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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the average roster size is 25 then you can assume that teams bring in about six to seven new players per year. Multiply by 20 and you have 120 to 140 new positions per year. Consider that between FCV and Mclean, about a dozen players are heading to schools such as FSU, Florida, UVA, Duke, Georgetown, Penn State, Clemson, and VT.

No other teams come close to producing that many players going to top schools. This gets to the point that you have one dominant team playing against mediocre teams funded by parents brainwashed into believing that you become elite and get a DI scholarship to a top program by traveling for hours to play other teams that are not any stronger than teams in the area.

UNC, which is probably the best program ever has recruited three players from the DMV in the past four years. One, played for a non-ECNL/DA team and was just drafted in the NWSL, one was at FCV (when club was ECNL) and another played for McLean (ECNL).

ECNL/DA are great platforms to get recruitied but that does not mean you need either to get recruitied by a top program. The main point of the discussion it where we will be six months from now and my bet is that parents, coaches and the powers-that-be will come to their senses and recognize that the current status quo is crazy and that given the current situation and the fact that the economy will struggle and that college sports will go through a restructuring where college scholarships for soccer might be decrease, travel soccer will become more local.

I know that many on here believe that they can drive their way to getting their kid into elite travel soccer but the writing is on the wall and the reality is that you shouldn't have to drive across multiple states to play league games.  [/quote]

If you are such an amazing player that you can get recruited to UNC without ECNL/DA that is great. Most players are not of that caliber and they are well aware of that. So for an above average player who is talented ECNL/DA elevates their profile and visibility in ways that playing for a small club will not provide.

We all understand how amazing Pipeline is but we all can’t logistically play for Pipeline so we muddle along as best we can.

So if you can list some non ECNL/DA teams, clubs and coaches who have a history of getting multiple players recruited to top D1 programs In all ears.

List five please. [/quote]

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