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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of this is not relevant but a few of the answers are wrong and could be misleading to parents trying to separate signal from noise, so here’s some follow up:

“- ECNL parents are in constant state of FOMO”

Probably accurate, but unimportant of college recruiting- in fact FOMO parents can be unintentionally helpful.

“- GA is more relaxed”
Maybe? I felt like the parents were roughly the same, also not important.

“- There's bottom feeders in both leagues”

True but not super relevant other than as i noted earlier, if there’s better kids then more coaches show up.

“- The top GA teams get as much visibility with recruiters as the better ECNL teams”

Not accurate unfortunately. It’s a numbers game and there are way more college coaches at ECNL showcases and Nats.

“- There's 10ish ECNL clubs that would win in any league they play in. (Most are in California and Texas)”

Sure, but completely irrelevant to recruiting. Winning and losing is only vaguely important.

“- From a rules perspective for games, coaches, and clubs GA and ECNL are nearly identical”

Yep, totally agree.

“- If your kid is a once in a lifetime soccer talent other clubs, other leagues, colleges, and pros will find them no matter where they play”

I am not confident this is accurate, but I’ll agree.

“- For 99% of the players it doesn't matter where you play they'll end up in the same place”

100% wrong. Full stop. This trope that coaches are out there scouring the earth for players is simply wrong. For girls soccer, coaches have limited time and budget. Coaches know they can get enough of the talent they need from going to ECNL and GA tournaments/showcases and a few big club private showcases to fill their slots. College coaches wsnt to win, but it’s a churn business. They have 30 kids on the roster, 1/4 of them will graduate each year. The season is stupid short and brutal. Healthy bodies are almost as important as talent at the end of the season.

If your daughter wants to play upper D1 or high level D3 the chances of breaking through playing NPL or E64 are diminishingly small. My kid has friends who were probably as hood as she was, but they didn’t make the jump to ECNL/GA. A few belatedly tried to get a College spot, but the only interest was from D3 schools just looking for bodies.

My kids are not once in a lifetime talents. they both are good, one hit all met honorable mention and got UNited Coaches player of the week, but no call ups or huge honors. Without a chance to be seen by College coaches over and over, my kid isn’t playing in college today. As a parent, I would be fine with that, but it was her dream and i supported her. ECNL and GA are tools that help support that goal.[/quote]

lol.. college coaches will get who they want, doesn’t matter the league. Yes ECNL showcases may have more coaches attend, but overall coaches will come see who they want, no matter the league.[/quote]

Sure.  But ECNL has about 70% of the commits to D1 and ECNL girls have a leg up at the D2 and D3 level as well.  [/quote]

If your kid plays on a crap ECNL team… I would rather take my chances at a successful GA team[/quote]
Bingo.

Also eventually ECNL teams will join GA (it's just how things work) either because they're getting tired of getting beat in ECNL or because they think they can run GA and get more visibility for their teams. [/quote]

This would be believable if there was one example of a ecnl club leaving to join ga. [/quote]

SYC[/quote] 
SYC didn’t really even have a coach on the ECNL staff so really no coaches and not many players are choosing to leave ECNL.  SYC decided they wanted to have their future players compete in the GA.

They decided to go get a GA director that wasn’t even good enough for Arlington.  And Arlington is not exactly killing it right now with their staff.

No matter how much you bring up SYC and the GA, anyone that isn’t a current u12 parent or an SYC coach knows that GA is just a glorified EDP right now.  They took VA Revolution who is not even a good EDP club.
 [/quote]

Both maldonados and tupy had been on the coaching slate in 22-23.  Este still on staff for 24-24. Not sure why they started dropping off.  Maybe in expectation of GA or maybe they got ousted?  Either way, point stands that SYC is leaving ECNL for a lesser league.[/quote]

A different league better aligned with their model of player development, which is proven again, see boys MLSN at SYC. Plus independence and space from the sinking legacy media ship formerly known as just McLean now it’s McBrave. SYC 100% left Union so yes they left ECNL [/quote]

SYC never had ECNL, they were nothing more than a feeder club.

I’m not sure why any of this matters. I’m not sure why SYC is in this thread BEGGING kids to tryout at SYC? What with MLSNext and now GA as well as SYC’s world renowned reputation for development surely you don’t need former ECNL players to compete in GA. You should have all that you need right now and develop them into National Champions. I suspect that SYC will be pumping out National Champions in GA just like they do year after year in MLSNext. [/quote]
You really should just stop embarrassing yourself with the nonstop ECNL cheerleading. It’s sad 😞 [/quote]

This is a mad McLean parent that SYC decided not to be their partner anymore. They will have fun with Brave now :)[/quote]

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