You are right about paying just for prestige. I know folks pay close to 4k for an EDP 5 level team at Pipeline. I will never understand that insanity.
Anonymous wrote:There isn’t nearly the same commitment from the club on the girls side as there is on the boys’. The best players see that pretty quickly and leave.
They just market the sht out of ECNL - “playing in the best league in the country”. You’re not really playing if you don’t compete, you’re just participating.
Plenty of parents who look for the prestige and not the experience or the growth of their player. It’s how the best leagues become just ok leagues.