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    GDA will allow HS

    if this is true, how long before ecnl folds? im guessing 2 years

    if this is true, Boca and Weston will survive, its all about the talent and playing in a league wont make you re-mortgage your home

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    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
    if this is true, how long before ecnl folds? im guessing 2 years

    if this is true, Boca and Weston will survive, its all about the talent and playing in a league wont make you re-mortgage your home
    I know they do if you attend a private school and the reason you were admitted was atheletic. Some schools can stack their whole team with recruiting and then get to play a typical public school.

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      #3
      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
      I know they do if you attend a private school and the reason you were admitted was atheletic. Some schools can stack their whole team with recruiting and then get to play a typical public school.
      Yea but how many public high schools now have transfers just for sports? I know of 10 girls where I live who have switched schools- some even out of county- to play soccer at a school.

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        #4
        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
        if this is true, how long before ecnl folds? im guessing 2 years

        if this is true, Boca and Weston will survive, its all about the talent and playing in a league wont make you re-mortgage your home
        GDA doesn’t care about high school just Weston and Boca need a lifeline before they sink. Tophat, Charlotte, Courage and UFA have no issues with high school. US soccer should just drop Weston and Boca they are not DA material.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
          if this is true, how long before ecnl folds? im guessing 2 years

          if this is true, Boca and Weston will survive, its all about the talent and playing in a league wont make you re-mortgage your home
          I call BS

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            #6
            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
            if this is true, how long before ecnl folds? im guessing 2 years

            if this is true, Boca and Weston will survive, its all about the talent and playing in a league wont make you re-mortgage your home
            Aint happening.

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              #7
              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
              if this is true, how long before ecnl folds? im guessing 2 years

              if this is true, Boca and Weston will survive, its all about the talent and playing in a league wont make you re-mortgage your home
              Ecnl is going to high school graduation year teams to enhance numbers and gain GDA players who are stuck on or cut from the limiting u18+u19 dual age band teams. Ecnl will offer full teams for all seniors and another full team for all juniors. Of course, continuing with full teams for all sophomores, freshman and on down the line and will continue to break during high school season to allow ecnl players to do both.

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                #8
                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                Ecnl is going to high school graduation year teams to enhance numbers and gain GDA players who are stuck on or cut from the limiting u18+u19 dual age band teams. Ecnl will offer full teams for all seniors and another full team for all juniors. Of course, continuing with full teams for all sophomores, freshman and on down the line and will continue to break during high school season to allow ecnl players to do both.
                Unless playing in college, most players quit at the end of their junior year. Clubs can't field a full team at that age. You need to combine them.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                  Ecnl is going to high school graduation year teams to enhance numbers and gain GDA players who are stuck on or cut from the limiting u18+u19 dual age band teams. Ecnl will offer full teams for all seniors and another full team for all juniors. Of course, continuing with full teams for all sophomores, freshman and on down the line and will continue to break during high school season to allow ecnl players to do both.
                  Only problem with this solution is that it would make sense.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                    if this is true, how long before ecnl folds? im guessing 2 years

                    if this is true, Boca and Weston will survive, its all about the talent and playing in a league wont make you re-mortgage your home
                    First no way,... second if they did it would be the writing on the wall for the end of the GDA. Play in the DA where we have abandoned everything we supposedly believed in after making the world of girls soccer more confusing, and now we are the exact imitation of ECNL.

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                      Ecnl is going to high school graduation year teams to enhance numbers and gain GDA players who are stuck on or cut from the limiting u18+u19 dual age band teams. Ecnl will offer full teams for all seniors and another full team for all juniors. Of course, continuing with full teams for all sophomores, freshman and on down the line and will continue to break during high school season to allow ecnl players to do both.
                      This wasn't even discussed at the winter meeting (for girls) or the AGM (for boys) last month...wishful thinking????

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                        First no way,... second if they did it would be the writing on the wall for the end of the GDA. Play in the DA where we have abandoned everything we supposedly believed in after making the world of girls soccer more confusing, and now we are the exact imitation of ECNL.
                        The better clubs will stay in GDA if they make changes. Without change top clubs in Mid-Atlantic, Northeast and Ohio have threatened to move back to ECNL as some already did last year. The GDA are stable in Texas and S. Cal. but it’s simply not working in the rest of the country. Allowing high school soccer doesn’t mean that clubs have to allow it. The one positive with US Soccer is the cost factor. As a club it’s cheaper than ECNL and US Soccer continues to try to work on reducing costs. ECNL wants to make money and the primary goal is making money. Neither league is going to fold because of the change but certainly a division in talent will be clear.

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                          The better clubs will stay in GDA if they make changes. Without change top clubs in Mid-Atlantic, Northeast and Ohio have threatened to move back to ECNL as some already did last year. The GDA are stable in Texas and S. Cal. but it’s simply not working in the rest of the country. Allowing high school soccer doesn’t mean that clubs have to allow it. The one positive with US Soccer is the cost factor. As a club it’s cheaper than ECNL and US Soccer continues to try to work on reducing costs. ECNL wants to make money and the primary goal is making money. Neither league is going to fold because of the change but certainly a division in talent will be clear.


                          The main problems clubs had with the DA really was not HS soccer anyway. Most ECNL clubs would rather their players not play HS, but know since they can't in the DA, so ECNL clubs now promote it. The problems with the DA format were more related to combined age groups which was changed for next year, the sub rules still in place, and the regimented nature of the DA places on the clubs vs ECNL which is just a league where clubs can train and play how they like. There are dramatic difference to how the DA is run vs a team playing ECNL well beyond the HS soccer rule. Some kids thrive on it and many also find it suffocating.

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                            The better clubs will stay in GDA if they make changes. Without change top clubs in Mid-Atlantic, Northeast and Ohio have threatened to move back to ECNL as some already did last year. The GDA are stable in Texas and S. Cal. but it’s simply not working in the rest of the country. Allowing high school soccer doesn’t mean that clubs have to allow it. The one positive with US Soccer is the cost factor. As a club it’s cheaper than ECNL and US Soccer continues to try to work on reducing costs. ECNL wants to make money and the primary goal is making money. Neither league is going to fold because of the change but certainly a division in talent will be clear.
                            GDA is not that much cheaper in most cases. Most middle to upper income soccer families can afford the difference and they chose based on what is the best club and fit for their player, not price. How is USSF working to reduce costs? They offered a few token scholarships and spent most of their funding on a huge staff. There is no MLS support like in BDA. Your scenario of GDA allowing HS but local clubs ruling against it? Laughable. Any club that bans it in an area that has other clubs allowing it (GDA or ECNL) will have a very hard time getting talent. To not exhaust players leagues need to mostly shut down during the local HS season. USSF wants players in their system 10 months a year. Additionally, allowing it for girls means intense pressure to allow it for the boys. The MLS clubs already want out of BDA. Getting rid of the HS rule/10 months of training would all but assure MLS drops out.

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                              #15
                              I have heard that there is an alliance of many SF clubs forming that will use the GDA at Weston to collectively funnel top players into that league.

                              It will be funded collectively by all the clubs and be minimal cost to the DA players.

                              Sounds like Nirvana.

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