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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostTotally predictable. Sounds like same thing is happening in Mass.
Stars and Breakers are just entering their current teams. No real effort to identify and recruit the top players in the area for this new league.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostEcnl is a great platform for players wishing to play in college. Many of the current national team players at all levels are playing in the league. It may not be the best league to develop national team players. I would say a residential program would be better. Those are few and far in between, think IMG in Florida for girls. However, if us soccer truly created the league to develop better national team players, the league will fail. It is basically the ecnl forced to play during the high school months with less focus on college recruiting. Same players, same coaching, same facilities. Do you really think there will be a focus on development over winning? They are still for profit businesses that need to attract customers. If they are bottom of league of play against ecnl teams and consistently lose, the customers are not going to buy in.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostSomeone who is tired of you constantly interrupting every discussion on this site that relates to the top one of luv soccer with your ill informed opinions.
What happened to the website you started as an alternative to TS--you know, the one where all the "discussion" and "information" can happen non-stop and entirely on your terms? Maybe now is a good time to revisit that project. The naive readers you imagine yourself influencing will surely follow you there.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostIn Connecticut, oakwood is the gda program. They are offering "waivers" to select girls so they can play high school and after the season play gda. Isn't that disingenuous and go against the league and us soccer premise that the best players need less games and more practice under coaches who are more qualified (higher lic)? Doesn't seem like year round development to me. What they are seeing is they are merely getting their own current npl customers to bite. No ECNL players from outside their club signing up. So, what you have is a middle of the pack npl club in the new super league for girl's that is supposed to raise the competition level for your elite player from mass.
The waivers seems like a desperation move and completely counter to the spirit of what USSF is trying to accomplish.
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why worry about waivers? if gdap is set up to develop nt players then it really only matters that these studs practice. right btdt?
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Originally posted by Unregistered View Postwhy worry about waivers? if gdap is set up to develop nt players then it really only matters that these studs practice. right btdt?
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Originally posted by Unregistered View Postwhy worry about waivers? if gdap is set up to develop nt players then it really only matters that these studs practice. right btdt?
No outside kids are coming forward to bust down Oakwood's doors and tryout for these teams either in workouts during practice sessions or in last night's open tryouts. Oakwood does waivers on the boys side too, so waivers will not be going away any time soon. I think many academy clubs (at least in smaller metropolitan areas like CT) are more worried about simply filling their rosters than putting together quality sides. I wonder what the big impact of ENPL will be on boys DA will be, especially for non-MLS clubs. When boys DA began there were no national leagues to upstage them; this is not the case for GDA and they are asking for kids to give up a lot when they need not do that. It should get interesting in a few months.
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