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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To many good posts above to quote them.  If DMV wants to win on the big stage Coaching, practice and recruiting requirements have to change. Maybe even more consolidation of ecnl teams and some year round training.

So you got families that are ok with their kids winning or losing locally & getting picked up by local schools vs family that want max exposure and winning on a grand stage. Equals failure if nothing changes.

Everyone locally should have been mimicking the arl 2011s approach to competition and studying the teams out west approach to the games….

Smh thats a lotta money for no results in the playoffs [/quote]
There really is no reason for parents, coaches, and clubs in DMV to make these changes. The local system is achieving the goal of getting their daughters to the colleges they want. It is not a failure because the teams out west are better in national playoffs. The DMV is not any different than other parts of the country, mid-west, northeast, and it's fine the way it is. Not every region can be a super region that draws players from all over. You have super regions in every sport, every industry that draws in the best talent. LA is the entertainment capital, NY has banking, FL and TX have youth football, CA and TX have soccer. [/quote]some of these girls have bigger aspirations than va tech and local schools.  Overall these clubs are doing a great job getting girls college nods locally and in some cases nationally.  I am curious if anyone has taken samples from all the clubs to see dmvs overall placement track record compared to other regions.[/quote]
The girls with bigger aspirations, who actually have the talent potential, should move to CA and TX. That is already happening. It's why these places are turning out such good players and teams.

If you want to make it big in the movies you move to LA, you don't try to get your region to become better at movies. It's why country singers move to Nashville. It's why aspiring olympic athletes in gymnastics move to be near the top coaches. High school basketball players move to attend the top prep schools. If someone is truly in the top 1% then they need to be willing to move to where the best are concentrated in one place.[/quote]

I am not sure what you are looking at.  Girls in the ECNL in the DMV do not just commit locally.  They commit all over.  Union has UCLA, Vandy  commits.  Arlington has Vandy, Arkansas, Georgetown commits.  Lots of other P4s.  Even bad teams have a P4 commit or two.  You can get to a top program from the DMV.

Frankly the system does work for most in the DMV.   For many in the clubs it is getting to a high academic school be that D1 or D3.  For some it is getting money anywhere in D1.  Then there are a few that want local.  There are a very few that may want more.  Often they are the best on the teams.  They can get P4 here.  Would they be better off in Cali or Texas -- sure.  But who is going to do that?  Very few from here would uproot.  On a team we were on a few years ago there were kids with parents who were biglaw partners (5), doctors (2), and a CEO.  They are not moving to Cali because one of ther 3 or 4 kids is good at soccer.  [/quote]
Georgetown is great academics but not P4. Vandy is P4 but the very bottom.  You'd be surprised how many parents here think their kids are good enough to play professionally. When in reality there have only been maybe 2 or 3 from the last 10 years to reach that level from the DMV.

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