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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Should we take a moment to be amused that the big CCL boosters (Arlington, BRYC, Loudoun) are scrambling/have scrambled to find other options?

I think all three of those clubs screwed up by playing chicken with US Soccer and Wash Spirit Girls DA last year and losing.  They should have gone ahead and ceded control of the DA teams to the Spirit/GDA organization instead of insisting on coach and team selection control.

I agree with the earlier posters on some important points. The talent pool in near-Beltway NOVA/MD is too diluted for the current ECNL and GDA teams to compete nationally, and a contraction would make sense. However, traffic and commuting patterns have a significant impact that cuts against contraction, at least up to about the U15 level when the girls who are not looking for college play are moving away from the higher intensity teams.  I'm not sure how we reconcile those two things in our region.

And what about coaching dilution as more "elite" teams are added? How many really good coaches for all of these *girls* teams are out there, with less potential for increased salary by climbing the ladder than on the boys side, and how many of those coaches can live well in this area on their coaching salary/manage two (or three) jobs to make the rent? Maybe paying slightly better salaries is part of the reason for the Washington Spirit higher prices for GDA--they do seem to have stellar coaching that doesn't rely on a cult of personality the way some of the other elite clubs do.[/quote]

It is amusing that arlington has pretty much just been squeezed our  Maybe the GDA will pan out. Otherwise they are out in the cold and will be saying how great the national league is to their players / parents. [/quote]

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