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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought the ECNL was at full capacity. It seems that there was plenty of room left after all...[/quote]

ECNL is smart and pulling the rug right from under exDA clubs to ensure they can’t start up another league to steal from them ever again. They are methodically letting in clubs that are leaders in Youth soccer to handicap any league for the near future. It’s not only business smart it’s smart period. [/quote]

Gee.  And here we thought this was about the kids.[/quote]

It’s a joke. Sports is something where you can actually know whether people are better if you let them play head to head. Not like academics, where you are comparing grads who go to different schools and guessing who might be better when selecting employees. We resort to reputation and schools and rankings when we don’t have a way to simply have the two candidates compete. That process is awful and leads to suboptimal outcomes all the time, along with a meristocracy (intended misspelling) where people can buy their way to success by getting their kids into really good schools. Why on earth would you replicate that with club-based leagues when these local teams could simply play each other instead?  I know clubs love it, knowing that once they get into a league they don’t need to compete quite as well or effectively to attract talent.  So do parents. Their kids are insulated from competition, enjoy the benefit of socioeconomic barriers, and allow their parents to bask in acceptance of an elite status that is bought and derived from league status, not team accomplishment.  Of course I am not talking about truly elite clubs and talent. There are maybe 10-15 girls and 5-6 boys in this area a year in that category across three or four clubs. Talent is talent and those parents probably hate this system probably more than anybody else. [/quote]

What was the point in all of that rambling?[/quote]

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