Is ODP still relevant in Mass?

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Sorry a DA starter is not the same as an ECNL starter. Anyone claiming otherwise is looking at a time limited situation like the Stars. Nowhere near the universal truth their parents are trying to sell it as. Most other clubs with both programs, the ECNL is now their B team. That’s how USSF wants it and they will get their way.

The BBA marketing machine is back. We missed you. Tell this garbage to the girls at SSS on the national team.

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Once again not true for all teams ,kids choose to get the high school playing experience .And that's true every where.

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DA=Desperate Attempt at team building.

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The BBA marketing machine is back. We missed you. Tell this garbage to the girls at SSS on the national team.

This situation is also time limited. Sorry Liz 5 years from now it will be SSS who?

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Sorry a DA starter is not the same as an ECNL starter. Anyone claiming otherwise is looking at a time limited situation like the Stars. Nowhere near the universal truth their parents are trying to sell it as. Most other clubs with both programs, the ECNL is now their B team. That’s how USSF wants it and they will get their way.

Universal truth and youth soccer do not belong in the same sentence.

There are certain GDA clubs and teams that would take any almost any player from a competing ECNL roister and vice versa depending on age and location.

Generalities of are no use.

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This situation is also time limited. Sorry Liz 5 years from now it will be SSS who?

Kiss our women's world cups good bye if they decide to limit themselves to only GDA players.

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Kiss our women's world cups good bye if they decide to limit themselves to only GDA players.

Younger men's players are almost exclusively BDA. That's working out well.

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Universal truth and youth soccer do not belong in the same sentence.

There are certain GDA clubs and teams that would take any almost any player from a competing ECNL roister and vice versa depending on age and location.

Generalities of are no use.

Agreed which is why the comment was spot on. The only real truth is eventually the DA will end up being at the top but only because USSF has decreed it and they have the power to do that. Functionally the difference in the end may end up being small because everything is so watered down but there will be some degree of separation.

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Agreed which is why the comment was spot on. The only real truth is eventually the DA will end up being at the top but only because USSF has decreed it and they have the power to do that. Functionally the difference in the end may end up being small because everything is so watered down but there will be some degree of separation.

You have more faith in the USSF than most. GDA will be fine in Cali, a cluster F everywhere else.

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You have more faith in the USSF than most. GDA will be fine in Cali, a cluster F everywhere else.

Given they just elected an investment banker as USSF president soon it will be a cluster F everywhere.

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Kiss our women's world cups good bye if they decide to limit themselves to only GDA players.

USA will not win another World Cup. The rest of the world has past us already.

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Sorry a DA starter is not the same as an ECNL starter. Anyone claiming otherwise is looking at a time limited situation like the Stars. Nowhere near the universal truth their parents are trying to sell it as. Most other clubs with both programs, the ECNL is now their B team. That’s how USSF wants it and they will get their way.

You are likely right Over Time and Across The Country, but right now and right here in MA, that list is (as another poster put it) "spot on"

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So winter is almost over how was ODP this year so far ?

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So winter is almost over how was ODP this year so far ?

My D has enjoyed it. She has learned a few things and is being pushed harder in ODP practice than her current team practices, where she is one of the top players on the roster. The coaching, at least in my D's age group, has been good so no complaints. It will be interesting to see who gets chosen to go to Region 1 camp this summer, as the coaches made it clear at the beginning not everyone in the program would be going.

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My D has enjoyed it. She has learned a few things and is being pushed harder in ODP practice than her current team practices, where she is one of the top players on the roster. The coaching, at least in my D's age group, has been good so no complaints. It will be interesting to see who gets chosen to go to Region 1 camp this summer, as the coaches made it clear at the beginning not everyone in the program would be going.

They say that every year, and everyone gets invited.