19-20 DA Girls Season

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If you are that unhappy you should consider changing clubs.

Not unhappy. Just pointing out that you can call it DA now but it’s the same SUSC program. Same players she’s played with for years. Same coaching. But now parents think it’s wonderful because it’s DA.

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Not unhappy. Just pointing out that you can call it DA now but it’s the same SUSC program. Same players she’s played with for years. Same coaching. But now parents think it’s wonderful because it’s DA.

Which can be said about much of GDA in general. It takes years for coaches to get their higher licenses, so there's no real change there. A lot of the same teammates as before. You're playing several of the same clubs you used to play before. Some top players and clubs left because they didn't want it, so teams and clubs have to backfill with weaker prospects.

Out west is about the place place GDA is working - the player pool is vast enough to support it and promote only the top players, plus a stronger soccer culture and some great clubs. The best NE GDA can hope for is to stay even with ECNL, and depending on the club that isn't even happening.

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So, say the above is true (I somewhat agree, not completely), if it's worse than ECNL (of which there is no viable ECNL option for most so it's a moot point) and better than NPL (which I do believe is the case), would that be "acceptable"?

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So, say the above is true (I somewhat agree, not completely), if it's worse than ECNL (of which there is no viable ECNL option for most so it's a moot point) and better than NPL (which I do believe is the case), would that be "acceptable"?

Pick your local poison. Do the best with what you've got available. But also ask yourself/your kid what is the end game to all of this? Try not to get too caught up in the somewhat real/very much perceived need to get on the soccer train so young, well before kids really know what they want (college? what level?) or if that's even those aspirations are even realistic. Then you feel like you're kind of stuck on the train with no way off. It's ok to jump off. If you decide to stay on the train, pick the one with the best coaching for YOUR kid, not what logo is on their hat.

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^^ Agreed.

What if this is the train my kid wants and is having fun and improving at it? The logo inofitself doesn't mean much, but what it brings she/we are happy with. Why not proceed?

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^^ Agreed.

What if this is the train my kid wants and is having fun and improving at it? The logo inofitself doesn't mean much, but what it brings she/we are happy with. Why not proceed?

Then great, enjoy. But I recommend and annual review before spring tryouts. Everything keeps changing from teams to clubs to leagues. More importantly, so do the kids. Burnout and stress is a real thing. If it's not fun, stop and find a new strategy.

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Then great, enjoy. But I recommend and annual review before spring tryouts. Everything keeps changing from teams to clubs to leagues. More importantly, so do the kids. Burnout and stress is a real thing. If it's not fun, stop and find a new strategy.

We do that every year anyway. Three years ago when switching clubs we were at a crossroads.

Do you want to stay where you are? Try to play on another team within the club? Make the switch you want to do? Punt it all, and just go to town travel? What do YOU want to do?

Every year we sit and do the same, I would like to think this isn't unique - maybe it is? Every year is different, coaches change, leagues change, teammates change. This is a wise practice for everyone.

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U17 isn’t competitive

Another shutout loss for the “elite “ girls soccer program in N.H. so far 0-3 and they have not scored a goal yet. Didn’t Bob Seeger sing about this... Still the Same

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Another shutout loss for the “elite “ girls soccer program in N.H. so far 0-3 and they have not scored a goal yet. Didn’t Bob Seeger sing about this... Still the Same

Even with private school kids playing both.

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Even with private school kids playing both.

Looks like they had no subs. Private school kids were probably missing. At least 7 full time players not there.

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Looks like they had no subs. Private school kids were probably missing. At least 7 full time players not there.

Then they must not be full time players... LOL!!!

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Then they must not be full time players... LOL!!!

I think they just played the first game. But they lost that one, too.

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Looks like they had no subs. Private school kids were probably missing. At least 7 full time players not there.

So, does USSF have no problem with their “top” girls league including clubs that can barely field a team for games? Absurd.

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Dontcha know? The SUSC girls weren't being properly challenged in NPL so they switched to GDA for the development. The training. The coaching. The monitoring. Who cares if they don't belong there and lose every weekend and drive all over hell to embarrass themselves and make teams drive to them for zero competition and basically water down the entire region? They will be MONITORED, damnit!

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So, does USSF have no problem with their “top” girls league including clubs that can barely field a team for games? Absurd.

This was the warning SUSC refused to listen to when they were considering a DA program. They did not have the numbers to support it two years ago and they have even smaller numbers now.

The "influx" of MA players to their GDA program has not happened and wont happen because they are not competitive in the GDA. SUSC was moderately successful in NPL in 2016 - 2017. If they were dominant then a jump to GDA would have made sense. But middle of the road talent in NPL can't compete at the GDA or ECNL level.

Parents of GDA players in a year or two will have wasted a college tuition payment on a level of soccer their daughter was not capable of playing but SUSC made money.