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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If that’s the case then why so much talk here about which ECNL/GA teams are better? As long as you are on any of the teams they will be playing at the same events. [/quote]

Well, everybody wants to be on a winning team, right?  It’s fun to win and a lot of parents obviously enjoy bragging about how “awesome” their kids team is. This message board definitely attracts those type of people.

To your point, which I agree with, if your DC is playing in the Jeff Cup showcase weekend, for example, and coaches from a school that they’re interested in and have communicated that interest to are going to be there, they’re going to be able to see your player regardless of whether their team is playing in the top bracket, the bottom bracket or somewhere in between.  Yes, the brackets are often spread out among different fields so that may require some traveling, but the point is, if a college coach is interested in you, they’re not going to say “oh no, your team isn’t in a high enough bracket so I’m not going to bother watching you play.”  That’s not simply my opinion but rather my experience.[/quote]

You have some good points.  I agree that most parents care about winning instead of their kid's development.   However, how does the college recruiter know which kid is good on what team?  At Jeff Cup, there are a lot of teams playing.  Most likely, the D1 scout will be looking at the top 2 or 3 divisions to spot which player they like.  that alone is like 15-20 games for the weekend.  I doubt they will be sitting and watching RL games at a lower bracket.
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This is one of the great misconceptions about college recruiting. Scouts are not just watching random games and looking for players that catch their eye. They already have a list of the players to watch because for weeks leading up to the event players send emails, game film, go to their ID camps, and tell them the schedule for the event. Coaches watching them in person is near the end of the process not the start. The coach is coming to watch them play. They don’t care the division or who the opponent is or the score of the game. They probably won’t watch the entire game. [/quote]

+1 Truth!![/quote]

The difference is the number of coaches that show up at the different Showcases. If coaches have to choose between an ECNL-N, ECNL-R, or GA showcase to look at recruits, they are going to watch the ECNL-N teams first.[/quote]

They would each lose college coaches to each other, that's why they're typically not scheduled at the same time or slightly overlap, either league wants that. Case in point, GA Playoffs and Showcase are 19-25 June (CA) and ECNL Playoffs are 22-28 June (WA) - if I'm a college coach I'm in CA for the 19th - 23rd take a late afternoon flight to WA and be there for 24th - 28th, I get 5 days in each location scouting players.

Now the Finals are at the same time, but that's one event for the whole year, and a college coach isn't going to make a decision on going to ECNL or GA based on the league, they're going to go to the one that has the most of the players that they are scouting and it will be different for every coach.[/quote]

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