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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what is the scam? I'm not exactly sure who created ECNL but I'm guessing someone saw a need to create a league to consolidate talent that they can pitch to to college coaches that coming to these ECNL events will be worth their while for recruiting...and it worked. My son, who is white, played for a predominately Latino EDP D1 team. Tons of talent on that team. ECNL level kids. Everyone understood that continuing on this team would not provide the platform to be seen by as many college coaches, so my son left and now plays on an ECNL team, so did others. Is ECNL more expensive? Very much so....especially when you add in the travel costs. His three years at ECNL, plus this year, he has had zero white coaches. His team consists of about 1/3 white kids.[b] less than 25% came from the local mega clubs.[/b] All the others started out at small clubs like my son. So I don't understand what the issues are here. I do understand that some kids can't afford ECNL and therefore don't get the opportunity, but I don't see that as ECNL's fault.[/quote]

You are answering your own question. Why should clubs that can’t develop players be the destination? Not to mention, on the boys side, colleges aren’t doing nearly as much recruiting from these leagues anymore. For, the 7 ECNL/MLS Next VA clubs, this past spring’s graduating class had something like 15 players go D1 - which includes a few to VMI/Military Academies - and somewhere around 30-40  playing D2/D3. Probably all of those kids could’ve gone D2/D3 out of EDP or another league.
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Just because a kid goes D3 doesn't mean that they can't go D1. D1 is 60-80 hours a week including school. I bet many boys don't want it to be there life. They want to have fun.  Also, club soccer can be just as good. [/quote]

Not to mention D3 has some of the best academic institutions.[/quote]

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