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Depends on the player, not the platform. Talent matters most. Everything else is just parents nonsense -
Yes and talented kids play at the top, not in the ECRL.Originally posted by Guest View PostComment
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Hmmm.....I don't know if youth soccer is that black and white.Originally posted by Guest View Post
Also - PDA RL beat an ECNL team at Jeff Cups so......Comment
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lots of reasons - if you live in north Jersey/Essex county the drive down to Zarephath is a commitment. College coaches don’t ignore talent just because of the platform. That’s a fantasy you’ve been fed by TS and your club. I might move my kid at U16 and suddenly that counts as a d1 commitment from an ECNl club while your kid gets cut. All of your bluster means jack sh*t.Originally posted by Guest View Post
proof? Many kids don’t take Pda offers. If there are 6 exceptional 9’s in NJ, isn’t it better for them to play for 6 different teams than all for PDA blue? I’ve also watched so many soccer games where “EDP or ECRL” teams lose solely because they don’t have a player that can score. So many people on this site don’t understand how youth athletes develop
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Well stated. Not everyone cares about ecnl. Some just want their kids to enjoy themselves and be competitive. If those kids and parents want to help their club play into ecnl one day, if that happens, that is their choiceOriginally posted by Guest View Post
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fwiw, it looks even worse for New England clubs, in terms of tons of travel for very mixed competition:
ECRL2 - Looking at the list of clubs
http://talking-soccer.com/TS4/forum/...-list-of-clubs[/QUOTE]Comment
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That's completely false. The new DIVISION of the ECNL-RL league will have compete at the same tournaments and playoffs ad the New England, North Atlantic, Florida, ect.Comment
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Correct. The same RL tournaments that schools such as Mount St Vincent of Western Colorado attends.Originally posted by Guest View PostComment
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If true, the new 3d tier teams will get crushed. Not a good thing for anyone involved.Originally posted by Guest View Post
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[/QUOTE]Originally posted by Guest View Post
The travel might not be a s bad as you think. If the split the division into 2 10 team brackets the travel for the NJ teams won't be bad at all. There are 6 NJ teams. Throw in the team from PA and probably the 3 upstate NY teams. Maybe the Alleycats and the Manhattan Soccer club switch. And if you know anything about the ECNL play model you know that they will usually play 2 games in a weekend.Comment
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The travel might not be a s bad as you think. If the split the division into 2 10 team brackets the travel for the NJ teams won't be bad at all. There are 6 NJ teams. Throw in the team from PA and probably the 3 upstate NY teams. Maybe the Alleycats and the Manhattan Soccer club switch. And if you know anything about the ECNL play model you know that they will usually play 2 games in a weekend. [/QUOTE]
go ahead buddy enjoy your fourth division league!
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The travel might not be a s bad as you think. If the split the division into 2 10 team brackets the travel for the NJ teams won't be bad at all. There are 6 NJ teams. Throw in the team from PA and probably the 3 upstate NY teams. Maybe the Alleycats and the Manhattan Soccer club switch. And if you know anything about the ECNL play model you know that they will usually play 2 games in a weekend. [/QUOTE]
So EDP level travel for EDP level teams. Wonder why they just dont call it EDP.Comment
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The travel might not be a s bad as you think. If the split the division into 2 10 team brackets the travel for the NJ teams won't be bad at all. There are 6 NJ teams. Throw in the team from PA and probably the 3 upstate NY teams. Maybe the Alleycats and the Manhattan Soccer club switch. And if you know anything about the ECNL play model you know that they will usually play 2 games in a weekend. [/QUOTE]The league would be even better without most of the teams north of NYC, CT and RI. And the random PA and Sparta team.
But that was the point. It’s not crazy for NJ, except for the really weak teams. It’s the MA teams and some of the other weak teams that make no sense.
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