The Girls 2007 Thread

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I think NEFC and SSS would agree with that statement wholeheartedly. Blue has picked up 2 of NEFC’s best 07 girls in the past year as well as SSS’s best all around player and their goalie who is very solid and forcing SSS to play with an 09 girl and no goalie. Blue has singlehandedly, and taken great pride, in weakening 2 of the best ulittle clubs in the world to where NEFC is ok and SSS is a below average 07 team. Lets go blue!!!

Don’t lump NEFC in with Select. NEFC is still a very strong team and would be competitive with Stars Blue or Scorpions ECNL, and in the New England ECNL conference in general. Not the kids fault they play in GA. All they can do is play the teams on their schedule. Adults made this mess or leagues, not the players. There are 10-12 strong GA clubs who should be allowed into ECNL, but never will be because of politics and business interests and I fully understand that. The other 90% of GA clubs should be in NPL.

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They look to be putting some nice teams together....too bad they are frozen out of ECNL....frozen out of GA....

For what’s it worth Surf dad, Aztec ‘07 beat
both of Surf’s ‘07 & 08 top teams this spring.

This isn’t a pro Aztec post just putting surf in its place.

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For what’s it worth Surf dad, Aztec ‘07 beat
both of Surf’s ‘07 & 08 top teams this spring.

This isn’t a pro Aztec post just putting surf in its place.

And Aztec, who also fields some good teams, is in the same boat as Surf - frozen out of top-level leagues. The difference is that Surf is a National brand which gives it a *tiny* chance to break into one of these leagues where Aztec is just a really good little club. Maybe the $$$ that venture firms are dumping into Aztec will change that....or maybe it goes the way it did when they dumped $$$ into GPS

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For what’s it worth Surf dad, Aztec ‘07 beat
both of Surf’s ‘07 & 08 top teams this spring.

This isn’t a pro Aztec post just putting surf in its place.

'07 Surf is all GPS holdovers. It's before Surf really existed. Said that already.

For '08, "its place" is where? In the top 5. IIRC both those clubs may have beaten Stars Blue.

What you're missing is that things have changed. They've caught on to the ECxL 2nd, 3rd, 4th team scams. People don't want to leave a club's top team to join a second team (Stars White) that loses all its game by multiple goals and finishes at the bottom of the table. While knowing that the team will always lose the good forwards and keepers to Blue. So if someone is jumping clubs, it's Blue or nothing.

And players aren't interested in being 6-8th on the depth chart on a 25 player roster for Blue.

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Blue is the brand. Can anyone tell me of a time that White went to nationals? If that ever happened, I'm sure the blue team in that birth year got dismantled and reorganized. There would never be a back to back white playoff appearance in the same age group.

It's really easy to understand the Stars business model. White exists to support blue. White is the team to send former blues out to pasture. It's also the place to stable the occasional unicorn until the next season.

White parents need to see the writing on the wall. The reason why blue parents and players pretend you don't exist is because they know if their kid winds up on your team, their dream is over. You're existence is a worst case scenario, and also encouragement to train harder.

Blue or nothing is the only truth in Lancaster.

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Blue is the brand. Can anyone tell me of a time that White went to nationals? If that ever happened, I'm sure the blue team in that birth year got dismantled and reorganized. There would never be a back to back white playoff appearance in the same age group.

It's really easy to understand the Stars business model. White exists to support blue. White is the team to send former blues out to pasture. It's also the place to stable the occasional unicorn until the next season.

White parents need to see the writing on the wall. The reason why blue parents and players pretend you don't exist is because they know if their kid winds up on your team, their dream is over. You're existence is a worst case scenario, and also encouragement to train harder.

Blue or nothing is the only truth in Lancaster.

Until you look at the college commit list and see the D1 schools where some Stars White players go. Anxious Blue parents do worry what demotion to White means, but in HS the "baddest little team" stuff of "How many twophies has our widdle team won?" is gone. College recruiting does not go by team records.

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What you're talking about is the showcase, and yes, white has a platform for national exposure by attending and participating. Even within the showcase structure you won't find JD endorsing white team players for the National Selection Game. If a white team player gets a D1 commitment, you can bet the parents and player did all the work to make that happen, JT cares about blue only. They are the brand, every other team is the profit. As long as he keeps blue winning and keeps getting D1 comits for those players to post on social media, he'll always have 15 other teams in each age group dreaming to be on blue. JD wins, and everyone not on blue loses.

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What you're talking about is the showcase, and yes, white has a platform for national exposure by attending and participating. Even within the showcase structure you won't find JD endorsing white team players for the National Selection Game. If a white team player gets a D1 commitment, you can bet the parents and player did all the work to make that happen, JT cares about blue only. They are the brand, every other team is the profit. As long as he keeps blue winning and keeps getting D1 comits for those players to post on social media, he'll always have 15 other teams in each age group dreaming to be on blue. JD wins, and everyone not on blue loses.

No real argument about JD, a peach of a guy.

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Until you look at the college commit list and see the D1 schools where some Stars White players go. Anxious Blue parents do worry what demotion to White means, but in HS the "baddest little team" stuff of "How many twophies has our widdle team won?" is gone. College recruiting does not go by team records.

GB was on White last year and his 04 team finished second in the conference and went to ECNL Champions League National playoffs

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GB was on White last year and his 04 team finished second in the conference and went to ECNL Champions League National playoffs

There are white teams that go to playoffs every year. This is a bad year, but the 05 white team is going.

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Blue is the brand. Can anyone tell me of a time that White went to nationals? If that ever happened, I'm sure the blue team in that birth year got dismantled and reorganized. There would never be a back to back white playoff appearance in the same age group.

It's really easy to understand the Stars business model. White exists to support blue. White is the team to send former blues out to pasture. It's also the place to stable the occasional unicorn until the next season.

White parents need to see the writing on the wall. The reason why blue parents and players pretend you don't exist is because they know if their kid winds up on your team, their dream is over. You're existence is a worst case scenario, and also encouragement to train harder.

Blue or nothing is the only truth in Lancaster.

Getting dismantled at Nationals is also a Blue thing.

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Getting dismantled at Nationals is also a Blue thing.

Maybe that’s because they play in a league where they get to play the actual best. Let’s look at some of the teams Stars are playing at Nationals this year: Solar, NC Courage, Real Colorado, Slammers, Michigan Hawks, and internationals to name a few.

Enjoy CA playing against whatever teams are left in GAL.

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Maybe that’s because they play in a league where they get to play the actual best. Let’s look at some of the teams Stars are playing at Nationals this year: Solar, NC Courage, Real Colorado, Slammers, Michigan Hawks, and internationals to name a few.

Enjoy CA playing against whatever teams are left in GAL.

This is the exact reason why NEFC 07 usually flounders as well when they play in national tournaments. Playing the likes twice a year of Empire United, Oakwood, Select, NYSC doesn't do them any favors as all those 07 clubs are way subpar and offer no resistance for NEFC to prepare for nationals.

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This is the exact reason why NEFC 07 usually flounders as well when they play in national tournaments. Playing the likes twice a year of Empire United, Oakwood, Select, NYSC doesn't do them any favors as all those 07 clubs are way subpar and offer no resistance for NEFC to prepare for nationals.

LOL because NEFC is playing teams like the poster above mentions at GAL nationals - give me a break.

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LOL because NEFC is playing teams like the poster above mentions at GAL nationals - give me a break.

hahahahaha great point. ^