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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mclean has gone to GA and Mls next2. Their program under Harkes has gone south and hardley could compete in Ecnl. Now they are going Mlsnext 2.  What is going on?[/quote]
You are not paying attention. Harkes is trying to save the club after his predecessors almost pissed everything away. It was not economically viable for Mclean to share its ECNL revenue three ways.  [/quote]

ECNL revenue? So you think ECNL revenue gets passed down rather than lower teams subsidizing the top teams? [/quote]

What you say might be true about the lower teams "subsidizing" to some degree - in other words, they are more profitable than the top teams but that's not what I'm talking about. What I'm talking about is that the club lost out on nearly a half million in revenue this season (before costs) with the merger and that is not sustainable.

Before the Union, Mclean had 12 ECNL teams (boys/girls) for which they kept 100% of the profit (after paying coaches, paying ECNL, and renting fields, etc). After Fairfax VA Union, I assume they split the profit 3 ways with Vienna and BRYC. (McLean kept all or nearly all of the revenue from the original union with SYC).

Conservatively, figure $3,000/player, 20 players per team for 12 teams (6 boys / 6 girls), and that is $720,000 in revenue, so the profit is some percentage of that. After the merger, their ECNL teams only provided $240,000 (1/3 of $720,000).

Now Mclean will have less talent and fewer players (in the short term) across the entire club with current RL kids set to play on their top team, and everyone else due to move up a step (NCSL->GA2, etc). The lowest teams in the club will likely evaporate. But Mclean is not sharing any revenue, so they are back to a financially sustainable business model. Good job, Harkes![/quote]

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