New Additions to Leagues Check Up (ECNL & GA)

[Anonymous]

Loudoun/NVA applied last year as well and got a denial/deferral. Best guess is they kept the legal orgs separate intentionally and will split the baby- MLSN for Loudoun legal org and keep girls in ECNL. ECNL numbers do not lie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Loudoun/NVA applied last year as well and got a denial/deferral. Best guess is they kept the legal orgs separate intentionally and will split the baby- MLSN for Loudoun legal org and keep girls in ECNL. ECNL numbers do not lie.

That was pre alliance. I think the alliance makes it to where TSJ or VRSC are the likely candidates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Loudoun/NVA applied last year as well and got a denial/deferral. Best guess is they kept the legal orgs separate intentionally and will split the baby- MLSN for Loudoun legal org and keep girls in ECNL. ECNL numbers do not lie.

That was pre alliance. I think the alliance makes it to where TSJ or VRSC are the likely candidates.

The boys program is too small at TSJ, it's more likely VRSC since they have an established boys program and GA on the girls side.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Loudoun/NVA applied last year as well and got a denial/deferral. Best guess is they kept the legal orgs separate intentionally and will split the baby- MLSN for Loudoun legal org and keep girls in ECNL. ECNL numbers do not lie.

That was pre alliance. I think the alliance makes it to where TSJ or VRSC are the likely candidates.

The boys program is too small at TSJ, it's more likely VRSC since they have an established boys program and GA on the girls side.

I know little to nothing about VRSC. Where do their boys play now? I see 2 boys teams in EDP/usys. Where are the rest? How is this MLSN worthy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Loudoun/NVA applied last year as well and got a denial/deferral. Best guess is they kept the legal orgs separate intentionally and will split the baby- MLSN for Loudoun legal org and keep girls in ECNL. ECNL numbers do not lie.

That was pre alliance. I think the alliance makes it to where TSJ or VRSC are the likely candidates.

The boys program is too small at TSJ, it's more likely VRSC since they have an established boys program and GA on the girls side.

I know little to nothing about VRSC. Where do their boys play now? I see 2 boys teams in EDP/usys. Where are the rest? How is this MLSN worthy?

Sorry, PP here, correcting myself. See teams in USYS NL , but arguably with less success than 80% of the other local teams in league

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Loudoun/NVA applied last year as well and got a denial/deferral. Best guess is they kept the legal orgs separate intentionally and will split the baby- MLSN for Loudoun legal org and keep girls in ECNL. ECNL numbers do not lie.

That was pre alliance. I think the alliance makes it to where TSJ or VRSC are the likely candidates.

The boys program is too small at TSJ, it's more likely VRSC since they have an established boys program and GA on the girls side.

I know little to nothing about VRSC. Where do their boys play now? I see 2 boys teams in EDP/usys. Where are the rest? How is this MLSN worthy?

Never said it was MLSN worthy just more established than the TSJ boys program.

[Anonymous]

When were rumors floating around last year??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When were rumors floating around last year??

Last year around this time there was a X/Twitter person saying that he was confident that X number of clubs were switching from GA to ECNL. The number would change week to week. In the end they were kind of correct. But, I don't know if this nostradamus had inside info or was just playing the odds.

This year much more is at play now that MLS Next is involved. I doubt any "normal" people have inside track info because it would need to be coming from both the boys and girls sides.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When were rumors floating around last year??

Last year around this time there was a X/Twitter person saying that he was confident that X number of clubs were switching from GA to ECNL. The number would change week to week. In the end they were kind of correct. But, I don't know if this nostradamus had inside info or was just playing the odds.

This year much more is at play now that MLS Next is involved. I doubt any "normal" people have inside track info because it would need to be coming from both the boys and girls sides.

Yup. And that account seems to be connected to the girls side only. So it makes sense that no one knows yet.

I feel like everyone is just waiting around for something to drop.

Guess Richmond Kickers will drop the first announcement and that will kick things off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When were rumors floating around last year??

Last year around this time there was a X/Twitter person saying that he was confident that X number of clubs were switching from GA to ECNL. The number would change week to week. In the end they were kind of correct. But, I don't know if this nostradamus had inside info or was just playing the odds.

This year much more is at play now that MLS Next is involved. I doubt any "normal" people have inside track info because it would need to be coming from both the boys and girls sides.

Yup. And that account seems to be connected to the girls side only. So it makes sense that no one knows yet.

I feel like everyone is just waiting around for something to drop.

Guess Richmond Kickers will drop the first announcement and that will kick things off.

VDA will drop first announcement

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When were rumors floating around last year??

Last year around this time there was a X/Twitter person saying that he was confident that X number of clubs were switching from GA to ECNL. The number would change week to week. In the end they were kind of correct. But, I don't know if this nostradamus had inside info or was just playing the odds.

This year much more is at play now that MLS Next is involved. I doubt any "normal" people have inside track info because it would need to be coming from both the boys and girls sides.

Yup. And that account seems to be connected to the girls side only. So it makes sense that no one knows yet.

I feel like everyone is just waiting around for something to drop.

Guess Richmond Kickers will drop the first announcement and that will kick things off.

VDA will drop first announcement

What would VDA announce? Are all the clubs trying to use the same playbook of using their partner clubs to carry ECNL and use the combined org to carry MLS Next/GA?

[Anonymous]

Valor coaches getting excited

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When were rumors floating around last year??

Last year around this time there was a X/Twitter person saying that he was confident that X number of clubs were switching from GA to ECNL. The number would change week to week. In the end they were kind of correct. But, I don't know if this nostradamus had inside info or was just playing the odds.

This year much more is at play now that MLS Next is involved. I doubt any "normal" people have inside track info because it would need to be coming from both the boys and girls sides.

Yup. And that account seems to be connected to the girls side only. So it makes sense that no one knows yet.

I feel like everyone is just waiting around for something to drop.

Guess Richmond Kickers will drop the first announcement and that will kick things off.

VDA will drop first announcement

What would VDA announce? Are all the clubs trying to use the same playbook of using their partner clubs to carry ECNL and use the combined org to carry MLS Next/GA?

Interesting note here…

Is that what’s happening? Maybe that’s been the reason for all of the partnerships here?

[Anonymous]

Anyone think that GA will expand to invite any MLS club's girls teams?

as someone somewhat new to all of this, the issues people are talking about is that on the boys side MLS Next is the top league and ECNL is 2nd tier, and on the girls side ECNL is top and GA is 2nd tier (ok, maybe 1.5) and the leagues do not like having clubs having boys teams in MLS Next and girls teams in ECNL?

[Anonymous]

I kept track of all of the GA announcements last year and I think this is all of them and the date of the announcement:

2/01 Liverpool FC IA So Cal
2/02 SYC Springfield - conference lost team to ECNL
2/12 VA Revolution - conference lost team to ECNL
2/13 Seattle Celtic
2/14 Westside Metros FC
2/15 Oregon Premier FC
2/19 South Valley Surf SC
2/20 Kansas City Scott Gallagher SC
2/21 Coppermine SC - conference lost team to ECNL
3/06 Capital City SC
3/20 Columbus United SC - conference lost team to ECNL
3/21 Bayside FC
3/26 Rhode Island Surf SC
3/27 City SC - 2nd
3/28 Cincinnati United Premier - 2nd AND conference lost team to ECNL
3/29 NEFC - 2nd
4/02 Colorado United - conference lost team to ECNL
4/10 Sporting United FC
4/15 Downtown United SC
4/16 Blues FC
4/17 North Shore United
5/02 Modesto Ajax United

5/10 new conference South Central (the following teams all added to new conference)
5/13 One Knoxville SC
5/14 Pinecrest Premier SC
5/15 Vestavia SC
5/16 Triangle United SC
5/17 Charlotte Development Academy
5/24 Nashville United Soccer Academy