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Anonymous wrote:Arlington04 and will not return for GAL. This was decided before this announcement.

Says who?

Uhhh says me
I’m the one that pays the bill that Arlington Soccer sends so that decision to leave the club and take her elsewhere is mine. As previously stated that decision has been made.

If you’d like to pay her bill then maybe I’d consider letting you influence that decision until then she won’t be moving to GAL in her junior year.
Sorry if you thought the entire team will fall in line and go play in this new league. She’s not the only one

good luck navigating the politics and trying to get a starting spot on a brand new team. Should be exciting for her. What a “smart” parent.

Also Arlington 04 (starter) and planning to stay. If most of the starters stay, the girls will do fine. I’m leery of trying to break into Mclean at a recruiting age. None of the other ECNL teams are worth it for college recruiting.

Last place McLean 04 will help her recruiting but the other ECNL teams will not? Bartender...

It’s about the connections and phone calls that Clyde can make at this point in the process, and Mclean has more of those connections than any of the other ECNL teams. 04s can start talking to coaches this summer, if the coaches want to talk to them. This late in the cycle, when D1 coaches either already have 04 girls on their radar or not, would Mclean advocate for my brand new daughter or for someone who’s played there for 3+ years and whose parents have already done all of the political connecting? I’d rather my DD be top on the Arlington coaches’ advocacy list than last on the Mclean advocacy list. Sad but true, it’s not a meritocracy. Especially around here.

Internal MYS politicking has been invested into coaches and the club by entrenched parents for years, especially on the lower-ranked teams with the finger-pointing and infighting. It's baked into the MYS management culture.

A lot of factors influence individual player success like team chemistry, team makeup, quality playing time at position of strength, coaching, parents, and politics. All of these are unknowns going onto a new team at a new club/league. I would caution any approach that treats players/teams/clubs as universally interchangeable.

The best players will always have choices to move, if the parents are willing to pay extra to move mid-season. The mediocre players are in the worst position right now. If the clubs are coming around seeking your player there’s no rush, those starting spots will be there in January 2021 if you wait to see how things play out. But if you’re worried about your DD getting on the field during games on her current team, let alone an unknown team, that’s a different situation.

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Anonymous wrote:Come on fellow ECNL'ers! Now is the time to bring over all the ex-DA players we can. May 1st is Friday. Can't wait!

So honestly, what percentage of ex-DA players do you think will make ECNL? How much ECNL do you think will get bumped?

Honestly, 100% of the DA players can make a ECNL team.

What a dumb question.

The question should be how many will bother trying?

Enjoy your new league.

ECNL should have done the right thing and rolled all the DAs in when they had the chance. Sorry but it doesn’t look like a talent infusion for your mediocre non-champions league team.

How is that “the right thing” in this case? If you roll every DA in, why not national league teams too?

Umm,because National League didn't have their league blown up by US Soccer? Isn't it obvious why they made the suggestion they did? SMDH

So you have a new league now. You can still call yourselves special. The DA tried to put ECNL out of business. ECNL is supposed to then turn around and bail the DA out?

Nobody said the new league was special, we just didn’t say your kid WAS special.

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Anonymous wrote:Come on fellow ECNL'ers! Now is the time to bring over all the ex-DA players we can. May 1st is Friday. Can't wait!

So honestly, what percentage of ex-DA players do you think will make ECNL? How much ECNL do you think will get bumped?

Honestly, 100% of the DA players can make a ECNL team.

What a dumb question.

The question should be how many will bother trying?

Enjoy your new league.

ECNL should have done the right thing and rolled all the DAs in when they had the chance. Sorry but it doesn’t look like a talent infusion for your mediocre non-champions league team.

How is that “the right thing” in this case? If you roll every DA in, why not national league teams too?

Umm,because National League didn't have their league blown up by US Soccer? Isn't it obvious why they made the suggestion they did? SMDH

So you have a new league now. You can still call yourselves special. The DA tried to put ECNL out of business. ECNL is supposed to then turn around and bail the DA out?

Correction, US soccer tried to put the ECNL out of business. The clubs made a choice to participate in DA based on the flawed assumption that US soccer had stamina and credibility. Again, there’s a lot more reason for ECNL to have taken the former DA clubs than not to. There’s no reason to take National League clubs in, which was your original statement. Stop moving the goalposts. ECNL has been “special” for quite some time, and there’s no one more “special” on this forum than ECNL parents...

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Anonymous wrote:Come on fellow ECNL'ers! Now is the time to bring over all the ex-DA players we can. May 1st is Friday. Can't wait!

So honestly, what percentage of ex-DA players do you think will make ECNL? How much ECNL do you think will get bumped?

Honestly, 100% of the DA players can make a ECNL team.

What a dumb question.

The question should be how many will bother trying?

Enjoy your new league.

ECNL should have done the right thing and rolled all the DAs in when they had the chance. Sorry but it doesn’t look like a talent infusion for your mediocre non-champions league team.

How is that “the right thing” in this case? If you roll every DA in, why not national league teams too?

Umm,because National League didn't have their league blown up by US Soccer? Isn't it obvious why they made the suggestion they did? SMDH

So you have a new league now. You can still call yourselves special. The DA tried to put ECNL out of business. ECNL is supposed to then turn around and bail the DA out?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes because following everyone to a start up league must be the smart thing to do. Just follow everyone as the decision must be made for you because you can’t possibly know what’s right for your family.

Why do you find it hard to accept that what’s right for you and your kid is not right for every kid? If you are an 04 parent you’ve likely spoken to me in the sideline but never once criticized me to my face yet behind the anonymous post you can preach about politics and being a smart parent.

The club’s stayed the same that you signed up for last year. If the players stay the same then what is the difference?

Club = same
Players = same
League = not same

DA is now GA
Are you suggesting that other than changing one letter in their name that nothing is different?

Arlington girls was a DA club for barely over a year before it failed. Now you expect me to believe that a rescue league that no one knew about and is being propped up to absorb what was once the DA is something so impressive that I should continue on blindly and accept that its the place to be.

I respect your choice to stay and ride it out. As for my choice I see it very differently. As for your assumption that the players are the same, I can assure you that is not the case. The majority will likely be there but the starting 11 will not all return. That I know 100% for sure.

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Anonymous wrote:Come on fellow ECNL'ers! Now is the time to bring over all the ex-DA players we can. May 1st is Friday. Can't wait!

So honestly, what percentage of ex-DA players do you think will make ECNL? How much ECNL do you think will get bumped?

Honestly, 100% of the DA players can make a ECNL team.

What a dumb question.

The question should be how many will bother trying?

Enjoy your new league.

ECNL should have done the right thing and rolled all the DAs in when they had the chance. Sorry but it doesn’t look like a talent infusion for your mediocre non-champions league team.

How is that “the right thing” in this case? If you roll every DA in, why not national league teams too?

Umm,because National League didn't have their league blown up by US Soccer? Isn't it obvious why they made the suggestion they did? SMDH

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Anonymous wrote:Come on fellow ECNL'ers! Now is the time to bring over all the ex-DA players we can. May 1st is Friday. Can't wait!

So honestly, what percentage of ex-DA players do you think will make ECNL? How much ECNL do you think will get bumped?

Honestly, 100% of the DA players can make a ECNL team.

What a dumb question.

The question should be how many will bother trying?

Enjoy your new league.

ECNL should have done the right thing and rolled all the DAs in when they had the chance. Sorry but it doesn’t look like a talent infusion for your mediocre non-champions league team.

How is that “the right thing” in this case? If you roll every DA in, why not national league teams too?

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Anonymous wrote:Won’t stay for this, dd is entering important recruiting years. Now is not the time for me to screw her over.

I like our club and hope it is successful, I have to put my daughter first though.

No, now is the time to change clubs to a bloated roster and let a new coach screw her over.

Good luck with that.

What a bad take, if I take her to another club I will ask questions and find the best fit for her.

What if the current spot is the best fit? If her current club was the right fit, then it still should be. Nothing has really changed except the name. If the team wasn't right to start with, then she should leave. Everyone needs to make the best decisions for their kid, saying it's a new league and we need to leave is crazy. It's the same league, different name. There has been some attrition, but for the most part they have been replaced. There are clubs that can't be replaced and those loses hurt, but it doesn't kill the brand. It doesn't change the coaching at your club, doesn't change the training environment at your club, and doesn't change the relationships built, and it doesn't change the showcases. If you enjoyed the product before, stay. If you didn't enjoy the product before, leave.

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Anonymous wrote:Arlington04 and will not return for GAL. This was decided before this announcement.

Says who?

Uhhh says me
I’m the one that pays the bill that Arlington Soccer sends so that decision to leave the club and take her elsewhere is mine. As previously stated that decision has been made.

If you’d like to pay her bill then maybe I’d consider letting you influence that decision until then she won’t be moving to GAL in her junior year.
Sorry if you thought the entire team will fall in line and go play in this new league. She’s not the only one

good luck navigating the politics and trying to get a starting spot on a brand new team. Should be exciting for her. What a “smart” parent.

Also Arlington 04 (starter) and planning to stay. If most of the starters stay, the girls will do fine. I’m leery of trying to break into Mclean at a recruiting age. None of the other ECNL teams are worth it for college recruiting.

Last place McLean 04 will help her recruiting but the other ECNL teams will not? Bartender...

It’s about the connections and phone calls that Clyde can make at this point in the process, and Mclean has more of those connections than any of the other ECNL teams. 04s can start talking to coaches this summer, if the coaches want to talk to them. This late in the cycle, when D1 coaches either already have 04 girls on their radar or not, would Mclean advocate for my brand new daughter or for someone who’s played there for 3+ years and whose parents have already done all of the political connecting? I’d rather my DD be top on the Arlington coaches’ advocacy list than last on the Mclean advocacy list. Sad but true, it’s not a meritocracy. Especially around here.

Is Clyde going to be the 04 coach?
Do you know who will coach 04 Arlington?
I think some coaches are better than others at help with recruiting - but rumor has it that Clyde is horrible if you are not one of his stars.

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Anonymous wrote:Arlington04 and will not return for GAL. This was decided before this announcement.

Says who?

Uhhh says me
I’m the one that pays the bill that Arlington Soccer sends so that decision to leave the club and take her elsewhere is mine. As previously stated that decision has been made.

If you’d like to pay her bill then maybe I’d consider letting you influence that decision until then she won’t be moving to GAL in her junior year.
Sorry if you thought the entire team will fall in line and go play in this new league. She’s not the only one

good luck navigating the politics and trying to get a starting spot on a brand new team. Should be exciting for her. What a “smart” parent.

Also Arlington 04 (starter) and planning to stay. If most of the starters stay, the girls will do fine. I’m leery of trying to break into Mclean at a recruiting age. None of the other ECNL teams are worth it for college recruiting.

Last place McLean 04 will help her recruiting but the other ECNL teams will not? Bartender...

It’s about the connections and phone calls that Clyde can make at this point in the process, and Mclean has more of those connections than any of the other ECNL teams. 04s can start talking to coaches this summer, if the coaches want to talk to them. This late in the cycle, when D1 coaches either already have 04 girls on their radar or not, would Mclean advocate for my brand new daughter or for someone who’s played there for 3+ years and whose parents have already done all of the political connecting? I’d rather my DD be top on the Arlington coaches’ advocacy list than last on the Mclean advocacy list. Sad but true, it’s not a meritocracy. Especially around here.

Funny thing about all this post. You really have no idea who is posting LOL everyone has their own agenda. The Dad who is scared their kid is middle of pack and won’t start on an ECNL team and what happens if the team leaves to go ECNL and she can’t get a spot or worse this league is horrible without the top girls. The mom who’s kid is middle of the pack on ECNL and doesn’t want better kids coming on to push her kid out. The coach who wants all the best girls and will promise the world. Don’t be fooled and just do what’s best for your kid. It’s youth soccer for Christ sakes.

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Anonymous wrote:Come on fellow ECNL'ers! Now is the time to bring over all the ex-DA players we can. May 1st is Friday. Can't wait!

So honestly, what percentage of ex-DA players do you think will make ECNL? How much ECNL do you think will get bumped?

Honestly, 100% of the DA players can make a ECNL team.

What a dumb question.

The question should be how many will bother trying?

Enjoy your new league.

ECNL should have done the right thing and rolled all the DAs in when they had the chance. Sorry but it doesn’t look like a talent infusion for your mediocre non-champions league team.

Anonymous wrote:Yes because following everyone to a start up league must be the smart thing to do. Just follow everyone as the decision must be made for you because you can’t possibly know what’s right for your family.

Why do you find it hard to accept that what’s right for you and your kid is not right for every kid? If you are an 04 parent you’ve likely spoken to me in the sideline but never once criticized me to my face yet behind the anonymous post you can preach about politics and being a smart parent.

The club’s stayed the same that you signed up for last year. If the players stay the same then what is the difference?

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Anonymous wrote:Arlington04 and will not return for GAL. This was decided before this announcement.

Says who?

Uhhh says me
I’m the one that pays the bill that Arlington Soccer sends so that decision to leave the club and take her elsewhere is mine. As previously stated that decision has been made.

If you’d like to pay her bill then maybe I’d consider letting you influence that decision until then she won’t be moving to GAL in her junior year.
Sorry if you thought the entire team will fall in line and go play in this new league. She’s not the only one

good luck navigating the politics and trying to get a starting spot on a brand new team. Should be exciting for her. What a “smart” parent.

Also Arlington 04 (starter) and planning to stay. If most of the starters stay, the girls will do fine. I’m leery of trying to break into Mclean at a recruiting age. None of the other ECNL teams are worth it for college recruiting.

Last place McLean 04 will help her recruiting but the other ECNL teams will not? Bartender...

It’s about the connections and phone calls that Clyde can make at this point in the process, and Mclean has more of those connections than any of the other ECNL teams. 04s can start talking to coaches this summer, if the coaches want to talk to them. This late in the cycle, when D1 coaches either already have 04 girls on their radar or not, would Mclean advocate for my brand new daughter or for someone who’s played there for 3+ years and whose parents have already done all of the political connecting? I’d rather my DD be top on the Arlington coaches’ advocacy list than last on the Mclean advocacy list. Sad but true, it’s not a meritocracy. Especially around here.

I am glad something worked out because there was a small a very small minority of parents who hoped only ECNL would
survive so you would only have half ECNL and half DA on a team. Those that would make up ECNL team would maybe then find themselves on bench when they used to play and this does hurt for college. No dog in this fight because my kids are older and secure on their various teams. I have been through this old system and it blocked too many from college opportunity. These two leagues will help more kids and not every kid is going to play Carolina. Some kids will be looked at for D2 and maybe highly academic D2. I wish some parents a maybe it is just one or two posters would refrain from being awful. I know parents like this and it always bothered me.