New Additions to Leagues Check Up (ECNL & GA)

[Anonymous]

What I’m trying to say is that the pool of players still remain the same. Therefore The 3 ECNL teams won’t take ALL the best players. Some will flood into GA teams.
And what happens if there are 4 crazy good strikers and only 3 ECNL squads.

What if ECNL squad I needs Defenders and not other positions… people that think the 3 ECNL squads on the area will automatically become Great are delusional

[Anonymous]

What does the 2012 group in DMV look like? NVA was undefeated for 2012 and started tanking after ID sessions. Did those NVA players already move to their new teams?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What does the 2012 group in DMV look like? NVA was undefeated for 2012 and started tanking after ID sessions. Did those NVA players already move to their new teams?

No coach

[Anonymous]

Northwest United (OR) to ECRL b&g

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I’m trying to say is that the pool of players still remain the same. Therefore The 3 ECNL teams won’t take ALL the best players. Some will flood into GA teams.
And what happens if there are 4 crazy good strikers and only 3 ECNL squads.

What if ECNL squad I needs Defenders and not other positions… people that think the 3 ECNL squads on the area will automatically become Great are delusional

Flood
Trickle
Potato
Potato

[Anonymous]

hahaha hahaha, no one is flooding to GA teams. only cast offs from ecnl teams or parents of kids that play GA that have bought into their coach/club director's bs about how the two leagues are the same level. you sound like a parent of a young player. once they get to high school, you'll get it. if they want college or beyond you play in the ecnl. The GA is just the reboot of the bankrupt DA league and is probably on the path of bankruptcy itself. get your head out of the ground and stop believing the crap your club is telling you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:hahaha hahaha, no one is flooding to GA teams. only cast offs from ecnl teams or parents of kids that play GA that have bought into their coach/club director's bs about how the two leagues are the same level. you sound like a parent of a young player. once they get to high school, you'll get it. if they want college or beyond you play in the ecnl. The GA is just the reboot of the bankrupt DA league and is probably on the path of bankruptcy itself. get your head out of the ground and stop believing the crap your club is telling you.

ECNL top to bottom is better at the moment. With that being said, if you not competing for a ECNL Champions League playoff bid I could see why a player may entertain a GA team. A top 2 conference team in GA would probably get the same exposure as an 8th place team in ECNL MA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:hahaha hahaha, no one is flooding to GA teams. only cast offs from ecnl teams or parents of kids that play GA that have bought into their coach/club director's bs about how the two leagues are the same level. you sound like a parent of a young player. once they get to high school, you'll get it. if they want college or beyond you play in the ecnl. The GA is just the reboot of the bankrupt DA league and is probably on the path of bankruptcy itself. get your head out of the ground and stop believing the crap your club is telling you.

ECNL top to bottom is better at the moment. With that being said, if you not competing for a ECNL Champions League playoff bid I could see why a player may entertain a GA team. A top 2 conference team in GA would probably get the same exposure as an 8th place team in ECNL MA.

It’s the club bubba.

Lou Fusz college commitments > 80% of ECNL clubs. Numbers don’t lie

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Northwest United (OR) to ECRL b&g

Washington state. Mt. Vernon

They were added when Whatcom Rangers turned down ECNL for MLSN2.

Both teams are by the Canada border.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:hahaha hahaha, no one is flooding to GA teams. only cast offs from ecnl teams or parents of kids that play GA that have bought into their coach/club director's bs about how the two leagues are the same level. you sound like a parent of a young player. once they get to high school, you'll get it. if they want college or beyond you play in the ecnl. The GA is just the reboot of the bankrupt DA league and is probably on the path of bankruptcy itself. get your head out of the ground and stop believing the crap your club is telling you.

My kid plays on a GA team (west coast)

They practice 10 minutes from our house and go to Champion Cup and Finals every year. The ECNL clubs that do the same practice 30 min to 1.5 hours hours away. We do friendlies with ECNL clubs and beat then regularly. It's kind of fun watching the stunned parents walk out of losses in silence. Unable to comprehend what just happened.

Get over yourself. It's just a league. Development occurs at the club and with your coach + team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:hahaha hahaha, no one is flooding to GA teams. only cast offs from ecnl teams or parents of kids that play GA that have bought into their coach/club director's bs about how the two leagues are the same level. you sound like a parent of a young player. once they get to high school, you'll get it. if they want college or beyond you play in the ecnl. The GA is just the reboot of the bankrupt DA league and is probably on the path of bankruptcy itself. get your head out of the ground and stop believing the crap your club is telling you.

There is something to be said about leagues that can sustain as a business over time. ANY league can make decisions that appear shiny and splashy in the near term but can't then sustain as a business. ECNL, on the other hand, has showed that you can run a business and a league in a stable manner with proven outputs. This is akin to venture capital pumping money into new tech, they give it shine and sizzle yet the companies are unprofitable for years, and then most never actually turn a profit: some people (founders and early investors) make money along the way while others lose out (late investors and staff). Along the way, those companies are celebrated for "losing less money then we thought you would!". Some of these are very high profile folds (WeWork). DA = WeWork. Some people made money, while most people lost out read: players and parents. GA is now the attempt at recovering DA's fire sale of assets, and, huge shocker ... GA is now also signaling trouble. Enter the next round of investors, the renewed marketing splash, and the subsidization of a failing enterprise by another enterprise hoping to extend the charade a bit longer before it too folds.

Meanwhile, the Berkshire Hathaway's of the world are making bank year after year and creating better organizations and outputs along the way. Doesnt mean everyone winds; similar to Jack Welsh's system of bottom 10% always have to go, top 10% always have to get promoted. ECNL is your Berkshire Hathaway proxy. May not be as sexy, may not have the start-up sizzle, but the product is there year after year - and it's proven to be an organization that can actually run a business.

I dont know what move they have up their sleeve next, but I will bet you a lot of money that they're not just sitting around and feeling caught off guard.


Debate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:hahaha hahaha, no one is flooding to GA teams. only cast offs from ecnl teams or parents of kids that play GA that have bought into their coach/club director's bs about how the two leagues are the same level. you sound like a parent of a young player. once they get to high school, you'll get it. if they want college or beyond you play in the ecnl. The GA is just the reboot of the bankrupt DA league and is probably on the path of bankruptcy itself. get your head out of the ground and stop believing the crap your club is telling you.

My kid plays on a GA team (west coast)

They practice 10 minutes from our house and go to Champion Cup and Finals every year. The ECNL clubs that do the same practice 30 min to 1.5 hours hours away. We do friendlies with ECNL clubs and beat then regularly. It's kind of fun watching the stunned parents walk out of losses in silence. Unable to comprehend what just happened.

Get over yourself. It's just a league. Development occurs at the club and with your coach + team.

..$100 on things that didn't happen

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:hahaha hahaha, no one is flooding to GA teams. only cast offs from ecnl teams or parents of kids that play GA that have bought into their coach/club director's bs about how the two leagues are the same level. you sound like a parent of a young player. once they get to high school, you'll get it. if they want college or beyond you play in the ecnl. The GA is just the reboot of the bankrupt DA league and is probably on the path of bankruptcy itself. get your head out of the ground and stop believing the crap your club is telling you.

This is just arrogant. The league doesn't get you into college, the club does. 40% (485) of the current 1200 D1 commits for 2026 come from 35 clubs. If those 35 clubs went to USYS, is USYS all of a sudden a better way to get to college - for the other players on the clubs not in the Top 35, No.

ECNL parents love to brag about how great it is, but there are a lot of bad teams and average players in that league that get propped up based off the success of the top clubs. Half that league would struggle to win GA and USYS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:hahaha hahaha, no one is flooding to GA teams. only cast offs from ecnl teams or parents of kids that play GA that have bought into their coach/club director's bs about how the two leagues are the same level. you sound like a parent of a young player. once they get to high school, you'll get it. if they want college or beyond you play in the ecnl. The GA is just the reboot of the bankrupt DA league and is probably on the path of bankruptcy itself. get your head out of the ground and stop believing the crap your club is telling you.

There is something to be said about leagues that can sustain as a business over time. ANY league can make decisions that appear shiny and splashy in the near term but can't then sustain as a business. ECNL, on the other hand, has showed that you can run a business and a league in a stable manner with proven outputs. This is akin to venture capital pumping money into new tech, they give it shine and sizzle yet the companies are unprofitable for years, and then most never actually turn a profit: some people (founders and early investors) make money along the way while others lose out (late investors and staff). Along the way, those companies are celebrated for "losing less money then we thought you would!". Some of these are very high profile folds (WeWork). DA = WeWork. Some people made money, while most people lost out read: players and parents. GA is now the attempt at recovering DA's fire sale of assets, and, huge shocker ... GA is now also signaling trouble. Enter the next round of investors, the renewed marketing splash, and the subsidization of a failing enterprise by another enterprise hoping to extend the charade a bit longer before it too folds.

Meanwhile, the Berkshire Hathaway's of the world are making bank year after year and creating better organizations and outputs along the way. Doesnt mean everyone winds; similar to Jack Welsh's system of bottom 10% always have to go, top 10% always have to get promoted. ECNL is your Berkshire Hathaway proxy. May not be as sexy, may not have the start-up sizzle, but the product is there year after year - and it's proven to be an organization that can actually run a business.

I dont know what move they have up their sleeve next, but I will bet you a lot of money that they're not just sitting around and feeling caught off guard.


Debate.

ECNL was scrambling in 2018 when all the big clubs switched to DA.

When boys DA blew up it became MLSN and now MLSN is the preferred top league for boys nationwide.

When girls DA blew up top clubs went back to ECNL. Girls DA became GA and GA just copied everything ECNL was doing.

Now MLSN and GA are officially partnering. Eventually they will force all MLSN clubs to be GA on the girls side.

That's the history I'm familiar with. But I've been doing this for 10+ years with multiple kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:hahaha hahaha, no one is flooding to GA teams. only cast offs from ecnl teams or parents of kids that play GA that have bought into their coach/club director's bs about how the two leagues are the same level. you sound like a parent of a young player. once they get to high school, you'll get it. if they want college or beyond you play in the ecnl. The GA is just the reboot of the bankrupt DA league and is probably on the path of bankruptcy itself. get your head out of the ground and stop believing the crap your club is telling you.

My kid plays on a GA team (west coast)

They practice 10 minutes from our house and go to Champion Cup and Finals every year. The ECNL clubs that do the same practice 30 min to 1.5 hours hours away. We do friendlies with ECNL clubs and beat then regularly. It's kind of fun watching the stunned parents walk out of losses in silence. Unable to comprehend what just happened.

Get over yourself. It's just a league. Development occurs at the club and with your coach + team.

..$100 on things that didn't happen

Most certainly happened and in Socal.