Good question. There are only 8 teams in Virginia compared to the rest |
FVU players would leave for an MLSN2 team easy. They’re trash, check their standings |
The 10 Carolinas teams are playing each other 3x for a 27 game season. |
What a ripoff of a league. Playing each other 3 times… |
Surely only at U13 & 14, right? A couple of Carolinas clubs said on their website HS aged would have minimal games during HS season, so unless U15 and up aren't playing many events, I don't see how that's even possible. |
We got the same message, some games in the fall more in the spring, practice limits for kids in HS Maybe some low key tournaments in the fall and practices with home and away in the spring for HS. Would love to actually know! |
Depends on what part of the Country you are in. MLS2 (NAL) is certainly ahead of ECNL in the Northeast. |
Why is that a problem? |
Exactly. I would love to play a local evenly matched team every weekend if possible. |
Apparently the appalled person thinks development of kids only happens against different opponents 😂 |
Some consider the elite leagues a bit flawed because it's a club-based system where the weaker age groups become cannon fodder vs. truly elite teams. That's why there needs to be a some sort of promotion/regulation within the system to improve competition. It may now be more possible as these leagues add a tier 2. |
The Academy Teams really only want to play other Academy teams. Put them in MLS next with the top 3 or 4 non academy teams in an age group and you’d have a truly competitive top bracket. Everyone else MLSNext 2.
Problem would be you wouldn’t want to bring whole Clubs up just certain teams. Clubs wouldn’t like that. Too much uncertainty about being able to call yourself elite. Parents might lose their ability to feel superior. As it stands it’s just marketing. |
Achilles is a boutique club with one team in MLSNext and the second team in each age group playing in EDP. They do not have the infrastructure to support 5 levels deep for each age group like Arlington, SYC, Bethesda and the other large clubs in the area. They won’t apply to MLSNext 2 because it doesn’t make sense for the club. |
There are plenty of non-academy teams in MLSNext that beat academy teams. By your logic, each Region would have 10 teams top and play each other 4 times a year. You see the stupidity in that, right? |
It's as stupid as being an elite Academy playing the bottom five or six teams in every division who have 0, 1, 2 wins a season. Currently those teams aren't going anywhere, every season the same, why not reward development. Until we see proof of that it's a league that has the top talent mixed with Clubs they are just making money off and parents who love to say they are elite. |