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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That Arlington 2008 team is definitely an anomaly for the full Arlington ECNL program.  They lost 1-7 to VDA 2008, and, looking at the other Arlington teams, you do not see any results like that against any other ECNL team.  [/quote]

Actually there are lots of results like that.  It's just that it's usually Arlington dishing it out rather than being the recipient :-).[/quote]

That was kind of an outlier for that team. They've lost to VDA in other matches last Fall, but a much closer scoreline and even those loses were much closer matches than the scorelines suggested (i.e. late goals / blooper goals).

One note about the 2008 team is that they don't have a lot of depth. I think the roster is barely 14 kids and that is with some guest players from the Red side, sometimes playing league games with only 1 or 2 subs, so they often tire out against teams that can sub in 5 or 6 fresh legs late in the game. [/quote]

Let's see what happens next year.  A new coach and one or two new players might be all that is needed to make a big improvement.  The 2005 and 2006 teams went from losing seasons under one coach (now departed) two years ago to winning almost every game this season.  The improvement in the 2006 team was almost immediate after the coaching change; it took a little longer for the 2005 team as they needed to attract a couple of key players as well as improve the coaching.[/quote]

In describing these “improvements” in record, you are comparing wins against BRYC, Loudoun and McLean this year with competition last year against dcu and Bethesda. I would be very surprised if the ex-DA teams did not improve their records dramatically this year. I don’t think coaching has much to do with it. Also, it might not have hurt that a bunch of rising U14s could not go to DCU after the DCU transition to U15 as youngest team.  We will see what happens but don’t pin your hopes on magical coaching or dramatic improvements in recruitment. You can always switch leagues again if worse comes to worst. [/quote]

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