If ECNL is not better then why did the ECNL board turn away 100 clubs from joining for the 2011-2012 year?
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Originally posted by Unregistered View Postone thing IS certain. anti-ecnl folk are delivering negative hype here on t-s on a daily basis.
we also all know nefc has a talented sc winning girls team traveling the opposite path and we all wish you well. we also know sitting around the home bbq on july 4th would be much preferable to traveling to the boonies of region 1 to overpay for a skanky hotel room.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostIf ECNL is not better then why did the ECNL board turn away 100 clubs from joining for the 2011-2012 year?
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I bet the recruiting class of 2013 will be mostly made up of ECNL players. The league is only 2 years old. In the area where we live (Mid-Atlantic), the ECNL is drawing the best players. The U16 SAC Premier team who lost in the National Championship final this year, just moved their entire team to an ECNL club, displacing the current team at that club. In my daughter's age group (U13), there is serious interest from the parents to try to get their child into an ECNL club. Maybe MASS is different.....
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You should see the list for CA teams in ECNL before you speak- West Coast, Arsenal, Real SO. Cal, SO.CAl Blues, Slammers, San Diego Surf, De Anza, San Juan. Quite a list.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostI bet the recruiting class of 2013 will be mostly made up of ECNL players. The league is only 2 years old. In the area where we live (Mid-Atlantic), the ECNL is drawing the best players. The U16 SAC Premier team who lost in the National Championship final this year, just moved their entire team to an ECNL club, displacing the current team at that club. In my daughter's age group (U13), there is serious interest from the parents to try to get their child into an ECNL club. Maybe MASS is different.....
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostYou should see the list for CA teams in ECNL before you speak- West Coast, Arsenal, Real SO. Cal, SO.CAl Blues, Slammers, San Diego Surf, De Anza, San Juan. Quite a list.
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Agreed. Some teams will not last in ECNL if the whole club cannot compete such as Soccerplus. I expect that some clubs will get dropped as stronger clubs get accepted. This is one difference between the USNational League which is a TEAM based league vs ECNL which is a CLUB based league (ie the entire club has to have strong teams in the u15-u18 age groups or they won't last)
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThink you might be missing something. The A/B flight thing is only supposed to apply to the showcases not the championship. You have to earn your way into the championship. Even then there are only 16 teams out of a possible 66. No matter how you want to coach it, the is still going to be a pretty big gap between the haves and the have nots.
http://www.eliteclubsnationalleague....s/index_E.html
ECNL National Championship Standings & the ECNL National Champions (U15 - U18 A-Flight):
In 2011-2012, the ECNL National Champion will be determined based on position in the ECNL National Championship Standings – A-Flight. All games played by an ECNL A-Flight team against other teams in the ECNL A-Flight will be included in the ECNL National Championship Standings. This includes conference games, cross-conference games, and games at national events. At the end of the regular season, the top 16 teams in the ECNL National Championship Standings – A-Flight will qualify for the National Championship Group at the ECNL National Championships, where they will play four games to determine the ECNL National Champion: a round of 16 game, a quarter-final, a semi-final, and a championship game.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostDon't the tournament games count in the standings? If they aren't keeping score in the showcase events any longer how is this any different from a normal showcase? If it is not different what is the benefit?
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThis is a very typical response. It is great why? Explain what makes the league any more than any other and then stand by and refute the inevitiable criticism. Most of the ECNL folks duck the hard questions and fall back on the same tired responses you just gave. In Mass you have a dying club with only one really strong team that is one of the two clubs in it. It is not some overwhelmingly impressive thing up here and I am getting tired of everyone spouting off tired lines about how good the competition is and much it is going to benefit the players come college recruiting. I personally don't see any of those claims.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostYou should see the list for CA teams in ECNL before you speak- West Coast, Arsenal, Real SO. Cal, SO.CAl Blues, Slammers, San Diego Surf, De Anza, San Juan. Quite a list.
http://www.scdslsoccer.com/clubdirectory/index_E.html
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This is their local CA league just like we have MAPLE and now NEP. We only have 2 clubs in ECNL and they are also playing in our local leagues like the ECNL teams in CA. No difference.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostNope, I'm pretty sure I'm right.
http://www.eliteclubsnationalleague....s/index_E.html
ECNL National Championship Standings & the ECNL National Champions (U15 - U18 A-Flight):
In 2011-2012, the ECNL National Champion will be determined based on position in the ECNL National Championship Standings – A-Flight. All games played by an ECNL A-Flight team against other teams in the ECNL A-Flight will be included in the ECNL National Championship Standings. This includes conference games, cross-conference games, and games at national events. At the end of the regular season, the top 16 teams in the ECNL National Championship Standings – A-Flight will qualify for the National Championship Group at the ECNL National Championships, where they will play four games to determine the ECNL National Champion: a round of 16 game, a quarter-final, a semi-final, and a championship game.
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