Good night Beachside and Oakwood

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can anyone Provide the link to the news on the DA breaking up this league.

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Santa wrote the link at the top of his naughty list. Ask him for it.

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Make Academy Great Again

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Make Academy Great Again

Was it ever great?

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Its existence has really helped the mens national teams success

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Its existence has really helped the mens national teams success

There is a direct correlation there for sure.

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ECNL. The Academy correction.

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ECNL. The Academy correction.

This ^

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With the Boys DA going to a 3 tier program in which the MLS clubs will be all in tier 1 playing together that will obviously be where you need to be but then the next 2 tiers will be left truly being JV to the MLS clubs. It will be interesting to see what boys will just decide to play high school and enjoy the game and play with FSA or CFC in the ECNL boys league.

Options are good for All and will make each club better.

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With the Boys DA going to a 3 tier program in which the MLS clubs will be all in tier 1 playing together that will obviously be where you need to be but then the next 2 tiers will be left truly being JV to the MLS clubs. It will be interesting to see what boys will just decide to play high school and enjoy the game and play with FSA or CFC in the ECNL boys league.

Options are good for All and will make each club better.

All rumor at this point and structurally impossible due to US geography. They'd have to add a substantial number of clubs, most of which would be significantly lower quality that what is there now. There just aren't enough quality clubs or players to make it even a workable two tier program let alone three. If you put MLS into its own bracket there's little point of difference for the non MLS clubs vs any other ECNL, NPL club. Possibly better coaching and competition but certainly not always, lots of travel and cost, play ten months but you have to give up HS for it. You can't say they're a pipeline to the pro clubs but they are now already and this wouldn't change that - the better players find their way to the pro clubs

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All rumor at this point and structurally impossible due to US geography. They'd have to add a substantial number of clubs, most of which would be significantly lower quality that what is there now. There just aren't enough quality clubs or players to make it even a workable two tier program let alone three. If you put MLS into its own bracket there's little point of difference for the non MLS clubs vs any other ECNL, NPL club. Possibly better coaching and competition but certainly not always, lots of travel and cost, play ten months but you have to give up HS for it. You can't say they're a pipeline to the pro clubs but they are now already and this wouldn't change that - the better players find their way to the pro clubs

or the pipe dream of it all - ECNL and DA declare peace and start working together... but I put that up there w/ dogs & cats living together, cure for the common cold, and elimination of purple dinosaurs from our collective brains....

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All rumor at this point and structurally impossible due to US geography. They'd have to add a substantial number of clubs, most of which would be significantly lower quality that what is there now. There just aren't enough quality clubs or players to make it even a workable two tier program let alone three. If you put MLS into its own bracket there's little point of difference for the non MLS clubs vs any other ECNL, NPL club. Possibly better coaching and competition but certainly not always, lots of travel and cost, play ten months but you have to give up HS for it. You can't say they're a pipeline to the pro clubs but they are now already and this wouldn't change that - the better players find their way to the pro clubs

3 tier platform is coming starting next year.

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or the pipe dream of it all - ECNL and DA declare peace and start working together... but I put that up there w/ dogs & cats living together, cure for the common cold, and elimination of purple dinosaurs from our collective brains....

That's the only way they'd have the volume necessary to make it work.

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That's the only way they'd have the volume necessary to make it work.

There would have to be major consolidation ...... in CT, 2 teams total, tops. Across the country, less than 100 teams total for each gender and age group (probably 60-75 total would be even better). IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN.

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3 tier platform is coming starting next year.

Still no word of this outside this gossip heavy forum. Fake news is everywhere but really prevalent on fake news sites such as this.