Anonymous wrote:VDA results would beg to differ

2011's took a step BACKWARDS lol. 2012's aren't anything special.

Sure, he shored up a few other teams that were on the brink of collapsing but what's the next few years going to do?

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Anonymous wrote:No way ECNL kills off FVU right away. The ECNL brass got caught by surprise with McLean bailing and it’s too late to form a new unions from thin air, so they will ride it out for now.

But, if the boys results don’t improve in fall and/or there is slippage on the girls side, enter GFR and whatever other clubs they can tack on - Herndon, Vienna, Valor. ECNL would love to love to wedge a club between Loudoun and McLean.

Who cares who the member clubs are? VSA, Herndon, and PWSI are terrible but VDA is good because players come from all over to what they perceive to be a solid club. FVU needs to develop itself and the kids will come regardless of who the member clubs are. Their job just got easier with NVA leaving ECNL.

FVU will get better if they stop playing politics and favorites

You don't think that happens at VDA with the king of favorites and politicking?

everyone does it. Including nva. Everyone uywnt id sessions is mostly political. You cant get around crying parents w leverage and placating coaches. Pick your poison and drink up.

Fvu will need to find what it wants its playing style to look like… before ecnl forces another merger.

GA2 is DPL now ASPIRE

Anonymous wrote:What does all of this mean for the other McLean Teams (white and gold?) Are they impacted in all these sweeping changes?

Best kids will go GA
2nd best kids will go GA2
3rd best kids DPL or other league

Is it possible they do something like McLean and FVU? NVA stays ECNL and Loudoun somehow splits and moves to GA?

VDA results would beg to differ

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Anonymous wrote:No way ECNL kills off FVU right away. The ECNL brass got caught by surprise with McLean bailing and it’s too late to form a new unions from thin air, so they will ride it out for now.

But, if the boys results don’t improve in fall and/or there is slippage on the girls side, enter GFR and whatever other clubs they can tack on - Herndon, Vienna, Valor. ECNL would love to love to wedge a club between Loudoun and McLean.

Who cares who the member clubs are? VSA, Herndon, and PWSI are terrible but VDA is good because players come from all over to what they perceive to be a solid club. FVU needs to develop itself and the kids will come regardless of who the member clubs are. Their job just got easier with NVA leaving ECNL.

FVU will get better if they stop playing politics and favorites

You don't think that happens at VDA with the king of favorites and politicking?

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Anonymous wrote:No way ECNL kills off FVU right away. The ECNL brass got caught by surprise with McLean bailing and it’s too late to form a new unions from thin air, so they will ride it out for now.

But, if the boys results don’t improve in fall and/or there is slippage on the girls side, enter GFR and whatever other clubs they can tack on - Herndon, Vienna, Valor. ECNL would love to love to wedge a club between Loudoun and McLean.

Who cares who the member clubs are? VSA, Herndon, and PWSI are terrible but VDA is good because players come from all over to what they perceive to be a solid club. FVU needs to develop itself and the kids will come regardless of who the member clubs are. Their job just got easier with NVA leaving ECNL.

FVU will get better if they stop playing politics and favorites

I think it is safe to say that FVU, who has now scrubbed McLean from their website and only list Vienna and BRYC will have Vienna and BRYC coaches. FVU already had WAY too many coaches, one team, three teams worth of coaches. Why would they show loyalty to the McLean coaches? The Vienna and BRYC coaches and admin will protect the Vienna and BRYC coaches. This without thought to the fact that the coaches on the girls side at FVU were mostly Vienna coaches, who supposedly picked the “best” kids from the three clubs and managed to produce teams with a worse record than the Union teams. Hard to do. Total debacle of politics, bad player evaluation, and bad coaching. How do you combine the supposed “best” of Brave and Union and get worse records? But I guarantee you, the coaches announced for the FVU girls will be heavy MV and LO and maybe
NM and ML if GFR joins the union. It will be interesting to see if GFR gets any voting rights in the new Union, doubtful, and if no, then expect less NM and ML. Enjoy some kickball and questionable starters. But none of this matters when the boys side also got worse and ECNL will likely revoke the charter in a year anyway.

What does all of this mean for the other McLean Teams (white and gold?) Are they impacted in all these sweeping changes?

Does anyone know who actually runs FVU? The press release today did not sound promising. I reached out to my daughter’s coach and no response and he usually responds pretty quickly. I reached out Ellen and she never responds to anything. Another parent reached out to our ecnl director (NM) and he said he will get back to them tomorrow. Are they really going to put out the coaching slate on February 28?
We are former VA Union families and have not been happy with the admin side but love the coaching.
We want to stay but that depends on who is coaching our team. My daughter asked her coach in the player evaluation and the coach said that has not been discussed.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of people on this board (beyond this thread) seem to think ECNL is substantially better than GA, particularly with respect to college recruiting. If that’s true, current developments will be great for FVU, as they will keep their MYS girls and pick up some from NVA. VDA will also benefit from picking up some VDA girls. Eliminating an ECNL club will help the closest remaining ECNL clubs.

It will only be great for FVU if they have the old union coaches and not the brave coaches.

Most of the discussion is focusing on the girls FVU teams, which range from so-so to great. Maybe the girls side will be fine in the new post McLean era, but an ECNL club needs to maintain quality for both its boys and girls programs - the boys have been the problem all along. The boys FVU teams are abysmal. That is the main risk to FVU, and the reason why ECNL may drop the hammer (again).

Anonymous wrote:A lot of people on this board (beyond this thread) seem to think ECNL is substantially better than GA, particularly with respect to college recruiting. If that’s true, current developments will be great for FVU, as they will keep their MYS girls and pick up some from NVA. VDA will also benefit from picking up some VDA girls. Eliminating an ECNL club will help the closest remaining ECNL clubs.

It will only be great for FVU if they have the old union coaches and not the brave coaches.

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Anonymous wrote:ECNL will ask Arlington to extend their reach into Fairfax as FVU dissolves.

But can’t see how ECNL doesn’t place a Loudoun team. Arlington and VDA are just to far. Not say a few won’t make the trip but not realistic for many.

So Arlington will somehow use FFX County fields? Makes sense.

They don’t need FFX fields. They have their own. They will just attract McLean and Vienna girls that want ECNL.

VDA had players come because they recruited coaches who recruited players.