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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“ECNL and DA have not really proven to be developmental but they have proven to make scouting easier for colleges.“.

Well, we’ve found our “batshit crazy” poster. Yeah, you’re right, neither of these programs across both genders are developmental. I guess college coaches are just dumb as are all the ECNL and DA coaches, players, and parents. Yep, you’re right oh sage of soccer wisdom. Can you tell us who you are, who you coach, and your personal success rate of “developing” players. Yeah, that’s what I thought. Now, get out of your pj’s, scratch your ass, and go sit on the coach and watch some tv. [/quote]

That wasn’t the point you fool. The point is that their impact on the international game is to soon to tell. The stated purpose of DA is to develop international quality players. DA players should be of a high enough quality to turn pro and develop further there in a professional environment not in a collegiate environment.

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^^^ After this post I get it now. DA has brainwashed this and other parents into thinking their DD is “high enough quality to turn pro” versus aiming for college.

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Not at all. ECNL has brainwashed people into believing that College Soccer is the highest level and that if your kid gets there then they are themselves the highest of quality.

When European players come to play in College here it is an admission that they are not in fact good enough players in Europe and that they will never Ben pros.

Here, we believe College is the pinnacle because football and basketball players go to college before pro.

Playing in college is not easy and it is not easy to make a college roster. But when it is a league/clubs stated mission of developing players to get scouted in a relative sense internationally is a pretty self fulfilling and low bar.

With college being the end goal and the measure of success for clubs and the marketing of the league clubs generally don’t take a longer view of players and instead tend to look more at the quick return on investment in players. They select and promote players they see as succeeding at collegiate level. A level that in an of itself is merely a short 4 year investment at the max.

So clubs are pushing athletes that a college program can perhaps get two seasons of playing time out of.

We will no longer remain a soccer power on the women’s side until we begin to even argue the benefits of playing college soccer in the same manor as we do now about HS soccer. The college game has proven already to stifle our men’s program and with European Pro clubs growing the women’s game and using the same approach as the men’s academies we will lose ground and never catch back up.

None of this means that I believe that my kid is going pro, but it illustrates how low a bar this pissing match is setting. Like you, I’ll choose the best path possible for college because frankly that is the only path any of us have regardless of our kids talent or potential. [/quote]

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