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Anonymous wrote:I see in the post that GA has added 2 new teams.

Carolina Core - girls club ranking/strength #507
KC Legends - girls club ranking/strength #214

yikes...

If you remove the 07/08 (1100 ranking) team which wont be around next season. What is the new math?

The younger teams 2012 and younger are pretty solid

and what if a dingo ran out in the street and ate your baby? what if's... lmao..GA hats crack me

What if an ecnl team plays pipeline? Does that count for anything?

Funny enough pipeline is actually better than a lot of GA teams! Be careful when you single out the bottom feeders

Lies—a local Aspire team defeated a Pipeline ECNL team at the Bethesda Showcase.

Which Aspire team? My impression is that Aspire is generally weaker than ECNL RL in the DMV, so genuinely curious if some clubs are stronger in the spectrum of Aspire.

Several ASPIRE teams have beaten ECNL National-level teams in past tournaments. The most recent example is from the Bethesda Premier Cup several months ago. If you check the scores, the top U14 girls bracket shows the SYC Aspire team beating Pipeline ECNL, and a U13 Aspire team from New York beating VDA’s 2013 ECNL side. It’s hard to take RL in Northern Virginia seriously when some of the big-name clubs—like BRYC, LMVSC, and Vienna—operate more like large rec programs than true competitive environments.

This is true. It is astonishing none of these clubs appear to be getting booted out of ECNL RL next year. Up and down the board for both girls and boys the clubs are at the bottom of the RL tables. And yet they are advertising themselves for tryouts as a ECNL national pathway. I think these clubs typically only get 2-6 new players at their tryouts as well.

How is this different from Aspire? Genuine question. I've heard that most of the Aspire teams in the DC area are fairly weak. This could (of course) change over time. I see one team (SYC) being mentioned as strong.

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Anonymous wrote:I see in the post that GA has added 2 new teams.

Carolina Core - girls club ranking/strength #507
KC Legends - girls club ranking/strength #214

yikes...

If you remove the 07/08 (1100 ranking) team which wont be around next season. What is the new math?

The younger teams 2012 and younger are pretty solid

and what if a dingo ran out in the street and ate your baby? what if's... lmao..GA hats crack me

What if an ecnl team plays pipeline? Does that count for anything?

Funny enough pipeline is actually better than a lot of GA teams! Be careful when you single out the bottom feeders

Lies—a local Aspire team defeated a Pipeline ECNL team at the Bethesda Showcase.

Which Aspire team? My impression is that Aspire is generally weaker than ECNL RL in the DMV, so genuinely curious if some clubs are stronger in the spectrum of Aspire.

Several ASPIRE teams have beaten ECNL National-level teams in past tournaments. The most recent example is from the Bethesda Premier Cup several months ago. If you check the scores, the top U14 girls bracket shows the SYC Aspire team beating Pipeline ECNL, and a U13 Aspire team from New York beating VDA’s 2013 ECNL side. It’s hard to take RL in Northern Virginia seriously when some of the big-name clubs—like BRYC, LMVSC, and Vienna—operate more like large rec programs than true competitive environments.

This is true. It is astonishing none of these clubs appear to be getting booted out of ECNL RL next year. Up and down the board for both girls and boys the clubs are at the bottom of the RL tables. And yet they are advertising themselves for tryouts as a ECNL national pathway. I think these clubs typically only get 2-6 new players at their tryouts as well.

Its fun watching the ECNL house of cards come crashing down. Now that theres more GA clubs in the area parents see through the BS.

The truth is that the top 5%-10% of any league wins all the awards and receives all the accolades. For ECNL parents the days when you could coattail off successful clubs in other parts of the country is coming to a close. Locally performance is getting worse and worse. You can call it dilution of talent because GA clubs are coming up or you can face reality that club development and training needs to improve if you intend to keep throwing ECNL around at cocktail parties.

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Anonymous wrote:I see in the post that GA has added 2 new teams.

Carolina Core - girls club ranking/strength #507
KC Legends - girls club ranking/strength #214

yikes...

If you remove the 07/08 (1100 ranking) team which wont be around next season. What is the new math?

The younger teams 2012 and younger are pretty solid

and what if a dingo ran out in the street and ate your baby? what if's... lmao..GA hats crack me

What if an ecnl team plays pipeline? Does that count for anything?

Funny enough pipeline is actually better than a lot of GA teams! Be careful when you single out the bottom feeders

Lies—a local Aspire team defeated a Pipeline ECNL team at the Bethesda Showcase.

Which Aspire team? My impression is that Aspire is generally weaker than ECNL RL in the DMV, so genuinely curious if some clubs are stronger in the spectrum of Aspire.

Several ASPIRE teams have beaten ECNL National-level teams in past tournaments. The most recent example is from the Bethesda Premier Cup several months ago. If you check the scores, the top U14 girls bracket shows the SYC Aspire team beating Pipeline ECNL, and a U13 Aspire team from New York beating VDA’s 2013 ECNL side. It’s hard to take RL in Northern Virginia seriously when some of the big-name clubs—like BRYC, LMVSC, and Vienna—operate more like large rec programs than true competitive environments.

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Anonymous wrote:I see in the post that GA has added 2 new teams.

Carolina Core - girls club ranking/strength #507
KC Legends - girls club ranking/strength #214

yikes...

If you remove the 07/08 (1100 ranking) team which wont be around next season. What is the new math?

The younger teams 2012 and younger are pretty solid

and what if a dingo ran out in the street and ate your baby? what if's... lmao..GA hats crack me

What if an ecnl team plays pipeline? Does that count for anything?

Funny enough pipeline is actually better than a lot of GA teams! Be careful when you single out the bottom feeders

Lies—a local Aspire team defeated a Pipeline ECNL team at the Bethesda Showcase.

Which Aspire team? My impression is that Aspire is generally weaker than ECNL RL in the DMV, so genuinely curious if some clubs are stronger in the spectrum of Aspire.

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Anonymous wrote:I see in the post that GA has added 2 new teams.

Carolina Core - girls club ranking/strength #507
KC Legends - girls club ranking/strength #214

yikes...

If you remove the 07/08 (1100 ranking) team which wont be around next season. What is the new math?

The younger teams 2012 and younger are pretty solid

and what if a dingo ran out in the street and ate your baby? what if's... lmao..GA hats crack me

What if an ecnl team plays pipeline? Does that count for anything?

Funny enough pipeline is actually better than a lot of GA teams! Be careful when you single out the bottom feeders

Lies—a local Aspire team defeated a Pipeline ECNL team at the Bethesda Showcase.

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Anonymous wrote:Aren't the majority of ecnl admits from a handful of clubs? So its more there's a some excellent clubs plugged into good schools and less about the league.

The majority, so a little over 700, are from a “handful” of clubs? Those are some big rosters then.

I think they meant aren't the majority of P4 commits from a handful of clubs... It's more than handful, but it's the same clubs over and over again. Yeah FC Wisconsin or Hex FC may have 1 P4 player, but Solar, Slammers, and Surf and going to put the majority of their team P4

Anonymous wrote:Aren't the majority of ecnl admits from a handful of clubs? So its more there's a some excellent clubs plugged into good schools and less about the league.

The majority, so a little over 700, are from a “handful” of clubs? Those are some big rosters then.

Anonymous wrote:Aren't the majority of ecnl admits from a handful of clubs? So its more there's a some excellent clubs plugged into good schools and less about the league.

Both GA and ECNL are like this with the top clubs.

Aren't the majority of ecnl admits from a handful of clubs? So its more there's a some excellent clubs plugged into good schools and less about the league.

Anonymous wrote:Very clear. In just 5 years, GA has eaten away almost 20% of P4 commits … and almost 30% of all commits. That could only grow … at least until PE takes over — allegedly.

Could also shrink. We’ll see. No guarantees.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. ECNL has been around for years. It SHOULD have the higher percentage of college commits. GA is like 5 years old. It’s a baby. And yet already has almost 20% of college commitments? I see why ECNL has folks running around posting these numbers everywhere - GA ate into their market share QUICKLY.

2026 Total D1 Commits

ECNL - 1461
GA - 419

seems pretty clear.

So, GA has already OVER 20%.
PP can't even do math.

Same number of clubs and players and 1000 more D1 commits in ECNL.

Take away the few big GA clubs in the top 10, like Lou Fusz , Top Hat and NEFC and then GA has under 275 total across 120 clubs. That doesn't scream look out.

If GA can peel away some big ECNL clubs then you can have a momentum argument.

Very clear. In just 5 years, GA has eaten away almost 20% of P4 commits … and almost 30% of all commits. That could only grow … at least until PE takes over — allegedly.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. ECNL has been around for years. It SHOULD have the higher percentage of college commits. GA is like 5 years old. It’s a baby. And yet already has almost 20% of college commitments? I see why ECNL has folks running around posting these numbers everywhere - GA ate into their market share QUICKLY.

2026 Total D1 Commits

ECNL - 1461
GA - 419

seems pretty clear.

So, GA has already OVER 20%.
PP can't even do math.

Anonymous wrote:Wow. ECNL has been around for years. It SHOULD have the higher percentage of college commits. GA is like 5 years old. It’s a baby. And yet already has almost 20% of college commitments? I see why ECNL has folks running around posting these numbers everywhere - GA ate into their market share QUICKLY.

2026 Total D1 Commits

ECNL - 1461
GA - 419

seems pretty clear.