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Post by cleansheet on May 4, 2020 20:28:36 GMT -5
📰 Breaking news 📰
📢 We are pleased to announce that FC Alliance out of Knoxville, TN makes the 11th club to join the top flight of the Southeast’s most competitive league, the SCCL, in 2020-21‼️
“We have been looking for a league of this quality for our developmental teams. We are very excited to be part of the SCCL and the opportunity it will give our players.” - Jon Schneider, Director of Operations for FC Alliance.
Our updated SCCL Premier Division clubs will be announced soon. These clubs will be competing with each other on a team-centric basis for the 2020-21 season, and will feature promotion-relegation among divisions.
#BuildingSomethingBetter #BuiltByEliteClubs4EliteClubs
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Post by footyfan on May 4, 2020 20:53:27 GMT -5
📰 Breaking news 📰 📢 We are pleased to announce that FC Alliance out of Knoxville, TN makes the 11th club to join the top flight of the Southeast’s most competitive league, the SCCL, in 2020-21‼️ “We have been looking for a league of this quality for our developmental teams. We are very excited to be part of the SCCL and the opportunity it will give our players.” - Jon Schneider, Director of Operations for FC Alliance. Our updated SCCL Premier Division clubs will be announced soon. These clubs will be competing with each other on a team-centric basis for the 2020-21 season, and will feature promotion-relegation among divisions. #BuildingSomethingBetter #BuiltByEliteClubs4EliteClubs Joining SCCL or SCCL-P? Or both? |
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Post by Keeper on May 4, 2020 20:58:50 GMT -5
📰 Breaking news 📰 📢 We are pleased to announce that FC Alliance out of Knoxville, TN makes the 11th club to join the top flight of the Southeast’s most competitive league, the SCCL, in 2020-21‼️ “We have been looking for a league of this quality for our developmental teams. We are very excited to be part of the SCCL and the opportunity it will give our players.” - Jon Schneider, Director of Operations for FC Alliance. Our updated SCCL Premier Division clubs will be announced soon. These clubs will be competing with each other on a team-centric basis for the 2020-21 season, and will feature promotion-relegation among divisions. #BuildingSomethingBetter #BuiltByEliteClubs4EliteClubs Joining SCCL or SCCL-P? Or both? Both! Full invite like Ambush and Santos. |
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Post by soccernoleuk on May 4, 2020 21:13:45 GMT -5
No mention of another SCCL club announcement coming soon, only Premier division teams. Does that mean SCCL is done expanding for the year, and they will only have 1 team on an island about 3 hours away from Atlanta? Should be a great single game trip for a league priding itself on limited travel.
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Post by soccermaxx72 on May 4, 2020 21:27:07 GMT -5
Lots of traveling for a league that didn’t want to travel. Day trip to Knoxville?
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Post by oraclesfriend on May 4, 2020 21:28:55 GMT -5
No mention of another SCCL club announcement coming soon, only Premier division teams. Does that mean SCCL is done expanding for the year, and they will only have 1 team on an island about 3 hours away from Atlanta? Should be a great single game trip for a league priding itself on limited travel. Better than a day trip to Savannah like we had to do in Athena. One 3 hour trip for us to them is not a bad deal on our part. Seems to be a worse problem for them though. |
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Post by fan on May 4, 2020 22:14:50 GMT -5
Wasn't the idea of SCCL to give strong teams a league in which to play nearby strong teams? Adding smaller clubs seems like it dilutes the league and 3 hours away seems to defeat the purpose of a "local" league.
AFC would have enough teams to be competitive and Inter would but if less competitive clubs like Rush, Chiefs, etc. start getting added it would add more weaker teams than strong.
All of the girls standings from the fall seem lopsided with a few teams winning most of their games and a few losing most. Do the original SCCL clubs feel like adding to the top division will make the league better? Or are they just trying to stick it to GA Soccer by picking up as many clubs as they can?
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Post by atlfutboldad on May 4, 2020 22:29:33 GMT -5
Good questions and comments.
I also worry about the quality of competition. Roswell and Interns first teams are a good addition, but wewill see on the others. Will be interesting to see if FC Alliance 2nd team is better than BUSA's.
FC Alliance would be a good addition for an ECRL league, but for SCCL/SCCL-P it's a lot of additional travel for them.
Things are going alphabet crazy in here.
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Post by Keeper on May 4, 2020 22:32:12 GMT -5
No mention of another SCCL club announcement coming soon, only Premier division teams. Does that mean SCCL is done expanding for the year, and they will only have 1 team on an island about 3 hours away from Atlanta? Should be a great single game trip for a league priding itself on limited travel. At least one more Atlanta club being announced this weekend as a full member. And yes making a run to Knoxville to play an ECNL club is lot better then going to Augusta, Tifton, or Hinesville. It’s a simple day trip that SCCL had last year but instead of Carolina we’re going to Tennessee. |
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Post by soccerlegacy on May 4, 2020 22:44:19 GMT -5
Not more travel if they add one more team... say a Chattanooga team?? The current SCCL was having to do a home and away twice a year... in the fall and in the spring with the Birmingham teams and Carolina (FC Alliance is taking their place since CESA went ECRL). With this expansion, you can now play a schedule that has you only travel once to each of these locations... i.e. You travel to them in the fall, then they come to you in the spring (or visa versa). So actually less travel than when it was just 8 teams.
However, I do feel it waters down the competition when adding Roswell and Ambush (girls side at least) and they will struggle a bit. But I think this was a way to cement the destruction of Ga Soccer.
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Post by ultimatedad on May 5, 2020 1:26:03 GMT -5
And the purpose of this league is to hurt soccer???
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Post by soccerlegacy on May 5, 2020 8:33:28 GMT -5
At least one more Atlanta club being announced this weekend as a full member. And yes making a run to Knoxville to play an ECNL club is lot better then going to Augusta, Tifton, or Hinesville. It’s a simple day trip that SCCL had last year but instead of Carolina we’re going to Tennessee. Simple day trip? Gwinnett to Knoxville is 3.5 hours without traffic? Once another club from Tenn. is announced, it will make it more worthwhile. You will have one weekend trip to Alabama to play two games (like have been doing) and one Tennessee... for the year. For reference, SSA used to travel to 3 hrs to CESA twice a year. |
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Post by atlfutboldad on May 5, 2020 10:25:00 GMT -5
But with this many teams it won't be home/away. Its at 11, and according to JumpJumpKeep another local will be added (12 teams/11 games). If they do add Chattanooga Red Wolves it would be good, 13 clubs/12 games...every ATL club would need to do one overnight trip to Birmingham OR East Tennessee once per season. 2 more teams, 14 teams/13 games if they add AFC and Chattanooga would be ideal. But the Birmingham and Tennessee clubs would either have an additional away OR they would swap home/away. Thats nearly a 4 hour trip.
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Post by greenmonkey on May 5, 2020 10:39:14 GMT -5
My only complaint with SCCL top tier (and read my previous posts I am a devoted fan and kool aid drinker) is not the amount of games but the timing of them throughout the season.
14 games sounds great until you try to schedule them into a window of 8-9 weeks. Look at the schedules for any team or age group. Some teams had 3 weeks IN A ROW without a single game scheduled and then 5 games scheduled in an 8 day stretch. Some teams were frontloading and played 7 games before everyone else played 2.
I’m okay with 12 games if they are spread out throughout the season. And I love the idea of playing 12 different teams. Keeps the players mentally fresh and excited and optimistic. (when you only play 6 teams and over 3 years it would have been 12 times the same team plus all the same preseason and postseason times. It gets boring. That’s why the players actually like two road trips and Disney. There is nothing wrong with some team dinners and out of town bonding for a local competition team (no not elite but yes it is competitive)
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Post by atlfutboldad on May 5, 2020 10:43:38 GMT -5
@jumpjumpkeep311 What club are you at? I thought it was Augusta, but since you mention Augusta, I guess not... |
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Post by atlfutboldad on May 5, 2020 10:56:47 GMT -5
My only complaint with SCCL top tier (and read my previous posts I am a devoted fan and kool aid drinker) is not the amount of games but the timing of them throughout the season. 14 games sounds great until you try to schedule them into a window of 8-9 weeks. Look at the schedules for any team or age group. Some teams had 3 weeks IN A ROW without a single game scheduled and then 5 games scheduled in an 8 day stretch. Some teams were frontloading and played 7 games before everyone else played 2. I’m okay with 12 games if they are spread out throughout the season. And I love the idea of playing 12 different teams. Keeps the players mentally fresh and excited and optimistic. (when you only play 6 teams and over 3 years it would have been 12 times the same team plus all the same preseason and postseason times. It gets boring. That’s why the players actually like two road trips and Disney. There is nothing wrong with some team dinners and out of town bonding for a local competition team (no not elite but yes it is competitive) Season games should be spread from first weekend in September to the 2nd weekend in November (11 week period this year). SHouldn't be that tough for 13 games. Perhaps an SCCL play-around tournament to coincide with Publix ATL Cup on Labor Day weekend would be a good move to get 3-4 of the games out of the way. Have the games count for the regular season BUT ALSO award an SCCL Fall Cup to the winner. |
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Post by soccernoleuk on May 5, 2020 12:05:37 GMT -5
My only complaint with SCCL top tier (and read my previous posts I am a devoted fan and kool aid drinker) is not the amount of games but the timing of them throughout the season. 14 games sounds great until you try to schedule them into a window of 8-9 weeks. Look at the schedules for any team or age group. Some teams had 3 weeks IN A ROW without a single game scheduled and then 5 games scheduled in an 8 day stretch. Some teams were frontloading and played 7 games before everyone else played 2. I’m okay with 12 games if they are spread out throughout the season. And I love the idea of playing 12 different teams. Keeps the players mentally fresh and excited and optimistic. (when you only play 6 teams and over 3 years it would have been 12 times the same team plus all the same preseason and postseason times. It gets boring. That’s why the players actually like two road trips and Disney. There is nothing wrong with some team dinners and out of town bonding for a local competition team (no not elite but yes it is competitive) Season games should be spread from first weekend in September to the 2nd weekend in November (11 week period this year). SHouldn't be that tough for 13 games. Perhaps an SCCL play-around tournament to coincide with Publix ATL Cup on Labor Day weekend would be a good move to get 3-4 of the games out of the way. Have the games count for the regular season BUT ALSO award an SCCL Fall Cup to the winner. This year our SCCL team played 3 games on Labor Day weekend, all at UFA, and they were league games. I know VHSC came to Atlanta to get 3 of their games out of the way, but I'm not sure if BUSA also came as we only played VHSC. I liked this setup as it helped get some games out of the way in a single weekend. If moving forward there are only approximately 13 games, and 3 are played over Labor Day Weekend, there shouldn't be an issue with the remainder of the schedule. It should also provide a weekend or 2 in the fall to head out of town for another tournament. |
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Post by SoccerMom on May 6, 2020 18:30:30 GMT -5
@jumpjumpkeep311 What club are you at? I thought it was Augusta, but since you mention Augusta, I guess not... He can't answer that question yet without revealing some information.....😎 |
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Post by Keeper on May 6, 2020 19:34:24 GMT -5
@jumpjumpkeep311 What club are you at? I thought it was Augusta, but since you mention Augusta, I guess not... Well the family is spread across three clubs but I can’t say at the moment. Oh wow good old Augusta Arsenal, I wonder how things are going for them now that they are playing out of South Carolina and not Ga Soccer. I miss playing against some of those teams! |
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Post by atlfutboldad on May 6, 2020 23:09:32 GMT -5
Well I ask because last year you said your little club was invited to join SCCL-P, and only AFU and Augusta were new in SCCL-P.
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