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.
DD was also on a top GA a couple of years ago, but on the East Coast. We played cross league with ECNL teams and went 9-1-1 against them. Maybe one was what you would call a "bottom" level team and the rest were playoff teams. And for most of those games, we got the same stunned reactions as their team walked out with a convincing loss. But I will say that the parents on the best ECNL teams we played were easy going and glad to play a good game out of their league, and some of the kids on the teams she played are
now teammates in college.
Also, all 24 players on daughters team were recruited to play D1 P4/Mid Major. 4 chose to go to D3 schools and one just decided to not play in college in the end. I'd imagine it's similar for any top GA team.
Finally, the one thing that daughter's GA team and other top ECNL teams had in common was depth and player chemistry. We could swap out any way you wanted all game and no performance drop. sometimes through the hole bench in ( which wasn't the stereotypical bench) meant better results. Same for ECNL teams at the very top.