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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And yet club after club after club is leaving DA only.to be replaced by NPL teams

And yet DA is morphing into ECNL to save the league.
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They are not going to ECNL because they believe in ECNL, they are going because they will be able to charge ECNL prices for 40 kids per age group instead of 20 kids per age group.

They will water down their own brand by turning NPL into ECNL2. Change the name and double the price. Chhhaaaa ching!!!!

How long do you really think ECNL 2 will last when parents are paying higher prices, for further travel than NPL and still be on the B team?

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My kid will never play ECNL 2. Unlike you, I dont care what path parents choose to take.

Why are you not in Colorado right now? [/quote]

Simply asking the potential motives of parents in light of ECNL expanding in this way is not caring about what path parents are choosing. ECNL 2 is likely going to be no more a path than NPL is. It is, by definition, the second tier and assuming the continued existence of DA ECNL two is actually a third tier.

The question is, assuming the whole point is to expand the ECNL club to club scheduling to the B teams I'm simply asking how long that model will last if parents are incurring the same fees to travel to North Carolina to play other B teams?

In some regions like the North East the difference is minimal between current NPL teams as is so it is really no net change for them. Southern California with their density I could see it working. But I don't see how it would possibly stick in our area.

The other way they can go is to add clubs simply as ECNL 2 clubs and try and create a Pro Rel system. But for clubs like PDA, Michigan Hawks etc, who already have two teams in ECNL, true promotion/relegation will be a farce because they can simply stack their rosters each season for optimal results which would effectively block clubs from ever reaching the true ECNL tier.

So the question is will ECNL 2 be a true club to club addition that is simply providing the B team to play against other ECNL clubs or will ECNL 2 be more like CCL 2 where it is a mix of full CCL and non CCL clubs? If it is more of a CCL2 model will there be promotion relegation? [/quote]

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