FC Bucks 2005 ECNL

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You are right - since I had never heard of valpo I wrongly assumed they were not D1. So bucks has five D1 commits to schools that could hardly be qualified as powerhouses for women’s soccer. Five! Still not a great D1 achievement. Don’t care that others are “capable” as you say facts are there are five.

And if you are so worried about money and therefore choose a D2 school over D1 then you should probably have skipped ECNL - since supposedly one of the reasons you play ECNL is for the chance to play D1. And the fact remains if you are going to end up playing at a D2,3 school you do not need to play ECNL.

And it’s ironic saying that D2,D3 schools would beat D1 schools. Kind of like the opposite of how you say EDP sucks compared to ECNL. Don’t fool yourself there are plenty of EDP teams that can take apart ECNL teams.

We can both agree Bucks needs to do a lot better!

Name those EDP teams? Another poster listed the 3 best teams and none of them are picking apart any ECNL teams. 500 would be a great season. Besides those 3 there isn't a team in SJ or PA who would beat an ecnl team.

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Name those EDP teams? Another poster listed the 3 best teams and none of them are picking apart any ECNL teams. 500 would be a great season. Besides those 3 there isn't a team in SJ or PA who would beat an ecnl team.

Ecnl (and can argue gda) is best league for girls in the country. It does not matter the ecnl club because the day in/out challenging experience ecnl girls will receive is what makes you a better soccer player. It’s the constant challenge of playing great teams. There may be a few edp teams that are good but then you play a ton that are not, so the kids are not getting challenged therefore not improving. Ecnl players will always be challenged which is why it’s a great league. Ecnl also plays on stage where edp doesn’t.

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Name those EDP teams? Another poster listed the 3 best teams and none of them are picking apart any ECNL teams. 500 would be a great season. Besides those 3 there isn't a team in SJ or PA who would beat an ecnl team.

Do it yourself .... here is a decent representation of where teams are in region 1 .... scroll down to #62 and then work your way back up ....

https://youthsoccerrankings.us/ranki...ion1/15/Girls/

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Ecnl (and can argue gda) is best league for girls in the country. It does not matter the ecnl club because the day in/out challenging experience ecnl girls will receive is what makes you a better soccer player. It’s the constant challenge of playing great teams. There may be a few edp teams that are good but then you play a ton that are not, so the kids are not getting challenged therefore not improving. Ecnl players will always be challenged which is why it’s a great league. Ecnl also plays on stage where edp doesn’t.

I agree ECNL is the best league in the country. But it doesn’t mean it’s the best it can be at bucks. The facts remain that bucks has 5 girls committed to D1 colleges. And the point also remains that you don’t need ECNL to play D2,3 college soccer. The majority of bucks players are playing on D2,3 teams in college. That is the truth, so bucks is doing Something wrong. It would benefit all of us and our kids if bucks got their act together and returned to the days when it was actually worthy of being called an ECNL club.

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Do it yourself .... here is a decent representation of where teams are in region 1 .... scroll down to #62 and then work your way back up ....

https://youthsoccerrankings.us/ranki...ion1/15/Girls/

Easier than that even, look here: https://youthsoccerrankings.us/team.html?teamId=2055388

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Easier than that even, look here: https://youthsoccerrankings.us/team.html?teamId=2055388

Like previously stated if you are going to be an ******* start a new thread with your kids team as the topic and lets argue their validity.

Those rankings while better than gotsoccer do have a margin of error of +/- 2. So basically, there is not much difference amongst the top 3 edp teams and the bottom ecnl teams. I think that has been pointed out for two days now. Taking a closer look 15 out of the top 20 are ECNL/GDA, 9 out of the top 10 are ECNL/GDA, its actually 10 for 10 but Pipelines points don't account for the fall DA season (by the way they are not doing very well). So it is very clear that EDP is a far third, maybe fourth or fifth after the ECNL - RL and NPL. College aspirations aside (they are hers not mine) why wouldnt you want your kid to play in the best leagues? Money? Fear of failure? Coach convinced you there are other easier routes?

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Like previously stated if you are going to be an ******* start a new thread with your kids team as the topic and lets argue their validity.

Those rankings while better than gotsoccer do have a margin of error of +/- 2. So basically, there is not much difference amongst the top 3 edp teams and the bottom ecnl teams. I think that has been pointed out for two days now. Taking a closer look 15 out of the top 20 are ECNL/GDA, 9 out of the top 10 are ECNL/GDA, its actually 10 for 10 but Pipelines points don't account for the fall DA season (by the way they are not doing very well). So it is very clear that EDP is a far third, maybe fourth or fifth after the ECNL - RL and NPL. College aspirations aside (they are hers not mine) why wouldnt you want your kid to play in the best leagues? Money? Fear of failure? Coach convinced you there are other easier routes?

They will never create a thread or admit what team their precious plays for. They just want to hate on ecnl. Why? Because their kid wasn’t good enough to make an ecnl team so they have to tear down the league and club because that’s what makes them feel better.

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The rankings don’t lie FC Bucks is one of the top clubs in the country!

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I personally think ECNL along with GDA are the top leagues in the country. But that being said Bucks is not run like a proper ECNL club - look at your team invitation. We are not given half of what is promised - and that’s a fact. It’s a shame you are to dumb to realize you and more importantly your kid is being short changed by the club. If Bucks was run like PDA or world class you wouldn’t be seeing threads like this on soccer boards. Bucks has the player pool to be a top ECNL club - but they don’t have any leadership. The only reason people put up with Bucks is because they are ECNL. They are one of the worst clubs in the entire ECNL and that should concern all of us. And my kid is on a bucks ECNL team and the lack of leadership and the continued decline of the teams is concerning.

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Yeah right your kid plays for FC Bucks....

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I personally think ECNL along with GDA are the top leagues in the country. But that being said Bucks is not run like a proper ECNL club - look at your team invitation. We are not given half of what is promised - and that’s a fact. It’s a shame you are to dumb to realize you and more importantly your kid is being short changed by the club. If Bucks was run like PDA or world class you wouldn’t be seeing threads like this on soccer boards. Bucks has the player pool to be a top ECNL club - but they don’t have any leadership. The only reason people put up with Bucks is because they are ECNL. They are one of the worst clubs in the entire ECNL and that should concern all of us. And my kid is on a bucks ECNL team and the lack of leadership and the continued decline of the teams is concerning.

Are you the soccer dad that all the parents of your team can’t stand and want you to leave at the end of this season?

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I personally think ECNL along with GDA are the top leagues in the country. But that being said Bucks is not run like a proper ECNL club - look at your team invitation. We are not given half of what is promised - and that’s a fact. It’s a shame you are to dumb to realize you and more importantly your kid is being short changed by the club. If Bucks was run like PDA or world class you wouldn’t be seeing threads like this on soccer boards. Bucks has the player pool to be a top ECNL club - but they don’t have any leadership. The only reason people put up with Bucks is because they are ECNL. They are one of the worst clubs in the entire ECNL and that should concern all of us. And my kid is on a bucks ECNL team and the lack of leadership and the continued decline of the teams is concerning.

All of this is true. Good post.

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All of this is true. Good post.

Did the poster mean the PDA that only practices 2x a week and recommends "optional" paid training a third night? Or is there another PDA?

Lets be real PDA is successful because they attract talent from the entire NYC metro area and souther Cinneticut and South Jersey and the Lehigh Valley and Philadelphia and its suburbs. Location, Location, Location. They put a great facility in the perfect location and now pretty much own youth soccer.

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Absolutely and if you check the NJ forum you’ll see that the PDA Rutgers connection is also a huge draw as most would want to play for the top college program on the East Coast.

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I disagree plenty of other great options in NJ area, PSA for one is on par with PDA and have recently attracted some of the best coaches in the Northeast to come over. Please check it out! Thank you