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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ya’ll missing the forest. The purpose of ECNL is for college recruiting. It helps colleges find players and players find colleges. That’s why there are 44 teams in a “playoff”. Think of it like a job fair. If a player comes back from Seattle with several coach emails and invites (job leads and interviews), it’s a success. If the team wins but no coach interest it’s a failure. To the extent that winning is a goal it is only because it might enhance the true goal and give more chances for college interest. Those of you arguing over playing styles and tactics and national championships are so naive. [/quote]

Ding, ding, ding…we’ve got a winner![/quote]

I agree but it is more complicated than that.  There are not just 44 teams in a playoff in Seattle.  There are another 16 in North American Cup, another 16 in Showcase A and another 16 in Showcase B.  92 teams -- all with lots and lots of coaches watching players not teams.  Why are they watching -- because highlights have been sent to coaches.  Club coaches have called them and they have already seen the people they are interested in at ECNL NC or PHX, or FLA or Dallas.  For uncommitted 07s this is a final look for D3s.  For 08s this is a hard look but D1s have already seen the 08s they are interested in multiple times already.  For 09s -- this could be a first look.

It is all part of an ECNL ecosystem that works really well for what it is intended to do.

Winning in unrealted to the recruiting for the most part.  If you don't get to Playoffs no one can watch you there so you do need to win a bit.

This is the game.  Some below say oh this is not soccer and college soccer is awful.  Maybe.  Who cares.  The goal of most of the girls in ECNL is to play college soccer.  Same as the goal of almost all men with college football.  Only very few think they will play pro.  They love the game and want to play before they go do other stuff.  No guy thinks -- if I do this I will make the NFL better -- who cares.  Same with Women's soccer.  It could be lax or field hockey.  They love the game and play as best they can as they go to college to get ready for the rest of their lives -- very little of which will have anything to do soccer.[/quote]

An uncommitted 07 who is now scrambling for D3 offers? Those parents have already lost their long-term travel soccer bet. They'll now get to pay out of their anuses for their son or daughter to go to - best case - a high academic school they won't even like. People who have put themselves in that position are just trying to salvage an offer and save some face at the cocktail parties.[/quote]

Most High academic D3s have not given offers yet.  Most of those schools do not give offers until junior year final grades are in unless the kid is top shelf on academics and they have serious D1 interest.  Most of those programs are the top D3 programs.  D3s are the goals of many smart kids if they cannot pull Ivy or high academic D1.  [/quote]

No s---, Sherlock. The point was that these high academic D3 schools that uncommitted 07 players are waiting for were NOT the plan for them. Maybe for a very small percentage of them it was - but families don't put in a decade-plus of time, travel and $70-100k in order to get into a school that's marginally better academically than one the would have gotten into without soccer. They do it for the glory of signing D1 and/or the scholarship money they've been eyeing since their kid's first tryout. For ECNL players, D3 - even a high academic D3 - represents a total failure.[/quote]

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