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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s an inevitable evolution in a market system. Leagues try to get bigger, become watered down and less exclusive, opening new opportunities for another league to be the more exclusive one.

ECNL expansion is a bad thing. ECNL’s draw is that it gives college exposure to all teams. If it expands too much, not all the teams can get the same exposure because events attended by college coaches are a limited resource. Some teams will grow unhappy and look for something else.[/quote]

ECNL-R is not ECNL.

The general premise of your post is true but ECNL-R can expand all it wants, and should, [b]if[/b] overall ECNL wants Pro/Rel[/quote]

Lol pro/rel will never happen with the ECNL. None of the existing clubs will agree to pro/rel. ECNL is about making money, protecting clubs and keeping the u little ranks filled. It is not about competition, winning programs or development. It is not a professional league. Winning does not matter to the ECNL. There will always be first and last place teams. The colleges will take ECNL players off the first through last place teams or any other league players because they need players. It is the equivalent of Pop Warner football or little baseball.

ECNL- r sucks because it is an after thought for the ECNL clubs. ECNL club do not care about ECNL-r. It’s the second team.[/quote]

See bolded. I have no idea what ECNL wants to do BUT if Pro/Rel is on the table at all then it requires more club participation overall. The Pro/Rel could be limited to ECNL-R and not extend into ECNL at all. BUT if ECNL wants to expand ECNL-R via moves like CCL mergers then it needs to offer [b]Regional league clubs the carrot of earning their way into ECNL [/b]otherwise there just isn't a whole lot of reason to be nothing more than the B league.[/quote]

No. They will not do this. The ECNL-r is not important to ECNL clubs. They could careless about ECNL- r teams or clubs. Seriously why would an ECNL club agree to pro/rel? What is in it for them? Nothing but a chance that their club or team would lose the ECNL patch and most of their players. No one will stay at an ECNL club or team that goes down to the ECNL-r. This is not an open system about winning and competition.

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ECNL-R clubs care about why they are joining the league. ECNL has to provide some carrot to these clubs in order to get them to join. Better pathway, better competition whatever they can put on their club website is what ECNL needs to throw at these clubs to draw them in.

On the flip side, if ECNL hopes to keep the top performing clubs eventually they need to demonstrate that the league is doing what it can to address poor performing clubs.

Considering ECNL is club to club this is nearly impossible to actually achieve in a traditional relegation system so you can relax. But, make no mistake that expanding ECNL-R does proved the potential at least within ECNL-R to have Pro/Rel within a tiered system of its own. The reward for those top clubs would be to participate in ECNL showcases outright as a CLUB not team by team. Those top performing clubs can then be rewarded at some point with more ECNL competition or outright admission. [/quote]

No ECNL does not have to provide a carrot for clubs to join the ECNL-r. The CCL is dead and ECNL-r is a regional league for the ECNL. They do not need more teams or clubs. There are no concerns about poor performing clubs in the ECNL. You really do not understand youth soccer. It is not a professional league. There is no pressure to win. It’s about selling the dream of playing in college and collecting money from the parents.[/quote]

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