Anonymous
Post 02/24/2025 12:21     Subject: Everything you need to know about GA

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know how the promotion from GA Tier 2 (Aspire) into GA will work?

Will it be for one team at one age group, if they do particularly well for example. Or is it for the whole Club to earn a promotion?

-If its only for a whole club, will they ignore promotion of GA2 team if the same club already has a GA1 team? I.e. if a clubs GA2 team wins their league, would they have no shot at promotion because the same club already has a GA1 team?



Typical promotion leagues promote the top 3 and relegate the bottom 3. It would be cool to see relegating the bottom 3 and making 3rd and 4th in Aspire play an elimination game to win promotion.

The problem with youth league and club structure is there's a multiple levels of teams for every age group. Pro/Rel doesn't work in the current club structure because a single coach might have multiple levels or age group teams.

What this means is if you wanted to do Pro/Rel ar the youth level it would have to be club wide at all age groups. This doesn't work because clubs will just go to competitors before being relegated if it's going to happen across all age groups and levels.

ECNLs way to get around all this was to force crappy clubs to merge with better clubs vs boot them completely from the league. Unfortunately this just delays the inevitable because merged club leadership will fight for power eventually spinning back put into separate clubs usually in a different league.

Pro/Rel works with acadamies because there's 1 top team and all age groups feed I to it. Age has no bearing on who plays.


Good points that I agree with, that’s why I’m wondering what they mean when they say teams can be promoted…. Wonder if it’s just technical lip service.


Given that GA plays the same club vs club format where all six age groups play each other on the same day, it cannot be individual team promotion

It's more likely getting promoted to have access to GA national events.
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2025 12:18     Subject: Everything you need to know about GA

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know how the promotion from GA Tier 2 (Aspire) into GA will work?

Will it be for one team at one age group, if they do particularly well for example. Or is it for the whole Club to earn a promotion?

-If its only for a whole club, will they ignore promotion of GA2 team if the same club already has a GA1 team? I.e. if a clubs GA2 team wins their league, would they have no shot at promotion because the same club already has a GA1 team?



Typical promotion leagues promote the top 3 and relegate the bottom 3. It would be cool to see relegating the bottom 3 and making 3rd and 4th in Aspire play an elimination game to win promotion.

The problem with youth league and club structure is there's a multiple levels of teams for every age group. Pro/Rel doesn't work in the current club structure because a single coach might have multiple levels or age group teams.

What this means is if you wanted to do Pro/Rel ar the youth level it would have to be club wide at all age groups. This doesn't work because clubs will just go to competitors before being relegated if it's going to happen across all age groups and levels.

ECNLs way to get around all this was to force crappy clubs to merge with better clubs vs boot them completely from the league. Unfortunately this just delays the inevitable because merged club leadership will fight for power eventually spinning back put into separate clubs usually in a different league.

Pro/Rel works with acadamies because there's 1 top team and all age groups feed I to it. Age has no bearing on who plays.


Good points that I agree with, that’s why I’m wondering what they mean when they say teams can be promoted…. Wonder if it’s just technical lip service.


Given that GA plays the same club vs club format where all six age groups play each other on the same day, it cannot be individual team promotion
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2025 11:44     Subject: Everything you need to know about GA

I can’t wait to go to a freezing cold showcase for ECNL only to have a lot of rain and my games being cancelled. It surely a better league and I can get recruited from a mid tier club better there.
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2025 11:40     Subject: Everything you need to know about GA

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Who cares that league is 4-5 years away at best to being on par


Every girl except one from my daughters GA team was recruited with money. 5 of them to ACC schools.


That's good to hear, we are in Pre-GA now and the clubs don't put out much in the way of this information. What club was this? -Thanks!
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2025 07:04     Subject: Everything you need to know about GA

Anonymous wrote:Who cares that league is 4-5 years away at best to being on par


Every girl except one from my daughters GA team was recruited with money. 5 of them to ACC schools.
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2025 18:40     Subject: Everything you need to know about GA

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know how the promotion from GA Tier 2 (Aspire) into GA will work?

Will it be for one team at one age group, if they do particularly well for example. Or is it for the whole Club to earn a promotion?

-If its only for a whole club, will they ignore promotion of GA2 team if the same club already has a GA1 team? I.e. if a clubs GA2 team wins their league, would they have no shot at promotion because the same club already has a GA1 team?



Typical promotion leagues promote the top 3 and relegate the bottom 3. It would be cool to see relegating the bottom 3 and making 3rd and 4th in Aspire play an elimination game to win promotion.

The problem with youth league and club structure is there's a multiple levels of teams for every age group. Pro/Rel doesn't work in the current club structure because a single coach might have multiple levels or age group teams.

What this means is if you wanted to do Pro/Rel ar the youth level it would have to be club wide at all age groups. This doesn't work because clubs will just go to competitors before being relegated if it's going to happen across all age groups and levels.

ECNLs way to get around all this was to force crappy clubs to merge with better clubs vs boot them completely from the league. Unfortunately this just delays the inevitable because merged club leadership will fight for power eventually spinning back put into separate clubs usually in a different league.

Pro/Rel works with acadamies because there's 1 top team and all age groups feed I to it. Age has no bearing on who plays.


Good points that I agree with, that’s why I’m wondering what they mean when they say teams can be promoted…. Wonder if it’s just technical lip service.
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2025 13:36     Subject: Everything you need to know about GA

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know how the promotion from GA Tier 2 (Aspire) into GA will work?

Will it be for one team at one age group, if they do particularly well for example. Or is it for the whole Club to earn a promotion?

-If its only for a whole club, will they ignore promotion of GA2 team if the same club already has a GA1 team? I.e. if a clubs GA2 team wins their league, would they have no shot at promotion because the same club already has a GA1 team?



Typical promotion leagues promote the top 3 and relegate the bottom 3. It would be cool to see relegating the bottom 3 and making 3rd and 4th in Aspire play an elimination game to win promotion.

The problem with youth league and club structure is there's a multiple levels of teams for every age group. Pro/Rel doesn't work in the current club structure because a single coach might have multiple levels or age group teams.

What this means is if you wanted to do Pro/Rel ar the youth level it would have to be club wide at all age groups. This doesn't work because clubs will just go to competitors before being relegated if it's going to happen across all age groups and levels.

ECNLs way to get around all this was to force crappy clubs to merge with better clubs vs boot them completely from the league. Unfortunately this just delays the inevitable because merged club leadership will fight for power eventually spinning back put into separate clubs usually in a different league.

Pro/Rel works with acadamies because there's 1 top team and all age groups feed I to it. Age has no bearing on who plays.
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2025 11:32     Subject: Everything you need to know about GA

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know how the promotion from GA Tier 2 (Aspire) into GA will work?

Will it be for one team at one age group, if they do particularly well for example. Or is it for the whole Club to earn a promotion?

-If its only for a whole club, will they ignore promotion of GA2 team if the same club already has a GA1 team? I.e. if a clubs GA2 team wins their league, would they have no shot at promotion because the same club already has a GA1 team?



Typical promotion leagues promote the top 3 and relegate the bottom 3. It would be cool to see relegating the bottom 3 and making 3rd and 4th in Aspire play an elimination game to win promotion.
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2025 11:20     Subject: Everything you need to know about GA

Does anyone know how the promotion from GA Tier 2 (Aspire) into GA will work?

Will it be for one team at one age group, if they do particularly well for example. Or is it for the whole Club to earn a promotion?

-If its only for a whole club, will they ignore promotion of GA2 team if the same club already has a GA1 team? I.e. if a clubs GA2 team wins their league, would they have no shot at promotion because the same club already has a GA1 team?

Anonymous
Post 02/23/2025 10:00     Subject: Everything you need to know about GA

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Much of the above information is only partial and doesn’t really describe the ga. No local clubs are champions cup teams and not likely to be in the near future. The oversaturation by clubs joining into the gap will keep the teams weak on a wide scale basis for some years to come. The talent will begin to accumulate at one of the clubs, which will likely be VRSC just like the ECNL talent has accumulated at vda.

Wait, all the ECNL hats say that GA is easy. If this is case NVA + others should be able to steamroll through the finals.

Now the excuse is "oversaturation" of clubs? What does this even mean? There's only one winner of a regional league. You could have 50 teams in a regional league and it wouldn't matter. There would still only be one top team going to finals.

Sometimes the excuses get so thick if they jumped up in the air they'd get stuck.


How do you explain clubs like Nationals, South Shore Select and Ukrainian Nationals going from top GA teams to bottom tier ECNL teams?


Nationals from Midwest conference look like 4-5 teams will qualify for playoffs out of a very hard conference, two teams finishing third behind just Gallagher & Michigan Hawks

Plus national team call ups and lots of college commmitments on their social media.

Definitely a bottom tier ECNL program, just because you didn’t like that they left the GA doesn’t mean you should be making things up here 😂

South shore played high school in the fall and is just starting up, they gained a lot of players, they will be just fine.

Rush is struggling but they were middle of the road in GA too.
Anonymous
Post 02/22/2025 21:21     Subject: Everything you need to know about GA

Anonymous wrote:GA is a pretty well run league. It might not be if they over saturate it with teams that don’t compete.


This is happening now, unfortunately.
Anonymous
Post 02/22/2025 20:26     Subject: Everything you need to know about GA

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Much of the above information is only partial and doesn’t really describe the ga. No local clubs are champions cup teams and not likely to be in the near future. The oversaturation by clubs joining into the gap will keep the teams weak on a wide scale basis for some years to come. The talent will begin to accumulate at one of the clubs, which will likely be VRSC just like the ECNL talent has accumulated at vda.

Wait, all the ECNL hats say that GA is easy. If this is case NVA + others should be able to steamroll through the finals.

Now the excuse is "oversaturation" of clubs? What does this even mean? There's only one winner of a regional league. You could have 50 teams in a regional league and it wouldn't matter. There would still only be one top team going to finals.

Sometimes the excuses get so thick if they jumped up in the air they'd get stuck.


How do you explain clubs like Nationals, South Shore Select and Ukrainian Nationals going from top GA teams to bottom tier ECNL teams?


Ukies lost a ton of players to other clubs when then moved from GA to ECNL. The Ukies teams playing ECNL right now are not the same players that played GA


Are you kidding me? If they lost players, it was because kids came in from outside clubs for ECNL.
Anonymous
Post 02/22/2025 18:45     Subject: Everything you need to know about GA

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Much of the above information is only partial and doesn’t really describe the ga. No local clubs are champions cup teams and not likely to be in the near future. The oversaturation by clubs joining into the gap will keep the teams weak on a wide scale basis for some years to come. The talent will begin to accumulate at one of the clubs, which will likely be VRSC just like the ECNL talent has accumulated at vda.

Wait, all the ECNL hats say that GA is easy. If this is case NVA + others should be able to steamroll through the finals.

Now the excuse is "oversaturation" of clubs? What does this even mean? There's only one winner of a regional league. You could have 50 teams in a regional league and it wouldn't matter. There would still only be one top team going to finals.

Sometimes the excuses get so thick if they jumped up in the air they'd get stuck.


How do you explain clubs like Nationals, South Shore Select and Ukrainian Nationals going from top GA teams to bottom tier ECNL teams?


Ukies lost a ton of players to other clubs when then moved from GA to ECNL. The Ukies teams playing ECNL right now are not the same players that played GA


Where did those players go? They were desperate to stay in the GA?
Anonymous
Post 02/22/2025 15:58     Subject: Everything you need to know about GA

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Much of the above information is only partial and doesn’t really describe the ga. No local clubs are champions cup teams and not likely to be in the near future. The oversaturation by clubs joining into the gap will keep the teams weak on a wide scale basis for some years to come. The talent will begin to accumulate at one of the clubs, which will likely be VRSC just like the ECNL talent has accumulated at vda.

Wait, all the ECNL hats say that GA is easy. If this is case NVA + others should be able to steamroll through the finals.

Now the excuse is "oversaturation" of clubs? What does this even mean? There's only one winner of a regional league. You could have 50 teams in a regional league and it wouldn't matter. There would still only be one top team going to finals.

Sometimes the excuses get so thick if they jumped up in the air they'd get stuck.


How do you explain clubs like Nationals, South Shore Select and Ukrainian Nationals going from top GA teams to bottom tier ECNL teams?


Ukies lost a ton of players to other clubs when then moved from GA to ECNL. The Ukies teams playing ECNL right now are not the same players that played GA
Anonymous
Post 02/22/2025 15:57     Subject: Everything you need to know about GA

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Much of the above information is only partial and doesn’t really describe the ga. No local clubs are champions cup teams and not likely to be in the near future. The oversaturation by clubs joining into the gap will keep the teams weak on a wide scale basis for some years to come. The talent will begin to accumulate at one of the clubs, which will likely be VRSC just like the ECNL talent has accumulated at vda.


You’re trying so hard in every thread, does your livelihood depend on parents’ payments exclusively?


i was thinking the same thing...if they keep saying it hopefully it will come true lol