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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I still can't fathom how getting a bus to drive 6-7 hours on school weekends for regular season games is even in any family's consideration.

We avoid all ECNL clubs.[/quote]

That travel is once a season. I'm not sure why so much derision for one weekend. Not really a big deal.[/quote]

McLean 03 ECNL road trips:

Oct 27 and 28th in North Carolina
Jan 5th and 6th Orlando area
Feb 10th in Richmond
Feb 16, 17, 18th Showcase in Texas.
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Which are regular season and which are SHOWCASES? You don't join a SHOWCASE league to not go to SHOWCASES.

NC is a nice easy weekend trip drive. Richmond is a barely a day trip. Both are probably league games. Orlando and Texas are not regular league games.[/quote]

You are also painting a very different picture when you tell someone "it's no big deal, just one weekend in North Carolina and not mention the two other weekends you are FLYING to games. Does it matter if it is a showcase or a league game when you are just as out of town?

And that is not to mention the showcase in New Jersey in the late spring as well. So, you are not being truthful when you say one weekend a season. [/quote]

My daughter got into several colleges she otherwise would not have gotten into because of soccer and ECNL showcases, so trips like these were not much of a price to pay in the grand scheme of things.  Plus, my spouse, daughter and I still have found memories of two of the trips where we had a great time checking out a different place.[/quote]

The OP didn't ask about memories, they asked about how much travel was involved. Not including the travel required for the showcases is implying through omission that one weekend in NC is all you need to worry about. It isn't factually true. There is more travel than that. The value of the travel is for the individual to decide and is subjective. The actual amount of travel required of a player in ECNL is an objective truth and that amount was severely understated.  [/quote]

Its really not as dire as you want to make it sound.  And, if a player cannot make a trip, the club easily can fill the spot.  [/quote]

If it wasn’t important to them they wouldn’t have asked. You provided incomplete information. Nobody said it was dire. You’re overly dramatic and defensive. [/quote]

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