Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s about to get VERY messy. Arlington having boys ECNL disrupted a bit, and I think it’ll slowly continue to disrupt because there are more teams, players. There are some EXCELLENT players all over, so consolidating talent by funneling to ECNL will take time.

There are far fewer strong girls programs and girls players. So the best talent and most serious players can identify best clubs a lot quicker. With Arlington getting the patch, GAL really weakens meaning best FCV players leave for McLean. NOVA will become an ECNL or not area. McLean will take FCV players, Arlington will take best players from Alexandria, SYC, and probably even BRYC.

Why would FCV players automatically go to McLean?

That pie would get split four different ways, VDA, Loudoun, BRYC and McLean.

Adding Arlington doesn't make McLean the top draw.

Nobody needs to drive 45 minutes for ECNL.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s about to get VERY messy. Arlington having boys ECNL disrupted a bit, and I think it’ll slowly continue to disrupt because there are more teams, players. There are some EXCELLENT players all over, so consolidating talent by funneling to ECNL will take time.

There are far fewer strong girls programs and girls players. So the best talent and most serious players can identify best clubs a lot quicker. With Arlington getting the patch, GAL really weakens meaning best FCV players leave for McLean. NOVA will become an ECNL or not area. McLean will take FCV players, Arlington will take best players from Alexandria, SYC, and probably even BRYC.

Why would FCV players automatically go to McLean?

That pie would get split four different ways, VDA, Loudoun, BRYC and McLean.

Adding Arlington doesn't make McLean the top draw.

Nobody needs to drive 45 minutes for ECNL.

Anonymous wrote:It’s about to get VERY messy. Arlington having boys ECNL disrupted a bit, and I think it’ll slowly continue to disrupt because there are more teams, players. There are some EXCELLENT players all over, so consolidating talent by funneling to ECNL will take time.

There are far fewer strong girls programs and girls players. So the best talent and most serious players can identify best clubs a lot quicker. With Arlington getting the patch, GAL really weakens meaning best FCV players leave for McLean. NOVA will become an ECNL or not area. McLean will take FCV players, Arlington will take best players from Alexandria, SYC, and probably even BRYC.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DA didn’t disrupt ECNL. GAL didn’t disrupt ECNL.

You are correct, industries can be disrupted. ECNL hasn’t yet.

lol. imagine your DD is under 16 and plays in the GAL and has aspirations to play in college...

In a short decade:

ODP King
Boys DA King
ECNL Queen
Girls DA Disrupted
DA folds
GA forms
ECNL Expands

Local leagues in that timeframe
NCSL King
WAGS Queen
CCL King
EDP
NPL
NCSL absorbs WAGS
WAGS dead
NPL bleeding
ODSL killed by Covid
EDP taking away from NPL/ECNL R

Things shift and nothing lasts, not even age cutoffs.

The only rival on this list was DA. The DA was formed by stealing ECNL clubs and backfilling with EDP clubs. GA is nothing but the remaining back filled clubs...and Tophat, FCV, NCFC, and a couple others.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DA didn’t disrupt ECNL. GAL didn’t disrupt ECNL.

You are correct, industries can be disrupted. ECNL hasn’t yet.

lol. imagine your DD is under 16 and plays in the GAL and has aspirations to play in college...

In a short decade:

ODP King
Boys DA King
ECNL Queen
Girls DA Disrupted
DA folds
GA forms
ECNL Expands

Local leagues in that timeframe
NCSL King
WAGS Queen
CCL King
EDP
NPL
NCSL absorbs WAGS
WAGS dead
NPL bleeding
ODSL killed by Covid
EDP taking away from NPL/ECNL R

Things shift and nothing lasts, not even age cutoffs.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DA didn’t disrupt ECNL. GAL didn’t disrupt ECNL.

You are correct, industries can be disrupted. ECNL hasn’t yet.

lol. imagine your DD is under 16 and plays in the GAL and has aspirations to play in college...

Anonymous wrote:DA didn’t disrupt ECNL. GAL didn’t disrupt ECNL.

You are correct, industries can be disrupted. ECNL hasn’t yet.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:McLean, BRYC, VDA, FCV, Metro United, Alexandria, SYC, DC Stoddert. Everybody is freaking out right now. MLS Next, GAL, EDP won’t make your name better than: Arlington ECNL.

Why is DC Stoddert freking? Are they worried the former ODSL teams will take their spot in NCSL and push them out?

Because every player within 45 minute drive to Arlington just lost their best players.

At this point everyone will have ECNL, there is no reason to drive 45 minutes to ANY club for ECNL.

This take is just laughable.

Look at a map. BRYC will be given a year to get their sh!t together but it won’t matter because when MW left, so did their program.

How does that really consolidate? The net change would still be 4 ECNL clubs but currently it would be 5 from 4. ECNL has never kicked a club out in their existence. If they start kicking clubs out now then it means they have over expanded and diluted their brand. There are only 15-20 clubs left in the Nation worth adding at this point.

A collapse of GA is the only thing that would sustain the level of talent for the amount of clubs in ECNL.

ECNL really should have just cut a deal with the DA clubs last year agreeing to bring them all on over a 2 year period.

Did you just say cut a deal with DA? Come on, man. ECNL is king. They cut no deals. They just crushed USSF. The over expansion was not because of them. It’s because of the turf war started by USSF and their arrogance. Learn where to place the blame.

"King"? After a decade? That is absurd. ODP was "King" too. So was Boys DA. Every industry can be disrupted. Clubs will always do what is in their best interest, not the league. If ECNL continues to expand there becomes little benefit for the top 40-70 clubs in the nation.

They may travel less, which is always good but somehow that doesn't feel like a "National League" either. It feels even less so when you are a top club and you are pounding teams 5-0, 6-0 on a regular basis.

If the product gets diluted enough a disruption will occur and top clubs will do their own thing, just the same way they did with ECNL in the beginning.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:McLean, BRYC, VDA, FCV, Metro United, Alexandria, SYC, DC Stoddert. Everybody is freaking out right now. MLS Next, GAL, EDP won’t make your name better than: Arlington ECNL.

Why is DC Stoddert freking? Are they worried the former ODSL teams will take their spot in NCSL and push them out?

Because every player within 45 minute drive to Arlington just lost their best players.

At this point everyone will have ECNL, there is no reason to drive 45 minutes to ANY club for ECNL.

This take is just laughable.

Look at a map. BRYC will be given a year to get their sh!t together but it won’t matter because when MW left, so did their program.

How does that really consolidate? The net change would still be 4 ECNL clubs but currently it would be 5 from 4. ECNL has never kicked a club out in their existence. If they start kicking clubs out now then it means they have over expanded and diluted their brand. There are only 15-20 clubs left in the Nation worth adding at this point.

A collapse of GA is the only thing that would sustain the level of talent for the amount of clubs in ECNL.

ECNL really should have just cut a deal with the DA clubs last year agreeing to bring them all on over a 2 year period.

Did you just say cut a deal with DA? Come on, man. ECNL is king. They cut no deals. They just crushed USSF. The over expansion was not because of them. It’s because of the turf war started by USSF and their arrogance. Learn where to place the blame.