New Additions to Leagues Check Up (ECNL & GA)
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Anonymous
AND GUESS where their best players are going?!!!!! To the same D1 schools that some kids from HB Koge and Surf are going to!!!! |
Anonymous
This parent gets it. Coaches watch top ECNL teams whose players have not contacted them. Two bottom half teams are only going to have a handful of coaches on Field #99 verse 100 coaches watching two top teams on the first 5 fields. If kid plays for VDA, great for you. No worries. If your kid plays for a bottom half ECNL team, it’s not going to be any easier than a GA playoff team. I don’t understand the argument from either side. ECNL is better, without question, but only if you are a top half team of the table. It is because you will likely never play a good ECNL at the showcases that coaches care about. Top ECNL>everyone else (mostly D1 players, high level DIII players on bench if not D1) Competitive ECNL = Playoff GA Teams (many D1 starters, but not all, and high level DIII players) Bottom half ECNL>Mid GA Teams (Few D1 players or less, DIII players) Mid GA teams = Very bottom ECNL = Top RL teams = Top USYS teams (One or two D1, maybe more, maybe none, mostly DIII) And then everyone else. That is the hierarchy like it or not. Sorry. Yes, there will be a few outliers but this is the general rule. |
Anonymous
| Sorry, coaches watch top teams only of players who have not contacted them. They don’t set out to watch Beach vs. Wilmington when they could watch NC Courage vs. VDA. |
Anonymous
Coaches have a limited amount of time to spend watching players. They don’t want to watch games without knowing the players are interested in their school. That’s why they watch the players who have already been in contact with them, come to their ID camps, have the necessary grade, so they know the player may be interested. Of course, the top 20 colleges don’t need to operate like this because every player would be interested in going to Stanford, Duke, UNC. But for the other 300+ D1 programs they need to be more strategic with watching specific players which might mean going to a showcase game. It does no good for a mid major coach to watch all the Solar games when they have little chance at recruiting the star players away from Stanford and FSU. If you are a true P4 talent player - YNT camps, gatorade state players of the year, etc - then it doesn’t matter which field you are on the coaches will be there. |
Anonymous
you have 5 times more CHANCES/OPPORTUNITIES to be see at showcases at ECNL than GA rinky dinkies. this year gonna be terrible unless you are a playoff of champions cup team. the dec tournament the first week in dec the only big tournament for GA that is also on the same weekend as CASL in North Carolina and now with ECNL that moved it from the week after to that same weekend. let's see where the coaches go. |
Anonymous
Poster must not have gone to ‘24s Midwest ECNL Showcase that cut a day short and the other two days were extremely cold and rainy… Five more chances? Unless you are on a BP team, most clubs only do 2 or 3 showcases. You also are forgetting about PDA Showcase and Penn Fusion Showcase where GA teams also attend. Again, unless you are at VDA, it doesn’t matter unless you are a top player on the team. NM is out of Union and CW is not nearly as involved as he used to be. For D1, being wealthy will not be as important anymore. Players not deserving of roster spots often got a very small scholarship and paid their own way. Now with 28 scholarships, your money means nothing unless you offer to donate. But yeah, if your Suzy is middle of the pack or a bench player, being on a top half ECNL team will help. Whoever you are, you have major insecurity issues with your vendetta against a league that does not affect you. I don’t see anywhere that somebody said on this thread that GA is better, rather the opposite. But I do think GA is taking a turn for the better this year but has a long way to go. Again, any kid is going to have a better future playing for a GA coach and team they like verse a bad fit a ECNL team. That’s what matters. Not a stupid badge. |
Anonymous
well my daughters team was there at that midwest tourney, played only 2 games. it is what ii is. however, the tournament was the ECNL's 2nd biggest tournament and obviously 2nd biggest of any youth soccer tournament (ECNL, GA, USYS, EDP, DPL etc) in as far as the number of D1 programs attending as well as the total amount of college programs attending so I don't get your point. the only larger college program turnout is the Jan ECNL in Lakewood Ranch. but go on... |
Anonymous
| So many of you have no idea how this works but are convinced you know everything about everything. I suppose that's par for the course for this part of the country, however. |
Anonymous
In this part of the country, we consider your sentence a weak position as you provided no actual substance or example to back up anything or even make a point. Do you realize most middle school kids could contribute more to this thread than you did? Or, I could say, "Cool story bro." 
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Anonymous
I don’t need to go on. I am fully educated on the subject and understand that Suzy where she needs to be regardless of GA or ECNL. My only bias is that if GA, it needs to be a playoff contender for any chance at D1. Better chances at ECNL if playoff contender. Neither matters if she hates the coach or team. Suzy has a unweighted GPA of 4.0 so that is not a worry but for the Annie with a 3.0, it should be. Suzy will be offered a spot before Annie unless Annie is USWNT or 6’ tall. |
Anonymous
Why always the critic? It's wholly unnecessary. |
Anonymous
I'm sorry you weren't invited. GA dominated |
Anonymous
| Hahaha the ECNL hats are scrambling + in desperation mode. It's fun to watch them flail looking for any kind of lifeline to grab onto. |
Anonymous
I bet you are an ECNL parent just trying to troll because you just like the attention and you like to talk to yourself. |
Anonymous
Kind of, my kid has played in both leagues so I know how all the nonsense works. |