Pipeline to ECNL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So why Pipeline and not BA?

Because Pipeline boys joined ECNL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:20 games? Are the teams playing themselves?

Of course not. Currently the North and South play their own division home and away, and then play the remaining games against teams from the other division.

If the South now has 10 teams and they each play each other twice, then that is 18 games, with the remaining 2 league games against teams from the North division. That would greatly cut down travel for teams in the South division from what they have had to do the last several years.

This is not correct. You only play out of conference at ECNL showcases. At the moment, the NE has 14 games in the regular season.

If these do break out to a true North/South, this could come down to maybe 10 or so games, and have more regional showcases to make up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So why Pipeline and not BA?

BA boys will be joining the MLS academy league. It was announced today. Pipeline is not involved with BA anymore. I would imagine BA girls move over to Pipeline girls ECNL team or Maryland United ECNL.

It will be interesting to see how the MLS league is organized. Seems like the potential for a lot of travel given the teams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:20 games? Are the teams playing themselves?

Of course not. Currently the North and South play their own division home and away, and then play the remaining games against teams from the other division.

If the South now has 10 teams and they each play each other twice, then that is 18 games, with the remaining 2 league games against teams from the North division. That would greatly cut down travel for teams in the South division from what they have had to do the last several years.

This is not correct. You only play out of conference at ECNL showcases. At the moment, the NE has 14 games in the regular season.

If these do break out to a true North/South, this could come down to maybe 10 or so games, and have more regional showcases to make up.

he didnt say anything about out of conference games.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:20 games? Are the teams playing themselves?

One home, one way against each opponent.

10 teams, 18 games.

[Anonymous]

I thought the ECNL was at full capacity. It seems that there was plenty of room left after all...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought the ECNL was at full capacity. It seems that there was plenty of room left after all...

ECNL is more of a cash cow now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:20 games? Are the teams playing themselves?

One home, one way against each opponent.

10 teams, 18 games.

there are 15 teams (now 18 with these three additions and more coming soon).

18 games.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:20 games? Are the teams playing themselves?

One home, one way against each opponent.

10 teams, 18 games.

there are 15 teams (now 18 with these three additions and more coming soon).

18 games.

Dude, they could barely fit 14 games in the schedule now. There is no way teams are going to play >18 regular season games

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought the ECNL was at full capacity. It seems that there was plenty of room left after all...

ECNL is smart and pulling the rug right from under exDA clubs to ensure they can’t start up another league to steal from them ever again. They are methodically letting in clubs that are leaders in Youth soccer to handicap any league for the near future. It’s not only business smart it’s smart period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought the ECNL was at full capacity. It seems that there was plenty of room left after all...

ECNL is smart and pulled the rug right from under exDA clubs to ensure they can’t start up another league to steal from them ever again. They are methodically letting in clubs that are leaders in Youth soccer to handicap any league for the near future. It’s not only business smart it’s smart period.

pulled*

[Anonymous]

How did someone know Pipeline was getting ECNL 6 month ago?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought the ECNL was at full capacity. It seems that there was plenty of room left after all...

ECNL is smart and pulling the rug right from under exDA clubs to ensure they can’t start up another league to steal from them ever again. They are methodically letting in clubs that are leaders in Youth soccer to handicap any league for the near future. It’s not only business smart it’s smart period.

Gee. And here we thought this was about the kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought the ECNL was at full capacity. It seems that there was plenty of room left after all...

ECNL is smart and pulling the rug right from under exDA clubs to ensure they can’t start up another league to steal from them ever again. They are methodically letting in clubs that are leaders in Youth soccer to handicap any league for the near future. It’s not only business smart it’s smart period.

Gee. And here we thought this was about the kids.

It’s a joke. Sports is something where you can actually know whether people are better if you let them play head to head. Not like academics, where you are comparing grads who go to different schools and guessing who might be better when selecting employees. We resort to reputation and schools and rankings when we don’t have a way to simply have the two candidates compete. That process is awful and leads to suboptimal outcomes all the time, along with a meristocracy (intended misspelling) where people can buy their way to success by getting their kids into really good schools. Why on earth would you replicate that with club-based leagues when these local teams could simply play each other instead? I know clubs love it, knowing that once they get into a league they don’t need to compete quite as well or effectively to attract talent. So do parents. Their kids are insulated from competition, enjoy the benefit of socioeconomic barriers, and allow their parents to bask in acceptance of an elite status that is bought and derived from league status, not team accomplishment. Of course I am not talking about truly elite clubs and talent. There are maybe 10-15 girls and 5-6 boys in this area a year in that category across three or four clubs. Talent is talent and those parents probably hate this system probably more than anybody else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought the ECNL was at full capacity. It seems that there was plenty of room left after all...

ECNL is smart and pulling the rug right from under exDA clubs to ensure they can’t start up another league to steal from them ever again. They are methodically letting in clubs that are leaders in Youth soccer to handicap any league for the near future. It’s not only business smart it’s smart period.

Gee. And here we thought this was about the kids.

It’s a joke. Sports is something where you can actually know whether people are better if you let them play head to head. Not like academics, where you are comparing grads who go to different schools and guessing who might be better when selecting employees. We resort to reputation and schools and rankings when we don’t have a way to simply have the two candidates compete. That process is awful and leads to suboptimal outcomes all the time, along with a meristocracy (intended misspelling) where people can buy their way to success by getting their kids into really good schools. Why on earth would you replicate that with club-based leagues when these local teams could simply play each other instead? I know clubs love it, knowing that once they get into a league they don’t need to compete quite as well or effectively to attract talent. So do parents. Their kids are insulated from competition, enjoy the benefit of socioeconomic barriers, and allow their parents to bask in acceptance of an elite status that is bought and derived from league status, not team accomplishment. Of course I am not talking about truly elite clubs and talent. There are maybe 10-15 girls and 5-6 boys in this area a year in that category across three or four clubs. Talent is talent and those parents probably hate this system probably more than anybody else.

What was the point in all of that rambling?