ECRL vs GA

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You are better off playing in a league like MOSA, Northern Counties, South Jersey Girls soccer league or Mid New Jersey Youth soccer instead of ECRL. Very low level competition with unnecessary travel.

That applies to GA as well, lots of unnecessary travel for EDP D2/3 level competition.

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GA teams are not doing the RL pre admission to ECNL thing anymore. That happened just last year when DA folded and every club applied for entry. GA is pretty much established as a not terribly distant competitor to ECNL, close to where GDA left off.

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That applies to GA as well, lots of unnecessary travel for EDP D2/3 level competition.

Lots? Getting on a plane to play EDP level teams is as dumb as it gets. At least EDP is local

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Very true if college soccer is not a goal. ECRL is best for players looking for strong academic opportunities at D3 colleges or athletic financial support at the D2 level. D1 opportunities are tough from ECRL (it happens but is rare). If college soccer is not a goal, then playing in a league that the player enjoys as well as not demanding the time and financial commitment the higher leagues require is the best choice.

Damn you are so wrong. College coaches do not attend the ECRL games unless there is a reason. Their hardly attend the ECNL games for more than 5-10 min. Playing in tournament should be the last resort to get you noticed.

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Damn you are so wrong. College coaches do not attend the ECRL games unless there is a reason. Their hardly attend the ECNL games for more than 5-10 min. Playing in tournament should be the last resort to get you noticed.

My D who plays at a NESCAC school disagrees with you.

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Damn you are so wrong. College coaches do not attend the ECRL games unless there is a reason. Their hardly attend the ECNL games for more than 5-10 min. Playing in tournament should be the last resort to get you noticed.

The reason a college coach attends any game is because the player has reached out and expressed interest in the college. If that player’’s team is playing at a showcase like Jeff Cup or PDA Showcase that they are already planning to attend, and the player is persuasive in their email to interest the coach, the coach will try to fit seeing that player in their schedule. Especially at U17, tons of D3 coaches will attend games. At D’s u17 PDA Showcase appearance, for example, they had 100+ coaches attend over the 3 days (I know this because I was one of the parents handing out them brochures to these coaches and collecting coaches’ business cards for the team).

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Damn you are so wrong. College coaches do not attend the ECRL games unless there is a reason. Their hardly attend the ECNL games for more than 5-10 min. Playing in tournament should be the last resort to get you noticed.

ECRL gets almost double the coaches vs GA at the showcases. Amazing what facts can do.

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The reason a college coach attends any game is because the player has reached out and expressed interest in the college. If that player’’s team is playing at a showcase like Jeff Cup or PDA Showcase that they are already planning to attend, and the player is persuasive in their email to interest the coach, the coach will try to fit seeing that player in their schedule. Especially at U17, tons of D3 coaches will attend games. At D’s u17 PDA Showcase appearance, for example, they had 100+ coaches attend over the 3 days (I know this because I was one of the parents handing out them brochures to these coaches and collecting coaches’ business cards for the team).

Yes it is all about the level. There are loads of programs that aren't going after top ECNL D1 bound players because they'd never get them/wouldn't be the right fit soccer wise. But those teams still need players. However what you more often won't see is an entire ECLR or GAL team recruited. ECNL more often than not the whole roster finds spots. There's some good players in the other leagues, just not the same depth

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Yes it is all about the level. There are loads of programs that aren't going after top ECNL D1 bound players because they'd never get them/wouldn't be the right fit soccer wise. But those teams still need players. However what you more often won't see is an entire ECLR or GAL team recruited. ECNL more often than not the whole roster finds spots. There's some good players in the other leagues, just not the same depth

Spot on analysis, very realistic take on the landscape. There is ECNL where 80% of power 5 D1 players come from, and then there is the rest, USYS, ECRL and GA, pretty even in terms of exposure opportunities.

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ECRL gets almost double the coaches vs GA at the showcases. Amazing what facts can do.

You can’t be serious about third team ECNL teams that want the affiliation that bad. Please. You’re making yourself look foolish.

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ECRL gets almost double the coaches vs GA at the showcases. Amazing what facts can do.

More than double.

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Yes it is all about the level. There are loads of programs that aren't going after top ECNL D1 bound players because they'd never get them/wouldn't be the right fit soccer wise. But those teams still need players. However what you more often won't see is an entire ECLR or GAL team recruited. ECNL more often than not the whole roster finds spots. There's some good players in the other leagues, just not the same depth

On D’s ECRL team, every player that wanted to get recruited got recruited (except 1). That was about half the roster. The rest realized somewhere along the way that either they didn’t want to play college soccer or that they prioritized a specific school for academic and social fit and couldn’t get recruited at that specific school (ie they wanted to go to Carnegie Mellon but couldn’t get recruited to the soccer team there, ended up matriculating there because that was where she wanted to go).

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ECRL gets almost double the coaches vs GA at the showcases. Amazing what facts can do.

LOL...come on. That's ludicrous. You ECRL people are delusional. Keep trying to convince yourselves it's okay. If a kid can't make an "A" team in a club setting, how are they going to make a D-1 team? Do you think D-1 coaches are hunting the 23rd thru 30th best players at an average ECNL club? Maybe PDA, but they have 2 "A" teams already. At least be honest and say that ECRL is drawing a lot of D-3 coaches, which is awesome...but stop pretending the D-1 dream is happening. ECRL teams do nothing but help offset the costs for the players on every club's A team that are "scholarship" or "no tuition" aka not paying. If you believe otherwise, you are fooling yourself.

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LOL...come on. That's ludicrous. You ECRL people are delusional. Keep trying to convince yourselves it's okay. If a kid can't make an "A" team in a club setting, how are they going to make a D-1 team? Do you think D-1 coaches are hunting the 23rd thru 30th best players at an average ECNL club? Maybe PDA, but they have 2 "A" teams already. At least be honest and say that ECRL is drawing a lot of D-3 coaches, which is awesome...but stop pretending the D-1 dream is happening. ECRL teams do nothing but help offset the costs for the players on every club's A team that are "scholarship" or "no tuition" aka not paying. If you believe otherwise, you are fooling yourself.

I said earlier in this thread that ECRL is good for players looking for D2 and D3 spots, so how is that not being honest? And if the players on the ECRL team are looking for D2 or D3 spots, then how are they simply offsetting A team costs? They are getting the value they are looking for, and fwiw, D’s ECRL team had 2 scholarship players and 1 player who got recruited to a D1 team (albeit to a low-ranked D1 team).

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LOL...come on. That's ludicrous. You ECRL people are delusional. Keep trying to convince yourselves it's okay. If a kid can't make an "A" team in a club setting, how are they going to make a D-1 team? Do you think D-1 coaches are hunting the 23rd thru 30th best players at an average ECNL club? Maybe PDA, but they have 2 "A" teams already. At least be honest and say that ECRL is drawing a lot of D-3 coaches, which is awesome...but stop pretending the D-1 dream is happening. ECRL teams do nothing but help offset the costs for the players on every club's A team that are "scholarship" or "no tuition" aka not paying. If you believe otherwise, you are fooling yourself.

There may be the odd ECLR player that lands on a D1 roster but it will most definitely be on a low level roster. Some low D1s overlap with top D3s.