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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]Let’s put things into perspective here.

Let’s look at SD Surf. Great ECNL program on the boys and girls side. Dominant.

New MLS club down the road, SD FC. Surely they will have a SD FC academy that plays in MLS Next. Guess where SD Surfs best boys will go?

Now, what if MLS Next says hey SD Surf..you can keep all your kids if you go MLS Next/GA.
Oh and by the way, If the girls go GA, that will be the feeder team to SD Wave.

See how that works[/quote]

Except is does not because most of the girls on Surf are not going to want to go to SD Wave or pro anywhere.  SD Surf has a Sophie's choice.  Lose the boys or lose the girls.  Same as Arlington.  They can't go MLSN.  Hurts their boys program.  They made the choice to stay top on the girls' side.  That is the same choice 90% of clubs would make.

Pathway to the pros is not a selling point on the girls side.  It is college placement.  In your example you would be offering nothing because their top girls that want to go pro already have a pathway.[/quote]

Because it hasn’t been an option in the past. When DA was around they had it all wrong.

Why would one turn down
a chance to play on a pro academy
A chance to play against top teams and international academies
A chance to go pro
A chance to still go to college if you don’t want to go pro
You still get to play high school

Women’s soccer is growing at a fast rate. [/quote]

Girls go pro out of ECNL now.[/quote]

And this is BY aligned so it’s possible at ECNL now. But If ECNL changes to SY or GY then they’ll be saying goodbye to all their strongest players since this better path will now exist for the best players. [/quote]
BY or SY won't matter.

What will matter is if MLSN and GA can convince top players to join their academy teams.

NWSL just needs to implement a homegrown rule and everything will fall into place.[/quote]

What about the USL-W (which DOES have teams seemingly associated with current NWSL clubs -- Racing Louisville and NC Courage, for example) and USL-Academy fit? Why not that pathway?[/quote]
We'll see how long this lasts.[/quote]

And speaking of NC Courage, yes, they have a USL-W U23 team. ... But their youth academy team? That's ECNL. Same for Racing Louisville's.[/quote]Honest questions, why would NWSL teams that have academies want to move from ECNL to GA? Why would NWSL care what league their academies are in or whether it is BY or SY? Seems they would only want to be in the top league regardless.[/quote]
Acadamies are more than just "free soccer" where only the best advance to the next level. The players are also under contract with a certain Club and when if they move up to the next club up the food chain they pay the lover level club for developing them.

What ends up happening is against true Acadamies Pay to Play can't compete. If they do happen to compete the Acadamy will recruit all their players with free soccer and $$$.[/quote]

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