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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let's be serious. The top teams in DA and ECNL are probably the best teams around but the bottom half could easily get outplayed by the top EDP/NPL teams. The U14 MRM Rush team that just moved to Bethesda, and Pipeline, routinely beat ECNL teams in the same age group. [/quote]

DD plays on one of the better ECNL teams in the area and this is probably right. Dilution is real.[/quote]

Yes.  And the people complaining about dilution are the same people that don't want to drive further than 10 minutes to training.  Ergo the need for a ton of "elite" clubs.  Cant have your cake and eat it too.[/quote]

Because there is no reason to drive by 4-5 clubs to play in the same showcases and in front of the same college coaches.[/quote]

Dilution is a reason.

The number of "elite" clubs in the area should be cut in half for them to be truly "elite".
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No real reason to do that either. These are not "elite" leagues, they are showcase leagues. Understand that and the importance of wins and losses declines. [/quote]

Wow.  Brilliant.  I don't remember saying anything about elite be determined by wins and losses.

So coaches have unlimited time and money to visit every club in every geographic area to find all the players?  There is no advantage to a consolidation of talent for those coaches?  And what about the top players?  Is there no benefit to playing and training with a roster full of top players?

I am trying to ask these questions with as little snark as possible but the content of your post makes that difficult.  [/quote]

Both ECNL and DA showcases draw the same college coaches. ECNL showcases may draw more regionally among the smaller D1 and on programs but that is because there are simply more ECNL events than DA and many of the ECNL events are regional. Most players go to college within a half day drive anyways so this is more than sufficient.

DA showcases have fewer events but draw more coaches.

In either event coaches have limited time so they are there to look at players who have either reached out to them or their club coaches may have done so. But a college coach is still going to prioritize a player who is interested in their school over window shopping for a player who will become a bidding war. Top ten soccer programs are targeting YNT and YNTC players off the bar as well as statistical leaders and can afford to get into bidding wars.

If your DD is not one of the top 100 players in her age group then the player has to do the heavy lifting anyways. Frankly, a good player on a bad team playing against quality competition can stand out more to a coach than a good player on a great team. Think of it like trying to stand out at TJ if you are just average there. You are obviously still really smart but at that level you are average. The 3.7 at TJ may not pop the same as a 4.2 in run of the mill HS AP classes.

So for players to pop in front of non top ten, top twenty soccer coaches you need to show separation from your team and other players in the field. That doesn’t happen as easily if you are not the best player on your team.

It is nice that a club like FCV gets 40-70 coaches on their sideline but half of those coaches are really there to watch 2-3 players and the other half are there to watch up to 20 kids on two teams.

It is really about where your kid can both develop and be put in the best possible showcasing situation. And not to be forgotten is where is it the most fun to be. But a kid needs to be a top five player on their team in order to feel and play the part of a leading core player. Supporting role players, no matter how talented are just not alpha enough to pop. [/quote]

Your top 5 player argument is false and it is getting old.

There are 333 D1 womens soccer programs (though not all fully funded). https://www.ncsasports.org/womens-soccer/division-1-colleges

The average roster size is 29.

The average recruiting class is 7.

333 D1 schools * 7 recruits per class = 2331

There are 52 ECNL clubs with a U18 team (from what I could find...this may be less)

There are 72 DA teams with a U18/19 team.

The average roster size is 18.

52+72=124 total teams

124*18=2232 total players

There are more openings for D1 schools than there are DA + ECNL players EVERY year.

This doesn't include D2 & D3 which are large in numbers. Only D1 & D2 offer athletic scholarships though.

If your DD doesn't completely suck, they can play in college at some level AND play D1 even if they come off the bench.

Play with the numbers all you want, the top 5 off of each team would only provide a player pool of 620 players to D1 teams.[/quote]

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