Anonymous
Post 04/13/2020 10:12     Subject: DA soccer terminating boys and girls? “Rumors”
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:As was mentioned early on in this thread, these rumors are simply the result of ECNL partisans in their continued war against USSF and DA. They want to take advantage of the perfect storm of coronavirus, club affiliation announcements, and the leadership change to shake out players and further hurt DA. This has been an ongoing war waged by ECNL’ers pretty transparently on this board and others for years.

ECNL is simply upset about how things happened on the girls side and they feel that any tactics are justified in trying to stage their little coup d'etat.


Meh. ECNL does not need this "little coup d'etat ". They will choke out GDA with or without this rumor. Just a matter of time.


How's the weather in sunny soCal this morning?


Good try, but no, I'm right down the street from you.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2020 10:04     Subject: DA soccer terminating boys and girls? “Rumors”
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:As was mentioned early on in this thread, these rumors are simply the result of ECNL partisans in their continued war against USSF and DA. They want to take advantage of the perfect storm of coronavirus, club affiliation announcements, and the leadership change to shake out players and further hurt DA. This has been an ongoing war waged by ECNL’ers pretty transparently on this board and others for years.

ECNL is simply upset about how things happened on the girls side and they feel that any tactics are justified in trying to stage their little coup d'etat.


Meh. ECNL does not need this "little coup d'etat ". They will choke out GDA with or without this rumor. Just a matter of time.


How's the weather in sunny soCal this morning?
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2020 09:54     Subject: DA soccer terminating boys and girls? “Rumors”
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:As was mentioned early on in this thread, these rumors are simply the result of ECNL partisans in their continued war against USSF and DA. They want to take advantage of the perfect storm of coronavirus, club affiliation announcements, and the leadership change to shake out players and further hurt DA. This has been an ongoing war waged by ECNL’ers pretty transparently on this board and others for years.

ECNL is simply upset about how things happened on the girls side and they feel that any tactics are justified in trying to stage their little coup d'etat.


Meh. ECNL does not need this "little coup d'etat ". They will choke out GDA with or without this rumor. Just a matter of time.


Okie dokie smokie
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2020 09:37     Subject: DA soccer terminating boys and girls? “Rumors”
Anonymous wrote:As was mentioned early on in this thread, these rumors are simply the result of ECNL partisans in their continued war against USSF and DA. They want to take advantage of the perfect storm of coronavirus, club affiliation announcements, and the leadership change to shake out players and further hurt DA. This has been an ongoing war waged by ECNL’ers pretty transparently on this board and others for years.

ECNL is simply upset about how things happened on the girls side and they feel that any tactics are justified in trying to stage their little coup d'etat.


Meh. ECNL does not need this "little coup d'etat ". They will choke out GDA with or without this rumor. Just a matter of time.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2020 09:27     Subject: DA soccer terminating boys and girls? “Rumors”
As was mentioned early on in this thread, these rumors are simply the result of ECNL partisans in their continued war against USSF and DA. They want to take advantage of the perfect storm of coronavirus, club affiliation announcements, and the leadership change to shake out players and further hurt DA. This has been an ongoing war waged by ECNL’ers pretty transparently on this board and others for years.

ECNL is simply upset about how things happened on the girls side and they feel that any tactics are justified in trying to stage their little coup d'etat.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2020 09:16     Subject: Re:DA soccer terminating boys and girls? “Rumors”
Arlington Soccer sent out an email over the weekend acknowledging there were rumors about the status of the DA "for the remainder of this season and beyond" but goes on to state, "The most recent communication that we received had confirmed that our club was granted the U17 Boys team to add to our boys DA program, and a reaffirmation of the continuation of our girls DA program."
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2020 09:09     Subject: Re:DA soccer terminating boys and girls? “Rumors”
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There's no email from any club saying that DA is going away. There may be an email from a club responding to this BS "rumor" thread from DCUM, started by an admitted SoCal parent troll, repeating some random baseless tweet.


This post will not age well


Well, for now where's the email?


Hello DA Families,

We are receiving communication from parents and other coaches on rumors and the uncertainty of the continuation of the Development Academy. We wanted to fill you in on what we have heard thus far and make sure you guys are brought up to speed on any other communication moving forward. It is true that due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the stability of the Development Academy is being questioned on the boys and girls side. We have a strong feeling the Girls DA will be eliminated not only due to the pandemic but also other factors that have played part over the season. The Boys DA has also been brought into question due to the financial commitment that the US Soccer Federation has set forth and a decision will be made over the next few days on whether the Boys DA is to continue to operate as usual or a change will be made. Either way, we will be communicating all solid and firm communication with you at all times good or bad.
No matter what happens, you can be res assured we will continue to keep the same standards and product on the field. The landscape of this country for youth Soccer could have drastic change if this is true. We have great contact from within the league and will be working diligently all weekend to see what transpires as well as planning for what's next. Communication is something we keep striving to improve and will continue to keep you guys up to date with everything we hear.
Thank you all


What club sent this.


Only two DMV programs have both boys and girls DA. Arlington and Baltimore Armour. Did either of these clubs send this letter to DA parents or is our SoCal troll back?


Not Arlington


I know a dad whose son plays for Arlington DA. When the rumors started flying late last week, I called him because he's usually in the know and this is EXACTLY what he told me. I know he doesn't come onto this website, so he didn't write the above post either. It's either a crazy coincidence or this this sounds like an Arlington communication to me.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2020 08:55     Subject: DA soccer terminating boys and girls? “Rumors”
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Honestly, would like more perspective from others around the U.S. on what they are hearing, seeing, feeling about the youth soccer culture. Personally, I think that if they do keep both of the leagues, they (the soccer powers that be) need to put together a tournament where both DA and ECNL complete against each other. I guess we already have a tournament now, where the ECNL youth teams play against the International youth teams in Florida. Maybe have the strongest DA team in the US try their hand in that tournament. See how they do.


Finally some honest discussion. Agreed a good idea.


As tantalizing as that might be, it would not really do much to change the landscape much. I think we're after a longer term, more encompassing solution such as collapsing the two leagues down to one, preferably in a tiered arrangement of some sort.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2020 08:39     Subject: DA soccer terminating boys and girls? “Rumors”
Anonymous wrote:Honestly, would like more perspective from others around the U.S. on what they are hearing, seeing, feeling about the youth soccer culture. Personally, I think that if they do keep both of the leagues, they (the soccer powers that be) need to put together a tournament where both DA and ECNL complete against each other. I guess we already have a tournament now, where the ECNL youth teams play against the International youth teams in Florida. Maybe have the strongest DA team in the US try their hand in that tournament. See how they do.


Finally some honest discussion. Agreed a good idea.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2020 08:37     Subject: DA soccer terminating boys and girls? “Rumors”
The issue I have with both leagues is the insane travel to play average teams when without both leagues, the best local teams would play each other without traveling across 2+ states. Consider the McLean and FCV U18/19 teams. Both are considered two of the best teams in the country but have never played each other even though they are less than 30 minutes apart.

Also, the writing is on the wall for the end of the GDA. In interviews with and about the newly appointed leaders, it was implied that the future of the GDA would be analyzed.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2020 08:24     Subject: DA soccer terminating boys and girls? “Rumors”
Honestly, would like more perspective from others around the U.S. on what they are hearing, seeing, feeling about the youth soccer culture. Personally, I think that if they do keep both of the leagues, they (the soccer powers that be) need to put together a tournament where both DA and ECNL complete against each other. I guess we already have a tournament now, where the ECNL youth teams play against the International youth teams in Florida. Maybe have the strongest DA team in the US try their hand in that tournament. See how they do.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2020 08:23     Subject: Re:DA soccer terminating boys and girls? “Rumors”
Strong rumors circulating both boys and girls DA will be dissolved going forward. Annoucment to come middle of next week.

Have any of you heard this? Trying to gauge how real this is


This was posted on SoCal Soccer Forum on Thursday 4/9. No one flinched or responded on that forum because they hear random crap like this on an hourly basis in their soccer-crazed world. This SoCal poster tried with two more desperate posts and got ZERO reaction. This SoCal troll must have then decided to pollute this forum on Friday 4/10 by starting this thread and complained when the post was deleted. He/she must be very proud to have gotten so much un-deserved reaction!
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2020 08:18     Subject: DA soccer terminating boys and girls? “Rumors”
Your “grounded”. Enjoy! Lol
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2020 07:45     Subject: DA soccer terminating boys and girls? “Rumors”
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just go on SOCAL soccer forum and you will find out.


Go to the site where the troll who made up this rumor resides and find this “genuine” email.


Please add a hyperlink (even generic). If I had received that so-called "letter" from a club, I would think someone had taken too many swigs off the ol' bottle.. If I read that on a soccer forum, I would immediately recognize it as a fraud. Go back under your bridge troll!
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2020 07:41     Subject: DA soccer terminating boys and girls? “Rumors”
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:ECNL parents getting excited have to remember there will be a lot of our DA kids at tryouts.



Ooooohh so scary

This from the DA parent that wears the sweatshirt with the DA logo and the hat while they sit in the stands and tell themselves my DA kid is better than your non DA kid

What a joke


It's ok. we know you act this was only because you were not excepted by your peers when you were younger.



Take a read. This is the type of source you get in a public forum. The word is "ACCEPTED" not "EXCEPTED"
Some of the most basic of language skills are a challenge for some that want you to take them seriously and consider their point of view