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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You clearly do not understand the philosophy behind CCL or NPL's governing body U.S. Club Soccer and how these leagues are very very different than WAGS, NCSL or ODSL.

The whole point of these leagues is to create a club centric model that focuses on development. These leagues give clubs that ability to freely move players up or down in season in order ensure that the player is properly challenged. CCL in particular has very strong anti poaching rules that force clubs to develop more and recruit players less from rival clubs.

The fact that game schedules fro both leagues are Club vs Club allows a coach to manage both A and B teams without conflict, or different teams all together. This offers coaches the opportunity to see more of their programs players on game day.

WAGS, NCSL and ODSL on the other hand are 'team centric" leagues that are purely results oriented for the team with promotion and relegation. This model ignores the fact that a club has A and B teams and makes player movement in season prohibitive. These leagues only care about the singular "team" and not the group of kids in the larger cohort.

If you took ten minutes of your precious time and understood the basic philosophical differences between the leagues the "why's of it all" might make more sense to you. Clearly, you are an uneducated consumer in this regards. Did you not look to see what teams were in your league before you signed onto the team? If not, and you are unhappy you have only yourself to blame. If you did know, and you still signed on and are unhappy, you still have only yourself to blame. But CCL and NPL are not going to change for you, accept and drive to VA Beach, or leave the team and drive to Winchester. But whatever you do decide, please just shut up.[/quote]

I've spent far more than 10 minutes. I've done an extensive amount of research on these issues, talking to people at all levels -- parents, coaches, administrators, etc.

Your thoughts on NCSL are outdated. Players DO move between A and B teams. At younger ages, they do some block scheduling -- you'll have, say, 3 Alexandria teams facing 3 Vienna teams back-to-back-to-back.

Then at older ages, they move to the pro/rel system. The advantage to that is more evenly matched competition. (This fall will be an exception -- with all the changes stemming from the birth-year age group, some teams are going to get a lot stronger and others will get a lot weaker, and it will take a season or two to sort it all out.)

In CCL or VPL, if you're getting blown out in your age group (or blowing everyone else out -- which is why Baltimore Celtic's leaders left the DA), you don't have many options. A team that's driving to Richmond to lose 6-0 at U12 will be driving to Richmond to lose 8-0 at U16 because players will just keep leaving.

I'll grant that CCL, to which you clearly have some sort of Vogon-style allegiance, does it better than VPL. I get the principles. But I don't get making parents drive all over creation just so technical directors don't have to.

You clearly think parents such as the several people on this thread who disagree with you are all idiots who should be tuned out. I get that -- a lot of parents ARE idiots. But a lot of us aren't. A lot of us have soccer experience beyond driving Johnny and Madison from Frederick to Fredericksburg. And if you don't listen to us, I promise you -- you're going to regret it.

NCSL and WAGS didn't listen. They've been paying for it for years. If CCL doesn't listen, they'll pay for it, too.[/quote]

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