LOL i have a player on a DA team, I just don’t have the pompous attitude FCV parents are infamous for. |
So you are saying that FCV and Arlington player pool at the elite level is lesser than that of the current ECNL clubs? Adding those two teams to ECNL doesn't grow the player pool - the FCV and Arlington players already exist and have supported very strong teams in every older age group. |
It isn’t being pompous. The DA teams are impacted IMMEDIATELY. The club brand is tied to where their top teams play. There is a lot of work to be done to sort out where the club will place their A teams. Sorry, but that takes functional priority over holding Zoom meetings with every team who are not yet directly impacted. You can choose to be upset by this but the hard truth is there is currently no change for any B team. They will be playing in their same league next year. |
| the other teams won't compete as members of FCV next year if FCV doesn't exist which it won't if the player pool up and leaves!!! That's what you don't seem to understand!! |
FCV United is not FCV. This really doesn’t affect these teams and no amount of zoom meetings will change that. Go ahead, leave your FCV United B team for another club playing in NPL or NCSL. It is all The same. |
Has Arlington 2008 Dad been on here yet to spew garbage about “If Arlington chooses to go to ECNL”? |
FCV screwed over the ECNL 2 times. They will not be excepted back in. Arlington may be however, we will see. |
How did fcv screw over their ecnl2 teams? |
Arlington is a maybe... just definitely not this season. |
I'm saying that adding two teams does not increase the elite playing pool. It will be the same size this year as it was last year. There are not enough truly elite players in the NoVA area to support more than 4 teams at every age group. |
ECNL lost the high ground on that when they admitted Loudoun and BRYC. |
Yes, that's right, and at the time, that was probably the right move. Now, of course, they're member clubs which ECNL appears to be honoring and protecting, at least so far. If they end up denying FCV, MU, and ARL, they'll be recovering the majority of that talent. |
Well that’s nice. Force kids who have been at their chosen clubs for years to move in order to make the poor performing clubs you added in desperation better. |
How do you know? |
To be fair, no elite league has ever put the priority on the players, that's just the way it is here. These leagues are built and supported by the clubs. If you listen to Lavers interviews, he says that every player will still have a spot to play soccer, as if that somehow justifies it. Left unsaid is that it may not be at the level they perceived they were at last year. And in truth, these players don't have to leave their clubs. This "correction" is a painful and cruel one for lots of talented players. |