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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IMHO there are a couple of things going on at BRYC at least on the girls side. At pre-ECNL (U12 and younger) there is no pipeline of talent coming in. They seem to have a handful of talent at these ages but mostly in the midfield and a big drop off in talent in the front and back line. They don't play in a league, so I've only seen them in a few tournaments and scrimmages but the play style is consistent and possession oriented out of the back. They seem to value technical skills as their teams are generally small technical girls. 
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I echo the dilution piece. The dilution at lower age levels stems a lot from how BRYC is set up a with Rec/ODSL teams and player pools on one side while Elite controls ECNL and NCSL entry. For example, parent coaches from rec will take strong rec players (or their own rec team) and form an ODSL team, and that is under the rec umbrella. When they want to move from ODSL to NCSL they have to go get Elite’s blessing and become a Bridge team which is still led by the parent coaches and don’t mix or train with the academy coaches. You also often have Bridge and ODSL coaches competing for the same players (e.g. one coach was lent players for a game in ODSL by another BRYC ODSL team and after that game the coach tried to poach those players by offering them unlimited playing time—this was a couple weeks into a season) and while there are many talented players on each team they are spread across those parent-led clubs as well as of course Elite, and many of those talented Bridge and ODSL players are better than the full Elite players. Additionally, there are many Bridge teams who have players playing up and many of those kids playing up are absolutely full Elite caliber within their own age group. An example of the dilution at the younger age group is at the U10 level where there probably are 7-8 2012s playing up on the two Bridge 2011 teams from that will be playing this Spring in NCSL and those 2012s are as good as if not better at all his moment in time individually than many of the 2012s in the academy already. I do not see how BRYC ever has their strongest travel players all together at the same time during any phase of development (U9-U19) because many kids who are happy on their Bridge team I am sure will never go to Elite.[/quote]

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