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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can FCV parents stop pretending that DA was superior to ECNL. First, the only serious DA competition took place in SoCal. Everywhere else, except maybe Texas, was inferior. Even in DC, FCV was the only serious club and it was a former ECNL club. MU/WSVA  was a start-up, Arlington came from CCL and BA/WSMD didn't even get Pipeline's best players. BA probably gave more waivers for private high school play than any DA club in the nation.

FCV players are better off leaving the club and joining local ECNL clubs. I am certain that players at every age group can make teams at McLean, Bethesda, BRYC, Loudoun and VDA. They might not start but they will make a team. Time to stop the silliness. ECNL is and has always beenthe big dog. You made a run to unseat the league but failed. Let it go.[/quote]

To play devil's advocate, if they "might not start", is it better to be on an ECNL team with 20+ on the roster, and ride the bench, or to be in a different league and play.  Don't get me wrong, I 100% see the value in the showcases -- my DD is ex-DA as well, but if you go to a showcase and don't play, what difference does it make.  Fun experience?  Miss school?  Spend a lot of $$?  But you aren't playing....  We are trying to decide what is best -- stay in what might be inferior but is ultimately an unknown, or go somewhere where she should make a team, but as everyone says, "might not start" -- as who knows what the politics look like.[/quote]

A friend’s DD, now in college, moved to a first place MA team at one of the ECNL club’s a few years ago (u17) after they relocated to the area. She was offered at the 1st ID session she attended. Even though it was a strong team, Coach told them she’d be an impact player. Ended up getting put at a position that wasn’t ideal for her and platooning with another player.  Parents felt the Coach/Club did very little to help in the recruiting process; they thought that may have been because she was ‘new’ to the program, so less of a priority. Schools that were willing to offer scholarship $ didn’t make sense for her academically. Ended up a recruited walk-on at a good academic school, but in the parents estimation she would have ended up there with or without the club she went to. Not trying to knock ECNL, because the same likely applied to DA, but just giving the perspective of one person that had a situation similar to what some of you have.[/quote]

Experience with my child was that it is better to be playing full time compared to part time for development. And developing into the best player is the key. Yes, you might not be on a stronger team and not be in the top flight at the bigger tournaments. But those that are won't have as much opportunity. And you're still going to have to go to camps and prove yourself with schools you are interested in. It won't matter then what club you are on. It will matter how they evaluate your ability in their own environment.[/quote]

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