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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are stuck in the of the CCL Clubs and everytime we bring up DA/ECNL/etc we get the BS line of CCL.  Our TD needs to go, he isn’t creative and has no vision.[/quote]

Your TD has little say in regards to being accepted into ECNL. Perhaps they have applied and been turned down, but considering the number of ECNL clubs in NOVA currently it is unlikely anymore local clubs will be added for quite some time. [/quote]

I'd agree with this.  The way ECNL-R moved into the Virginia market was pretty shrewd.  Licensed a good, but smaller VPL league and then took their pick of the CCL teams they wanted to fill it out.  [/quote]

Which is really interesting if we are focused on league business strategy and completely irrelevant to whether parents and kids think it is an optical way to organize elite travel soccer at a lower cost with less time and total gas emitted by leagues chasing clubs and clubs chasing leagues.  EDP has a great league for local top U12 teams before they go their separate ways into ecnl and mls next. It is a far better league structure than anything else I have seen. It’s too bad clubs just cannot refuse what a bunch of second-rate minds request from league quarters. A lot of the parents are to blame as well, especially the ones who know nothing about soccer and only look to patches for accomplishment. [/quote]

Promotion relegation does not sell well to parents. How many parents who have their kid try out for the 'elite' club would be upset if they get relegated in favor of the more local club (or, horror of horrors, their own club's B team). Right now the big clubs can say to parents "if we pick your kid, they will play at x level in y league" No matter what, the A team kids will play at a higher level than the B team kids and both will be in a more prestigious league than that little local club in your neighborhood. [/quote]

I'm not sure if this could actually happen with the saturation of the market, but most parents are somewhat rational and would not object having their kid dropped to a lower team if the lower team was a good fit and received appropriate attention and training.  Some of the larger clubs manage this adequately (Bethesda comes to mind, SAC also has more than one strong team in an age group). Most clubs don't give the attention to B & C teams and don't  have the talent pool for those teams to be a good fit for the players on the cusp of making the top team.  [/quote]

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