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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PDA is the real deal. Even if DA is better, the fact that PDA brought home multiple titles says enough. PDA is a super club.

https://www.soccerwire.com/news/ecnl-national-finals-conclude-with-u14-u17-title-matches-in-richmond-va/[/quote]

PDA is one of those clubs that doesn't need a league. They went back to ECNL because they can charge for two ECNL teams and pull it off. It isn't about any ideological belief in this league versus that league. ECNL gave them two teams and a showcase to host. ANY club takes that deal 10 out of 10 times but not many clubs can demand that kind of a deal.

There are only 5 or so clubs in the nation with that kind of cache though the rest are just not that different than any other club.[/quote]

They went back to ECNL because players wanted to play high school and the coaches didn’t like having tactics dictated to them from Chicago. The “back to ECNL to charge more money theory” makes no sense. Not every club is a money grubbing cash grab.[/quote]

Actually financials did play into the decision to go back. PDA practices 2x a week and then charges extra for a 3rd practice so coaches can supplement their income. They just recently starting introducing some changes at the tail end of the Spring season. DA dictates 4x a week practice, granted not everyone does that. PDA’s coaches are contractors and not FT salaried employees of the club. PDA was in a place where they had to increase # of practices with DA but not increase fees. Coaches were training more but getting paid less and certainly not happy.  Combined with being a founding member of ECNL, the same HS they so discreetly discouraged previously, they decided to go back to ECNL. And yes 2 teams to a founding member...they have pull.  [/quote]

Of course financials played a big part. PDA wasn't losing players to competing ECNL clubs while they were in DA so that kids could play High School. ECNL and ECNL clubs are simply marketing High School as a point of distinction between the two leagues but PDA is PDA and as such the players will fall in line with the club whether they are happy or not. For PDA this was all about money and not some real firmly held ideology that HS Soccer is so important. There was heavy financial incentive for PDA to move back.

When Real Colorado and Top Hat tried to get the same deal this year as Michigan and PDA have they were turned down by ECNL so they went all in with DA instead. They wanted to field two teams and when they were not allowed to they simply left. Their decision was not based on ideology either regardless of what any boiler plate press release says.[/quote]

None of it is based on ideology. It’s all money, power, and influence. [/quote]

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