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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://youtu.be/QdLkj6MmgIA?si=eYc9keEGW9k_rtqX

I thought this was a very good watch.  I know Nationals get brought up here at times.[/quote]

Realize that I am late with the follow-up on this, but I just finished watching.  It was pretty long at 2 hours, but IMO it was worth it.  I thought that the transparency that was offered was really good especially as it related to college recruiting, tryouts and having players come in.  I didn't realize that Nationals had outposts all over Michigan and would draw those players into their top teams and some of those players would only practice 2 versus 4 days a week.  Their justification for that make sense.  Also, their college recruiting philosophy echoes what has been aid here, but others don't like to hear - they are going to be honest with players and only place them where they think they can belong - it doesn't do them as a club any favors to have players get pushed to D1 P4 and have the player not perform.  They tryout thing as interesting as it seems that the ECNL clubs in the area entered into an agreement regarding when tryouts would be held for their younger and older age groups and how they would be handled.

Good stuff overall, IMO.  [/quote]

Yes, and especially since he came from GA/DA, he's not trashing them and respects clubs within that, although he clearly thinks ECNL is the top level and explains why the Nationals moved there.[/quote]
Just looked at Nationals ranking. At least from the age groups I rememeber them playing in when they were GA the rankings seem about the same as they are in ECNL now. But in GA they did win some National titles which I don't think has happened yet in ECNL for them.

Clubs like Nationals have multiple lower level feeder clubs that they take the top players from year after year to make a super team at each age group. So are they really better or worse playing in whatever league they're in? Not really. The results are the same as long as all the feeder clubs filter up to the top teams.[/quote]

Having affiliated feeder clubs only enlarge their player pool. They don't guarantee spots on their top teams. They'll still take the best players that they can find, like all clubs will.[/quote]
Duh, hence why their ranking is the same playing in GA or ECNL.[/quote]

So, if they're the same ranking, but they can win national titles in GA but not in ECNL, what does that say about the competition in ECNL? Seems like the right move to make the club better, no?[/quote]

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