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The good DA clubs were ECNL clubs first. Them returning is fine. Arlington can always turn down the crappier ECNL platform.

Crappier ECNL platform? Afraid that we’re going to take over the DMV lol

Looking forward to “No, clubs rise and fall all the time just like businesses.” Looking forward to seeing Blockbuster and Barnes and Noble comeback against Netflix and Amazon. If you’re not 100% into building yourself, you won’t succeed. Nobody is doing better at this (in NOVA) than Arlington and McLean (albeit via different methods).

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The good DA clubs were ECNL clubs first. Them returning is fine. Arlington can always turn down the crappier ECNL platform.

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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.

Because Upper Loudoun kids in Ashburn/Leesburg kids will bypass Loudoun and go straight to Mclean. Lower Loudoun kids will go to Loudoun or VDA.

Foolish, all of you. Those top kids will first look at the top teams to go into. Lets not think the restructuring wont be massive if those kids do leave the GA to go ECNL. All teams will be changed. Most for the better.

VDA is not strictly Woodbridge. Its also Gainesville / Haymarket.

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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.

Yes...King for girls. Without a doubt.

ECNL killed ODP
ECNL killed DA
ECNL killed GA
ECNL survived a hostile takeover by THE governing body

If you’re betting on them to fail, I would think again.

US soccer killed DA. ECNL was not in the same neighborhood as DA boys and the DA girls were headed the same way before the lawsuit killed it.

You do know DA were ECNL clubs....yes...LOL

Amazing how those DA clubs were trash when they were in DA but when rumors of joining ECNL they are suddenly top clubs.

If ECNL was in fact the only game in town this propaganda ECNL echo chamber wouldn't even be discussed here, people would be talking about this club or that club. That so much of the narrative is spent above pay grade touting a league says the space has been disrupted.

Your ongoing echo chamber is proof of disruption.

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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.

Proximity

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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.

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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.

Yes...King for girls. Without a doubt.

ECNL killed ODP
ECNL killed DA
ECNL killed GA
ECNL survived a hostile takeover by THE governing body

If you’re betting on them to fail, I would think again.

US soccer killed DA. ECNL was not in the same neighborhood as DA boys and the DA girls were headed the same way before the lawsuit killed it.

You do know DA were ECNL clubs....yes...LOL

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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.

Yes...King for girls. Without a doubt.

ECNL killed ODP
ECNL killed DA
ECNL killed GA
ECNL survived a hostile takeover by THE governing body

If you’re betting on them to fail, I would think again.

US soccer killed DA. ECNL was not in the same neighborhood as DA boys and the DA girls were headed the same way before the lawsuit killed it.

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Anonymous wrote:its also who has the best team in that age group within acceptable distance

Haha you assume all fcv players make the best team in the area.

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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.

Yes...King for girls. Without a doubt.

ECNL killed ODP
ECNL killed DA
ECNL killed GA
ECNL survived a hostile takeover by THE governing body

If you’re betting on them to fail, I would think again.

Anonymous wrote:its also who has the best team in that age group within acceptable distance