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Anonymous wrote:I have nothing to do with Pipeline other than I have seen many of their teams beat ECNL teams senseless. Ask any ECNL coach what he things of the quality of Pipeline players.

We recently played a girls 06 pipeline team. We easily beat them. So, i am curious which age group you are referring to?

Yeah, the pipeline hype in here is eye brow raising. Cant sleep on their teams but they arent the definitive cream of the crop in the area.
Though their 06 team isnt a juggernaut- the 06 talent and competition in the maryland/baltimore area is stout. Any of the top clubs in the area can win on any given day- dont sleep on the SAC talent either.

Agreed. SAC 06G is always a tough punch out.

SAC 06G is losing many girls to different clubs. I wouldn’t worry about them. This is what happens with SAC on a constant basis. Their teams fall off as kids leave for DA or ECNL clubs. One giant rec type club who has many kids to pick from in the lower age groups and then the teams fall apart when they get older.

Whats your definition of "many".

And I guess thats a good review of the clubs player development leading up to U13/U14 if the talent is there for them to go to DA/ECNL teams, yeah?. (and some selected for the current 06 Spirit team are a total joke so not putting much weight into the current 06 spirit program/team).

This person using the word “joke” to describes young kids is horrible. Do we have another parent here who is jealous their child didn’t make DA / ECNL?

Also I’m not sure if a few kids leaving SAC for ECNL / DA proves that SAC is developing kids? With the player pool they have and enrollment numbers they have at early ages let’s hope 4 or 5 make ECNL / DA. What is proven is SAC constantly falls off at around u13. So in my opinion they aren’t developing anyone but 4 or 5 ringers out of a player pool of 80.

I guess time will tell how much they miss the girls who are leaving from the 06 team.

Don't follow your logic that SAC teams "dropping off" at U13 means they aren't developing players. If every year when things move from 9v9 to 11v11 they lose 6 of the best players (they have developed from U5 you say?) then of course their top U13 team will drop off in the win column. Have you seen U12 soccer? It only takes one good player on each line up the spine of the team to dominate most games. And when you have MD United and Bethesda ECNL programs on both ends and Pipeline (that should have been ECNL years ago) to the north, what do you expect? If the club wasn't seeing any players move to the top leagues as they near 13, then I'd say they weren't very good developers. Maybe SAC chooses to be a strong club within their community and not to chase fake glory of 5 kids per year at the expense of creating 500 who love the game and don't quit when they turn 14. (I'm not a SAC person, this argument can be for any club that sees players 'move on' to better leagues as their reach their teens.) Would Bethesda be bad at player development of every year 5 of their 17 year olds chose to graduate from HS early to go play professionally? And as a result their 18s "dropped off"?