Brave new world: BRYC and VYS partnership is on

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[Post New]05/25/2022 11:40
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FGDaddio
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While not directly related to BRAVE, is BRYC also fielding ECNL-RL teams for 2022-23?


Yes, they are only fielding ECNL-R under BRYC. Offers have gone out and ID sessions are still ongoing. ECNL will be solely under BRAVE.
[Post New]05/25/2022 12:21
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Novafam
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FGDaddio wrote:
While not directly related to BRAVE, is BRYC also fielding ECNL-RL teams for 2022-23?


Yes, they are only fielding ECNL-R under BRYC. Offers have gone out and ID sessions are still ongoing. ECNL will be solely under BRAVE.


Will they have any success in ECNL-R? whatever good players on their teams stayed on Brave and remaining players moved down to ECNL-R?
[Post New]05/25/2022 12:34
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RantingSoccerDad wrote:
soccer_dc wrote:
FPYCparent wrote:I'm not here to promote or defend BRYC, as I have no affiliation, but ...

Isn't ECNL(/GA/MLSNext) play more so about getting participants opportunities to play at collegiate, professional, and/or national team levels?

Don't get me wrong, winning is nice, but if BRYC's players are earning slots to play at those levels, do team results matter?



Yes and no on team results. While it is true that even players on losing ECNL teams will have chances to be seen by college scouts, it also helps to be on a winning team because winning teams play more games in front of more scouts as the team advances in playoffs, etc., and branding matters when it comes to college recruiting. If the club is a well known "brand", has a track record of producing college players, coaches have strong relationships with certain colleges, then that will certainly help the players on those teams, and winning helps to build the club brand. Of course, if a player is really good enough, it doesn't matter if their ECNL team is at the bottom of the table, they will still get noticed. But all things being equal it is better to be a player on a winning team. A better metric for evaluating ECNL teams is probably to look at how many college commits they get vs how many wins.


I really wish there was a central clearinghouse for that information.


It's not a perfectly complete list but you can get a decent idea of commitments by club at https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/search/?area=commitments
Select a state and year and you'll see which clubs have the most commits.
[Post New]05/25/2022 12:45
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FGDaddio
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Novafam wrote:
FGDaddio wrote:
While not directly related to BRAVE, is BRYC also fielding ECNL-RL teams for 2022-23?


Yes, they are only fielding ECNL-R under BRYC. Offers have gone out and ID sessions are still ongoing. ECNL will be solely under BRAVE.


Will they have any success in ECNL-R? whatever good players on their teams stayed on Brave and remaining players moved down to ECNL-R?


I don't know if they will have success. My son is planning to join the 2008B ECNL-R team from another club. He went to the ECNL ID sessions and said there were kids from outside clubs but obv most kids were VYS and BRYC kids.
[Post New]05/25/2022 14:37
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NotMessi
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What went wrong this year??

Will the VYS partnership be able to rescue BRYC from this past year's results?
Here are the girls standings... am not even bothering to post the boys.

W-L-T

U13: 0-26-0 2 goals for, 140 against
U14: 1-24-1 15 goals for, 104 against
U15: 1-11-1 10 goals for, 44 against (high school ages only play the fall season)
U16: 3-8-2 15 goals for, 25 against
U17: 0-9-4 9 goals for, 32 against
U18/19: 3-8-2 14 goals for, 39 against

Totals (6 age groups)
8-86-10
65 goals for, 384 against (differential of -319)


Sooo... will resetting the teams and adding ECNL-R players from VYS help for next year?




I would expect the bottom 3 age groups to be much improved (next year's U13, U14 and U15 teams). While Vienna has played in ECNL-RL, SOME of the Vienna players are ECNL quality, and play in Vienna simply due to existing relationships and proximity. If those younger BRAVE teams are competitive, others will come. That's the hope.
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