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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] On the other hand, there are still plenty of girls in the DMV for which all the DA teams are too far to get to regularly. [/quote]

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As long as the DC-area ECNL teams hang in there, and strong players remain at Bethesda, BRYC, and McLean, there is not enough additional top talent to fill another DA program, at least in Virginia (at least in my opinion).  There are currently girls' DAs in Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William Counties - I'd say Northern Virginia is pretty well covered geographically.  If you're in Arlington, there's no reason you can't get to Reston.  There can't be a DA in everyone's back yard.  Right now, our DMV DAs are struggling to compete with those in other states where the talent seems to be more concentrated, and the DA teams are truly the cream of the crop.  It's no different than the pre-DA days. The DMV's top talent is spread among too many clubs who all hold themselves out to be "elite." We as an area would compete nationally if there were fewer top programs and they were limited to the very best players.  Imagine if we took the best 2-3 players in each age group from BRYC, McLean, FCV, Loudoun, WS DA, VDA, etc and made one super club. Then we could compete against the CA, MI, TX teams which always seem to beat us at national events. [/quote]

Yeah but the wide net approach....the more in the pipe the better.[/quote]

Agreed, clearly the bigger the pool, the stronger the teams will be at the top eventually.  However it seems to me that a tiered structure would be more efficient and easier to manage than one massive DA. To this end, I had expected that US soccer would couple in their NPL platform as a bigger, broader league. But I havent seen it yet, maybe its coming. If that was in place, all prospective DA teams would come from NPL first, having displayed competitveness across all ages there. [/quote]

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