Pipeline to ECNL

[Anonymous]

Late to the party: How do you get into ECNL anyway? Kickstarter? GoFundMe?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:irrelevant bc pipeline holds back their best players on both the boys and girls sides

That isn’t true, on the girls side, 2 to 3 players a year move up. On the boy’s, they seem to leave more all at one time. For example, pipeline preacademy 2007 was combined with Pipeline North 2007 two years ago because a bunch of boys moved to da as soon as they were eligible, with pipeline preacademy being the surviving team. There is now another Pipeline 2007 team, but with entirely different player and coach.

The 07 boys who moved to Armour 2 years ago were all from Pipeline North which was for all intents and purposes not even a Pipeline team, other than name and uniform. That team had their own field, their own coach, and came from another club a couple years prior. No players from the "pre-academy" team went to Armour, not did they go this past year.

That may be. There were, however, some boys from that North team that joined the preacademy team when their old teammates moved to da.

True, which kind of proves the point. Pipeline didn't send any kids to DA that year. North did, and North sent kids to Pipeline, so Pipeline got better. Pipeline Pre-academy wasn't the "surviving" team, it was an improved team (and it's a damn good team). And the Pre-academy team didn't send any players to Armour for U13 this past year. Zero. Obviously all moot now, but does point to Pipeline holding back their best players.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:irrelevant bc pipeline holds back their best players on both the boys and girls sides

That isn’t true, on the girls side, 2 to 3 players a year move up. On the boy’s, they seem to leave more all at one time. For example, pipeline preacademy 2007 was combined with Pipeline North 2007 two years ago because a bunch of boys moved to da as soon as they were eligible, with pipeline preacademy being the surviving team. There is now another Pipeline 2007 team, but with entirely different player and coach.

The 07 boys who moved to Armour 2 years ago were all from Pipeline North which was for all intents and purposes not even a Pipeline team, other than name and uniform. That team had their own field, their own coach, and came from another club a couple years prior. No players from the "pre-academy" team went to Armour, not did they go this past year.

That may be. There were, however, some boys from that North team that joined the preacademy team when their old teammates moved to da.

True, which kind of proves the point. Pipeline didn't send any kids to DA that year. North did, and North sent kids to Pipeline, so Pipeline got better. Pipeline Pre-academy wasn't the "surviving" team, it was an improved team (and it's a damn good team). And the Pre-academy team didn't send any players to Armour for U13 this past year. Zero. Obviously all moot now, but does point to Pipeline holding back their best players.

Players have free will. Pipeline can’t “hold players back”. They can convince them to stay but it is a persuasive sales pitch and not a unilateral decision to make.

[Anonymous]

What is the Info for Armour on Boys and Girls side...they have been quiet

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:irrelevant bc pipeline holds back their best players on both the boys and girls sides

That isn’t true, on the girls side, 2 to 3 players a year move up. On the boy’s, they seem to leave more all at one time. For example, pipeline preacademy 2007 was combined with Pipeline North 2007 two years ago because a bunch of boys moved to da as soon as they were eligible, with pipeline preacademy being the surviving team. There is now another Pipeline 2007 team, but with entirely different player and coach.

The 07 boys who moved to Armour 2 years ago were all from Pipeline North which was for all intents and purposes not even a Pipeline team, other than name and uniform. That team had their own field, their own coach, and came from another club a couple years prior. No players from the "pre-academy" team went to Armour, not did they go this past year.

That may be. There were, however, some boys from that North team that joined the preacademy team when their old teammates moved to da.

True, which kind of proves the point. Pipeline didn't send any kids to DA that year. North did, and North sent kids to Pipeline, so Pipeline got better. Pipeline Pre-academy wasn't the "surviving" team, it was an improved team (and it's a damn good team). And the Pre-academy team didn't send any players to Armour for U13 this past year. Zero. Obviously all moot now, but does point to Pipeline holding back their best players.

Only possible conclusion if you want to pretend Pipeline North wasn't part of Pipeline, the fact that some of those players still play for Pipeline suggest that it was, and the best players of the group were the ones that moved on to DA, which is what one would expect. My kids have friends on '05 and '03 da who were formerly Pipeline, so it isn't as if kids didn't leave ever.

[Anonymous]

Is Pipeline still getting ECNL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is Pipeline still getting ECNL

Pipeline will be in DPL. Another misstep by a power drunken ECNL by tightening its reign versus letting more clubs in.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is Pipeline still getting ECNL

Pipeline will be in DPL. Another misstep by a power drunken ECNL by tightening its reign versus letting more clubs in.

Sheer arrogance when it’s not justified.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:irrelevant bc pipeline holds back their best players on both the boys and girls sides

That isn’t true, on the girls side, 2 to 3 players a year move up. On the boy’s, they seem to leave more all at one time. For example, pipeline preacademy 2007 was combined with Pipeline North 2007 two years ago because a bunch of boys moved to da as soon as they were eligible, with pipeline preacademy being the surviving team. There is now another Pipeline 2007 team, but with entirely different player and coach.

The 07 boys who moved to Armour 2 years ago were all from Pipeline North which was for all intents and purposes not even a Pipeline team, other than name and uniform. That team had their own field, their own coach, and came from another club a couple years prior. No players from the "pre-academy" team went to Armour, not did they go this past year.

That may be. There were, however, some boys from that North team that joined the preacademy team when their old teammates moved to da.

True, which kind of proves the point. Pipeline didn't send any kids to DA that year. North did, and North sent kids to Pipeline, so Pipeline got better. Pipeline Pre-academy wasn't the "surviving" team, it was an improved team (and it's a damn good team). And the Pre-academy team didn't send any players to Armour for U13 this past year. Zero. Obviously all moot now, but does point to Pipeline holding back their best players.

Players have free will. Pipeline can’t “hold players back”. They can convince them to stay but it is a persuasive sales pitch and not a unilateral decision to make.

You're correct. Families have free will. The coach of the 07 Pipeline preacademy team had a meeting with parents and told them there was no need to play for Armour, that they'd receive just as good training at Pipeline w/o the commute, and play just as competitive and high level schedule. From the start, on the boys side, Pipeline coaches, signed off by Rush & Santino, have strongly discouraged any of their players from moving to Armour.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:irrelevant bc pipeline holds back their best players on both the boys and girls sides

That isn’t true, on the girls side, 2 to 3 players a year move up. On the boy’s, they seem to leave more all at one time. For example, pipeline preacademy 2007 was combined with Pipeline North 2007 two years ago because a bunch of boys moved to da as soon as they were eligible, with pipeline preacademy being the surviving team. There is now another Pipeline 2007 team, but with entirely different player and coach.

The 07 boys who moved to Armour 2 years ago were all from Pipeline North which was for all intents and purposes not even a Pipeline team, other than name and uniform. That team had their own field, their own coach, and came from another club a couple years prior. No players from the "pre-academy" team went to Armour, not did they go this past year.

That may be. There were, however, some boys from that North team that joined the preacademy team when their old teammates moved to da.

Four kids from that North team went to Armour 07. Almost solely because they didn't make the 07 Pipeline pre-academy team. And they weren't the four best kids from that North team.

[Anonymous]

So did Pipeline get rejected by ECNL or still unknown? They seem to have been putting out some decent teams without that designation so maybe it doesn't matter as much to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So did Pipeline get rejected by ECNL or still unknown? They seem to have been putting out some decent teams without that designation so maybe it doesn't matter as much to them.

Of the clubs out there, Pipeline is more than deserving. First, it has a trac-record of developing great teams and players. Second, there is not an ECNL club in the Baltimore area.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So did Pipeline get rejected by ECNL or still unknown? They seem to have been putting out some decent teams without that designation so maybe it doesn't matter as much to them.

Of the clubs out there, Pipeline is more than deserving. First, it has a trac-record of developing great teams and players. Second, there is not an ECNL club in the Baltimore area.

Celtic is an ECNL club, in Baltimore. Pipeline has done a superb job marketing itself and selling what parents want (rankings, wins, etc.).

[Anonymous]

I believe only the Celtic boys are ECNL, not the girls side.

[Anonymous]

It can be presumed they were rejected...pipeline coaches were telling players and parents throughout the winter that they would be getting it.