Anonymous
06/29/2019 14:46
Subject: ECNL & DA Nationals Results
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Nice. Now VDA gets to play Tophats second team!
Do your parents know they raised a goof ball?
Is there 06 DA in the southeast? It’s a pilot program for Mid Atlantic.
Good point. At older ages their ECNL teams were their second teams to their DA teams which are very good. ECNL forced them to choose and they chose DA only for next year.
It is tophat’s first team. Give it a rest YouTube dad.
Anonymous
06/29/2019 09:43
Subject: ECNL & DA Nationals Results
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Nice. Now VDA gets to play Tophats second team!
Do your parents know they raised a goof ball?
Is there 06 DA in the southeast? It’s a pilot program for Mid Atlantic.
Good point. At older ages their ECNL teams were their second teams to their DA teams which are very good. ECNL forced them to choose and they chose DA only for next year.
Anonymous
06/29/2019 08:18
Subject: ECNL & DA Nationals Results
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Nice. Now VDA gets to play Tophats second team!
Do your parents know they raised a goof ball?
Is there 06 DA in the southeast? It’s a pilot program for Mid Atlantic.
Anonymous
06/29/2019 08:16
Subject: ECNL & DA Nationals Results
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Girls. The U14 ECNL is a Champions league. At this age it doesn’t matter. Just trying to out a snapshot up there to see how our sister clubs do.
Yes, all girls. All of the nut job parents only have girls apparently.
I've wondered about this. I think it's because everything is inherently more competitive and a longshot for boys. Parents of boys tend to be very humbled by the time their boys are HS age.
They start out thinking they have a little superstar and the younger ages get a lot of trash talk on this board, but 99% of those little stars don't pan out. Once you leave the mini-boy bubble and see the larger landscape across the US (California teams just crush us in general), they tend to let go. College scholarships worth any decent $ are also fairly non-existent for boys given the big sports they are competing with $ for (football, basketball,).
So-- the parents of girls see this as a ticket and for many a college scholarship is very real. For any given boy, not so much.
Right, and I think most understand that as good as your boy might be, it's just not measuring up to the environment that exists in Europe and South America...And, as for the US college/pro options for boys, the little scholarship $ that there is on the boys side is often times getting doled out to international players. So unless your son is a Top 5 player in their age group in the DCU Academy, the long term prospects are very minimal.
Boys' chances of playing in college and getting decent scholarship money is not so bleak as all that. There are more players going pro each year at levels ranging from the Bundesliga to USL. This frees up more room for the next tier of DA players (or the top ones who are too risk averse to skip college completely) to get good spots at the schools of their choice. There are around 200 men's D1 programs, and most offer the full 9.9 equivalent scholarship amounts, and not all coaches recruit from overseas. I know a lot of DA starters who ended up on 50%-75% scholarships, and others who went Ivy League either because of the prestige or extremely generous financial aid. And playing DA for boys is significantly less expensive than DA or ECNL for girls.
At a minimum, virtually all boys in DA get a huge admissions boost during the college application process; as anyone who follows the College or Private School threads on DCUM can attest, parents around here are absolutely obsessed with college admissions. Given all this, I'm mystified as to why there seem to be so many more crazed girl parents than boy parents on this forum.
Anonymous
06/28/2019 20:42
Subject: ECNL & DA Nationals Results
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Girls. The U14 ECNL is a Champions league. At this age it doesn’t matter. Just trying to out a snapshot up there to see how our sister clubs do.
Yes, all girls. All of the nut job parents only have girls apparently.
I've wondered about this. I think it's because everything is inherently more competitive and a longshot for boys. Parents of boys tend to be very humbled by the time their boys are HS age.
They start out thinking they have a little superstar and the younger ages get a lot of trash talk on this board, but 99% of those little stars don't pan out. Once you leave the mini-boy bubble and see the larger landscape across the US (California teams just crush us in general), they tend to let go. College scholarships worth any decent $ are also fairly non-existent for boys given the big sports they are competing with $ for (football, basketball,).
So-- the parents of girls see this as a ticket and for many a college scholarship is very real. For any given boy, not so much.
Right, and I think most understand that as good as your boy might be, it's just not measuring up to the environment that exists in Europe and South America...And, as for the US college/pro options for boys, the little scholarship $ that there is on the boys side is often times getting doled out to international players. So unless your son is a Top 5 player in their age group in the DCU Academy, the long term prospects are very minimal.
+100
The parents on my younger son’s team haven’t grasped this yet. All that extra travel and time spent missing out is going to be for naught. A lot drop club and DA in HS. It just does not become worth it.
Anonymous
06/28/2019 19:13
Subject: Re:ECNL & DA Nationals Results
Title IX rules!!!
Anonymous
06/28/2019 17:34
Subject: ECNL & DA Nationals Results
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Girls. The U14 ECNL is a Champions league. At this age it doesn’t matter. Just trying to out a snapshot up there to see how our sister clubs do.
Yes, all girls. All of the nut job parents only have girls apparently.
I've wondered about this. I think it's because everything is inherently more competitive and a longshot for boys. Parents of boys tend to be very humbled by the time their boys are HS age.
They start out thinking they have a little superstar and the younger ages get a lot of trash talk on this board, but 99% of those little stars don't pan out. Once you leave the mini-boy bubble and see the larger landscape across the US (California teams just crush us in general), they tend to let go. College scholarships worth any decent $ are also fairly non-existent for boys given the big sports they are competing with $ for (football, basketball,).
So-- the parents of girls see this as a ticket and for many a college scholarship is very real. For any given boy, not so much.
Right, and I think most understand that as good as your boy might be, it's just not measuring up to the environment that exists in Europe and South America...And, as for the US college/pro options for boys, the little scholarship $ that there is on the boys side is often times getting doled out to international players. So unless your son is a Top 5 player in their age group in the DCU Academy, the long term prospects are very minimal.
Anonymous
06/28/2019 17:28
Subject: ECNL & DA Nationals Results
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Did Mclean U16 just get spanked?
Crushed. I have a relative playing on another team, and her mother said it wasn't pretty.
Update - the loss today was worse. 0-5. Brutal.
Update - the 5-0 loss was the spanking (hence the phrase). Brutal.
Anonymous
06/28/2019 15:38
Subject: ECNL & DA Nationals Results
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Did Mclean U16 just get spanked?
Crushed. I have a relative playing on another team, and her mother said it wasn't pretty.
Update - the loss today was worse. 0-5. Brutal.
Anonymous
06/28/2019 15:37
Subject: ECNL & DA Nationals Results
Anonymous wrote:Nice. Now VDA gets to play Tophats second team!
Do your parents know they raised a goof ball?
Anonymous
06/28/2019 15:35
Subject: ECNL & DA Nationals Results
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Updated with Bethesda (W-L-T) this is through 6/27/2019
Summary (yes, mixing championships & showcases - get over it):
FCV 3-4-3 (4 teams)
McLean 1-2-3 (4 teams)
Arlington 2-2-0 (2 teams)
VDA 2-2-1 (3 teams)
BRYC 1-1-1 (3 teams)
Loudoun 0-2-0 (2 teams)
Spirit MD 3-4-0 (3 teams)
Spirit VA 1-6-0 (3 teams)
Bethesda 2-1-1 (3 teams)
Maryland United 3-0-0 (3 teams)
U18/19
FCV (1-1-1, Third place in group)
McLean (1-0-1, one game left. Leading group)
Arlington (N/A - No Team)
VDA (N/A - Didn't go)
BRYC (N/A - Didn't go)
Loudoun (N/A - Didn't go)
Spirit MD (N/A - Didn't go)
Spirit VA (N/A - Didn't go)
Bethesda (0-1-1, 3rd place in group, 1 game left)
Maryland United (N/A - Didn't go)
U16/17 DA
FCV (1-1-1, Second place in group)
Spirit MD (Showcase 2-1-0)
Spirit VA (Showcase 0-3-0)
Arlington (N/A - No team)
U17 ECNL
McLean (Champions League 0-1-1, Second place in group. 1 game left)
BRYC (Champions League 0-1-0, fourth place in group, 2 games left
VDA (N/A - No team)
Loudoun (Showcase 0-1-0, Losers bracket)
Bethesda (N/A - No team)
Maryland United (NA Cup 1-0-0, Quarter final game)
U16 ECNL
McLean (Champions League 0-1-0, Second place in group. 2 games left)
BRYC (Champions League 0-0-1, Second place in group. 2 games left)
VDA (N/A - No team)
Loudoun (N/A - No team)
Bethesda (Showcase 1-0-0, Quarter-Final)
Maryland United (Champions League 1-0-0, Second place in group. 2 games left)
U15
FCV (1-2-0, 3rd place in group)
McLean (N/A - No team)
Arlington (Showcase 2-1-0)
VDA (NA Cup 0-1-0, Losers Bracket)
BRYC (Showcase 1-0-0, Quarter-Final)
Loudoun (Showcase 0-1-0, Losers Bracket)
Spirit MD (1-2-0, 3rd place in group)
Spirit VA (Showcase 1-2-0)
Bethesda (Showcase 1-0-0, Quarter-Final)
Maryland United (NA Cup 1-0-0, Quarter final game)
U14
FCV (Showcase 0-0-1)
McLean (Champions League 0-0-1)
Arlington (Showcase 0-1-0)
VDA (Champions League 0-1-0)
BRYC (N/A - No team)
Loudoun (N/A - No team)
Spirit MD (Showcase 0-1-0)
Spirit VA (Showcase 0-1-0)
Bethesda (N/A - No team)
U13
VDA (National Finals 2-0-1)
There I fixed some of it (not the PP)
Do your parents know they raised a goof ball?
Anonymous
06/28/2019 14:44
Subject: ECNL & DA Nationals Results
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Girls. The U14 ECNL is a Champions league. At this age it doesn’t matter. Just trying to out a snapshot up there to see how our sister clubs do.
Yes, all girls. All of the nut job parents only have girls apparently.
I've wondered about this. I think it's because everything is inherently more competitive and a longshot for boys. Parents of boys tend to be very humbled by the time their boys are HS age.
They start out thinking they have a little superstar and the younger ages get a lot of trash talk on this board, but 99% of those little stars don't pan out. Once you leave the mini-boy bubble and see the larger landscape across the US (California teams just crush us in general), they tend to let go. College scholarships worth any decent $ are also fairly non-existent for boys given the big sports they are competing with $ for (football, basketball,).
So-- the parents of girls see this as a ticket and for many a college scholarship is very real. For any given boy, not so much.
Anonymous
06/28/2019 13:52
Subject: ECNL & DA Nationals Results
It happens.
Anonymous
06/28/2019 13:49
Subject: ECNL & DA Nationals Results
Anonymous wrote:Did Mclean U16 just get spanked?
Crushed. I have a relative playing on another team, and her mother said it wasn't pretty.
Anonymous
06/28/2019 13:39
Subject: Re:ECNL & DA Nationals Results
Here's a nice write-up of the local boys' DA playoff results: https://www.soccerwire.com/news/clubs/youth-boys/potomac-area-teams-post-strong-performances-in-boys-da-playoffs/
The boys did quite well overall.
The boys did quite well overall.