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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the goal is to eventually play in the GA or the Ecnl, get your foot in the door and go to Bryc or another ga/ecnl club at the younger age groups [/quote]

Question on why you think this?  Logically this makes sense to me, but based on other threads, it sounds like a major complaint of those programs from parents with kids in younger ages is exactly that they recruit over all the kids in the program and get enamored with new shiny toys.  As I said, logically this advice makes sense to me and theoretically those clubs should have more money/more attractive environments to hire better coaches at all ages because of that status, but it just doesn't seem to play out that way.  Forgetting about the ridiculous vitriol and club fighting in other threads, there does seem to be a pattern of older kid recruitment and talk of cherry picking better development elsewhere as opposed to "get in early because the club is great at player development and half the ECNL/GA kids tend to come from their own club".    Any parents out there that have stayed at a club (BRYC or other) a couple years prior to up to ECNL/GA willing to comment on the makeup of the club in year 1 or 2 of GA/ECNL relative to existing club players?  [/quote]

If you look at the make up of the BRYC Boys U14 ECNL team.
approximately

10 players from U10 or younger A team
1 player developed from yheir B team
8 players new to the club at the ECNL of u13 or u14

So the theory of Bryc developing talent is debunked right here. 1 actual player moved up from their B team system to reach ECNL team. 10 were either so much better all the way up from 
u9 to U13 (which shows extreme lack of development by the club for the entire player pool)

The 8 new players were developed by other clubs who might not be an ECNL team for them to play on.

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You cannot develop all players equally because players do not develop equally.  This is a function of many factors beyond coaching.  What you describe above is actually a higher percentage of internal players than I would have expected.  Given the size of the youth pool at clubs like BRYC and McLean, I would expect them to source most of their players for ECNL teams (at least on boys side) from surrounding clubs.  There's nothing wrong with that given the considerably higher degree of competition those teams must face.  It would be unreasonable to expect clubs with one decent U12 team to transition to 11 v 11 at elite levels without major player imports.  Other clubs have enormous pools of players, and yet a number of them also continue to source top talent from other clubs. That's merit-based competition and absolutely reflects well on the coaching staff at those older ages who make tough choices that may not go down well with others.[/quote]

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