Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully by next week so everyone can stop speculating and get on with it.

Are any DA players out there staying put?

We are not and many others aren't either. Most not admitting it publicly....yet.

Definitely fake news!!! You can only start 11 at a time. If you have a team with three elite strikers, you can't them all where they want. Guess what happens the next season, one or maybe even two them leave. Kids that are happy with coaching and club aren't leaving.

What kind of base coach can’t figure out how to start three strikers 😂😂😂

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully by next week so everyone can stop speculating and get on with it.

Are any DA players out there staying put?

My daughter will be and based on the number of new followers for GAL on social media a lot of other girls will be staying.

Social media?

Do you use social media as a metric when picking the program for your DD?

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Anonymous wrote:Can FCV parents stop pretending that DA was superior to ECNL. First, the only serious DA competition took place in SoCal. Everywhere else, except maybe Texas, was inferior. Even in DC, FCV was the only serious club and it was a former ECNL club. MU/WSVA was a start-up, Arlington came from CCL and BA/WSMD didn't even get Pipeline's best players. BA probably gave more waivers for private high school play than any DA club in the nation.

FCV players are better off leaving the club and joining local ECNL clubs. I am certain that players at every age group can make teams at McLean, Bethesda, BRYC, Loudoun and VDA. They might not start but they will make a team. Time to stop the silliness. ECNL is and has always beenthe big dog. You made a run to unseat the league but failed. Let it go.

To play devil's advocate, if they "might not start", is it better to be on an ECNL team with 20+ on the roster, and ride the bench, or to be in a different league and play. Don't get me wrong, I 100% see the value in the showcases -- my DD is ex-DA as well, but if you go to a showcase and don't play, what difference does it make. Fun experience? Miss school? Spend a lot of $$? But you aren't playing.... We are trying to decide what is best -- stay in what might be inferior but is ultimately an unknown, or go somewhere where she should make a team, but as everyone says, "might not start" -- as who knows what the politics look like.

A friend’s DD, now in college, moved to a first place MA team at one of the ECNL club’s a few years ago (u17) after they relocated to the area. She was offered at the 1st ID session she attended. Even though it was a strong team, Coach told them she’d be an impact player. Ended up getting put at a position that wasn’t ideal for her and platooning with another player. Parents felt the Coach/Club did very little to help in the recruiting process; they thought that may have been because she was ‘new’ to the program, so less of a priority. Schools that were willing to offer scholarship $ didn’t make sense for her academically. Ended up a recruited walk-on at a good academic school, but in the parents estimation she would have ended up there with or without the club she went to. Not trying to knock ECNL, because the same likely applied to DA, but just giving the perspective of one person that had a situation similar to what some of you have.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully by next week so everyone can stop speculating and get on with it.

Are any DA players out there staying put?

We are not and many others aren't either. Most not admitting it publicly....yet.

Definitely fake news!!! You can only start 11 at a time. If you have a team with three elite strikers, you can't them all where they want. Guess what happens the next season, one or maybe even two them leave. Kids that are happy with coaching and club aren't leaving.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully by next week so everyone can stop speculating and get on with it.

Are any DA players out there staying put?

We are not and many others aren't either. Most not admitting it publicly....yet.

Fake news. Loudoun 07 dad loves trolling here. Check the post history

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully by next week so everyone can stop speculating and get on with it.

Are any DA players out there staying put?

We are not and many others aren't either. Most not admitting it publicly....yet.

Anonymous wrote:Can FCV parents stop pretending that DA was superior to ECNL. First, the only serious DA competition took place in SoCal. Everywhere else, except maybe Texas, was inferior. Even in DC, FCV was the only serious club and it was a former ECNL club. MU/WSVA was a start-up, Arlington came from CCL and BA/WSMD didn't even get Pipeline's best players. BA probably gave more waivers for private high school play than any DA club in the nation.

FCV players are better off leaving the club and joining local ECNL clubs. I am certain that players at every age group can make teams at McLean, Bethesda, BRYC, Loudoun and VDA. They might not start but they will make a team. Time to stop the silliness. ECNL is and has always beenthe big dog. You made a run to unseat the league but failed. Let it go.

With all due respect, DA was not inferior in this region either. Revisionist history.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully by next week so everyone can stop speculating and get on with it.

Are any DA players out there staying put?

My daughter will be and based on the number of new followers for GAL on social media a lot of other girls will be staying.

Social media?

Anonymous wrote:Can FCV parents stop pretending that DA was superior to ECNL. First, the only serious DA competition took place in SoCal. Everywhere else, except maybe Texas, was inferior. Even in DC, FCV was the only serious club and it was a former ECNL club. MU/WSVA was a start-up, Arlington came from CCL and BA/WSMD didn't even get Pipeline's best players. BA probably gave more waivers for private high school play than any DA club in the nation.

FCV players are better off leaving the club and joining local ECNL clubs. I am certain that players at every age group can make teams at McLean, Bethesda, BRYC, Loudoun and VDA. They might not start but they will make a team. Time to stop the silliness. ECNL is and has always beenthe big dog. You made a run to unseat the league but failed. Let it go.

To play devil's advocate, if they "might not start", is it better to be on an ECNL team with 20+ on the roster, and ride the bench, or to be in a different league and play. Don't get me wrong, I 100% see the value in the showcases -- my DD is ex-DA as well, but if you go to a showcase and don't play, what difference does it make. Fun experience? Miss school? Spend a lot of $$? But you aren't playing.... We are trying to decide what is best -- stay in what might be inferior but is ultimately an unknown, or go somewhere where she should make a team, but as everyone says, "might not start" -- as who knows what the politics look like.

Can FCV parents stop pretending that DA was superior to ECNL. First, the only serious DA competition took place in SoCal. Everywhere else, except maybe Texas, was inferior. Even in DC, FCV was the only serious club and it was a former ECNL club. MU/WSVA was a start-up, Arlington came from CCL and BA/WSMD didn't even get Pipeline's best players. BA probably gave more waivers for private high school play than any DA club in the nation.

FCV players are better off leaving the club and joining local ECNL clubs. I am certain that players at every age group can make teams at McLean, Bethesda, BRYC, Loudoun and VDA. They might not start but they will make a team. Time to stop the silliness. ECNL is and has always beenthe big dog. You made a run to unseat the league but failed. Let it go.

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully by next week so everyone can stop speculating and get on with it.

Are any DA players out there staying put?

not sure yet.

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully by next week so everyone can stop speculating and get on with it.

Are any DA players out there staying put?

My daughter will be and based on the number of new followers for GAL on social media a lot of other girls will be staying.

Hopefully by next week so everyone can stop speculating and get on with it.

Are any DA players out there staying put?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like the list from earlier is pretty accurate. I saw that Penn Fusion is not joining, but other than that all of the listed teams are joining the GAL.

http://www.girlsacademyleague.com/

When will mid atlantic be announced

Not sure when, but it appears that they are announcing new conferences every couple of days.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can't speak to Arlington but you are correct on FCV. They will *not* be in ECNL.

And how are you so sure?

Link to press release?
Link to article?
Link to anything that corroborates your statement?

I can speak for both. They will not be in ECNL.

I feel the same way. No concrete evidence but the didn't position themselves well. Especially since they previously left ECNL to join DA.