ECNL; E N Club League Dead?

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The outrageously expensive experiment in Oregon has failed. Is it now dead? Do people want to spend $1,000 per month for it?

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there was potential, but the implementation let people hanging.

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The outrageously expensive experiment in Oregon has failed. Is it now dead? Do people want to spend $1,000 per month for it?

We paid about $4800 for U14 ecnl. Which is about the same price as U16 Thorns Academy and ironically the same age of players, but had much better results with ECNL.

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there was potential, but the implementation let people hanging.

Huh, ECNL has been around since 2009 and is growing, has it's own league and is placing an ever increasing number of players into the college ranks. But it didn't have the success of being in 2nd place in a split OYSA / OPL league, finishing 6th in FWRL.

No wonder Thorns was a one and done.

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The outrageously expensive experiment in Oregon has failed. Is it now dead? Do people want to spend $1,000 per month for it?

Massive cost. No club support. Doomed

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The outrageously expensive experiment in Oregon has failed. Is it now dead? Do people want to spend $1,000 per month for it?

I spent about $800 more playing ECNL than I did playing OPL. ECNL is not even close to going away

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$800 per month is very reasonable

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The outrageously expensive experiment in Oregon has failed. Is it now dead? Do people want to spend $1,000 per month for it?

The prestige and scholarships are worth a lot more than $1,000 per month.

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The outrageously expensive experiment in Oregon has failed. Is it now dead? Do people want to spend $1,000 per month for it?

Hey ECNL hater you do the math. 16s/17s are the most expensive because they do 3 showcase events. Each Showcase event cost about $500-$700 per player (lodging, airfare, rental car, food, ...). 2 flying league game trips are about $400

For example, Phoenix
Airfare - $279 per traveler
Lodging 3 nights - $100 per player (4 girls/room)
Rental car (2 - 12 passenger vans) - $50/player
Food - $90 (breakfast included in lodging, cater all meals)

This is a very good ballpark of what each event cost (some are a little more and some are a little less depending on lodging and airfare)

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The outrageously expensive experiment in Oregon has failed. Is it now dead? Do people want to spend $1,000 per month for it?

this will never be dead. As long as there are people with deep pockets this survives.
I'm interested in hearing how the USSDA and ECNL meeting went last week.

It sounds like MLS affiliates and ECNL are combining efforts to the league. the ECNL name is going to fade away and be consumed by WPSL and MLS. ECNL and the boys USSDA has done all of the leg work in creating this elite avenue for players. I sure hope they can finalize the deal and get everyone on the same page.

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The prestige and scholarships are worth a lot more than $1,000 per month.

That isn't bad. Why does anyone care how we spend our resources?

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We paid about $4800 for U14 ecnl. Which is about the same price as U16 Thorns Academy and ironically the same age of players, but had much better results with ECNL.

Umm, there was no U16 Thorns last year and we saw your results and they were terrible. But keep touting the party line.

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That isn't bad. Why does anyone care how we spend our resources?

Your father in law worked very hard for that money, try to spend it more wisely.

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there was potential, but the implementation let people hanging.

It was disappointing but hope is that it will get better.

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this will never be dead. As long as there are people with deep pockets this survives.
I'm interested in hearing how the USSDA and ECNL meeting went last week.

It sounds like MLS affiliates and ECNL are combining efforts to the league. the ECNL name is going to fade away and be consumed by WPSL and MLS. ECNL and the boys USSDA has done all of the leg work in creating this elite avenue for players. I sure hope they can finalize the deal and get everyone on the same page.

On the girls side there isn't anything even close to what ECNL is doing