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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Props for them to put it out there for better or worse. We have all heard about the rumors in the DMV and Arlington is the only club addressed that the rumor isn’t true while Loudon, FVU, NVA, and McLean stayed silence. And let’s face it. Arlington is choosing the girls program at least for now. They are not sacrifice the girls just for the boys to get mlsn. If you have girls - that’s not a bad thing.

They are not choosing the girls program. They just don’t see the merit in MLSN for their club. If it works out for other clubs and Arlington loses boys players, guess what, they move to MLSN.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:From a parent and outsider’s perspective who has recently attended tryouts and several post tryouts ID sessions and practices across five different clubs, the Arlington experience was by far the best organized and felt the most polished in terms of club and coaching quality.

Most clubs in the region are dysfunctional in some regard. While DD hasn’t played a season for Arlington the social media confirmation of who they are and what they want to be is a huge plus point in my book simply because so many other clubs can’t seem to string together enough seasons without trying to rebrand themselves as something new or better. I give Arlington kudos for communicating a clear and frankly taking a double down approach through a consistent message on who they continue to be. How anybody can argue that reinforcing who and what you are is a bad thing should experience the other side of the coin with clubs that seemingly ebb and flow season to season through the league affiliation and club partnerships game.

Thankfully my daughter is in an older age group for girls and can see the light at the end of the tunnel regarding her playing career pre college. I won’t miss the dysfunction of Mid Atlantic soccer.

Guess what, I know it’s hard to hear with your ECNL hat on….if she was going to college in ECNL, she was going to college in GA.

This is some of the biggest tryhard BS! Stats don’t lie, and for better or worse ECNL does a better job of giving college coaches the players they want to recruit.

I get it, your club is prioritizing boys and forcing your girls team to play GA and you have to pretend that it’s all a good thing. But face facts - the GA switches are happening because a few clubs in the area think boys are simply more important (and a better source of revenue) than girls.

If your daughter is worth less than your son, I guess this all makes sense to you. But be honest with yourself, that’s the decision Loudoun has made.

Yeah -- If your DD was a top player she could make it from GA or ECNL. It is the middle and the bottom of the teams where ECNL proves its worth. The bottom of GA goes no where.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:From a parent and outsider’s perspective who has recently attended tryouts and several post tryouts ID sessions and practices across five different clubs, the Arlington experience was by far the best organized and felt the most polished in terms of club and coaching quality.

Most clubs in the region are dysfunctional in some regard. While DD hasn’t played a season for Arlington the social media confirmation of who they are and what they want to be is a huge plus point in my book simply because so many other clubs can’t seem to string together enough seasons without trying to rebrand themselves as something new or better. I give Arlington kudos for communicating a clear and frankly taking a double down approach through a consistent message on who they continue to be. How anybody can argue that reinforcing who and what you are is a bad thing should experience the other side of the coin with clubs that seemingly ebb and flow season to season through the league affiliation and club partnerships game.

Thankfully my daughter is in an older age group for girls and can see the light at the end of the tunnel regarding her playing career pre college. I won’t miss the dysfunction of Mid Atlantic soccer.

Guess what, I know it’s hard to hear with your ECNL hat on….if she was going to college in ECNL, she was going to college in GA.

This is some of the biggest tryhard BS! Stats don’t lie, and for better or worse ECNL does a better job of giving college coaches the players they want to recruit.

I get it, your club is prioritizing boys and forcing your girls team to play GA and you have to pretend that it’s all a good thing. But face facts - the GA switches are happening because a few clubs in the area think boys are simply more important (and a better source of revenue) than girls.

If your daughter is worth less than your son, I guess this all makes sense to you. But be honest with yourself, that’s the decision Loudoun has made.

Haha, it will all make sense in due time. Keep clinging on to a league in decline

I guess I do not see the decline. I see GA falling further and further behind in college recruiting. the agreement with MLSNext is pure desperation. The agreement provides nothing and also makes little sense. I do not see many clubs except bottom feeders moving to GA. ECNL is stronger with CI gone. NVA was great and why they left makes no sense but the ECNL teams in NOVA will now be better. A bunch of the top GA clubs are supposed to leave this year for ECNL. If that does not happen it will be the first sign GA is getting some traction.

[Anonymous]

so sad they are so scurred of losing revenue so they had to post

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:From a parent and outsider’s perspective who has recently attended tryouts and several post tryouts ID sessions and practices across five different clubs, the Arlington experience was by far the best organized and felt the most polished in terms of club and coaching quality.

Most clubs in the region are dysfunctional in some regard. While DD hasn’t played a season for Arlington the social media confirmation of who they are and what they want to be is a huge plus point in my book simply because so many other clubs can’t seem to string together enough seasons without trying to rebrand themselves as something new or better. I give Arlington kudos for communicating a clear and frankly taking a double down approach through a consistent message on who they continue to be. How anybody can argue that reinforcing who and what you are is a bad thing should experience the other side of the coin with clubs that seemingly ebb and flow season to season through the league affiliation and club partnerships game.

Thankfully my daughter is in an older age group for girls and can see the light at the end of the tunnel regarding her playing career pre college. I won’t miss the dysfunction of Mid Atlantic soccer.

Guess what, I know it’s hard to hear with your ECNL hat on….if she was going to college in ECNL, she was going to college in GA.

This is some of the biggest tryhard BS! Stats don’t lie, and for better or worse ECNL does a better job of giving college coaches the players they want to recruit.

I get it, your club is prioritizing boys and forcing your girls team to play GA and you have to pretend that it’s all a good thing. But face facts - the GA switches are happening because a few clubs in the area think boys are simply more important (and a better source of revenue) than girls.

If your daughter is worth less than your son, I guess this all makes sense to you. But be honest with yourself, that’s the decision Loudoun has made.

Haha, it will all make sense in due time. Keep clinging on to a league in decline

I guess I do not see the decline. I see GA falling further and further behind in college recruiting. the agreement with MLSNext is pure desperation. The agreement provides nothing and also makes little sense. I do not see many clubs except bottom feeders moving to GA. ECNL is stronger with CI gone. NVA was great and why they left makes no sense but the ECNL teams in NOVA will now be better. A bunch of the top GA clubs are supposed to leave this year for ECNL. If that does not happen it will be the first sign GA is getting some traction.

What proof do you have that the top GA teams are leaving? Are you aware that they are all MLSN/GA?

Also, just think about this for a second. As college soccer limits roster spots and looking to offer scholarships to kids in the transfer portal, the league you play in won’t matter. It will be the club.

Your SLSG’s, MI Hawks, Nationals, Surfs, PDAs, TopHats, CUP, MVLA, IMGs, CITY SCs, Solars, Blues will still be on top.

[Anonymous]

Sheesh there is a lot of garbage spewed on here. Arlington addressed an issue and they get called desperate but if they had stayed silent it would have just kept going. Obviously it is effecting some things at the club. Can’t play high school in MLS Next.

NVA - didn’t want to leave ECNL girls. They also said ECNL girls is still the best league, not the GA. They do like where the GA was going though

CISC - got their feelings hurt. Weren’t planning on leaving until they loss a ECNL spot. They then didn’t even get what they wanted in MLS Next

McLean - MLS Next 2. They are not the same as NVA

Top players are still going to go top colleges. The best players should end up at MLS Academies. The chance that it is your child, is veeeeery low. It could be yours, but it’s very low and that’s okay.

MLS has one goal and that’s to run soccer in the US. MLS Next will help fund the failing MLS Academies. Business owners don’t like losing money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is cute. Wait one year from now when Arlington announces they have left ECNL. I've posted here several times it's confirmed from within the club they are leaving ECNL. I know three folks there. Two are coaches. All three confirmed almost two months ago.

But, let this nice "memo" keep you warm at night. What is Arlington suppose to say? Yes, the rumors are true we're leaving ECNL? LOL. They are just weathering the storm so they don't get questions.

They all confirmed 2 months ago that they were leaving 14 months later?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:From a parent and outsider’s perspective who has recently attended tryouts and several post tryouts ID sessions and practices across five different clubs, the Arlington experience was by far the best organized and felt the most polished in terms of club and coaching quality.

Most clubs in the region are dysfunctional in some regard. While DD hasn’t played a season for Arlington the social media confirmation of who they are and what they want to be is a huge plus point in my book simply because so many other clubs can’t seem to string together enough seasons without trying to rebrand themselves as something new or better. I give Arlington kudos for communicating a clear and frankly taking a double down approach through a consistent message on who they continue to be. How anybody can argue that reinforcing who and what you are is a bad thing should experience the other side of the coin with clubs that seemingly ebb and flow season to season through the league affiliation and club partnerships game.

Thankfully my daughter is in an older age group for girls and can see the light at the end of the tunnel regarding her playing career pre college. I won’t miss the dysfunction of Mid Atlantic soccer.

Guess what, I know it’s hard to hear with your ECNL hat on….if she was going to college in ECNL, she was going to college in GA.

That is what we need to see. If they stay. No point in guessing. Will be here soon either way.

This is some of the biggest tryhard BS! Stats don’t lie, and for better or worse ECNL does a better job of giving college coaches the players they want to recruit.

I get it, your club is prioritizing boys and forcing your girls team to play GA and you have to pretend that it’s all a good thing. But face facts - the GA switches are happening because a few clubs in the area think boys are simply more important (and a better source of revenue) than girls.

If your daughter is worth less than your son, I guess this all makes sense to you. But be honest with yourself, that’s the decision Loudoun has made.

Haha, it will all make sense in due time. Keep clinging on to a league in decline

I guess I do not see the decline. I see GA falling further and further behind in college recruiting. the agreement with MLSNext is pure desperation. The agreement provides nothing and also makes little sense. I do not see many clubs except bottom feeders moving to GA. ECNL is stronger with CI gone. NVA was great and why they left makes no sense but the ECNL teams in NOVA will now be better. A bunch of the top GA clubs are supposed to leave this year for ECNL. If that does not happen it will be the first sign GA is getting some traction.

What proof do you have that the top GA teams are leaving? Are you aware that they are all MLSN/GA?

Also, just think about this for a second. As college soccer limits roster spots and looking to offer scholarships to kids in the transfer portal, the league you play in won’t matter. It will be the club.

Your SLSG’s, MI Hawks, Nationals, Surfs, PDAs, TopHats, CUP, MVLA, IMGs, CITY SCs, Solars, Blues will still be on top.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:From a parent and outsider’s perspective who has recently attended tryouts and several post tryouts ID sessions and practices across five different clubs, the Arlington experience was by far the best organized and felt the most polished in terms of club and coaching quality.

Most clubs in the region are dysfunctional in some regard. While DD hasn’t played a season for Arlington the social media confirmation of who they are and what they want to be is a huge plus point in my book simply because so many other clubs can’t seem to string together enough seasons without trying to rebrand themselves as something new or better. I give Arlington kudos for communicating a clear and frankly taking a double down approach through a consistent message on who they continue to be. How anybody can argue that reinforcing who and what you are is a bad thing should experience the other side of the coin with clubs that seemingly ebb and flow season to season through the league affiliation and club partnerships game.

Thankfully my daughter is in an older age group for girls and can see the light at the end of the tunnel regarding her playing career pre college. I won’t miss the dysfunction of Mid Atlantic soccer.

Guess what, I know it’s hard to hear with your ECNL hat on….if she was going to college in ECNL, she was going to college in GA.

This is some of the biggest tryhard BS! Stats don’t lie, and for better or worse ECNL does a better job of giving college coaches the players they want to recruit.

I get it, your club is prioritizing boys and forcing your girls team to play GA and you have to pretend that it’s all a good thing. But face facts - the GA switches are happening because a few clubs in the area think boys are simply more important (and a better source of revenue) than girls.

If your daughter is worth less than your son, I guess this all makes sense to you. But be honest with yourself, that’s the decision Loudoun has made.

We live in Arlington and had to move our sons out long ago. Arlington strongly favored the girls. Boys ECNL is a joke.

And the Girls program doesn't do anything either, so all around Arlington just doesn't get it done.

Club leadership should have not addressed this rumor. Now when they turn face next year and go to MLSN/GA they are going to look more untrustworthy to their membership. Probably going to come up with some excuse about diminishing competition in ECNL and the negative impact of longer commutes due to the lack of nearby competition in Mid Atlantic.

They are not moving in a year. Not a chance.

[Anonymous]

The GA is a joke, Champions Cup in the 2010's only 4 teams in the nationally ranked top 50. And those 4 teams were ranked as follows, 7, 24, 45, 47 and everyone else ranked between 51 and 221. Scouts were mainly assistants and only watching a few older teams that won it all. Total money grab flying to Norco and Bradenton this year to play the same few teams. Moving to an ecnl team next year. Their baseline showcases feature 20 to 30 of the top 50 at each event and have twice as many scouts and college head coaches attending. Trust me, if your daughter has the ability play for an ecnl team. I wasted a lot of money going to these two events. Not good soccer.

[Anonymous]

All rankings are slanted to give ECNL league and Tournaments play more points towards rankings than GA points. It's a slanted system, GA teams have to play more to get the same amount of points. The rankings, while helpful, and not even close to accurate between leagues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The GA is a joke, Champions Cup in the 2010's only 4 teams in the nationally ranked top 50. And those 4 teams were ranked as follows, 7, 24, 45, 47 and everyone else ranked between 51 and 221. Scouts were mainly assistants and only watching a few older teams that won it all. Total money grab flying to Norco and Bradenton this year to play the same few teams. Moving to an ecnl team next year. Their baseline showcases feature 20 to 30 of the top 50 at each event and have twice as many scouts and college head coaches attending. Trust me, if your daughter has the ability play for an ecnl team. I wasted a lot of money going to these two events. Not good soccer.

ECNL is just a different flavor of mediocre soccer. You could have just said that.

[Anonymous]

ok the "rankings are rigged guy" how about game performance for proof. Last year Nationals won overall club champion and sent 3 age groups to GA National Championship Game with their 10's winning one. This year in the ECNL Midwest with most of the age groups done with the season their place in each age group.

06/07 8th place
08 3rd place
09 4th place
10 3rd place
11 3rd place
12 8th place

that's only sending 4 or 3 to the ecnl playoffs whereas last year every age group finished 1st in GA Mid America conference. And if you look at their social media they consider these results as a successful 1st year in the ecnl. Proof that the most dominant club in the GA is just a middle of the pack club in the ecnl.

[Anonymous]

VDA will go before Arlington because they want their boys in MLSN and on the girls side BP was at a GA club before anyway and will still have his marketing machine irregardless of league.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ok the "rankings are rigged guy" how about game performance for proof. Last year Nationals won overall club champion and sent 3 age groups to GA National Championship Game with their 10's winning one. This year in the ECNL Midwest with most of the age groups done with the season their place in each age group.

06/07 8th place
08 3rd place
09 4th place
10 3rd place
11 3rd place
12 8th place

that's only sending 4 or 3 to the ecnl playoffs whereas last year every age group finished 1st in GA Mid America conference. And if you look at their social media they consider these results as a successful 1st year in the ecnl. Proof that the most dominant club in the GA is just a middle of the pack club in the ecnl.

I mean, WGAF? You’re this invested in two leagues that are marginally different?