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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK. Let's get to the heart of the matter.  Spirit struggles because they have no teams below U13.  This means they must recruit talent from all the competition (DA / ECNL).  Most players who are starters will not leave a team unless the team is terrible.  And, if the team is terrible, is terrible players going to Spirit.  Yes, McLean 06 is a hot mess.  They lost most of their best players to Arlington DA.  But, McLean does a good job recruiting at the older ages because they have a history of placing kids in college etc. BYRC, while small, also has a history of doing the same.  Both teams identify talent fairly well, and develop that talent well.  Arlington has sucked up the rest of the oxygen within the beltway for DA and has plucked kids from DC United, McLean, Bethesda, and Annandale.  When you add FCV and Loudoun out west (DA / ECNL respectively), Spirit is pinched out. Its not their fault.  But their business model is bad, they don't have younger teams to build an early "base" of players to create legitimacy.  Spirit should partner with as many teams around to pluck "guest" players for a showcase team at the U16-19 level.  Otherwise, its bad after bad.  If you had a top player at any of the teams I have mentioned above, would you even think of going to Spirit?  The answer is no.  Pretty simple.[/quote]

DC United has the same situation.  So what makes them so successful?[/quote]

Good question. I would say that they established themselves before the DA / ECNL team explosion, they partnered with ASA to feed their best boys over to the DC United team, and they are a boys program not girls - where DA dominated the landscape.  Spirit is the opposite - they did not exist with DA prior, other teams were the powerhouse ECNL and CCL teams, and those teams for the most part flipped to being ECNL and DA - retaining most of their players and using their pipeline to fill the gaps while recruiting.[/quote]

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