Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How many girls are being rostered for ECNL teams at Union? How do they determine who plays in the matches?
Next year expect inflated rosters. Playing time will vary based on the coach. Expect many players to self select out in year 2.
Could be but you can only dress 18.
Why would the roster be more than 18 then?
We got a first-timer on here, welcome!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:ECNL has a flawed business model and the failure of McLean and Brave are just symptoms of this, not the cause.
The best boys (A/A+) are not in ECNL, they are in MLSN. There are not enough boys in the B+/A- range to populate as many boys ECNL teams as there are A level girls to populate the girls teams. The best girls want ECNL, the best boys do not. So, why does ECNL think there can be as many competitive boys teams in this area as girls teams?
Blend all the boys ECNL and ECNL-R leagues and allow for promotion or relegation. The girls are fine as they are.
That is exactly right. ECNL needs to come to grips with the fact that their boys league is a sinking ship. ECNL clubs are going to either switch to MLS Next or bleed players to their neighboring MLS Next club(s). This merger isn’t going to lead to FVU boys teams…so what then?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How many girls are being rostered for ECNL teams at Union? How do they determine who plays in the matches?
Next year expect inflated rosters. Playing time will vary based on the coach. Expect many players to self select out in year 2.
Could be but you can only dress 18.
Why would the roster be more than 18 then?
Anonymous wrote:Time for ECNL to decouple the boys and girls programs. Allow clubs to do what they want for theirboys. ECNL would remain the gold standard for girls and could continue to run a massive (and lucrative!) national ECNL/ECNL-R boys network, but call it what it is: at best, a feeder to MLSN.
The aggressive actions ECNL is taking against its own clubs (that are just trying to survive the war of attrition of quality boys to MLSN) will also lead to the downfall of ECNL’s girls program.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How many girls are being rostered for ECNL teams at Union? How do they determine who plays in the matches?
Next year expect inflated rosters. Playing time will vary based on the coach. Expect many players to self select out in year 2.
Could be but you can only dress 18.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:ECNL has a flawed business model and the failure of McLean and Brave are just symptoms of this, not the cause.
The best boys (A/A+) are not in ECNL, they are in MLSN. There are not enough boys in the B+/A- range to populate as many boys ECNL teams as there are A level girls to populate the girls teams. The best girls want ECNL, the best boys do not. So, why does ECNL think there can be as many competitive boys teams in this area as girls teams?
Blend all the boys ECNL and ECNL-R leagues and allow for promotion or relegation. The girls are fine as they are.
That is exactly right. ECNL needs to come to grips with the fact that their boys league is a sinking ship. ECNL clubs are going to either switch to MLS Next or bleed players to their neighboring MLS Next club(s). This merger isn’t going to lead to FVU boys teams…so what then?
Anonymous wrote:ECNL has a flawed business model and the failure of McLean and Brave are just symptoms of this, not the cause.
The best boys (A/A+) are not in ECNL, they are in MLSN. There are not enough boys in the B+/A- range to populate as many boys ECNL teams as there are A level girls to populate the girls teams. The best girls want ECNL, the best boys do not. So, why does ECNL think there can be as many competitive boys teams in this area as girls teams?
Blend all the boys ECNL and ECNL-R leagues and allow for promotion or relegation. The girls are fine as they are.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It was the boys on both sides. But they didnt need to combine the girls, why not let them have two ECNL teams one from each club?
The boys would get them thrown out on both sides -- boys/girls. This was the death peanlty for McL
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How many girls are being rostered for ECNL teams at Union? How do they determine who plays in the matches?
Next year expect inflated rosters. Playing time will vary based on the coach. Expect many players to self select out in year 2.
Anonymous wrote:GAs main focus is girls soccer.
ECNL is now having to maintain the girls side and the boys side (mls next competition). I am beginning to think this will not be the first/last time something like this happens
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Creation of Fairfax VA Union
ECNL and ECNL R parents,
I am writing this email on behalf of the MYS Leadership and Board of Directors to give some additional context about the creation of the Fairfax VA Union ECNL club. First, we understand the impact this has on the MYS/VA Union players, coaches, and families. We have been faced with a difficult situation and are working tirelessly to make decisions that are in the best interest of our players and the organization in both the short and long term.
Earlier this month, we were informed by the ECNL league that our National Program membership for the Virginia Union was in jeopardy due to poor performance, particularly on the boys side. We have had a downward trend and rank near the bottom in our region/nation on several performance metrics that are closely tracked by the league. We were also informed that our ECNL R program is under review and is subject to a hearing and potential removal.
At the request of the MYS Board of Directors, a follow-up meeting was held with ECNL President Christian Lavers. During this meeting, we were informed that ECNL has begun reviewing all participating clubs in order to enhance the level of competition and the player pool. ECNL feels that Fairfax County is an over-saturated market and given our performance in recent years, our boys program was one of the organizations under consideration for expulsion from the league. To maintain an ECNL pathway for our club, ECNL leadership encouraged VA Union/MYS to pursue a merger with another member club. Fairfax Brave was given a similar directive and given our geographic proximity and shared desire to provide an ECNL path for our members, we chose to merge Fairfax Brave and Virginia Union.
As most of you are already aware, the Fairfax Brave club comprises the Vienna and Braddock Road clubs. In order to merge the VA Union with the Brave, we created a new entity and established the Fairfax VA Union club. This new entity has a three-club founding membership structure and under the agreement, each founding club represents one third of this new organization that has come together to make decisions that are in our best interests. Each club has two member representatives that sit on a Fairfax VA Union board of six directors. According to the bylaws of this new entity, all decisions regarding the new club must be voted on unanimously, including the coaching staff decisions.
We hope to have the final coaching slate in place by midweek. As much as we want to place all of our existing VA Union/MYS coaches into this new club, we all must understand that it is a collaborative effort involving 3 clubs with talented and skilled coaches. It is our shared objective to ensure we are leveraging the tremendous coaching resources that all three clubs have to position the Fairfax VA Union teams to be competitive and to create better talent pathways for our players. Continuing to create these pathways is what will drive our focus at MYS with our involvement in the Fairfax VA Union for our ECNL level players, and for all our MYS players from recreation to travel.
We appreciate that there is a lot of change happening for our ECNL players during this transition and we will continue to provide our families with timely updates as they become available.
Yours in soccer,
Tim Ryerson
Associate Executive Director
McLean Youth Soccer
Wonder why this was not signed by Louise Waxler, Executive Director.
Wow. I don’t know why the many good female players and their coaches in Union would remain on this ship which is sinking through no fault of their own.
With FCV players leaving that club en masse to follow their coaching staff to VRSC, is there an opportunity for Union girls to leave en masse for FCV? I hear FCV is looking for some GA coaches, so in this case the coaches could follow their players! They’d all be playing Champions League next season, ironically based on the play of current FCV players who by then will be watching Champions League online from the comfort of Revolution Sportsplex!
Too late—FCV ID sessions wrapped up tonight.