Please get rid of GDA and ECNL

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Anonymous wrote:Sometimes it is not even about cost. Logistics is an issue of you have several kids involved in activities.

The point is that there is no reason for McLean, Bethesda or FCV needs to travel more than a half dozen times to play games in in other regions.

The model needs to change so that 95% of games are local. Regionals and nationals are relevant but only if under one club. There is no need to have three or more different leagues with their own national playoff system.

Why should they change the model? They have plenty of paying customers. If you want what they offer, pay the price. If not, play NCSL or one of the other local/regional leagues. It sounds like you want the benefits but are unwilling to pay the price.

There is no product available for kids that really want to pursue high level soccer unless you are in striking distance of a funded boys Da. Market for it is too small and too poor. oh well. deluxe faux high level soccer is all that is available for purchase.

Ah I see. You want someone to train your star child for free. Doesn't really work like that here, wish as we all might. Probably never will either.
Meanwhile deluxe faux high level soccer will continue to feed a two time World Cup champion USWNT.

How so - every single player called up this month is a pro with one college player. Does not appear faux igh level youth leagues have anything to do with it.

And where do you think those pros come from? Invariably from pay to play programs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sometimes it is not even about cost. Logistics is an issue of you have several kids involved in activities.

The point is that there is no reason for McLean, Bethesda or FCV needs to travel more than a half dozen times to play games in in other regions.

The model needs to change so that 95% of games are local. Regionals and nationals are relevant but only if under one club. There is no need to have three or more different leagues with their own national playoff system.

Why should they change the model? They have plenty of paying customers. If you want what they offer, pay the price. If not, play NCSL or one of the other local/regional leagues. It sounds like you want the benefits but are unwilling to pay the price.

There is no product available for kids that really want to pursue high level soccer unless you are in striking distance of a funded boys Da. Market for it is too small and too poor. oh well. deluxe faux high level soccer is all that is available for purchase.

Ah I see. You want someone to train your star child for free. Doesn't really work like that here, wish as we all might. Probably never will either.
Meanwhile deluxe faux high level soccer will continue to feed a two time World Cup champion USWNT.

How so - every single player called up this month is a pro with one college player. Does not appear faux igh level youth leagues have anything to do with it.

And where do you think those pros come from? Invariably from pay to play programs.

All youth sports are pay to play. Not all are super deluxe. Alex Morgan was not playing super deluxe ecnl as a kid

[Anonymous]

Alex Morgan is the 99th percentile example of someone with speed and so fast that coaches pour all of their resources into to get them technical skills. She is not the example you want to use. She freely admits that to get better she needed to play with and against the best.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most of the kids playing ECNL or DA are disciplined, competitive, and hard working to begin with and keeping up with HS work is doable for them. Having said that, the Friday and Monday showcasedays are silly. There is no need for this. It is simply convenience for the tournament directors and college coaches at the expense of the kids and their families (miss school, miss work).

Bollocks. It's a handful of days over an entire year of school. Live a little Karen.

Not sure who Karen is but yes we do live a little and take the days off. I just think that part is silly, but we do it anyhow. I said silly, not a tragedy or some huge deal. Anyhow, my kid loves it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Alex Morgan is the 99th percentile example of someone with speed and so fast that coaches pour all of their resources into to get them technical skills. She is not the example you want to use. She freely admits that to get better she needed to play with and against the best.

Morgan did end up playing club soccer. Just not at the younger ages. To get better, yes you must play against better competition.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most of the kids playing ECNL or DA are disciplined, competitive, and hard working to begin with and keeping up with HS work is doable for them. Having said that, the Friday and Monday showcasedays are silly. There is no need for this. It is simply convenience for the tournament directors and college coaches at the expense of the kids and their families (miss school, miss work).

Bollocks. It's a handful of days over an entire year of school. Live a little Karen.

Not sure who Karen is but yes we do live a little and take the days off. I just think that part is silly, but we do it anyhow. I said silly, not a tragedy or some huge deal. Anyhow, my kid loves it.

karen
1)44. mother of three. blonde. owns a volvo. annoying as hell. wears acrylics 24/7. currently at your workplace speaking to your manager.

2) gives raisins to kids on Halloween

drives an SUV to carpool her kids to soccer practice... better hope the ref doesn’t make a wrong call because she will sue!

love to use snapagram to post her workout selfies

after a long day of talking to managers and driving her kids around she sits down with her mom friends at book club and drinks lots and LOTS of wine
“oh my god Karen do you really have to talk to the Burger King manager every time they forget to give you a ketchup packet.“

“LOL! Yes!! I have to Facebook and instasnap it to all my friends to make sure everyone knows to watch out LOL!!!”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Alex Morgan is the 99th percentile example of someone with speed and so fast that coaches pour all of their resources into to get them technical skills. She is not the example you want to use. She freely admits that to get better she needed to play with and against the best.

Morgan did end up playing club soccer. Just not at the younger ages. To get better, yes you must play against better competition.

yes but the point was it not this over the top ecnl type league with so much waste poured into useless travel. The travel wastes teh time and money of these players.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sometimes it is not even about cost. Logistics is an issue of you have several kids involved in activities.

The point is that there is no reason for McLean, Bethesda or FCV needs to travel more than a half dozen times to play games in in other regions.

The model needs to change so that 95% of games are local. Regionals and nationals are relevant but only if under one club. There is no need to have three or more different leagues with their own national playoff system.

And you are good old CCL guy.

You know the parameters of the league. The showcases are the point.

Just pull your kid out of it already.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most of the kids playing ECNL or DA are disciplined, competitive, and hard working to begin with and keeping up with HS work is doable for them. Having said that, the Friday and Monday showcasedays are silly. There is no need for this. It is simply convenience for the tournament directors and college coaches at the expense of the kids and their families (miss school, miss work).

Bollocks. It's a handful of days over an entire year of school. Live a little Karen.

Not sure who Karen is but yes we do live a little and take the days off. I just think that part is silly, but we do it anyhow. I said silly, not a tragedy or some huge deal. Anyhow, my kid loves it.

Yes, you believe it is silly. Manny here have accepted the terms of the leagues. Go cry somewhere else.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most of the kids playing ECNL or DA are disciplined, competitive, and hard working to begin with and keeping up with HS work is doable for them. Having said that, the Friday and Monday showcasedays are silly. There is no need for this. It is simply convenience for the tournament directors and college coaches at the expense of the kids and their families (miss school, miss work).

Bollocks. It's a handful of days over an entire year of school. Live a little Karen.

Not sure who Karen is but yes we do live a little and take the days off. I just think that part is silly, but we do it anyhow. I said silly, not a tragedy or some huge deal. Anyhow, my kid loves it.

Yes, you believe it is silly. Manny here have accepted the terms of the leagues. Go cry somewhere else.

Yes, you make a good living off of this. We get that. You are correct that forking over our checks means we accept the terms of the leagues.

It does mean we are like the terms of the leagues or get to give up complaining about the terms of the leagues or give up on advocating that the terms of the leagues be changed.

I dont think we are the ones crying in a youth sports chat forum. You are the one offering no defense of how all this silly far flung travel helps the players. You just lash out like an angry snowflake.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most of the kids playing ECNL or DA are disciplined, competitive, and hard working to begin with and keeping up with HS work is doable for them. Having said that, the Friday and Monday showcasedays are silly. There is no need for this. It is simply convenience for the tournament directors and college coaches at the expense of the kids and their families (miss school, miss work).

Bollocks. It's a handful of days over an entire year of school. Live a little Karen.

Not sure who Karen is but yes we do live a little and take the days off. I just think that part is silly, but we do it anyhow. I said silly, not a tragedy or some huge deal. Anyhow, my kid loves it.

Yes, you believe it is silly. Manny here have accepted the terms of the leagues. Go cry somewhere else.

Yes, you make a good living off of this. We get that. You are correct that forking over our checks means we accept the terms of the leagues.

It does mean we are like the terms of the leagues or get to give up complaining about the terms of the leagues or give up on advocating that the terms of the leagues be changed.

I dont think we are the ones crying in a youth sports chat forum. You are the one offering no defense of how all this silly far flung travel helps the players. You just lash out like an angry snowflake.

It does NOT* mean we are like the terms of the leagues or get to give up complaining about the terms of the leagues or give up on advocating that the terms of the leagues be changed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most of the kids playing ECNL or DA are disciplined, competitive, and hard working to begin with and keeping up with HS work is doable for them. Having said that, the Friday and Monday showcasedays are silly. There is no need for this. It is simply convenience for the tournament directors and college coaches at the expense of the kids and their families (miss school, miss work).

Bollocks. It's a handful of days over an entire year of school. Live a little Karen.

Not sure who Karen is but yes we do live a little and take the days off. I just think that part is silly, but we do it anyhow. I said silly, not a tragedy or some huge deal. Anyhow, my kid loves it.

Yes, you believe it is silly. Manny here have accepted the terms of the leagues. Go cry somewhere else.

Yes, you make a good living off of this. We get that. You are correct that forking over our checks means we accept the terms of the leagues.

It does mean we are like the terms of the leagues or get to give up complaining about the terms of the leagues or give up on advocating that the terms of the leagues be changed.

I dont think we are the ones crying in a youth sports chat forum. You are the one offering no defense of how all this silly far flung travel helps the players. You just lash out like an angry snowflake.

It does NOT* mean we are like the terms of the leagues or get to give up complaining about the terms of the leagues or give up on advocating that the terms of the leagues be changed.

Don’t participate. Your kid won’t be missed and another will take her slot.

You know what the terms are. You know what the commitment is. Shut up already.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most of the kids playing ECNL or DA are disciplined, competitive, and hard working to begin with and keeping up with HS work is doable for them. Having said that, the Friday and Monday showcasedays are silly. There is no need for this. It is simply convenience for the tournament directors and college coaches at the expense of the kids and their families (miss school, miss work).

Bollocks. It's a handful of days over an entire year of school. Live a little Karen.

Not sure who Karen is but yes we do live a little and take the days off. I just think that part is silly, but we do it anyhow. I said silly, not a tragedy or some huge deal. Anyhow, my kid loves it.

Yes, you believe it is silly. Manny here have accepted the terms of the leagues. Go cry somewhere else.

Yes, you make a good living off of this. We get that. You are correct that forking over our checks means we accept the terms of the leagues.

It does mean we are like the terms of the leagues or get to give up complaining about the terms of the leagues or give up on advocating that the terms of the leagues be changed.

I dont think we are the ones crying in a youth sports chat forum. You are the one offering no defense of how all this silly far flung travel helps the players. You just lash out like an angry snowflake.

It does NOT* mean we are like the terms of the leagues or get to give up complaining about the terms of the leagues or give up on advocating that the terms of the leagues be changed.

Don’t participate. Your kid won’t be missed and another will take her slot.

You know what the terms are. You know what the commitment is. Shut up already.

You are in the wrong business. If you are gong to take that much money from soccer families, they are going t speak up. better get used to it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most of the kids playing ECNL or DA are disciplined, competitive, and hard working to begin with and keeping up with HS work is doable for them. Having said that, the Friday and Monday showcasedays are silly. There is no need for this. It is simply convenience for the tournament directors and college coaches at the expense of the kids and their families (miss school, miss work).

Bollocks. It's a handful of days over an entire year of school. Live a little Karen.

Not sure who Karen is but yes we do live a little and take the days off. I just think that part is silly, but we do it anyhow. I said silly, not a tragedy or some huge deal. Anyhow, my kid loves it.

Yes, you believe it is silly. Manny here have accepted the terms of the leagues. Go cry somewhere else.

Yes, you make a good living off of this. We get that. You are correct that forking over our checks means we accept the terms of the leagues.

It does mean we are like the terms of the leagues or get to give up complaining about the terms of the leagues or give up on advocating that the terms of the leagues be changed.

I dont think we are the ones crying in a youth sports chat forum. You are the one offering no defense of how all this silly far flung travel helps the players. You just lash out like an angry snowflake.

It does NOT* mean we are like the terms of the leagues or get to give up complaining about the terms of the leagues or give up on advocating that the terms of the leagues be changed.

Don’t participate. Your kid won’t be missed and another will take her slot.

You know what the terms are. You know what the commitment is. Shut up already.

You are in the wrong business. If you are gong to take that much money from soccer families, they are going t speak up. better get used to it.

Not a coach. Quit. You’ll be happier

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most of the kids playing ECNL or DA are disciplined, competitive, and hard working to begin with and keeping up with HS work is doable for them. Having said that, the Friday and Monday showcasedays are silly. There is no need for this. It is simply convenience for the tournament directors and college coaches at the expense of the kids and their families (miss school, miss work).

Bollocks. It's a handful of days over an entire year of school. Live a little Karen.

Not sure who Karen is but yes we do live a little and take the days off. I just think that part is silly, but we do it anyhow. I said silly, not a tragedy or some huge deal. Anyhow, my kid loves it.

Yes, you believe it is silly. Manny here have accepted the terms of the leagues. Go cry somewhere else.

Yes, you make a good living off of this. We get that. You are correct that forking over our checks means we accept the terms of the leagues.

It does mean we are like the terms of the leagues or get to give up complaining about the terms of the leagues or give up on advocating that the terms of the leagues be changed.

I dont think we are the ones crying in a youth sports chat forum. You are the one offering no defense of how all this silly far flung travel helps the players. You just lash out like an angry snowflake.

It does NOT* mean we are like the terms of the leagues or get to give up complaining about the terms of the leagues or give up on advocating that the terms of the leagues be changed.

Don’t participate. Your kid won’t be missed and another will take her slot.

You know what the terms are. You know what the commitment is. Shut up already.

You are in the wrong business. If you are gong to take that much money from soccer families, they are going t speak up. better get used to it.

Not a coach. Quit. You’ll be happier

My happiness is not the issue here.

Don't be a door mat. The players love it. the payers dislike the nonsense and rightly so.