ECNL Girls- Strongest /Weakest Conferences (and everything in-between)

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Anonymous wrote:North Atlantic is second

TX is close to SoCal. NA isn't even visible in the rear view mirror.

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Anonymous wrote:No one is interested in ECNL anymore.

All the good players on my DD’s ECNL team left for GA.

I get that this is a troll post, but for other parents who might stumble onto this thread:

For now, ECNL is the top of the girls soccer pyramid for college recruiting. This is in large part to limited college coaching travel and recruiting budgets coupled with ECNL executives doing a very good job of making showcases easy to navigate for college coaches who attend.

None of this speaks to the quality of ECNL clubs or coaches. Many GA clubs and coaches have great programs and may be a good fit for your kid. Your GA team may in fact be significantly better than many ECNL teams. None of that matters. College coaches recruit players, not teams.

The side effect of ECNL having a better showcase program for college coaches is that ECNL has greater depth and, ON AVERAGE, better players; or at least players who can handle the expected physicality and speed of play that is normal in college.

If your kid wants to play in college and has offers from both a GA team and ECNL teams- congrats, your kid is pretty good at soccer. If your kid is already in HS, the coach only sorta matters, take ECNL. If your kid is only 12 or 13, then you have to figure out which coach will be better, commute times, cost, etc.

My first DD went GA to ECNL. It made a difference in recruiting. Second kid is finishing in an ECNL club, so I can’t speak to GA this year, but she did decide to stick with a coach she was sick of just for recruiting reasons.

That’s great. ECNL is falling apart, especially in this area.

Why would you say that? GA has made no inroads anywhere. Only falling apart in the minds of people who believe there is some sort of MLSNext deal with GA that will make teams move. IMO there is no such deal and even if they were most ECNL teams would stay.

First they ignore GA
Then they laugh at GA
Then they fight GA
Then GA wins

What stage are you in?

I am in the GA is not really relevant to college soccer at the moment but that all could change but not really likely to.

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on age group every year. No region is stronger top to bottom except Southwest.

I dosages with this. Southwest and Texas are ALWAYS the top 2. And I would say SE, Ohio , and NW are always at the bottom. Look at nationals/playoff qualification. Look at national team call ups. Look at college recruitment. I'd argue that most of it is due to player pool/population size

I'd argue it's mostly cultural/weather. NE has plenty of population but it's spread out across a ton of sports/interests and the weather sucks a large majority of the year. SW/Texas can be outside for the full year (RIP that Texas summer heat though) and have a population that loves soccer.

And to keep the argument going the North Atlantic is far better than the Mid Atlantic at almost every age group.

Who cares? not really important. You live where you live.

We're literally in a discussion about national leagues. I'm stating an opinion. It matters because some teams look like world beaters locally/regionally and aren't even close on a national stage.

Still does not matter. There should not be such a discussion. How is it helpful?

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Anonymous wrote:No one is interested in ECNL anymore.

All the good players on my DD’s ECNL team left for GA.

I get that this is a troll post, but for other parents who might stumble onto this thread:

For now, ECNL is the top of the girls soccer pyramid for college recruiting. This is in large part to limited college coaching travel and recruiting budgets coupled with ECNL executives doing a very good job of making showcases easy to navigate for college coaches who attend.

None of this speaks to the quality of ECNL clubs or coaches. Many GA clubs and coaches have great programs and may be a good fit for your kid. Your GA team may in fact be significantly better than many ECNL teams. None of that matters. College coaches recruit players, not teams.

The side effect of ECNL having a better showcase program for college coaches is that ECNL has greater depth and, ON AVERAGE, better players; or at least players who can handle the expected physicality and speed of play that is normal in college.

If your kid wants to play in college and has offers from both a GA team and ECNL teams- congrats, your kid is pretty good at soccer. If your kid is already in HS, the coach only sorta matters, take ECNL. If your kid is only 12 or 13, then you have to figure out which coach will be better, commute times, cost, etc.

My first DD went GA to ECNL. It made a difference in recruiting. Second kid is finishing in an ECNL club, so I can’t speak to GA this year, but she did decide to stick with a coach she was sick of just for recruiting reasons.

That’s great. ECNL is falling apart, especially in this area.

Why would you say that? GA has made no inroads anywhere. Only falling apart in the minds of people who believe there is some sort of MLSNext deal with GA that will make teams move. IMO there is no such deal and even if they were most ECNL teams would stay.

First they ignore GA
Then they laugh at GA
Then they fight GA
Then GA wins

What stage are you in?

I am in the GA is not really relevant to college soccer at the moment but that all could change but not really likely to.

Tell me you are insecure about GA without telling me you always post on ECNL threads about GA. Why can’t you just wait until Copa or the preseason tournaments where they play each other to see the results? Oh, is it because those tournaments always show mid-Atlantic GA is not close to ECNL? Wait to see the results, or keep showing you think GA needs your anonymous uninformed opinion. I prefer to wait for actual results. You would too if you were confident. My guess is you are not and will continue.

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Check the COPA results to see how GA stacks up to ECNL in this area last year. Actual results. We can both wait until September to see if the GA results improve. I won’t post anything re GA v ECNL until then, do you agree? Deal?

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Two turds argueing about which one smells better.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious to hear people's perspectives on how strong individual ECNL conferences are compare to one another (some of this varies by year and other factors, but generally speaking.) I don't think anyone can argue against the Southwest having the strongest teams/clubs. But who do you have at the bottom and in-between, and why?

My personal rankings would be:
1 Southwest
2 Texas
3 Midwest
4 NorCal
5 Mid Atlantic
6 New England
7 North Atlantic
8 -10 Southeast, Ohio Valley, N West (in no particular order)

Mid Atlantic should be last or next to last.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious to hear people's perspectives on how strong individual ECNL conferences are compare to one another (some of this varies by year and other factors, but generally speaking.) I don't think anyone can argue against the Southwest having the strongest teams/clubs. But who do you have at the bottom and in-between, and why?

My personal rankings would be:
1 Southwest
2 Texas
3 Midwest
4 NorCal
5 Mid Atlantic
6 New England
7 North Atlantic
8 -10 Southeast, Ohio Valley, N West (in no particular order)

Mid Atlantic should be last or next to last.

You must not know much.