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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t see how getting rid of a pro team affiliation will help.  The problem with this club wasn’t large roster sizes.  It was the quality of the players, because there is no feeder system and the coaching wasn’t very good.  These guys look asleep during games.  So now they are going to reduce their roster size with the same players who lost all the games last year.  I doubt dropping a few girls from each roster will make a difference.  You are just playing your starters (who couldn’t win games anyway) for a longer time.  Unfortunately the DA is not the place to learn the fundamentals of how to play soccer.[/quote]

Because the Pro Club ownership was mandating large roster sizes for revenue. There was no requirement or oversight regarding quality control of player selection.

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You all pretend the pro affiliation wasn’t a draw. That’s the funniest part. You all paid out the a$$ so your daughters could wear that jersey and you could tell everyone she plays in a “pro academy”. [/quote]

DP here.  No, you misunderstand.  Of course it was a draw, but that draw was, unfortunately, completely blind to player talent.  Some could play, others had difficulty playing at that level.   The pro affiliation was a net negative because the pro organization was using the DA as a financial buffer, and accepting players that otherwise should not have been accepted, bloating some rosters and even affecting rendering the starting lineups of a few of the teams.

The positive development with the separation is that now the incentive isn't there to overload the roster.  In fact, the opposite is true.  There is an incentive for these coaches, who have great reputations and have shown the ability to develop and showcase players (100% college acceptance rate last year, even with the uneven scores/results), to "cut the fat" and only keep/obtain players who can play at the level needed.   Rosters will be drastically different next year; and that's not necessarily a bad thing.  Players that were evaluated as core, performing players were made offers to be retained.  The only thing that could hold back performance improvements this year would be the uncertainty/hesitation of good players making the decision to join.[/quote]

All DA and ECNL rosters are done[/quote]

What's your point?  There are plenty of players out there who play outside the DA/ECNL who could be good players in DA. Don't fool yourself.[/quote]

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