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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do players who don't play on a large roster accept this because they can still say they are on an ECNL team for recruiting?  They still have to make it through the college tryout process on merit but maybe just saying that you're on an ECNL team helps?  Especially for a D3 school this could help right?  Sincerely asking.[/quote]

Well, the argument that ECNL and GA are "the best" leagues for college recruitment is not without merit.  You can generally assume that the better players tend to gravitate to teams that play in these leagues.  From a college coaches perspective, you have a limited recruiting budget so you have to prioritize where you're going to go to look for players.  That being the case, if you're hoping to randomly see a great player that you might want to contact, ECNL/GA showcase events are the places you'd prioritize because it gives you access to the largest number of "the best" players in one place.  And if you look at a lot of D1 rosters (certainly Power 5 D1 rosters), they're littered with players that played in those leagues.

As a player with hopes of playing in college, these leagues make sense because the showcase events attract a lot of coaches.  Statistically, I the odds are not in your favor if your approach to recruiting is just hoping to be seen by a coach randomly wandering by your game.  But if you're taking an active role in the process, you're reaching out to specific programs yourself to express interest and invite them to come watch you play.  And since many of them are attending these events, you can end up having the opportunity to arrange for multiple programs to see you at one event.  The other benefit I can see is, depending on the club you play for, some clubs do a fantastic job at promoting their players to colleges and they have coaches on staff who have a lot of connections to different college programs.  Obviously not every ECNL/GA club is that way but there are certainly some that are.

With regard to D3 schools, in particular, you do see ECNL/GA players on their rosters but it's also [u]very[/u] common to see players who played ECNL-RL, DPL, EDP, etc.  In a few cases, you might even find kids who only played HS and didn't play club at all.  It's easy to forget that not everywhere in the country has ECNL or GA teams so you can't play on a team that doesn't exist.[/quote]

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