April is Out - What does it mean?

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Hearing rumors April is out at GDA; anyone know the story other than she ticked off half the clubs in this country?

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rumors? old news. She was TD, thats bit bigger than just GDA

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Hearing rumors April is out at GDA; anyone know the story other than she ticked off half the clubs in this country?

After such a stupendous first year? How could this be?

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After such a stupendous first year? How could this be?

to boil her role down to GDA is just dumb. her role was far bigger than that

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to boil her role down to GDA is just dumb. her role was far bigger than that

Then maybe she should have kept her eye on the prize, not the cash cow.

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Maybe who is replacing her can have a broader vision and change the country club network
existent now. Good bye. Good riddance.

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Maybe who is replacing her can have a broader vision and change the country club network
existent now. Good bye. Good riddance.

Why, it's working great on the boys side. Who woulda thunk it would fail on the girls side?

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Why, it's working great on the boys side. Who woulda thunk it would fail on the girls side?

It already failed. The rest of the world caught up with us and YNT lose more than they win when it matters.

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Then maybe she should have kept her eye on the prize, not the cash cow.

You do realize that you can only work with the player the system produces right. So if you have no leverage to change the way the Clubs do things, what exactly were you expecting her to do?

I think AH weakness was in being unable to establish consensus, but to be fair to her , the ECNL board are just as arrogant and had no desire to work with anyone unless they were in charge.

Rock and hard place.

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You do realize that you can only work with the player the system produces right. So if you have no leverage to change the way the Clubs do things, what exactly were you expecting her to do?

I think AH weakness was in being unable to establish consensus, but to be fair to her , the ECNL board are just as arrogant and had no desire to work with anyone unless they were in charge.

Rock and hard place.

Us soccer is perhaps the only organization with any leverage to try to change the system. rather then change anything - they doubled down with an even more super deluxe. super exclusive country club soccer league - the GDA. Wasted very opportunity to try to get some improvement. Who knows if girls and woman's soccer can recover.

And this is no defense of the ECNL. That was what they need to improve on and they basically just replicated it almost whole hog.

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Us soccer is perhaps the only organization with any leverage to try to change the system. rather then change anything - they doubled down with an even more super deluxe. super exclusive country club soccer league - the GDA. Wasted very opportunity to try to get some improvement. Who knows if girls and woman's soccer can recover.

And this is no defense of the ECNL. That was what they need to improve on and they basically just replicated it almost whole hog.

Leverage only goes so far. Once ECNL took their ball and went home and they changed their players from drinking the Kool-Aid to Flav-o-Aid, the leverage was lost

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Us soccer is perhaps the only organization with any leverage to try to change the system. rather then change anything - they doubled down with an even more super deluxe. super exclusive country club soccer league - the GDA. Wasted very opportunity to try to get some improvement. Who knows if girls and woman's soccer can recover.

And this is no defense of the ECNL. That was what they need to improve on and they basically just replicated it almost whole hog.

how exactly can they change the system without consensus from the Clubs?

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Let ECNL be the club organization at the top nationally. Instead of replicating it, work with them. I know easier said than done but start with baby steps. A bunch of the big clubs already have ties to USS so it could happen.
USS then should spend their money on creating more depth evaluating talent across the country and developing those that show promise in their system.

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Let ECNL be the club organization at the top nationally. Instead of replicating it, work with them. I know easier said than done but start with baby steps. A bunch of the big clubs already have ties to USS so it could happen.
USS then should spend their money on creating more depth evaluating talent across the country and developing those that show promise in their system.

This post would've been applicable 20 months ago. They tried, and ECNL said no which is their right. They didn't want to take a back seat so they walked.

Now it's about deploying the players' parents on each side to push the message and see who wins....

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This post would've been applicable 20 months ago. They tried, and ECNL said no which is their right. They didn't want to take a back seat so they walked.

Now it's about deploying the players' parents on each side to push the message and see who wins....

They tried? Give me a freakin break - adopt our platform for your top teams or be left on the sideline . . . Chicago never loses. Problem for the feds is that too many clubs called their bluff.

ECNL has plenty of organization weaknesses (can we get past the era of showcases - with the quality of video these days, no way as necessary as it was before), but telling late to the party, heavy-handed bureaucrats to pound sand was the right play here.