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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Colorado has internet, caveman.  Is every ECNLer as clueless as you?  That would explain quite a bit of this problem [/quote]

Good thing to know the DA'ers are posting at 6 am on a ECNL thread while 10 states away during a college showcase. Shows the level of insanity if true. [/quote]

What empty football stadium is your kid playing HS kickball in this week?[/quote]

And your not at Colorado.

ANSON DORRANCE: U.S. Soccer has got some tremendous coaches who I respect immensely on women’s side. And I also have huge respect for people like [ECNL president] Christian Lavers and many others on the ECNL side who have been doing an incredible job across the country.

ANSON DORRANCE: I mean where did Mallory Pugh come from? She developed in an ECNL club [Real Colorado] that allowed her to play high school soccer and she’s a fantastic example of our ECNL coaches and the American player development environment at its best.

ANSON DORRANCE: I’m always afraid of an individual or a collection of individuals who really feel like they’ve solved the player development conundrum. I get nervous when all of a sudden we’ve discovered this is a certain way that we have to develop our players.

NEED HIS EMAIL?

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Just curious, was there a girls DA when Mal Pugh was coming up through the youth system?

Yeah, I didn't think so.

So the argument is that because we developed players into national team roles prior to DA that it isn't needed?   That ECNL is as good as because it was a de facto top league prior to DA?
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Yes and Pugh ALSO decided that College soccer (School Soccer) was not in her best interest for further development and turned pro sooner. I'm sure she is missing out on the college experience though.

We will simply never catch up with the rest of the world in soccer, on the men's side certainly, and we are losing traction on the women's because of our obsession with School sports, whether it be High School or College.

So that is all fine and we know that 99% of the players will not turn pro or play at a National level. But if Dorance believes that the college game, regardless of the path that players arrive there, will continue to develop professional and national level players beyond what European Academies are doing he is living in the past. [/quote]

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