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What constitutes quality is in the eye of the beholder. There is not one formula that guarantees development and fits all. What people want is to minimize dilution and travel. Dropping back to one national league will do that. I don't have a problem with club directors making money either. After all, youth soccer is a business and that part is here to stay. Nobody is so altruistic that they're going to develop players without leveraging their effort to best advantage.[/quote]

ECNL is not doing anything to reduce dilution. They are handing membership to any club that comes knocking. They can do this because there are little to no entry or operational requirements. Most parents have no clue what to look for in a soccer club, so the eye of the beholder argument is BS wrt quality - I can see it regarding value and ROI because people are looking for different experiences. If the club is for profit, the Directors are free to make much as money as they can convince their players to give them. If the clubs are non-profit, the Directors can’t. ECNL is like the android phone - some are good, most are crap. DA is like the iphone - almost always good. [/quote]

Nobody said anything about ECNL reducing dilution. They are working the market to gain advantage is what they are doing. It's what happens in a free market. I will be pleased when one or the other league is defeated or we come to some sort of tiered system that better serves the country and youth.[b] It is quite obvious that ECNL does a better job at what they do, feeding the college ranks. DA does a lousy job at feeding the NT's[/b]. The DA should collapse down to a much smaller, fully funded, elite league feeding NT's, and leave the bulk of the market to ECNL. That would improve the dilution problem we currently have.

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Do you work for ECNL? I mean, this kind of unsupported BS feels like marketing.[/quote]

I don't actually. You could easily switch those two names and I would be equally as happy. Let ECNL feed the NT's and DA be the college feeders. Either way, we do not need two massive leagues battling it out for our youth. It's counterproductive for our girls and for our country's NT programs. And who survives, should that be the case, will be dependent on money first, and soccer second. That's just reality.

Based on the last few years, ECNL has shown to be a better platform for clubs who make the decisions. and the market is reflecting that. On the present course, ECNL will slowly choke out GDA, barring a significant change. Either GDA will have to find a way for these clubs to prosper financially, or they will die.  I am happy for any indication that one platform or the other will begin to dominate. We need a tiered system for this to work at all.

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