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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]. . . so ODP is going to survive because U13 ECNL players already  spending $5K+ a year are going to spend another $2K to get to and possibly make the Region I team?[/quote]

No, older age groups of ODP might continue to be a decent option if DA keeps combined age groups. Kids that bounce out of DA may go to ECNL or some other league which would put ODP back in play for those kids.

ODP will stick around, like State Cup. [/quote]

Isn't DA going to single age groups?  In this area, they will have single ages for U13, U14, U15, and talk is that U16 is being split from U17 in other divisions then just Frontier.  And if a split doesn't happen this year, then it will eventually.

That leaves only the combined U18/19 group, which is a little late for an elite player to make a run at a Regional ODP team, no?  A player looking at an ODP run at that point is probably a little late in the game.  ODP may hang around like State Cup, agree, but it doesn't sound really relevant anymore for the ELITE player in THIS area, certainly not when they split the combined U16/17 group up.

That split could be the nail in the coffin for ODP in this area.  For the next class of 2006s, with single age groups for both DA and ECNL over the next couple years, I tend to agree with you and PPs that think the quality of player doing ODP drops dramatically? this summer at the tryouts.[/quote]

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