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Of the 31 kids on the UVA roster 15 have national team experience and one has ODP regional experience. So now you have the measuring stick of where your kid needs to be in order to be considered for such a program. Just being on a great ECNL team isn't enough I'm afraid at "absolute highest levels here" buddy. [/quote]

Look Buddy, I'm talking about major conferences. Not just UNC, Virginia, and Stanford. ACC, SEC, Big 10, Big 12, Pac 10, Ivy, etc. Multiple players from FCV, VDA, MD United, Bethesda and McLean have gone to many major schools. Not just National Team players. ODP is a joke. [/quote]

So we're not talking about UNC, UVA, Stanford? I mean I thought you were talking about "different animals here". I thought you were talking about the "absolute highest levels".

If your DD is playing at the "absolute highest level" shouldn't she be shooting for UNC, Stanford and Virginia?[/quote]

Bench warmers - all of them [/quote]

Yup, just trying to paint a realistic picture. But people tend to wrap themselves up in the identity of their club team and then go a step further and try and project what their team ranking and club name means for their kid.

Unfortunately early on they tend to disparage the programs where their kid is most likely best suited for and will ultimately end up.

Their other problem is looking at the recruitment of kids on teams that were formed years ago, before DA, GA and twice the number of local ECNL clubs than now. They fail to recognize the consolidation of talent that just will never happen again. If a ECNL team developed 8 Power 5 players a year before that number is cut down to 4 or possibly less. The DMV will not be producing more of these kids than before, they’ll just be spread out across different clubs.

So go ahead dream, dream big and work hard, but stop with the lists. I see another U14 thread has popped up which just proves my point about parents at that stage.

Keep dreaming but June at the end of your DD’s Sophomore year will be the only truth that matters. For a very small number it will be a bonanza but for a vast majority of you it will simply be a process. [/quote]

Finally the BRYC secrets are exposed. What they dont want you to know. What every BRYC parent doesn't want to believe.[/quote]

I think this was targeted at any parent with a kid in any long standing destination club. These clubs are still going to produce P5 players but no longer at the numbers they once did. There are simply many more options now than before so just because you are now on a U14 team at a older destination club who would send ten kids to a Power 5 school don't assume that just being on a team in that club, in that league will mean the same thing for your player.

DA started when 04 and 03 teams were established under the old world order. ECNL doubled in size locally  within the same time frame. So 05 was a affected some, but 06 and younger is a whole different ball game. Clubs like VDA have become stronger at the younger ages, Loudoun has retained their players. These players are staying put along with McLean kids, BRYC, FCV etc. [/quote]

This. Until 2017, BRYC was where girls went to get recruited if they didn’t do ECNL (FCV and Mclean). Any girl who wanted to get recruited to play college soccer went to one of those three teams. BRYC wasn’t ECNL but it had a great track record. All of that broke apart in 2017 with the establishment of Girls DA and the subsequent expansion of ECNL.  Those three clubs no longer have the talent magnet they once did.  All will be revealed when 06s start making verbal commitments, as PP noted.  I think we’ll see a very different recruiting landscape emerge. [/quote]

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