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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Still going to be a basement team. All you can do is laugh.  Nova needs to collapse more ECNL teams.  And make RL better.. [/quote]

Why? The purpose of ECNL is not to win games, it is to help (girls) get showcased to play college soccer. Sure, it’s nice to win at Nationals, but by the end of 9th grade every kid on that team is thinking about the college angle, working on their clips and figuring out which ID sessions to go to.

ECNL teams are about developing players who can step onto a college pitch and not get blown out on day one. ECNL (and GA) re successful because college coaches go to the showcases. Those coaches go to the showcases because they know that every player on the field can all handle a certain level of pressure and physicality. So with those bases covered, now they can focus on what players they want, which players are likley willing to play for their school, and which players will help them keep their jobs.[/quote]
The problem with girls ECNlL is at the younger ages it tends to attract the most challening parents.

My experience is that on the top ECNL teams all the parents are soccer crazy but "normal" if there is such a thing when you're soccer crazy. The lower end ECNL parents are the ones that ruin it for everyone else. Instead of focusing on getting better as a club or team they jump online to talk about how great ECNL is. When you call them out on which team their kid plays for in ECNL the conversation becomes evasive. I think this happens because the lower end ECNL teams get beat up on week after week in league and in frustration they lash out at other League parents to make themselves feel better.

As the kids get older wins mean less and less and Showcases mean more and more. When this happens most of the ECNL cult parents mellow out. However sometimes they just switch from bragging about wins to the number of recruiters at an event. Again when you call them out on which recruiter is your kid engaged with and they become evasive.

All the over the top ridiculousness is just not nessasary. I promise if your kid plays in College or professionally nobody care which league they played in as a youth.[/quote]

When crazy GA parents get called out they create threads about NWSL/GA/MLS/US Soccer mergers and professional academy utopia. [/quote]

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