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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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]

Arlington DA struggled? C'mon. The oldest age group, yes, but they are done and have nothing to do with next season and beyond. The youngest 4 age groups all did very well. I think it is a bit silly to argue that the ECNL admitting FCV and Arlington would not have made the MA a better conference. In most age groups those two clubs would have been above average teams, and lessened travel requirements. Are the local ECNL teams going to absorb a few FCV and Arlington players? Sure. But there are going to be more than a handful that are perfectly happy at their club, playing against the same clubs they played against last year, now being able to play HS and not under harsh sub rules. Those are a whole bunch of strong players and teams that could have been in the ECNL but won't be. And now you either cheer every time you drive to SC for a league game and root for another program for young female athletes to fail (nice...), or you hope that ECNL absorbs these clubs next year, which they could have just gone ahead and done now when the travel issue is more pertinent than ever.[/quote]

All of this ^^^

While also maintaining the prestige of the patch because there is no real competing brand and maintaining rosters.

Nearly every Pro league in America had to concede and merge.

The American League and National League to form MLB

The NBA had to absorb the ABA

And the NFL absorbing the AFL creating the NFC and AFC conferences giving birth to the Super Bowl.

A merge is inevitable and it should have happened over the last two weeks under ECNL’s terms. Now they have to compete on their own merits and club by club, player by player.

It was short sighted and dumb. Even dumber when you look at the reality of a train wreck fall season for all of soccer anyways.

But kicking FCV out of a crappy NPL shows how not petty US Club/ECNL is as well as where their head was truly at with regards to admitting the DA’s.

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I don’t know what happened with FCV and NPL. I was there when they got kicked out of CCL. FCV claimed they choose to leave. In reality they were booted because they had kids play one game in wags, change jerseys and play a second game the same day in CCL.

I don’t know why ECNL did not accept more clubs. But I think a more apt comparison would be to college football realignment.  The big east did not get a seat at the power 5 table. Schools scrambled - some found a home in other P5 conferences some didn’t.  The b10 or ACC wasn’t going to add UConn just because they were available.

The ECNL for better or worse decided that they could only add a few teams. Most folks here should be glad that is what happened.  They left enough strong clubs for the former DA teams to form another league.  There will be less disruption to the current teams.  
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FCV was never in CCL. [/quote]

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