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    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
    as in practices?
    Once they had a sense of the complete rosters.

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      There are not enough players with the talent, interest, and very critically, the budget (time and money as the travel is expensive and time consuming), to create lots of very competitive teams for all these leagues. It is what is it. Find the best situation you can for your player and enjoy the sport.

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        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
        There are not enough players with the talent, interest, and very critically, the budget (time and money as the travel is expensive and time consuming), to create lots of very competitive teams for all these leagues. It is what is it. Find the best situation you can for your player and enjoy the sport.
        There should only be one GDA on LI. Two is flat out stupid. It makes no sense at all. And BTW, neither club should be names Fury or LISC. Another stupid mistake.

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          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
          There should only be one GDA on LI. Two is flat out stupid. It makes no sense at all. And BTW, neither club should be names Fury or LISC. Another stupid mistake.
          You need other semi-local GDA's to play against.

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            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
            You need other semi-local GDA's to play against.
            Lol, that's a ridiculous statement. If this were truly a development academy platform, they would only be targeting top regional players who truly stand a chance at participating in an elite level. Having 4 GDA clubs in NYE is bizarre considering the number of elite players the region produces.

            GDA is just another league looking to usurp the existing leagues as the top money maker.

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              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
              Lol, that's a ridiculous statement. If this were truly a development academy platform, they would only be targeting top regional players who truly stand a chance at participating in an elite level. Having 4 GDA clubs in NYE is bizarre considering the number of elite players the region produces.

              GDA is just another league looking to usurp the existing leagues as the top money maker.
              It's not practical to have a league where you have to fly to most of your games.

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                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                You need other semi-local GDA's to play against.
                They play an entire region but there just ins't enough talent on or commutable to LI to justify having two clubs. Problem is that the NE region is just 8 clubs (MA to NY), then mid-Atlantic is another 8 - but it includes many teams that normally are playable on a regular basis like NJ and PA teams. There's another ridiculous tight cluster in the D.C. Maryland area.

                also games are poorly scheduled - look at this u16 team as an example - they play OW and LISC twice in the fall. They make two trips to MA in just under a month to play two different MA teams. ECNL would have done them back-to-back same weekend. Yes it's a tougher schedule for the players to play, but much easier on families with all the travel and expense. It's things like that that will be a turn off.

                http://www.ussoccerda.com/sam/standi...partialGames=0

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                  Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                  It's not practical to have a league where you have to fly to most of your games.
                  No it isn't. And that's the conundrum. DA should be a much smaller fraction of its current size to focus on the top 5, or let's even say 10% of players who could someday play professionally or reach the national team. But our geography crushes the ability to do that. Simpler solution would have been to work with ECNL to try and improve it, but USSF decided it wanted control so here we go with another league, more dilution and spinning our wheels

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                    Shouldnt a real DA, that is built around the national team, be a residency program where the point is less games and more training? Even if they had just a couple of regional residencies where they pulled the top players and they played internally but at the very highest level. The kids who make NTs out of it are well served and the other kids will get looks for college simply because having made the DA by default means they're a real elite player. Having it be a league to usurp ECNL doesnt really sound like a "DA" to me.

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                      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                      Shouldnt a real DA, that is built around the national team, be a residency program where the point is less games and more training? Even if they had just a couple of regional residencies where they pulled the top players and they played internally but at the very highest level. The kids who make NTs out of it are well served and the other kids will get looks for college simply because having made the DA by default means they're a real elite player. Having it be a league to usurp ECNL doesnt really sound like a "DA" to me.

                      And in your experience, how many players in your daughters age have you seen that meet your criteria?

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                        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                        Lol, that's a ridiculous statement. If this were truly a development academy platform, they would only be targeting top regional players who truly stand a chance at participating in an elite level. Having 4 GDA clubs in NYE is bizarre considering the number of elite players the region produces.

                        GDA is just another league looking to usurp the existing leagues as the top money maker.

                        Please explain who is making money?

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                          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                          Please explain who is making money?
                          The clubs. But USSF gets a piece of the action too. More importantly they get control, which is what they really care about. But thus far I don't think the rollout is going quite as smoothly as they had hoped. Certainly plenty of top players chose to stay put and not move over. Besides the fact that many older players are already recruited, some of the clubs chosen aren't good and certainly don't always have top coaching. Maybe GDA wins in the end but it's not going to be a quick and easy path there for them. And ECNL will still survive as a strong second league. GDA can't being to fill all the college roster posts out there just like ECNL can't now.

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                            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                            Shouldnt a real DA, that is built around the national team, be a residency program where the point is less games and more training? Even if they had just a couple of regional residencies where they pulled the top players and they played internally but at the very highest level. The kids who make NTs out of it are well served and the other kids will get looks for college simply because having made the DA by default means they're a real elite player. Having it be a league to usurp ECNL doesnt really sound like a "DA" to me.
                            Residency programs don't work because of the size of our country. Additionally would you allow your 14/16 to move to say Boston to chase their Soccer Dreams. Would you allow your child to miss college to chase their Soccer Dreams

                            Who would they play? DAP is large and water down in order for the clubs to have regional teams to play. This allows for reasonable travel and expenses

                            There are a lot of Washington Generals clubs out there to give the legit clubs game fodder

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                              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                              The clubs. But USSF gets a piece of the action too. More importantly they get control, which is what they really care about. But thus far I don't think the rollout is going quite as smoothly as they had hoped. Certainly plenty of top players chose to stay put and not move over. Besides the fact that many older players are already recruited, some of the clubs chosen aren't good and certainly don't always have top coaching. Maybe GDA wins in the end but it's not going to be a quick and easy path there for them. And ECNL will still survive as a strong second league. GDA can't being to fill all the college roster posts out there just like ECNL can't now.
                              In the GDA world, i doubt the Clubs are making much money.

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                                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                                In the GDA world, i doubt the Clubs are making much money.
                                Probably more than ECNL on a per player basis. The GDA clubs seem to be charging more than ECNL, even though USSF wanted it to be a lower cost.

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