about developing the girls.
Only way those girls play is if it comes from the top (above the Girls TD), and they'd have to be at the game on the bench to make sure it happened.
I hope the parents who signed on for that composite team knew what they were buying into.

[Anonymous]

Does BRYC move players around much between teams? Or do they keep teams intact for the whole year even if some players would benefit from being moved up or down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does BRYC move players around much between teams? Or do they keep teams intact for the whole year even if some players would benefit from being moved up or down.

For the most part teams are divided at U9 and set that that til you leave the club. They fear losing players if the thought of moving some down is even approached $$$$$

[Anonymous]

Well, that’s not favorable to the b teams. Is this boys? Because outside of the girls composite are there any b teams for the girls after u12? Is that why there was so many u13s rostered last season? They just mashed them altogether?

[Anonymous]

For the girls- they definitely play some up in the 9-11 ages. I don’t think the rosters stay the same. There is not a lot of movement but they are not static.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For the girls- they definitely play some up in the 9-11 ages. I don’t think the rosters stay the same. There is not a lot of movement but they are not static.

I'd believe it for those age group --- the coach for those age groups wants all the girls to develop, and he'll give opportunity to improve play based on their merit.