New Additions to Leagues Check Up (ECNL & GA)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am guessing STA and TOPHAT.

TOPHAT did just send a bunch of younger teams to PDA Spring Kickoff. Like the pp said, STA is "fine", but not really a game changer. Definitely it makes sense with the Football Academy -> GA announcement.

If this rumor of 2 clubs is true and not just a fake post on here to stir up talking, then I would think TopHat is at the top of the list. They are in an area that is heavy MLSNext and have not been let in yet. It seems like the clubs in that area have been blocking their admission for years, so they might decide to go the other direction and bring the girls over to ECNL. There's like 4 or 5 MLSN teams in the Atlanta metro already, and they've been keeping TopHat out for years.

tophat use to be in ecnl but jumped to da.when da went bankrupt, they begged to get back into ecnl. ecnl said nope so they had to go to ga they have been trying to get back into ecnl for years.

I don't see ecnl giving them 2 teams in ecnl. only the gold team. the navy team's are not that strong and would align in RL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am guessing STA and TOPHAT.

TOPHAT did just send a bunch of younger teams to PDA Spring Kickoff. Like the pp said, STA is "fine", but not really a game changer. Definitely it makes sense with the Football Academy -> GA announcement.

If this rumor of 2 clubs is true and not just a fake post on here to stir up talking, then I would think TopHat is at the top of the list. They are in an area that is heavy MLSNext and have not been let in yet. It seems like the clubs in that area have been blocking their admission for years, so they might decide to go the other direction and bring the girls over to ECNL. There's like 4 or 5 MLSN teams in the Atlanta metro already, and they've been keeping TopHat out for years.

tophat use to be in ecnl but jumped to da.when da went bankrupt, they begged to get back into ecnl. ecnl said nope so they had to go to ga they have been trying to get back into ecnl for years.

I don't see ecnl giving them 2 teams in ecnl. only the gold team. the navy team's are not that strong and would align in RL.

The boys program is top notch. Would ECNL let them walk to MLSNext and bring others with them, or give them two teams

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am guessing STA and TOPHAT.

TOPHAT did just send a bunch of younger teams to PDA Spring Kickoff. Like the pp said, STA is "fine", but not really a game changer. Definitely it makes sense with the Football Academy -> GA announcement.

If this rumor of 2 clubs is true and not just a fake post on here to stir up talking, then I would think TopHat is at the top of the list. They are in an area that is heavy MLSNext and have not been let in yet. It seems like the clubs in that area have been blocking their admission for years, so they might decide to go the other direction and bring the girls over to ECNL. There's like 4 or 5 MLSN teams in the Atlanta metro already, and they've been keeping TopHat out for years.

Spot on.

Tophat boys side and Concorde boys are amongst the strongest ECNL clubs in the country. If tophat boys flipped to MLS Next in alignment with girls academy, that would be the end of ECNL Southeast.

The question now is, do you let one team into ECNL or both?

Can the 2nd team stay and play GA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am guessing STA and TOPHAT.

TOPHAT did just send a bunch of younger teams to PDA Spring Kickoff. Like the pp said, STA is "fine", but not really a game changer. Definitely it makes sense with the Football Academy -> GA announcement.

If this rumor of 2 clubs is true and not just a fake post on here to stir up talking, then I would think TopHat is at the top of the list. They are in an area that is heavy MLSNext and have not been let in yet. It seems like the clubs in that area have been blocking their admission for years, so they might decide to go the other direction and bring the girls over to ECNL. There's like 4 or 5 MLSN teams in the Atlanta metro already, and they've been keeping TopHat out for years.

tophat use to be in ecnl but jumped to da.when da went bankrupt, they begged to get back into ecnl. ecnl said nope so they had to go to ga they have been trying to get back into ecnl for years.

I don't see ecnl giving them 2 teams in ecnl. only the gold team. the navy team's are not that strong and would align in RL.

The boys program is top notch. Would ECNL let them walk to MLSNext and bring others with them, or give them two teams

would love to be a fly on the wall during the talks between ecnl and tophat if all this is happening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am guessing STA and TOPHAT.

TOPHAT did just send a bunch of younger teams to PDA Spring Kickoff. Like the pp said, STA is "fine", but not really a game changer. Definitely it makes sense with the Football Academy -> GA announcement.

If this rumor of 2 clubs is true and not just a fake post on here to stir up talking, then I would think TopHat is at the top of the list. They are in an area that is heavy MLSNext and have not been let in yet. It seems like the clubs in that area have been blocking their admission for years, so they might decide to go the other direction and bring the girls over to ECNL. There's like 4 or 5 MLSN teams in the Atlanta metro already, and they've been keeping TopHat out for years.

Spot on.

Tophat boys side and Concorde boys are amongst the strongest ECNL clubs in the country. If tophat boys flipped to MLS Next in alignment with girls academy, that would be the end of ECNL Southeast.

The question now is, do you let one team into ECNL or both?

Can the 2nd team stay and play GA?

Quite possibly.

[Anonymous]

Time is ticking.

What a time what a time

[Anonymous]

If your not from greater Atlanta, who cares?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your not from greater Atlanta, who cares?

Additions to ECNL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am guessing STA and TOPHAT.

TOPHAT did just send a bunch of younger teams to PDA Spring Kickoff. Like the pp said, STA is "fine", but not really a game changer. Definitely it makes sense with the Football Academy -> GA announcement.

If this rumor of 2 clubs is true and not just a fake post on here to stir up talking, then I would think TopHat is at the top of the list. They are in an area that is heavy MLSNext and have not been let in yet. It seems like the clubs in that area have been blocking their admission for years, so they might decide to go the other direction and bring the girls over to ECNL. There's like 4 or 5 MLSN teams in the Atlanta metro already, and they've been keeping TopHat out for years.

Spot on.

Tophat boys side and Concorde boys are amongst the strongest ECNL clubs in the country. If tophat boys flipped to MLS Next in alignment with girls academy, that would be the end of ECNL Southeast.

The question now is, do you let one team into ECNL or both?

Can the 2nd team stay and play GA?

ECNL would want them to join RL

[Anonymous]

STA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your not from greater Atlanta, who cares?

That’s what this forum is for?

[Anonymous]

Any word on Lou Fusz?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your not from greater Atlanta, who cares?

Additions to ECNL

this is an interesting comment ... why does this matter? If you don't play in Atl area or in that conference, why does it matter? How does this help your DD team? It obviously would give ECNL 10 more D1 recruits to claim - but how does it help? It helps the marketing of ECNL. It helps the total D1 recruits go up. It maybe helps some of the top clubs getting a little more competitive game, but it doesn't help the middle of ECNL. It doesn't help the bottom at all.

Say the end up in the Southeast conference. Lets take the 2009 age group as they are the current recruiting class. The conference already has 16 clubs. So they go 17? Clubs 10-16 have a negative GD. So adding Top Hat just makes those teams have another loss. If you are going to say Top Hat can't beat teams 10-16 in that conference then either you have no concept of youth soccer or I don't. I don't see Top Hat losing to any of those teams.

Top Hat probably finishes in Top 5 in that Conference - likely Top 3.

Top Hat just pushes another team down the standings, pushes another team down the showcase. It does little to ECNL to make it that much better. The main thing it does is add 10 D1 commits a year to the ECNL count and honestly, that is all that matters to ECNL and their marketing.

They could care less if the team is good or bad or average - they want to know how many kids go to college. and they don't even care once they get to college if they finish, transfer to another school or quit. They want the commit, they want the social media post, they want the money.

On the same level, the other leagues want the same thing. But they don't push the FOMO as much as ECNL does.

[Anonymous]

ECNL does not push FOMO as you keep harping on. Parents (maybe coaches?) do, because they want their kids in the "TOP" league. We need that one singular pyramid ASAP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ECNL does not push FOMO as you keep harping on. Parents (maybe coaches?) do, because they want their kids in the "TOP" league. We need that one singular pyramid ASAP.

100% we need one pyramid ... but if you don't think ECNL doesn't push FOMO you can't be looking at anything ECNL has their clubs put out.