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    #31
    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
    And if there is any question about which direction things are going for ECNL one just needs to look at their actions in the last few months, awarding teams to Internet clubs and allowing clubs to have their second teams play in the top division. I believe they may need to reconsider the “Elite” part of their name as I am pretty sure these actions guarantee they are anything but.
    Thinking about this, it is kind of like Rolls-Royce deciding they are going to make a $10k car and market to masses. How sad it is for ECNL.

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      #32
      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
      New name: Every Club National League

      New Motto: Raise the bet, all in!

      New Mission:

      Improving the financial environment through creation of a true national league with as many teams as we can fit.

      Improving the process for identifying wealthy soccer parents through a systematic scouting of unhappy rec mommy's and daddy's who desperately want the patch but whose kids really can't play.

      Improving the earning environment at top female youth soccer clubs through developing best practices for fleecing parents at its member clubs.
      Which is no different than GDA or USYS National League in terms of cost, the leagues all eat up money. US National League gets poor college coach turnout and the level is average. It costs more to play on a National League team than it does ECNL or GDA. No bang for your buck. The ECNL is still the best run league and you get more for your money in the ECNL. The college coaches still come to the ECNL events in the same numbers, which are huge. College opportunities are great playing ECNL. At this point the GDA is a mess, and the league does not have quality people running to improve matters. GDA costs a little less than ECNL, but you get what you pay for, which is less exposure for some players which makes it more difficult with the college process. In FL, the roster numbers and quality of players in the GDA is poor. Teams are traveling to away games with 10 to 12 players. The quality of the games are poor.

      AH was a poor manager and a poor director. Good players will help the club stay a float along with a poor GDA product will keep the money following for AH. He saw South FL girls club soccer was a mess and saw a way to make some money. People of S. FL need to know he ran the OC program into the ground and got paid for as long as he could. He will hang around for 5 or so years and take your money until people get sick of his BS. FC Prime is his scam.

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        #33
        When your little Mia gets the call up to the United States National team let us know otherwise Girls DA is a joke

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          #34
          Clown

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            #35
            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
            Which is no different than GDA or USYS National League in terms of cost, the leagues all eat up money. US National League gets poor college coach turnout and the level is average. It costs more to play on a National League team than it does ECNL or GDA. No bang for your buck. The ECNL is still the best run league and you get more for your money in the ECNL. The college coaches still come to the ECNL events in the same numbers, which are huge. College opportunities are great playing ECNL. At this point the GDA is a mess, and the league does not have quality people running to improve matters. GDA costs a little less than ECNL, but you get what you pay for, which is less exposure for some players which makes it more difficult with the college process. In FL, the roster numbers and quality of players in the GDA is poor. Teams are traveling to away games with 10 to 12 players. The quality of the games are poor.

            AH was a poor manager and a poor director. Good players will help the club stay a float along with a poor GDA product will keep the money following for AH. He saw South FL girls club soccer was a mess and saw a way to make some money. People of S. FL need to know he ran the OC program into the ground and got paid for as long as he could. He will hang around for 5 or so years and take your money until people get sick of his BS. FC Prime is his scam.
            Except for this past season when a lot of coaches from the power programs registered but then skipped the ECNL events in favor of attending conflicting GDA events. This could reverse of course or may simply fluctuate from year to year.

            So I mean . . . really this benefit of "college exposure" in ECNL is fleeting. So this is misleading as well as a few of your other points. GDA teams are weaker but so are ECNL squads. That's all relative. Paying a little liess? Depends on how many tournaments your "ECNL" team decides to participate in. There is no limit whereas GDA teams are much more restricted.

            So Alan was such a disaster at OC and yet ECNL treats him like a prince. Some kind of incoming God destined to restore the ECNL name in South Florida? And yet you say that ECNL has better leadership and people in charge. I would have to say that based on your own words . . . . that doesn't seem to be accurate.

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              #36
              All of the parents who buy into this whole "GDA vs ECNL vs FYSA vs NPL vs FSPL" b.s. are crazy. Each one of these leagues represents nothing more than a business opportunity for the people running the league. Just play the damn game and have fun!

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                #37
                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                Which is no different than GDA or USYS National League in terms of cost, the leagues all eat up money. US National League gets poor college coach turnout and the level is average. It costs more to play on a National League team than it does ECNL or GDA. No bang for your buck. The ECNL is still the best run league and you get more for your money in the ECNL. The college coaches still come to the ECNL events in the same numbers, which are huge. College opportunities are great playing ECNL. At this point the GDA is a mess, and the league does not have quality people running to improve matters. GDA costs a little less than ECNL, but you get what you pay for, which is less exposure for some players which makes it more difficult with the college process. In FL, the roster numbers and quality of players in the GDA is poor. Teams are traveling to away games with 10 to 12 players. The quality of the games are poor.

                AH was a poor manager and a poor director. Good players will help the club stay a float along with a poor GDA product will keep the money following for AH. He saw South FL girls club soccer was a mess and saw a way to make some money. People of S. FL need to know he ran the OC program into the ground and got paid for as long as he could. He will hang around for 5 or so years and take your money until people get sick of his BS. FC Prime is his scam.

                Trying to put GDA and AH/FC Prime in the same bucket is a distorted picture. If you got an ax to grind with AH, feel free to do so but don't paint a misleading picture about the entire league by attaching it to the behavior and conduct of 1 man.

                College recruiting from all the GDA showcases were INCREDIBLE for the first year and is easily proven by the public links available on the website. Florida ecnl teams are no better and in no better position than the GDA teams against competition outside of florida also as evidenced in Florida ecnl overall performance at their showcases which is also easily proved.

                You can blame AH all you want for any perceived hand he had in GDA failure at OC, but confine your remarks to that and not the league as a whole as only serves to make you look foolish or dishonest.

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                  #38
                  These discussions always turn into generic ECNL/GDA debates that go on ad-nauseum.

                  I wasn't around here when Boys DA started up but I imagine there were a lot of similar debates for that program too.

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                    #39
                    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                    These discussions always turn into generic ECNL/GDA debates that go on ad-nauseum.

                    I wasn't around here when Boys DA started up but I imagine there were a lot of similar debates for that program too.


                    You are correct. I was and the reactions were about the same, just not as vulger. 4 kids in multiple sports and the cliff note versions of club meetings over the years were approximately like this:

                    RPL - Did not need it. Then, suddenly we did.

                    DA - Did not need it. Then, suddenly we did.

                    ECNL - Did not need it. Then suddenly we did.

                    Each family needs to do what works for them. Both will get you plenty of looks from colleges and the main mitigating factor in club loyalty still seems to be geographics not leagues or in our case, followed the coach.

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                      #40
                      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                      All of the parents who buy into this whole "GDA vs ECNL vs FYSA vs NPL vs FSPL" b.s. are crazy. Each one of these leagues represents nothing more than a business opportunity for the people running the league. Just play the damn game and have fun!

                      Will do rec daddy.

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                        #41
                        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                        Will do rec daddy.
                        Since your kid isn't ever going to get a scholarship that means he/she's just playing for fun. Thus, you are also just a recreational soccer daddy.

                        Ouch!!!!

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                          #42
                          Alan is a fat f**k that's never won anything. Who cares what he thinks!

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                            #43
                            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                            Since your kid isn't ever going to get a scholarship that means he/she's just playing for fun. Thus, you are also just a recreational soccer daddy.

                            Ouch!!!!
                            Ha, simpleton. Already committed and yes she is playing for fun. Always has.

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                              #44
                              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                              Ha, simpleton. Already committed and yes she is playing for fun. Always has.
                              Jump, fishy....

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                                #45
                                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                                Jump, fishy....
                                No one is laughing with you, they're laughing at you. Jump fishy... what a little toad.

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