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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Come on fellow ECNL'ers!  Now is the time to bring over all the ex-DA players we can.  May 1st is Friday.  Can't wait![/quote]

So honestly, what percentage of ex-DA players do you think will make ECNL?  How much ECNL do you think will get bumped?[/quote]

Honestly, 100% of the DA players can make a ECNL team.

What a dumb question.

The question should be how many will bother trying?
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Enjoy your new league. [/quote]

ECNL should have done the right thing and rolled all the DAs in when they had the chance.  Sorry but it doesn’t look like a talent infusion for your mediocre non-champions league team. [/quote]

I agree that ECNL should have done this, and not just because it was the right thing either.  They should have done it for themselves because it was the smart thing.  If, as soon as it became obvious US Soccer was dropping the DA, ECNL had opened their doors and blanket accepted all DA clubs then ECNL would have won too.  They would have all the clubs, all the money, everybody would have to travel less, and ECNL would be the only game in town.  Good for ECNL, good for ex-DA, good for kids, good for colleges, good all around.

But ECNL got greedy and thought they could cherry pick a handful of clubs they wanted and then pick up the best players from the other DA clubs when the league collapsed.  Good for existing ECNL clubs, not so good for kids, bad for ex-DA clubs.

Very short-sighted of ECNL if you ask me.[/quote]

Metro United struggled mightily across age groups; older Arlington girls the same.  If you are to be serious, by "blanket accepting" DA clubs they would just be cheapening the brand.  Nothing is forever.  Some clubs may not survive ECNL's new framework, some in the future may replace.  Kids changing clubs isn't hard.  A league reformatting their operations would, while cheapening the brand.[/quote]

When ECNL doubles their presence in Northern VA they threw out any claim to concerns of cheapening the brand.

When they offered clubs like PDA, Michigan, Real CO multiple teams per age group to lure them back they were not worried about cheapening the brand. [/quote]

Exactly.   Also, there may be other regions where ECNL is considered "elite" but you can't make that case in NOVA, outside of a very small handful of teams within the ECNL clubs here.   [/quote]

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