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[quote=Anonymous][quote=RantingSoccerDad]To catch up on a few random points ...

1. The general purpose of promotion/relegation is parity. It doesn't work for the top divisions of Spain, Scotland, France, etc.., because they have a couple of clubs that are just that much better than everyone else.

2. The "rest of the world" has promotion/relegation in its top pro divisions (aside from Australia and sometimes Mexico), though there's often no easy pathway from amateur to pro. (Often, the clubs don't want it or can't do it.) HOWEVER ... from what I've seen a lot of other countries do NOT have pro/rel in their youth academy leagues. I don't know if that's a pro or con.

3. I'm not convinced the DMV is a mass-producer of a talent akin to, say, Southern California. I might need to do a data scrape of national teams, MLS and NWSL (I would assume top Euro-based talent would be included in my national-team scrapes) to see how many hail from this area, but from what I've seen anecdotally, it's far less than the boosters would have you believe.

4. I really haven't seen anyone make a case for CCL or VaNPL. I've heard the argument that "well, CCL clubs win State Cups," but would they somehow NOT win State Cups if they were in EDP or NCSL?

5. Even the main argument for club-vs-club matchups -- the notion of having the technical staff and all the A-team players (with parents driving to one place as long as two or more kids are A-teamers) in one place -- seems dead now that we're not talking about A teams. If you have a DA or ECNL presence, surely your technical director is seeing a bunch of those games rather than traveling with you to Virginia Beach to see the B teams.

So while this has indeed been an interesting discussion, it seems like it's mostly about the role of EDP and NCSL.

Can anyone make the case for the elite club-v-club leagues? Or have they simply run their course?[/quote]

Nice summary and I think that the writing is for the club-v-club leagues is on the wall.   Re item 1, I think a better way to describe the purpose of promotion/relegation is to maintain competitive balance and ensure that the leagues/divisions hierarchy is based on sporting merits/strength of the teams.  [/quote]

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