New Additions to Leagues Check Up (ECNL & GA)

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Anonymous wrote:He seems pretty optimistic about GA’s potential prospects for an “ECNL hat.”

Not sure about "players will search out ECNL" comment. My kid plays at a top GA club. To get ready for playoffs and ideally finals they've been playing (and beating) ECNL clubs. Every time this happens more ECNL players jump in on sessions during the week. Ive also noticed several ECNL parents that I haven't spoken with since our kids were young suddenly reaching out. From what I can see theres a group of parents that just chase whichever team is winning. I dont think GA or ECNL really matters if the team and club overall are known for winning.

lol...believable. ECNL be aware... better shutdown the ECNL since your parents are talking to GA parents about how "awesome" gA is and allegedly winning local scrimmages...

So pathetic. Unfortunately for you the tide is turning. People are tired of all the ECNL nonsense and are glad to have an alternative.

I hope GA gets in touch with the players and parents that switch over and key into what they like and what can be done better.

ill start
- stickers, magnets, socks and HATS at showcases to buy
- stop taking so many teams watering down the league
- more showcases
- more showcases not coupled with champions cup or playoffs
- work to get more college coaches to showcases to catch up with ECNL

I think ECNL has the hat market cornered no need to compete on that one.

I dont understand how more showcases translates into anything other than more costs for parents. Most colleges don't have a recruitment team that attends more than two or three events. Wouldn't it be better for recruiters to have a single event with all the top teams / players? If I was a recruiter this is what id want.

More showcases doesn't mean teams go to all of them - increasing cost. it means the seven to eight ECNL has can be spread our regionally and teams choose which to go to limiting travel cost. When GA only has three showcases (one being playoffs that everyone cant choose to go to) and two are in California, it makes travel costs balloon for both players and college coaches (majority of which are in eastern half of the united states).

Im rereading trying to understand.

You're also saying that if theres more showcases theres more regional showcases for clubs to choose from. But, this will rarely happen. Most clubs will choose to do local showcases the same way recruiters will choose to stay local. In the end all more local showcases does is provide a way for terrible ECNL teams to look better because they're only playing local clubs and not getting stomped on by CA and TX teams.

I think you just hit the nail on the head.

GA has less showcase type events and they're mostly focused on highlighting top national clubs and players.

ECNL has more showcases that are regionally focused. This allows poor Clubs and teams to look better because they're not competing nationally.

Parents of poor clubs probably like not needing to compete nationally at events for visability. Their kid gets highlighted to local colleges who arent that good. The recruiters likely know these arent top players. But their parents have money and are willing to spend it. A small quarter scholorship to a kid who patents are paying for tuition either way gives them something to talk about at the golf club. Recruiters arent always looking for scholorship talent.

This might also explain why GA gets commits largely from their top teams but ECNL gets commits from their mid-tier teams too.

Shows that "mid-tier" colleges likely dont really care about winning. If they did they'd be looking though all the different leagues for talent. These are probably the expensive private college type schools. Its more about finding parents that can pay than players that can play.

Or…. They are doing their jobs. They are looking at the games, film, emails, and listening to their scouts. Isn’t it possible, they have their jobs on the line and they are choosing the top talent, and the top kids, not all top kids, but the majority are coming from certain leagues? We could go with the facts and trends, or we could choose to believe your conspiracy theory that coaches are not trying to find the top talent…. I prefer to leave the tin foil hat to you.

Until you've been though recruiting you dont know what you dont know. With girls theres definately club connections between certain colleges and clubs going on. Theres also a lot of dont rock the boat.

GA parents are doing the right thing shaking things up and calling ECNL parents BS out. Perception is often reality.

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Anonymous wrote:this cannot be real. the GA hats told me GA was kick a$$ and taking names

https://x.com/ImYouthSoccer/status/1934400532094886146

Its not real, and a perfect example of why iamsoccer dork is ridiculous.

In the 2024 GA season there were over 300 (I stopped counting at 300) college commitments. The numbers are listed right on their site.
https://girlsacademyleague.com/class-of-2024/

Iamsoccerdork has 82 2025 GA commitments listed. Its 100% clear that the ECNL coach is pulling a fast one.

But his numbers is "verbal commitment", and it's 2026. I don't know what that means, but didn't Olivia Moultrie commit to UNC when she was 12 or something ?

You can see why iamsoccers posts are so annoying. This is nothing more than a list of verbal commitments players from different clubs have announced likely on meta, insta, or X. Its weird that an ECNL coach has spends this much time looking at underage girls posts online.

Then to post something that makes it look like GA clubs have 10% of the numbers as ECNL when less than 10% of GA college commitments are posted is very misleading.

You end up with new parents making club decisions based on information iamsoccer knows isnt true or isnt the full picture. Ie cherry picked data. Which is the ECNL coaches intention.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:this cannot be real. the GA hats told me GA was kick a$$ and taking names

https://x.com/ImYouthSoccer/status/1934400532094886146

Its not real, and a perfect example of why iamsoccer dork is ridiculous.

In the 2024 GA season there were over 300 (I stopped counting at 300) college commitments. The numbers are listed right on their site.
https://girlsacademyleague.com/class-of-2024/

Iamsoccerdork has 82 2025 GA commitments listed. Its 100% clear that the ECNL coach is pulling a fast one.

But his numbers is "verbal commitment", and it's 2026. I don't know what that means, but didn't Olivia Moultrie commit to UNC when she was 12 or something ?

You can see why iamsoccers posts are so annoying. This is nothing more than a list of verbal commitments players from different clubs have announced likely on meta, insta, or X. Its weird that an ECNL coach has spends this much time looking at underage girls posts online.

Then to post something that makes it look like GA clubs have 10% of the numbers as ECNL when less than 10% of GA college commitments are posted is very misleading.

You end up with new parents making club decisions based on information iamsoccer knows isnt true or isnt the full picture. Ie cherry picked data. Which is the ECNL coaches intention.

oh the bitterness.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:this cannot be real. the GA hats told me GA was kick a$$ and taking names

https://x.com/ImYouthSoccer/status/1934400532094886146

Its not real, and a perfect example of why iamsoccer dork is ridiculous.

In the 2024 GA season there were over 300 (I stopped counting at 300) college commitments. The numbers are listed right on their site.
https://girlsacademyleague.com/class-of-2024/

Iamsoccerdork has 82 2025 GA commitments listed. Its 100% clear that the ECNL coach is pulling a fast one.

But his numbers is "verbal commitment", and it's 2026. I don't know what that means, but didn't Olivia Moultrie commit to UNC when she was 12 or something ?

You can see why iamsoccers posts are so annoying. This is nothing more than a list of verbal commitments players from different clubs have announced likely on meta, insta, or X. Its weird that an ECNL coach has spends this much time looking at underage girls posts online.

Then to post something that makes it look like GA clubs have 10% of the numbers as ECNL when less than 10% of GA college commitments are posted is very misleading.

You end up with new parents making club decisions based on information iamsoccer knows isnt true or isnt the full picture. Ie cherry picked data. Which is the ECNL coaches intention.

I think the point is that, right now, players are getting a volume of commits deeper into the league for ECNL than GA. This may change in the future. But I haven’t seen anyone post any real data suggesting this is not accurate as to the last 5 years. Sure, top GA teams do very well and any GA team may get some commitments but the mid-tier ECNL team (50th-60th) in the recruiting window right now is doing better than the average mid-tier GA teams on this metric. Could of course change in the future but seems accurate right now.

GA hats might spend less time complaining about the data or talking about trends and more time thinking about what ECNL might be doing better. PP suggested more showcases and more regional and geographically dispersed showcases is one factor. Maybe there are others. Maybe GA does have momentum and this will shift. I for one would like two more equally competitive leagues. But getting there will require some clear eyed thinking rather than complaining about the data or conspiracies about club relationships with college coaches.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:this cannot be real. the GA hats told me GA was kick a$$ and taking names

https://x.com/ImYouthSoccer/status/1934400532094886146

Its not real, and a perfect example of why iamsoccer dork is ridiculous.

In the 2024 GA season there were over 300 (I stopped counting at 300) college commitments. The numbers are listed right on their site.
https://girlsacademyleague.com/class-of-2024/

Iamsoccerdork has 82 2025 GA commitments listed. Its 100% clear that the ECNL coach is pulling a fast one.

But his numbers is "verbal commitment", and it's 2026. I don't know what that means, but didn't Olivia Moultrie commit to UNC when she was 12 or something ?

You can see why iamsoccers posts are so annoying. This is nothing more than a list of verbal commitments players from different clubs have announced likely on meta, insta, or X. Its weird that an ECNL coach has spends this much time looking at underage girls posts online.

Then to post something that makes it look like GA clubs have 10% of the numbers as ECNL when less than 10% of GA college commitments are posted is very misleading.

You end up with new parents making club decisions based on information iamsoccer knows isnt true or isnt the full picture. Ie cherry picked data. Which is the ECNL coaches intention.

oh the bitterness.

Bitterness or calling out intentionally deceptive ECNL "marketing".

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:this cannot be real. the GA hats told me GA was kick a$$ and taking names

https://x.com/ImYouthSoccer/status/1934400532094886146

Its not real, and a perfect example of why iamsoccer dork is ridiculous.

In the 2024 GA season there were over 300 (I stopped counting at 300) college commitments. The numbers are listed right on their site.
https://girlsacademyleague.com/class-of-2024/

Iamsoccerdork has 82 2025 GA commitments listed. Its 100% clear that the ECNL coach is pulling a fast one.

But his numbers is "verbal commitment", and it's 2026. I don't know what that means, but didn't Olivia Moultrie commit to UNC when she was 12 or something ?

You can see why iamsoccers posts are so annoying. This is nothing more than a list of verbal commitments players from different clubs have announced likely on meta, insta, or X. Its weird that an ECNL coach has spends this much time looking at underage girls posts online.

Then to post something that makes it look like GA clubs have 10% of the numbers as ECNL when less than 10% of GA college commitments are posted is very misleading.

You end up with new parents making club decisions based on information iamsoccer knows isnt true or isnt the full picture. Ie cherry picked data. Which is the ECNL coaches intention.

oh the bitterness.

Bitterness or calling out intentionally deceptive ECNL "marketing".

Easy to call something deceptive. Hard to provide actual data showing that the analysis is wrong.

Is there hard data showing that GA is actually performing better right now than ECNL in the mid-tier in getting college commitments for the league's players? Hard data showing more GA players are getting commitments generally than ECNL players, or that the numbers are comparable? I'd love to see it. All I've seen is some claims about a positive trend for GA, and a hopefulness that will continue to the point where things eventually even out, or GA even (at some point in the future, aspirationally) passes ECNL.

Proof is in the pudding.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:this cannot be real. the GA hats told me GA was kick a$$ and taking names

https://x.com/ImYouthSoccer/status/1934400532094886146

Its not real, and a perfect example of why iamsoccer dork is ridiculous.

In the 2024 GA season there were over 300 (I stopped counting at 300) college commitments. The numbers are listed right on their site.
https://girlsacademyleague.com/class-of-2024/

Iamsoccerdork has 82 2025 GA commitments listed. Its 100% clear that the ECNL coach is pulling a fast one.

But his numbers is "verbal commitment", and it's 2026. I don't know what that means, but didn't Olivia Moultrie commit to UNC when she was 12 or something ?

You can see why iamsoccers posts are so annoying. This is nothing more than a list of verbal commitments players from different clubs have announced likely on meta, insta, or X. Its weird that an ECNL coach has spends this much time looking at underage girls posts online.

Then to post something that makes it look like GA clubs have 10% of the numbers as ECNL when less than 10% of GA college commitments are posted is very misleading.

You end up with new parents making club decisions based on information iamsoccer knows isnt true or isnt the full picture. Ie cherry picked data. Which is the ECNL coaches intention.

oh the bitterness.

Bitterness or calling out intentionally deceptive ECNL "marketing".

Easy to call something deceptive. Hard to provide actual data showing that the analysis is wrong.

Is there hard data showing that GA is actually performing better right now than ECNL in the mid-tier in getting college commitments for the league's players? Hard data showing more GA players are getting commitments generally than ECNL players, or that the numbers are comparable? I'd love to see it. All I've seen is some claims about a positive trend for GA, and a hopefulness that will continue to the point where things eventually even out, or GA even (at some point in the future, aspirationally) passes ECNL.

Proof is in the pudding.

https://girlsacademyleague.com/class-of-2024/

Congratulations to the Class of 2024! In total, more than 700 athletes will continue their soccer journey in college with over 90 Girls Academy clubs represented

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:this cannot be real. the GA hats told me GA was kick a$$ and taking names

https://x.com/ImYouthSoccer/status/1934400532094886146

Its not real, and a perfect example of why iamsoccer dork is ridiculous.

In the 2024 GA season there were over 300 (I stopped counting at 300) college commitments. The numbers are listed right on their site.
https://girlsacademyleague.com/class-of-2024/

Iamsoccerdork has 82 2025 GA commitments listed. Its 100% clear that the ECNL coach is pulling a fast one.

But his numbers is "verbal commitment", and it's 2026. I don't know what that means, but didn't Olivia Moultrie commit to UNC when she was 12 or something ?

You can see why iamsoccers posts are so annoying. This is nothing more than a list of verbal commitments players from different clubs have announced likely on meta, insta, or X. Its weird that an ECNL coach has spends this much time looking at underage girls posts online.

Then to post something that makes it look like GA clubs have 10% of the numbers as ECNL when less than 10% of GA college commitments are posted is very misleading.

You end up with new parents making club decisions based on information iamsoccer knows isnt true or isnt the full picture. Ie cherry picked data. Which is the ECNL coaches intention.

oh the bitterness.

Bitterness or calling out intentionally deceptive ECNL "marketing".

Easy to call something deceptive. Hard to provide actual data showing that the analysis is wrong.

Is there hard data showing that GA is actually performing better right now than ECNL in the mid-tier in getting college commitments for the league's players? Hard data showing more GA players are getting commitments generally than ECNL players, or that the numbers are comparable? I'd love to see it. All I've seen is some claims about a positive trend for GA, and a hopefulness that will continue to the point where things eventually even out, or GA even (at some point in the future, aspirationally) passes ECNL.

Proof is in the pudding.

https://girlsacademyleague.com/class-of-2024/

Congratulations to the Class of 2024! In total, more than 700 athletes will continue their soccer journey in college with over 90 Girls Academy clubs represented

That’s one side of the equation. What’s on the other side?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:this cannot be real. the GA hats told me GA was kick a$$ and taking names

https://x.com/ImYouthSoccer/status/1934400532094886146

Its not real, and a perfect example of why iamsoccer dork is ridiculous.

In the 2024 GA season there were over 300 (I stopped counting at 300) college commitments. The numbers are listed right on their site.
https://girlsacademyleague.com/class-of-2024/

Iamsoccerdork has 82 2025 GA commitments listed. Its 100% clear that the ECNL coach is pulling a fast one.

But his numbers is "verbal commitment", and it's 2026. I don't know what that means, but didn't Olivia Moultrie commit to UNC when she was 12 or something ?

You can see why iamsoccers posts are so annoying. This is nothing more than a list of verbal commitments players from different clubs have announced likely on meta, insta, or X. Its weird that an ECNL coach has spends this much time looking at underage girls posts online.

Then to post something that makes it look like GA clubs have 10% of the numbers as ECNL when less than 10% of GA college commitments are posted is very misleading.

You end up with new parents making club decisions based on information iamsoccer knows isnt true or isnt the full picture. Ie cherry picked data. Which is the ECNL coaches intention.

oh the bitterness.

Bitterness or calling out intentionally deceptive ECNL "marketing".

Easy to call something deceptive. Hard to provide actual data showing that the analysis is wrong.

Is there hard data showing that GA is actually performing better right now than ECNL in the mid-tier in getting college commitments for the league's players? Hard data showing more GA players are getting commitments generally than ECNL players, or that the numbers are comparable? I'd love to see it. All I've seen is some claims about a positive trend for GA, and a hopefulness that will continue to the point where things eventually even out, or GA even (at some point in the future, aspirationally) passes ECNL.

Proof is in the pudding.

https://girlsacademyleague.com/class-of-2024/

Congratulations to the Class of 2024! In total, more than 700 athletes will continue their soccer journey in college with over 90 Girls Academy clubs represented

That’s one side of the equation. What’s on the other side?

What's the "other side" of a fact?

Iamyouthsoccers posts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this cannot be real. the GA hats told me GA was kick a$$ and taking names

https://x.com/ImYouthSoccer/status/1934400532094886146

Its not real, and a perfect example of why iamsoccer dork is ridiculous.

In the 2024 GA season there were over 300 (I stopped counting at 300) college commitments. The numbers are listed right on their site.
https://girlsacademyleague.com/class-of-2024/

Iamsoccerdork has 82 2025 GA commitments listed. Its 100% clear that the ECNL coach is pulling a fast one.

But his numbers is "verbal commitment", and it's 2026. I don't know what that means, but didn't Olivia Moultrie commit to UNC when she was 12 or something ?

You can see why iamsoccers posts are so annoying. This is nothing more than a list of verbal commitments players from different clubs have announced likely on meta, insta, or X. Its weird that an ECNL coach has spends this much time looking at underage girls posts online.

Then to post something that makes it look like GA clubs have 10% of the numbers as ECNL when less than 10% of GA college commitments are posted is very misleading.

You end up with new parents making club decisions based on information iamsoccer knows isnt true or isnt the full picture. Ie cherry picked data. Which is the ECNL coaches intention.

oh the bitterness.

Bitterness or calling out intentionally deceptive ECNL "marketing".

Easy to call something deceptive. Hard to provide actual data showing that the analysis is wrong.

Is there hard data showing that GA is actually performing better right now than ECNL in the mid-tier in getting college commitments for the league's players? Hard data showing more GA players are getting commitments generally than ECNL players, or that the numbers are comparable? I'd love to see it. All I've seen is some claims about a positive trend for GA, and a hopefulness that will continue to the point where things eventually even out, or GA even (at some point in the future, aspirationally) passes ECNL.

Proof is in the pudding.

https://girlsacademyleague.com/class-of-2024/

Congratulations to the Class of 2024! In total, more than 700 athletes will continue their soccer journey in college with over 90 Girls Academy clubs represented

That’s one side of the equation. What’s on the other side?

of the ECNL and GA teams with 10 or more commitments for 2026, ECNL crushes the GA with 54 of the 61 teams a whopping 89%. I would call that a belt lashing

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:this cannot be real. the GA hats told me GA was kick a$$ and taking names

https://x.com/ImYouthSoccer/status/1934400532094886146

Its not real, and a perfect example of why iamsoccer dork is ridiculous.

In the 2024 GA season there were over 300 (I stopped counting at 300) college commitments. The numbers are listed right on their site.
https://girlsacademyleague.com/class-of-2024/

Iamsoccerdork has 82 2025 GA commitments listed. Its 100% clear that the ECNL coach is pulling a fast one.

But his numbers is "verbal commitment", and it's 2026. I don't know what that means, but didn't Olivia Moultrie commit to UNC when she was 12 or something ?

You can see why iamsoccers posts are so annoying. This is nothing more than a list of verbal commitments players from different clubs have announced likely on meta, insta, or X. Its weird that an ECNL coach has spends this much time looking at underage girls posts online.

Then to post something that makes it look like GA clubs have 10% of the numbers as ECNL when less than 10% of GA college commitments are posted is very misleading.

You end up with new parents making club decisions based on information iamsoccer knows isnt true or isnt the full picture. Ie cherry picked data. Which is the ECNL coaches intention.

oh the bitterness.

Bitterness or calling out intentionally deceptive ECNL "marketing".

Easy to call something deceptive. Hard to provide actual data showing that the analysis is wrong.

Is there hard data showing that GA is actually performing better right now than ECNL in the mid-tier in getting college commitments for the league's players? Hard data showing more GA players are getting commitments generally than ECNL players, or that the numbers are comparable? I'd love to see it. All I've seen is some claims about a positive trend for GA, and a hopefulness that will continue to the point where things eventually even out, or GA even (at some point in the future, aspirationally) passes ECNL.

Proof is in the pudding.

https://girlsacademyleague.com/class-of-2024/

Congratulations to the Class of 2024! In total, more than 700 athletes will continue their soccer journey in college with over 90 Girls Academy clubs represented

That’s one side of the equation. What’s on the other side?

What's the "other side" of a fact?

Iamyouthsoccers posts?

If you are making a relative claim about the performance of one league vs the other, you'll need data points/facts about both sides to make a compelling point. 700 vs x? Matters if x =500 or =750 or =1500.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this cannot be real. the GA hats told me GA was kick a$$ and taking names

https://x.com/ImYouthSoccer/status/1934400532094886146

Its not real, and a perfect example of why iamsoccer dork is ridiculous.

In the 2024 GA season there were over 300 (I stopped counting at 300) college commitments. The numbers are listed right on their site.
https://girlsacademyleague.com/class-of-2024/

Iamsoccerdork has 82 2025 GA commitments listed. Its 100% clear that the ECNL coach is pulling a fast one.

But his numbers is "verbal commitment", and it's 2026. I don't know what that means, but didn't Olivia Moultrie commit to UNC when she was 12 or something ?

You can see why iamsoccers posts are so annoying. This is nothing more than a list of verbal commitments players from different clubs have announced likely on meta, insta, or X. Its weird that an ECNL coach has spends this much time looking at underage girls posts online.

Then to post something that makes it look like GA clubs have 10% of the numbers as ECNL when less than 10% of GA college commitments are posted is very misleading.

You end up with new parents making club decisions based on information iamsoccer knows isnt true or isnt the full picture. Ie cherry picked data. Which is the ECNL coaches intention.

oh the bitterness.

Bitterness or calling out intentionally deceptive ECNL "marketing".

Easy to call something deceptive. Hard to provide actual data showing that the analysis is wrong.

Is there hard data showing that GA is actually performing better right now than ECNL in the mid-tier in getting college commitments for the league's players? Hard data showing more GA players are getting commitments generally than ECNL players, or that the numbers are comparable? I'd love to see it. All I've seen is some claims about a positive trend for GA, and a hopefulness that will continue to the point where things eventually even out, or GA even (at some point in the future, aspirationally) passes ECNL.

Proof is in the pudding.

https://girlsacademyleague.com/class-of-2024/

Congratulations to the Class of 2024! In total, more than 700 athletes will continue their soccer journey in college with over 90 Girls Academy clubs represented

That’s one side of the equation. What’s on the other side?

What's the "other side" of a fact?

Iamyouthsoccers posts?

If you are making a relative claim about the performance of one league vs the other, you'll need data points/facts about both sides to make a compelling point. 700 vs x? Matters if x =500 or =750 or =1500.

This what you're describing isnt the "other side" of the fact that over 700 GA players in 2024 went on to play in college.

You're proposing some kind of comparison between the two leagues. Which unfortunately is impossible unless you track the number of ECNL players going on to play in college yourself. This is because ECNL stopped posting the total number per season. (Hmmmm... Wonder why?)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:this cannot be real. the GA hats told me GA was kick a$$ and taking names

https://x.com/ImYouthSoccer/status/1934400532094886146

Its not real, and a perfect example of why iamsoccer dork is ridiculous.

In the 2024 GA season there were over 300 (I stopped counting at 300) college commitments. The numbers are listed right on their site.
https://girlsacademyleague.com/class-of-2024/

Iamsoccerdork has 82 2025 GA commitments listed. Its 100% clear that the ECNL coach is pulling a fast one.

But his numbers is "verbal commitment", and it's 2026. I don't know what that means, but didn't Olivia Moultrie commit to UNC when she was 12 or something ?

You can see why iamsoccers posts are so annoying. This is nothing more than a list of verbal commitments players from different clubs have announced likely on meta, insta, or X. Its weird that an ECNL coach has spends this much time looking at underage girls posts online.

Then to post something that makes it look like GA clubs have 10% of the numbers as ECNL when less than 10% of GA college commitments are posted is very misleading.

You end up with new parents making club decisions based on information iamsoccer knows isnt true or isnt the full picture. Ie cherry picked data. Which is the ECNL coaches intention.

oh the bitterness.

Bitterness or calling out intentionally deceptive ECNL "marketing".

Easy to call something deceptive. Hard to provide actual data showing that the analysis is wrong.

Is there hard data showing that GA is actually performing better right now than ECNL in the mid-tier in getting college commitments for the league's players? Hard data showing more GA players are getting commitments generally than ECNL players, or that the numbers are comparable? I'd love to see it. All I've seen is some claims about a positive trend for GA, and a hopefulness that will continue to the point where things eventually even out, or GA even (at some point in the future, aspirationally) passes ECNL.

Proof is in the pudding.

https://girlsacademyleague.com/class-of-2024/

Congratulations to the Class of 2024! In total, more than 700 athletes will continue their soccer journey in college with over 90 Girls Academy clubs represented

That’s one side of the equation. What’s on the other side?

What's the "other side" of a fact?

Iamyouthsoccers posts?

If you are making a relative claim about the performance of one league vs the other, you'll need data points/facts about both sides to make a compelling point. 700 vs x? Matters if x =500 or =750 or =1500.

This what you're describing isnt the "other side" of the fact that over 700 GA players in 2024 went on to play in college.

You're proposing some kind of comparison between the two leagues. Which unfortunately is impossible unless you track the number of ECNL players going on to play in college yourself. This is because ECNL stopped posting the total number per season. (Hmmmm... Wonder why?)

no need to post the numbers by ECNL, it is already understood if you want to play soccer in college, ECNL is the best pathway.

https://x.com/ImYouthSoccer/status/1934400532094886146
just these numbers are ridiculous. of the ECNL and GA teams with 10 or more commitments for 2026, ECNL crushes the GA with 54 of the 61 teams a whopping 89%. I would call that a belt lashing

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idk. my dd has been to numerous YNT camps (over a dozen). she's already at an ACC school.

back when she started being called up, the players would ask the asst coaches there (college coaches are often brought in during the college off-season to help) what do they choose if they have an ecnl event at the same time as a GA event. the coaches that have been asked unanimously have answered "ecnl". not even close.

are there good players and good teams in the GA? sure. but ecnl is just better. my dd's team never lost to a GA team when they had the opportunity to play (socal area). usually her team would crush GA competition. i can't remember a close game (unless they played up...but they still won).

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Anonymous wrote:this cannot be real. the GA hats told me GA was kick a$$ and taking names

https://x.com/ImYouthSoccer/status/1934400532094886146

Its not real, and a perfect example of why iamsoccer dork is ridiculous.

In the 2024 GA season there were over 300 (I stopped counting at 300) college commitments. The numbers are listed right on their site.
https://girlsacademyleague.com/class-of-2024/

Iamsoccerdork has 82 2025 GA commitments listed. Its 100% clear that the ECNL coach is pulling a fast one.

But his numbers is "verbal commitment", and it's 2026. I don't know what that means, but didn't Olivia Moultrie commit to UNC when she was 12 or something ?

You can see why iamsoccers posts are so annoying. This is nothing more than a list of verbal commitments players from different clubs have announced likely on meta, insta, or X. Its weird that an ECNL coach has spends this much time looking at underage girls posts online.

Then to post something that makes it look like GA clubs have 10% of the numbers as ECNL when less than 10% of GA college commitments are posted is very misleading.

You end up with new parents making club decisions based on information iamsoccer knows isnt true or isnt the full picture. Ie cherry picked data. Which is the ECNL coaches intention.

oh the bitterness.

Bitterness or calling out intentionally deceptive ECNL "marketing".

Easy to call something deceptive. Hard to provide actual data showing that the analysis is wrong.

Is there hard data showing that GA is actually performing better right now than ECNL in the mid-tier in getting college commitments for the league's players? Hard data showing more GA players are getting commitments generally than ECNL players, or that the numbers are comparable? I'd love to see it. All I've seen is some claims about a positive trend for GA, and a hopefulness that will continue to the point where things eventually even out, or GA even (at some point in the future, aspirationally) passes ECNL.

Proof is in the pudding.

https://girlsacademyleague.com/class-of-2024/

Congratulations to the Class of 2024! In total, more than 700 athletes will continue their soccer journey in college with over 90 Girls Academy clubs represented

That’s one side of the equation. What’s on the other side?

What's the "other side" of a fact?

Iamyouthsoccers posts?

If you are making a relative claim about the performance of one league vs the other, you'll need data points/facts about both sides to make a compelling point. 700 vs x? Matters if x =500 or =750 or =1500.

This what you're describing isnt the "other side" of the fact that over 700 GA players in 2024 went on to play in college.

You're proposing some kind of comparison between the two leagues. Which unfortunately is impossible unless you track the number of ECNL players going on to play in college yourself. This is because ECNL stopped posting the total number per season. (Hmmmm... Wonder why?)

no need to post the numbers by ECNL, it is already understood if you want to play soccer in college, ECNL is the best pathway.

https://x.com/ImYouthSoccer/status/1934400532094886146
just these numbers are ridiculous. of the ECNL and GA teams with 10 or more commitments for 2026, ECNL crushes the GA with 54 of the 61 teams a whopping 89%. I would call that a belt lashing

Again, this is the problem with iamsoccers posts. The guy is tracking VERBAL commitments that people have posted about online. (very odd for an ECNL coach to be doing with underage girls)

Not everyone runs to the internet to post about what they've been offered by a college. Also very easy to fake or omit details to make whichever point they're trying to make.

ECNL hats eat this kind of thing up. Which iamsoccer uses to sell college placement services.