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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThat's true. Too much travel and development and participation levels suffer. Youth Soccer is too much of a business. ECNL is the poster child for the greed.
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Youth sports in general have become a profession for club owners, as a result you have the compitition of leagues i.e. DA, ENCL ect , which has caused the dilution of talent across leagues .
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ECNL has gone the way of NEP and Maple before it. Short term greed of adding new players and sign ups has diluted the product. It's greatest strengths are gone, being the DA for girls, exclusivity etc...and the travel and cost is now silly for the quality of the league that is in place today.
Too bad too. It was a great league.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostECNL has gone the way of NEP and Maple before it. Short term greed of adding new players and sign ups has diluted the product. It's greatest strengths are gone, being the DA for girls, exclusivity etc...and the travel and cost is now silly for the quality of the league that is in place today.
Too bad too. It was a great league.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostIt turned high level youth girls soccer into a luxury status product and USSF is now fully on board with that as well. Why is that great?
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostIt is a a free market. Youth sports look the way the customers want it to look. The high income customers want to buy a different product then the lower income customers. It is just business.
clubs have sold out.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostIt turned high level youth girls soccer into a luxury status product and USSF is now fully on board with that as well. Why is that great?
I do agree with you on what you said too.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostParents want to be able to pay for access. Clubs are only too willing to accommodate. Quality is an afterthought to $$$. There are so many kids playing "elite" level soccer who cannot do the basics consistently, simply because no coaches have any incentive to tell them otherwise.
clubs have sold out.
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How is this different from GDA? We pay a small fortune to trounce teams 11-1. There is no objectivity here. My daughter is on GDA because that’s the club we picked. It is less inconvenient for us than Stars, the coaching is good, and she is happy. But if you think GDA is either less expensive than other leagues or strong across the board, you are wrong. To be perfectly honest, our best competition happened when she was in ECNL for a year, but I’m sure that’s diluted now too. All of the threads are designed to make one choice look great and the others look terrible. Instead we end up looking terrible.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostHow is this different from GDA? We pay a small fortune to trounce teams 11-1. There is no objectivity here. My daughter is on GDA because that’s the club we picked. It is less inconvenient for us than Stars, the coaching is good, and she is happy. But if you think GDA is either less expensive than other leagues or strong across the board, you are wrong. To be perfectly honest, our best competition happened when she was in ECNL for a year, but I’m sure that’s diluted now too. All of the threads are designed to make one choice look great and the others look terrible. Instead we end up looking terrible.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostIt is a a free market. Youth sports look the way the customers want it to look. The high income customers want to buy a different product then the lower income customers. It is just business.
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