Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or does it feel like the amount of changes/upheaval at clubs in NoVA this spring has been higher than usual? Just off the top of my head:

* FCV coaches leave en mass (mostly to Revolution but BP to VDA)
* SYC leaves VA Union for GA
* VA Union and Brave merge into FVU leaving players scrambling
* Revolution gets into GA
* FCV is hiring new staff but still nothing official on field space
* GFR leaves NVA no sooner than they joined and then fires two coaches and hires a new TD that's also the DOC at FVU
* LMVSC gets into RL

It's crazy!

Yes it is crazy but a fairly typical year.

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Anonymous wrote:Something big is coming, NCCA?

NCAA and this...

https://equalizersoccer.com/2024/01/12/berman-speaks-of-future-of-nwsl-draft-updates-on-local-broadcasts-and-more/
Berman also addressed the future of youth academies, a mechanism that helped spawn exponential growth for Major League Soccer in recent years. Currently, teams are free to sign youth players but there is no direct line to an NWSL through an academy. MLS, which is in many more cities than NWSL has a home-grown rule that allows clubs to retain players who come up through their youth system.

“It is one of the areas we really hope to make progress on in 2024 as we chart our strategic initiatives. There are a bunch of clubs that are very interested in figuring out the most strategic ways to build academies or invest in youth.

Wow, the GA parents talking about Acadamies might be right.

This is just silly. There is no money, expertise, or will to do this. NWSL is barely making it. Most of the teams are losing a fortune.

Is this before or after the new $240 million media deal?
https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/nwsl-espn-cbs-amazon-scripps-tv-deal/#:~:text=The%20National%20Women's%20Soccer%20League,across%20linear%20and%20digital%20platforms.

Maybe they should sell League to the Saudis

Anonymous wrote:The amount you invest for years at the elite youth level may or may not lower the college bill, but in the long run I’m not convinced you save money. If your kid wants college soccer that’s wonderful but there are a lot of kids who decide they want a normal college experience or have their heart set on a school where they won’t make the team.

Ditto!

The amount you invest for years at the elite youth level may or may not lower the college bill, but in the long run I’m not convinced you save money. If your kid wants college soccer that’s wonderful but there are a lot of kids who decide they want a normal college experience or have their heart set on a school where they won’t make the team.

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Only maybe about 10 girls a year should be skipping college. NWSL for all is a long shot with almost no payday unless you are popularly edgy or conventionally pretty for endorsement deals. No girl should be skipping college for pro soccer.

2nd this!

Is that what you chose when you played soccer as a youth?

Didn't play you say?

You want to use soccer to lower the price of college so you dont have to pay as much for your kid to attend.

Seems like it's all about you.

There is always drama and upheaval somewhere. You may just be noticing because it affects you more directly.

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Only maybe about 10 girls a year should be skipping college. NWSL for all is a long shot with almost no payday unless you are popularly edgy or conventionally pretty for endorsement deals. No girl should be skipping college for pro soccer.

2nd this!

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Anonymous wrote:Something big is coming, NCCA?

NCAA and this...

https://equalizersoccer.com/2024/01/12/berman-speaks-of-future-of-nwsl-draft-updates-on-local-broadcasts-and-more/
Berman also addressed the future of youth academies, a mechanism that helped spawn exponential growth for Major League Soccer in recent years. Currently, teams are free to sign youth players but there is no direct line to an NWSL through an academy. MLS, which is in many more cities than NWSL has a home-grown rule that allows clubs to retain players who come up through their youth system.

“It is one of the areas we really hope to make progress on in 2024 as we chart our strategic initiatives. There are a bunch of clubs that are very interested in figuring out the most strategic ways to build academies or invest in youth.

Wow, the GA parents talking about Acadamies might be right.

This is just silly. There is no money, expertise, or will to do this. NWSL is barely making it. Most of the teams are losing a fortune.

Is this before or after the new $240 million media deal?
https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/nwsl-espn-cbs-amazon-scripps-tv-deal/#:~:text=The%20National%20Women's%20Soccer%20League,across%20linear%20and%20digital%20platforms.

I would hope they can invest in the youth system with that kind of money. It’s not hard to understand how youth academies work in Europe and make that happen here. Kids are already investing a lot of time, but poorly trained coaches are wasting it.

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There's more to academies than coaching. One of the biggest differences is teams and players aren't bound by age. If you're good you play up, maybe 1, 2,, 3 years up. Conversely if you're just learning you play down (within reason). You can see what this means for a club. You don't end up with a team for each age group. You do end up with players that are MUCH better at skills and IQ when/if they get a chance to play in a game. All the parent nonsense gets thrown out the window because if you play is all dependent on how much you learn and apply in practice.

This is what my kids Futsal coach does. He groups both the boys and girls into 3 different sessions. Primarily the groups are age bound littles, youngers, olders but he also puts newer players with the younger age group until they get better and earn their way up to the better age group. If you've never seen skills based training vs age based training it seems weird when an older is playing with youngers. However if you watch the practices after a while you can see what's going on. The older playing with youngers (and vice versa) is either being able to learn skills at an appropriate rate or they're being challenged and able to play at a much higher level than normally they'd be allowed.

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Anonymous wrote:Something big is coming, NCCA?

NCAA and this...

https://equalizersoccer.com/2024/01/12/berman-speaks-of-future-of-nwsl-draft-updates-on-local-broadcasts-and-more/
Berman also addressed the future of youth academies, a mechanism that helped spawn exponential growth for Major League Soccer in recent years. Currently, teams are free to sign youth players but there is no direct line to an NWSL through an academy. MLS, which is in many more cities than NWSL has a home-grown rule that allows clubs to retain players who come up through their youth system.

“It is one of the areas we really hope to make progress on in 2024 as we chart our strategic initiatives. There are a bunch of clubs that are very interested in figuring out the most strategic ways to build academies or invest in youth.

Wow, the GA parents talking about Acadamies might be right.

This is just silly. There is no money, expertise, or will to do this. NWSL is barely making it. Most of the teams are losing a fortune.

Is this before or after the new $240 million media deal?
https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/nwsl-espn-cbs-amazon-scripps-tv-deal/#:~:text=The%20National%20Women's%20Soccer%20League,across%20linear%20and%20digital%20platforms.

I would hope they can invest in the youth system with that kind of money. It’s not hard to understand how youth academies work in Europe and make that happen here. Kids are already investing a lot of time, but poorly trained coaches are wasting it.

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There's more to academies than coaching. One of the biggest differences is teams and players aren't bound by age. If you're good you play up, maybe 1, 2,, 3 years up. Conversely if you're just learning you play down (within reason). You can see what this means for a club. You don't end up with a team for each age group. You do end up with players that are MUCH better at skills and IQ when/if they get a chance to play in a game. All the parent nonsense gets thrown out the window because if you play is all dependent on how much you learn and apply in practice.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Something big is coming, NCCA?

NCAA and this...

https://equalizersoccer.com/2024/01/12/berman-speaks-of-future-of-nwsl-draft-updates-on-local-broadcasts-and-more/
Berman also addressed the future of youth academies, a mechanism that helped spawn exponential growth for Major League Soccer in recent years. Currently, teams are free to sign youth players but there is no direct line to an NWSL through an academy. MLS, which is in many more cities than NWSL has a home-grown rule that allows clubs to retain players who come up through their youth system.

“It is one of the areas we really hope to make progress on in 2024 as we chart our strategic initiatives. There are a bunch of clubs that are very interested in figuring out the most strategic ways to build academies or invest in youth.

Wow, the GA parents talking about Acadamies might be right.

This is just silly. There is no money, expertise, or will to do this. NWSL is barely making it. Most of the teams are losing a fortune.

Is this before or after the new $240 million media deal?
https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/nwsl-espn-cbs-amazon-scripps-tv-deal/#:~:text=The%20National%20Women's%20Soccer%20League,across%20linear%20and%20digital%20platforms.

I would hope they can invest in the youth system with that kind of money. It’s not hard to understand how youth academies work in Europe and make that happen here. Kids are already investing a lot of time, but poorly trained coaches are wasting it.

Ignorance is bliss

In an area with this much money on the line no one should be shocked. There are 100s of teams for clubs all claiming to be the best... none of them are. We regularly get stomped in ecnl games that are on the region.

Our kids are only kids for 18 years. Find a coach and team your kid likes and just go with that. If your kid wants to play in college play the collegiate game in high school. However, anybody being bothered with whatever clubs are doing is just stupid and toxic. No club is better than another when it comes to recruitment. Make sure your athlete is having fun and actually growing over all the toxic political bs.

Anonymous wrote:coming back to COVID year was much worse. clubs folding and merging.

All the stuff going on now is just elite teams, a very, very small % of kids compared to the amount who play. But they are over-represented on these forums

they are over represented everywhere

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Anonymous wrote:The GA will be feeder system for professional woman's athletes. NWSL teams will merge with GA clubs to have a feeder system for their player backfill. Girls will be skipping NCAA.

Only maybe about 10 girls a year should be skipping college. NWSL for all is a long shot with almost no payday unless you are popularly edgy or conventionally pretty for endorsement deals. No girl should be skipping college for pro soccer.

But I thought NCAA is going away from a the current lawsuits and unionization talk.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Something big is coming, NCCA?

NCAA and this...

https://equalizersoccer.com/2024/01/12/berman-speaks-of-future-of-nwsl-draft-updates-on-local-broadcasts-and-more/
Berman also addressed the future of youth academies, a mechanism that helped spawn exponential growth for Major League Soccer in recent years. Currently, teams are free to sign youth players but there is no direct line to an NWSL through an academy. MLS, which is in many more cities than NWSL has a home-grown rule that allows clubs to retain players who come up through their youth system.

“It is one of the areas we really hope to make progress on in 2024 as we chart our strategic initiatives. There are a bunch of clubs that are very interested in figuring out the most strategic ways to build academies or invest in youth.

Wow, the GA parents talking about Acadamies might be right.

This is just silly. There is no money, expertise, or will to do this. NWSL is barely making it. Most of the teams are losing a fortune.

Is this before or after the new $240 million media deal?
https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/nwsl-espn-cbs-amazon-scripps-tv-deal/#:~:text=The%20National%20Women's%20Soccer%20League,across%20linear%20and%20digital%20platforms.