Attack on trainers and managers

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Well said.

Yes lowered demand by check writing parents will eventually lead to lower pricing and/or supply. But there's a always a fresh supply of check writers.

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So many fools fall for this crap it’s easy money for these places. If your kid makes it they take all the credit, if the kid fails it’s never the academy’s fault. To see players grown and developed is almost a rarity. They just aggregate players developed elsewhere....like ECNL stealing players and teams developed by the DA/GA. Shameful.

Insane how some leagues like ECNL cherry pick the best players and teams from GA and even USYS. Cant US Soccer do anything to regulate this...it’s killing these secondary leagues. It’s become a game of musical chairs.

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Insane how some leagues like ECNL cherry pick the best players and teams from GA and even USYS. Cant US Soccer do anything to regulate this...it’s killing these secondary leagues. It’s become a game of musical chairs.

Why is that a bad thing? The parents of high performing kids have been dreaming about having 'one league' where all the talent is consolidated and now they have it.

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ECNL came about because clubs like PDA and FC Stars had enough playing local teams/clubs and winning 6-0 at halftime. The original concept was to put together the most successful clubs in all four regions to play against each other. If you look at the original group they were made up of the most successful clubs in the country at the time. The idea was to make it just a few clubs in each State and region so that these clubs can gather the best players not only in the area but the State to train in a competitive atmosphere with like minded players and play in highly competitive games and then have college showcases in every region to draw teams to play each other. Colleges immediately were drawn to this concept and the monster of ECNL was born and thrived. Unfortunately now this league has lost it’s luster by adding clubs that are not on the same competitive level as the original group. There are clubs added that have not been able to compete at that high level. When you go to ECNL events now and see the lower level ECNL games the quality has dropped significantly. If you look at the top 20 ECNL Clubs/teams vs. the lower 20 ECNL clubs/teams the difference is striking and in my opinion has hurt the league.

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ECNL came about because clubs like PDA and FC Stars had enough playing local teams/clubs and winning 6-0 at halftime. The original concept was to put together the most successful clubs in all four regions to play against each other. If you look at the original group they were made up of the most successful clubs in the country at the time. The idea was to make it just a few clubs in each State and region so that these clubs can gather the best players not only in the area but the State to train in a competitive atmosphere with like minded players and play in highly competitive games and then have college showcases in every region to draw teams to play each other. Colleges immediately were drawn to this concept and the monster of ECNL was born and thrived. Unfortunately now this league has lost it’s luster by adding clubs that are not on the same competitive level as the original group. There are clubs added that have not been able to compete at that high level. When you go to ECNL events now and see the lower level ECNL games the quality has dropped significantly. If you look at the top 20 ECNL Clubs/teams vs. the lower 20 ECNL clubs/teams the difference is striking and in my opinion has hurt the league.

ECNL also came about when USSF foolishly decided to focus on only doing BDA and not doing a girls program. ECNL founders saw a big opportunity and took advantage of the gap. HAd USSF done a girls league not much longer after BDA started, ECNL may not have ever gotten going.

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Yes lowered demand by check writing parents will eventually lead to lower pricing and/or supply. But there's a always a fresh supply of check writers.

That's why stop offering any recruiting opportunities through youth sports will kill those silly parents' dreams immediately.

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We are the shore!

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The coaches posting on this forum as parents are the biggest pieces of sh*t in youth sports. They deserve to be exposed for what they are - lying manipulators

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The coaches posting on this forum as parents are the biggest pieces of sh*t in youth sports. They deserve to be exposed for what they are - lying manipulators

Yes, I don't understand that as well. My guess is that MF Shore has tryouts coming up so they need to start promoting again.

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Yes, I don't understand that as well. My guess is that MF Shore has tryouts coming up so they need to start promoting again.

There's one of them as expected. The biggest POS

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There's one of them as expected. The biggest POS

Exactly. Don't they have like 17 teams already at the Shore? Why would they need to push their tryouts?

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The coaches posting on this forum as parents are the biggest pieces of sh*t in youth sports. They deserve to be exposed for what they are - lying manipulators

Are you surprised? Most sell you the bull**** you want to hear 24/7. Most parents are just too soccer uneducated to know the difference.

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MF Shore tryouts March 31st-April 7th. See what the buzz is all about.