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College scouting list is great, most importantly if it includes the institution of interest to your player. I was poking fun at using national team dreams to make decisions about soccer, not the colleges.

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Oh well that changes everything. Having national team scouts watch the games means they are not on the concession line so I can get served faster which is somewhat useful I suppose.

Having National Team scouts means that your club's training staff is accountable for training and evaluation of referees too. Not just about the "1% players", Dom. Making sure that your team does more than just scrimmage at practice when they are not watching.

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College scouting list is great, most importantly if it includes the institution of interest to your player. I was poking fun at using national team dreams to make decisions about soccer, not the colleges.

Obviously the player has to perform when being seen. The DA affords the opportunity and leaves it up to the players to capitalize on it. You are correct when you say the national team is a dream. 99.9 percent of plsyers will never realize Thst dream. But these are still kids and it’s so nice fir them to still have them.

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Obviously the player has to perform when being seen. The DA affords the opportunity and leaves it up to the players to capitalize on it. You are correct when you say the national team is a dream. 99.9 percent of plsyers will never realize Thst dream. But these are still kids and it’s so nice fir them to still have them.

I think choosing a soccer club based on presence of us scouts is a dumb reason and you think it is a fine reason. We can agree to disagree.

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Not even sure you would write something so ignorant

Let’s just overlook that these coaches came to just 1 of the games and there are 2 more lists of coaches that are similar for the other 2 games she played in.


Duke- Robbie Church
Penn State- Ann Cooke
Wake Forest- Courtney Owen
Kansas University- Mark Francis
NYU- Michelle Canning
Marquette- Nick Vorberg
Columbia- Amphone Keovongmanysar
Army/West Point- Bri Garcia
Colorado- Danny Sanchez
Air Force- Kiha Sutta
Colorado State- Sea Furness
Wyoming- Matt Callaway
Univ of Arizona- Sandy Davison
Texas Tech- Gibbs Keaton
San Diego- Chassion Griggs
Syracuse- Kelly Madsen
Univ of Oregon- Kat Mertz
FSU- Morinao Imaizumi
Univ of Arkansas- Sammy Scofield
Virginia Tech- Drew Kopp
Univ of Virginia- Ron Raab
Univ of Denver- Jeff Hooker
Michigan- Jen Klein
Maryland- Ray Leone
William and Mary- Marsha Lycan
Towson State- Matt Dwyer
Univ of Nebraska at Omaha- Kelly Farrell
Notre Dame- Lauren Sinacola
Univ of Cincinnati- Maddie Dobyns
W. Virginia- Lisa Stoia
UCF- Tim Sahaydek
Providence- Kyle Bak
Univ of Miami- Allen Fread
Arizona State- Jo Chubb/ Shigeyoshi Shinohara
Northwestern- Michael Moynihan
Fordham- Courtney??

My guess is your daughter is on the NYCFC 03/02 team. Those heavy hitters will only go to watch players of that caliber and the teams they are playing at this showcase would also attract that level of coach.

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My guess is your daughter is on the NYCFC 03/02 team. Those heavy hitters will only go to watch players of that caliber and the teams they are playing at this showcase would also attract that level of coach.

Wrong answer

Csa 04

And the csa 02 ( which is no where near the nycfc 02 teams level) had a
Lengthier list with the same level of colleges )

Da is alive and well . Don’t believe the ecnl propaganda. This is all about getting your daughter seen and giving them an opportunity to open a door at a university that would be harder to
Open without the soccer component.

Otherwise there is no reason to spend all the time we invest in practice and travel or all the money on registration and travel.

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[QUOTE=Unregistered;2478092]I think choosing a soccer club based on presence of us scouts is a dumb reason and you think it is a fine reason. We can agree to disagree.[/QUOTE

The college coaches are the draw. The national team coaches are a nice added benefit for the kids dreams.

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I think choosing a soccer club based on presence of us scouts is a dumb reason and you think it is a fine reason. We can agree to disagree.[/QUOTE

The college coaches are the draw. The national team coaches are a nice added benefit for the kids dreams.

Here’s a list from csa 04 1st game of the Colorado
Showcase

Really looks like the da is dying lol




College coaches 4/26

Florida State- Mark Krikorian
Clemson- Jeff Robbins
Washington State University- John Harvey
Pitt- Ben Waldrum
UC San Diego- Greg LaPorte
Notre Dame- Dawn Siergiej
Penn State- Tim Wassell
Hawaii- Rachael Doyle
Villanova- Daniel Clitnovici
Loyola Maryland- Morgan Ruhl
U Conn- Vanessa Philips
University of Denver- Levi Rossi
Santa Clara- Greg Murphy
Univ. of Arizona- Sandy Davison
Pepperdine- Tim Ward
Boston College- Jamie Kranich , Jason Lowe
Univ of Richmond- Marty Beall
Seton Hall- Emma Clark
NC State- Tim Santoro
San Diego State- Chassion Griggs
Northeastern- Alan Goggs
Univ South Carolina- Sammy Towne
Arizona State- Shigeyoshi Shinohara
Michigan State- Tammy Farnum
Vanderbilt- Darren Ambrose
Univ of Montana- Chris Citowicki
Virginia Tech- Charles “Chugger” Adair
Univ of Utah- Scott Halasz
Loyola of Chicago- Barry Bimbi
Humboldt State Univ- Paul Karver
Univ of N. Dakota- Damien Macias
Univ of Oregon- manny Martins
Univ of W. Oregon- Kacey Bingham

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Wrong answer

Csa 04

And the csa 02 ( which is no where near the nycfc 02 teams level) had a
Lengthier list with the same level of colleges )

Da is alive and well . Don’t believe the ecnl propaganda. This is all about getting your daughter seen and giving them an opportunity to open a door at a university that would be harder to
Open without the soccer component.

Otherwise there is no reason to spend all the time we invest in practice and travel or all the money on registration and travel.

DA and ECNL offer the same exposure and there is not a close 3rd. DA does have higher training standards and the presence of USSF staff does give the impression clubs are being held to those standards. ECNL in the North East is positioning itself as the better league and that might be true but the truth is after Stars and PDA all the GDA and ECNL clubs are similar. And I will argue as a collective the NJ, PA, MD GDA teams are better than ECNL. I do not know enough about the NY and New England teams to make the same statement.

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Having National Team scouts means that your club's training staff is accountable for training and evaluation of referees too. Not just about the "1% players", Dom. Making sure that your team does more than just scrimmage at practice when they are not watching.

Ha, isn't that the truth!

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DA and ECNL offer the same exposure and there is not a close 3rd. DA does have higher training standards and the presence of USSF staff does give the impression clubs are being held to those standards. ECNL in the North East is positioning itself as the better league and that might be true but the truth is after Stars and PDA all the GDA and ECNL clubs are similar. And I will argue as a collective the NJ, PA, MD GDA teams are better than ECNL. I do not know enough about the NY and New England teams to make the same statement.

Nor should you. What goes on is NY or CT or Mass may be interesting but we all need to choose a local option to teach our players the game. For some that will be an ecnl club, for some places a gda club, for some places it will be a club in some other league. PDA may be great but pda is of no use to a player outside of their area ( or budget for that matter).

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DA and ECNL offer the same exposure and there is not a close 3rd. DA does have higher training standards and the presence of USSF staff does give the impression clubs are being held to those standards. ECNL in the North East is positioning itself as the better league and that might be true but the truth is after Stars and PDA all the GDA and ECNL clubs are similar. And I will argue as a collective the NJ, PA, MD GDA teams are better than ECNL. I do not know enough about the NY and New England teams to make the same statement.

ECNL has only one standard. It's marketing to desperate parents.

The difference between teams is not necessarily as big. For instance, in the last 2 years ,everyone would bash NPL or NL teams. Its was easy, because ECNL teams would not cross paths with those teams. Now that SUSA made ECNL - they do well in ECNL, frequently better than Match Fit or World Class. In the meantime SSS, PSA and STA would frequently outplay SUSA in NPL - yet somehow they are not at the same level? ECNL's strength is its ability to draw in college coaches - and now GDA is doing it.

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Wrong answer



Da is alive and well . Don’t believe the ecnl propaganda. This is all about getting your daughter seen and giving them an opportunity to open a door at a university that would be harder to
Open without the soccer component.

Otherwise there is no reason to spend all the time we invest in practice and travel or all the money on registration and travel.

Yes. DA is alive and well. There needs to be more info like this shared because too many people get turned off by DA that just don't know. Its crazy how parents believe everything they here from Bucci, Oneil and other ECNL Generals. Yea yea the whole can't play HS school thing but there are so many positives about DA that no body talks about because all of ECNL proponents make you think otherwise

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Nor should you. What goes on is NY or CT or Mass may be interesting but we all need to choose a local option to teach our players the game. For some that will be an ecnl club, for some places a gda club, for some places it will be a club in some other league. PDA may be great but pda is of no use to a player outside of their area ( or budget for that matter).

PDA is an anomaly. Their area is the entire state of NJ, all of eastern PA (from the SWB area to Philly), a good portion of CT, all of the NYC metropolitan area and who knows how far into NY state they go. It is not uncommon to have all 4 of those states represented on a single PDA team.

We should care a little about the strength of other clubs in our leagues from other areas since these are the teams our kids will be playing against for next few years. But your point is well taken... worry about your own first!

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ECNL has only one standard. It's marketing to desperate parents.

The difference between teams is not necessarily as big. For instance, in the last 2 years ,everyone would bash NPL or NL teams. Its was easy, because ECNL teams would not cross paths with those teams. Now that SUSA made ECNL - they do well in ECNL, frequently better than Match Fit or World Class. In the meantime SSS, PSA and STA would frequently outplay SUSA in NPL - yet somehow they are not at the same level? ECNL's strength is its ability to draw in college coaches - and now GDA is doing it.

The difference now is as the players get older they leave nl programs for ecnl and da because the exposure level
Is far superior