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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]
And what have you won?

College soccer is terrible. Seriously, next time you see it on TV watch for a while. Especially women's college soccer. Wait until the end of the game and the coaches will start subbing like crazy completely slowing down the game. This will kill any kind of pressure that normally happens coaches have to sit back and watch the players they've picked work like crazy until the game is over. This is when goals generally happen because everyone is tired and likely to make mistakes.[/quote]
I’m not trying to win anything. My kid enjoys playing college soccer. I enjoy supporting her. If she enjoyed acting in plays or singing or debating I would support her there too. To us soccer is just an activity like any of these others. The entire ECNL ecosystem exists for people like me. It does what it’s supposed to. You want it to be something else. Fine, but maybe you’d be better off starting a whole new ecosystem that was catered for what you want [/quote]

I think this is right.  What ECNL does is provide a platform for those that want to go pro or play national team mostly from the top teams AND provides a platform for college soccer recruitment for the rest.  Most of the girls being recruited could have devoted themselves to any number of other sports and been recruited.  They chose soccer.  Sorry it does not meet your standards but it is a system that works.  But they have fun, will enjoy playing in college and without them there would be no grass roots support for women's soccer in the US.  It also can get them some money D1 or a leg up in what is hard college admissions process.  This is what the stakeholders (kids, parents, coaches, colleges) want.

My DD would love to win a national chamionship.  DD went with the mindset that they could advance.  They did not.  Would have been great.  Winning is a goal but not the goal.  The goal is college recruitment to a college she wants to go to that fits what she is looking for.  [/quote]

Local team can win a championship the day that coaches end sabotaging the skilled players. Some players are not fully committed to the team e.g attend all practices, do individual training on their own, watch and analyze games, etc. yet coaches grant these players the full game, fixed positions, players never go out their confort zone, they miss practices and  still get rewarded with playin time. Coaches never move players to different positions, different formations, etc. Coaches are more committed to these families because of their donations or other incentives than committed to the performance of the team.  This is why there are so many players in the transfer portal. [/quote]

I have never seen this.  DD on an ECNL team no one fails to attend practices except for High School sports.  College coaches are committed to winning or they lose their job and have to slide bacl to be travel coaches.  Don't beleive they are putting anything out there other than what they think will win.[/quote]

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