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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And even less when the teams didn’t pick up a lot of gfr talent.[/quote]

When you say "didn't pick up a lot of GFR talent", were you expecting 1/3 of the NVA team rosters to come from GFR?  That was never going to happen.   LS wasn't looking to replace their existing ECNL players, they were looking to supplement with quality talent from [u]outside[/u] the club.  They're obviously well acquainted with the players on their own ECNL-RL teams and anybody that they wanted to "promote" to ECNL, they could have easily done at any time.  I can't speak for Valor but GFR, at least on the girls side, has a decent number of players go on to play in college every year.  For example, the GFR 05/06 team this year has 8 or 9 college commits on it.  So whether you attribute that to complete luck, coaching, etc., the fact is, GFR has some good talent (as does Valor) and Loudoun wanted to tap into that.  I have no idea what GFR and Valor hoped to get out of a "partnership" with Loudoun but it was never going to be symbiotic.  Coaches at the two smaller clubs would "guide" their best players over to NVA ID sessions.  That let NVA get a look at them before they potentially go tryout at another ECNL club.  And even if they only decide to take 10% of those players, those are players that they would otherwise not have seen because they don't play at Loudoun.[/quote]

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