New Additions to Leagues Check Up (ECNL & GA)
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Anonymous
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but the big question is WHEN will all of this happening?
Our club is making decisions based on "nothing big is going to happen" |
Anonymous
Every club is different. Stop living in black and white. Some clubs can manage to do it and still be competitive, others try and it’s not competitive. Look at CISC, had 2 ECNL teams and finally loss the second team because it isn’t competitive. |
Anonymous
The MLSN+GA partnership has found a way through ECNLs armor. If ECNL doesn't address more and more clubs will switch to MLSN+GA every year. |
Anonymous
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Why did this turn into a ECNL vs GA thread? Should we change title? End of the day both good platforms both have awesome and crappy teams so why cant we all just get along. Lol
The tournaments will decide which team is better |
Anonymous
Because every discussion in girls youth soccer turns into an ECNL vs GA fight. |
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Anonymous
MLSN+GA doesn't need to be overt saying do this or we'll do that. What they can do is give MLSN+GA to all the clubs around XYZ super girls ECNL club. This will prevent them from fielding boys teams and siphon talent away on the girls side making them uncompetitive. This is why GA+MLSN taking the middle level clubs is so dangerous to ECNL. |
Anonymous
Can you inform us of ECNL’s history? I know they survived the girls DA. |
Anonymous
How about we focus on the future. If your daughter is 2012 or younger you may want to start looking for a GA club. |
Anonymous
ECNL barely survived DA. In 2017 ECNL was begging clubs to join/stay in the league. On the boys side MLS basically taking over boys DA and rebranding it MLSN + the Acadamies + contracted player pipeline is just something ECNL can't compete with. On the girls side NWSL chose not to get involved when DA blew up. So a group of top youth clubs went back to ECNL because they knew it made $$$. MLSN partnering with GA is happening because MLS wants to control the girls youth pathway the same way they do with boys and the powers that be dont want to buy out ECNL. NWSL can put its head in the sand with youth pathways. But there's several MLS owners and groups with money in NWSL who see the benefits. |
Anonymous
This 100%. ECNL is like the titanic, and they just hit an iceberg with the MLSN + GA partnership.. the first few lifeboats just entered the water, with more to come. |
Anonymous
When clubs started switching to DA in groups in 2017 is when DA really started to pickup steam. If you see this happening with GA ECNL is done. |
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Anonymous
Not as well as they would like to lead people to believe. Pre-GDA ECNL ruled the roost for D1s and upper tier D2s and D3s, then came GDA. Once GDA stepped in it ate a large chunk into ECNLs commits. For those old enough to remember ECNLs old site they used to have a complete run down of their college impact broken down by year, conference, and national playoffs and included end of season awards. Those numbers were in the 70-80% range up to and including the first year of GDA. Then the numbers started to drop year after year down to upper 50s to upper 60s. When GDA died, ECNL brought in what it thought were enough high level clubs to cause the new GA to die off, it didn't. ECNL then tried pulling in GA clubs year after year to keep GA at bay and regain its lions share of commits, didn't work as well as they hoped. Now, the reason for the GDA and now GA is all ECNLs fault. US Soccer tried to work with ECNL on expansion by having a single league structure but for whatever reason ECNL balked. When GDA was formed ECNLs response was to fight back with ECNL Boys which has, lets face it, never really lived up to even a tier 2 status. ECNL has used its leverage to force clubs to chose between GDA and ECNL and also forced clubs to keep or move boys teams into ECNL boys. Some ECNL History https://web.archive.org/web/20200615000000*/www.eliteclubsnationalleague.com/ Original 40 Clubs - https://web.archive.org/web/20090821145937/http://www.eliteclubsnationalleague.com/PageCustom.aspx?id=9&o=340781 - This is the oldest entry on Wayback 2016 College Impact Site - https://web.archive.org/web/20170711131817/http://www.eliteclubsnationalleague.com/college-impact-new/college-impact-2016/ 2017 College Impact Site - https://web.archive.org/web/20180728140436/http://www.eliteclubsnationalleague.com/college-impact-2017/ 2018 College Impact Site - https://web.archive.org/web/20190313093216/http://www.eliteclubsnationalleague.com/college-impact-2018/ 2019 College Impact Site - https://web.archive.org/web/20200809023437/http://www.eliteclubsnationalleague.com/college-impact-2019/ 2016 ECNL History - https://web.archive.org/web/20170711131732/http://www.eliteclubsnationalleague.com/about-ecnl/history/ |