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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you’re a college coach and you attend a showcase. It would be nice to know that all players are going to college in a year rather than have to sit there and scan rosters and birthdates while trying to analyze a game.  [/quote]

As simple as this statement is.....this poster hits it on the head.  I won't go too much into my background, but you can read between the lines.  For every club, a scout has to watch 2 age groups.  The U17s and U19s, a portion of the U17s are too early to recruit and a portion of the U19s have already been recruited.  This tells me that ENCL is laser focused on making the college coach's life easier and the results are that he/she can see more recruitable players across more clubs.    [/quote]

How is that easier and a better option for college recruiting than MLS Next tournaments and showcases?[/quote]

Please remember that ECNL started with the girls side, and has only recently expanded into the boys. For girls, the recruiting cycle is mostly done by the start of senior year of HS. The most sought after players will have committed to a school during the summer between Sophomore and Jr. years, with the rest happening during the Jr. year and pretty much all (including highly academic D3) finishing during the summer between Jr. and Sr. years.

This means that, by the time a coach is showing up to scout a U18/19 ECNL showcase game, all the obvious players have been spoken for and the coach is going there to: 1. watch a player they have already recruited to make sure they are still developing; 2. Going to see a player that could fill a spot opened up by current player injury/player quitting/player transferring; or 3. Going to see one of those rare diamonds in the rough who were playing in NPL/E64/rando league and made the jump to ECNL as a Sr.

Unlike boys, most girls are no longer growing dramatically after their Jr. year, so there's less physical development to keep track of.

Also remember that coaches are responding to literally hundreds of emails they get for every single showcase. Each email has a link to video, and the grading of video is usually given over to an assistant coach. Coaches then take the grade given to the video by the assistant, then build out a schedule of games they can get to and how far apart the games are. This huge volume means the focus goes on where most of the fish are, and that's the U16 and U17 groups. For P4 top programs, coaches are going or sending assistants to the games played by sophomores so they can figure out who they will call on June 15. For most, it's that U17 group where the action is. This is where the majority of uncommitted players are that can ALSO accept a phone call or text! Finally, coaches try to hit a few 18/19 games for kids whose video really jumped off the screen.

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