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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Providing opportunities to kids who are still developing, as opposed to cutting younger kids before they get a chance to improve?

Yes, that actually does seem cool.[/quote]

Being mean is lame, being nice is cool[/quote]

You’re probably the parent of the “in crowd” with your child in upper teams. Or more likely another employee patrolling the thread.

:arrow: As a parent of a former player who will not return to Loudoun and having gone through the different ranks/colors for several years I can assure you all they care about is ecnl and red. Black kind of receives a little bit of attention because they’re the feeder for red which in turn feeds to ecnl.

The remaining 3 teams are just cash providers.

You’re not fooling anyone. Well, maybe the newcomers. And yourself. [/quote]

This is so true. Have had kids on all five "color" teams and noticeable difference from my Red/ECNL players to my Silver team players. ECNL has really changed the dynamic at LS which is why we decided to leave. We were really more interested in player development and competitive games, not just another "elite" league to compete with. [/quote]

How exactly would you you describe that so called dynamic change? Loudoun’s girls ECNL teams are absolutely horrible. With exception of 07 and 04 the rest of teams could barely win a game. And what’s worse: they were embarrassingly poor. When you’re getting blown tf out day in and day out well... you be the judge
On the boys side they don’t stink that hard but at the end of the day that’s what you get with lack of philosophy, culture and resorting to long kickballs as the overall method of playing.  [/quote]

But it doesn't matter their record - that's where the put the marketing in the club: ECNL. Look at most of the media across their sites and it's always ECNL above anything else. Red and Black don't really get the same love they used to. White and below is a joke. Agree the 04 and 07 ECNL teams are decent. Our age group (girls) is mediocre at best, and its enlightening to see them play games against NC teams. LS needs to start to build real technical training. My DD didn't even want to stay it was so bad so we switched clubs.
Our boys are still U-little travel, so good insight. I will say we like the coaches on the boys side a lot better than the girls. [/quote]

When the record is bad then market the league. Easy peasy. [/quote]

I would suspect that many parents who don't know better only look at the league, not the team record...Especially based on what I'm reading on these threads.[/quote]

To be fair, a team record doesn’t tell the whole story, but Loudoun’s lack of success with their B and below teams club wide demonstrates a problem. No club does less with more than Loudoun. [/quote]

Success is a subjective parameter.  Wins?  Quality players?  Championships?   Why all the Loudoun hate?  Are you the same poster who is carrying the flag for the one game Barca vs PDA in the other thread, hoping that the success of of one real Barca team in one game against a strong American team will rub off on the knock off  “barca academy” next door?   It won’t. [/quote]

I just said team results don't tell the whole story. But, for Loudoun's size and player pool, objectively based on club results few clubs have done less with more. [/quote]

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