New Additions to Leagues Check Up (ECNL & GA)

[Anonymous]

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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.

Stunned parents walking out in silence?

[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.

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.

Well said.

[Anonymous]

Whoa. Kings Hammer going GA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Stunned parents walking out in silence?

Yes, ECNL parents like to believe their own nonsense. When they get beat by a GA team they walk out of the stands in stunned silence. Seen it happen multiple times.

My favorite was when our GA team beat an ECNL team in the finals at a tournament in a shootout. The ECNL coach ran off screaming that we didn't actually win because a shootout isn't technically a win. What an ahole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whoa. Kings Hammer going GA?

One good age group (2011s) does not a great ECNL program make

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whoa. Kings Hammer going GA?

One good age group (2011s) does not a great ECNL program make

77th ranked club nationally for both boys and girls. 89th for girls, 120 for boys.

Announcing a club like that now, there are likely more similar especially the ones that are having tryouts after May 1st.

[Anonymous]

I guess peeling off lower level ECNL clubs is the new strategy, fair enough.

Kings Hammer is a lower 1/3 ECNL club, so the lower 1/3 of ECNL is now less populated, they will slot in as a middle of the pack GA club. The club seems to constantly be in flux, a new DOC every year.

It does present an interesting situation for those who know that area. The GA now has 3 teams in Cincinnati (2 at CUP, one at Kings Hammer), and one ECNL (Ohio Elite). Both leagues you would imagine would want to add 1 each to get to even numbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whoa. Kings Hammer going GA?

One good age group (2011s) does not a great ECNL program make

My niece plays for KHA and the girls parents feel like the club sold them out for the boys. Sounds familiar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whoa. Kings Hammer going GA?

One good age group (2011s) does not a great ECNL program make

My niece plays for KHA and the girls parents feel like the club sold them out for the boys. Sounds familiar.

Your niece and her parents will age out in a couple of years and it won't matter what they think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess peeling off lower level ECNL clubs is the new strategy, fair enough.

Kings Hammer is a lower 1/3 ECNL club, so the lower 1/3 of ECNL is now less populated, they will slot in as a middle of the pack GA club. The club seems to constantly be in flux, a new DOC every year.

It does present an interesting situation for those who know that area. The GA now has 3 teams in Cincinnati (2 at CUP, one at Kings Hammer), and one ECNL (Ohio Elite). Both leagues you would imagine would want to add 1 each to get to even numbers.

Classic ENCL parent ... now Kings Hammer is not any good ... 24 hours ago they were good because they were in ECNL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess peeling off lower level ECNL clubs is the new strategy, fair enough.

Kings Hammer is a lower 1/3 ECNL club, so the lower 1/3 of ECNL is now less populated, they will slot in as a middle of the pack GA club. The club seems to constantly be in flux, a new DOC every year.

It does present an interesting situation for those who know that area. The GA now has 3 teams in Cincinnati (2 at CUP, one at Kings Hammer), and one ECNL (Ohio Elite). Both leagues you would imagine would want to add 1 each to get to even numbers.

Last season it was no ECNL club would ever switch to GA.

This season only the "lower 1/3" ECNL clubs would switch to GA.

At least you're admitting that there's a "lower 1/3" of ECNL clubs. Are these the ones getting players into D1 schools? Yes/No? That seems to be the topic all ECNL parents like to fall back to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess peeling off lower level ECNL clubs is the new strategy, fair enough.

Kings Hammer is a lower 1/3 ECNL club, so the lower 1/3 of ECNL is now less populated, they will slot in as a middle of the pack GA club. The club seems to constantly be in flux, a new DOC every year.

It does present an interesting situation for those who know that area. The GA now has 3 teams in Cincinnati (2 at CUP, one at Kings Hammer), and one ECNL (Ohio Elite). Both leagues you would imagine would want to add 1 each to get to even numbers.

Classic ENCL parent ... now Kings Hammer is not any good ... 24 hours ago they were good because they were in ECNL.

I don’t think anyone has ever thought King Hammer was good. Sorry about your ECNL issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess peeling off lower level ECNL clubs is the new strategy, fair enough.

Kings Hammer is a lower 1/3 ECNL club, so the lower 1/3 of ECNL is now less populated, they will slot in as a middle of the pack GA club. The club seems to constantly be in flux, a new DOC every year.

It does present an interesting situation for those who know that area. The GA now has 3 teams in Cincinnati (2 at CUP, one at Kings Hammer), and one ECNL (Ohio Elite). Both leagues you would imagine would want to add 1 each to get to even numbers.

Classic ENCL parent ... now Kings Hammer is not any good ... 24 hours ago they were good because they were in ECNL.

I don’t think anyone has ever thought King Hammer was good. Sorry about your ECNL issues.

Nobody has issues.

It's just fun watching girls ECNL parents identities unraveling.

Wait until things really get going

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess peeling off lower level ECNL clubs is the new strategy, fair enough.

Kings Hammer is a lower 1/3 ECNL club, so the lower 1/3 of ECNL is now less populated, they will slot in as a middle of the pack GA club. The club seems to constantly be in flux, a new DOC every year.

It does present an interesting situation for those who know that area. The GA now has 3 teams in Cincinnati (2 at CUP, one at Kings Hammer), and one ECNL (Ohio Elite). Both leagues you would imagine would want to add 1 each to get to even numbers.

Classic ENCL parent ... now Kings Hammer is not any good ... 24 hours ago they were good because they were in ECNL.

I don’t think anyone has ever thought King Hammer was good. Sorry about your ECNL issues.

Nobody has issues.

It's just fun watching girls ECNL parents identities unraveling.

Wait until things really get going

Let us know how your matches against TSJ and Skyline go this weekend

[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.

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

LF is consistently a Top 2 conference team in GA.