Girls DA = $10,000/yr & NO high school sports???

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Four minimum required practices per week. Give up high school sports. Miss school for van rides to California. Miss out of high school experiences. That's just a few of the reasons why there isn't much interest.

Windowless van rides?

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Only in SoCal and even there only partially. Nowhere else in the country has the GDA been warmly received.

No surprising. Four minimum required trainings per week? Miss high school events? Prohibited from playing soccer for your school. Five to ten people watching most games? Excessive travel. Hard to find time to do homework.

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It's backed by US Soccer, USDA, NWSL Portland Thorns, US Womens's National teams program and subsidized to the tune of 8K per player/per season in Portland. Those are just a few of the reasons there isn't much interest.

Makes sense.

For the majority of kids and family they can care less about US Soccer, USDA, NWSL, Porland Thorns, and US Women's National team.

The $2K per year is big deal though.

On a side note, ECNL player only cost was not $10K, but you can pretend it did if it makes your argument sound better.

If the >$10k included parent travel then you should do the same for DA. Parent travel for DA will be higher due to the season being longer and more games.

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No surprising. Four minimum required trainings per week? Miss high school events? Prohibited from playing soccer for your school. Five to ten people watching most games? Excessive travel. Hard to find time to do homework.

The worst part is losing theist of your childhood. Giving up high school sports might be great for some boy on a pro track but seems really sad for girls. The comraderie and life long friendships of high school are hard to replace.

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The worst part is losing theist of your childhood. Giving up high school sports might be great for some boy on a pro track but seems really sad for girls. The comraderie and life long friendships of high school are hard to replace.

Theist = the last

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No surprising. Four minimum required trainings per week? Miss high school events? Prohibited from playing soccer for your school. Five to ten people watching most games? Excessive travel. Hard to find time to do homework.

If you are obsessively all in for soccer four trainings per week and games on the weekend is what you want.

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If you are obsessively all in for soccer four trainings per week and games on the weekend is what you want.

Exactly. The girls that want all GDA soccer all the time and nothing else will love GDA. Girls that like Ecnl soccer, playing HS & other soccer, other sports & activities will love Ecnl. Girls that like to stay local and have the time to do everything will love local club premier soccer. Great for all the different groups to have a choice that fits.

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Exactly. The girls that want all GDA soccer all the time and nothing else will love GDA. Girls that like Ecnl soccer, playing HS & other soccer, other sports & activities will love Ecnl. Girls that like to stay local and have the time to do everything will love local club premier soccer. Great for all the different groups to have a choice that fits.

Accordingly each group mentioned above attracts the kind of player that fits their model.

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Accordingly each group mentioned above attracts the kind of player that fits their model.

Exactly. Unless parental delusions get in the way & force decisions. There is a good choice for each type of girl. Hopefully, parents will encourage their DDs to do the best fit.

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The worst part is losing theist of your childhood. Giving up high school sports might be great for some boy on a pro track but seems really sad for girls. The comraderie and life long friendships of high school are hard to replace.

Still can play basketball and track. Only no HS soccer.

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If you are obsessively all in for soccer four trainings per week and games on the weekend is what you want.

It's not for everybody. No one said it was. Well maybe USSF thinks it is. They think it's going to be a slam dunk like it was for boys DA. But boys had no option like ECNL. This time is different. Yes some top players will want GDA. Some will not, including some top players. NT players will have their arms twisted to play GDA. Rosters will probably be half that really want to be there, half whose HS soccer sucks or their parents pushed them into it

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Still can play basketball and track. Only no HS soccer.

Not really. With 4 days/week it leaves very little time for HS sports which tend to be 5-6 days/week. Then there's homework, sleep, social life. Also DA has to always come first - HS conflicts will happen all the time. Think the HS coach will be understanding if you have to miss a track meet for DA practice?

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It's not for everybody. No one said it was. Well maybe USSF thinks it is. They think it's going to be a slam dunk like it was for boys DA. But boys had no option like ECNL. This time is different. Yes some top players will want GDA. Some will not, including some top players. NT players will have their arms twisted to play GDA. Rosters will probably be half that really want to be there, half whose HS soccer sucks or their parents pushed them into it

Boys didn't have an Ecnl type elite platform. Boys that excel at soccer & another sport like basketball, baseball, football or track don't usually pick soccer as their main sport. Multi sport boys generally drop soccer for the other sport. Girls it is often the opposite.

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Boys didn't have an Ecnl type elite platform. Boys that excel at soccer & another sport like basketball, baseball, football or track don't usually pick soccer as their main sport. Multi sport boys generally drop soccer for the other sport. Girls it is often the opposite.

Boys gave up their top platform USYS and ODP. Sacrifices were made to jump up to the DA.

Girls get much more athletic aid for college than boys that's all the ECNL has ever catered to was this title IX anonmoly and the aid is going to continue to grow for girls in the future which makes the top shelf always the most attractive.. US Soccers DA

The athletic aid is always there regardless of what league a club plays in. Now the best of the best have a new tier driven by US Soccer..not centered around the laziness of women's college coaches and overpaid docs in populated hotbeds across the US.

In Oregon the best must gravitate to just one club or DA.

Don't bet on our clubs it's never happened for the last 20 years.

No club has any magnet to outdraw the subsidized DA..

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Boys gave up their top platform USYS and ODP. Sacrifices were made to jump up to the DA.

Girls get much more athletic aid for college than boys that's all the ECNL has ever catered to was this title IX anonmoly and the aid is going to continue to grow for girls in the future which makes the top shelf always the most attractive.. US Soccers DA

The athletic aid is always there regardless of what league a club plays in. Now the best of the best have a new tier driven by US Soccer..not centered around the laziness of women's college coaches and overpaid docs in populated hotbeds across the US.

In Oregon the best must gravitate to just one club or DA.

Don't bet on our clubs it's never happened for the last 20 years.

No club has any magnet to outdraw the subsidized DA..

ECNL clubs putting up a good fight I'm sure but their track records speak for themselves.
Anyone that chooses ECNL of GDA at this point in time is extremely short sighted.