ECRL

This is so wrong! It gives them such a recruiting advantage.

I don't have an issue with Concorde having 2 teams in each league, IF they can field competitive teams. If any of their teams have trouble competing then they should be dropped from the league.

What’s really interesting is what they don’t say. To me this looks very much like confirmation that other clubs in the SE will be fielding more than one girls ECRL team per age. It’s obvious that CF will be very clear about, and draw attention to the fact if able. It is a big recruiting competitive advantage and they’re right to capitalize on that type of differentiator whenever possible.

I could be wrong, but I think CF just announced that UFA will have ECRL teams at Fowler _and_ Norcross.

Will be interesting if multiple clubs land multiple teams in regional league.
I do not think a single club should have multiple ecnl teams unless they are trully ran out of distinct locations.
It really gives them an advantage by being able to recruit kids to play on 2 teams vs one.

Serious question. How is it an advantage to have the two ECRL spots? It is still a 4th level team. Maybe you have an advantage to pull kids that would normally play SCCL-2 or 3 away from other clubs but why would anyone that wants to play ECRL and can make one of ECRL spots for a club with only one team (2nd overall team) go to the 4th Concorde team?

Yea, exactly, the carrot is what attracts players -- players will lean towards ECNL then ECNL regional league over SCCL on the boys side. It will help concorde as these kids grow and mature, they will have a deeper player pool to grab from, where other clubs will have to try to recruit kids over.

It reminds me somewhat like the days when clubs would earn the RPL spot with their girls ECNL team and then there was no roster continuity requirements and they essentially had 36 spots to recruit players -- come here and play ecnl or rpl which both were obviously better than Athena A.

I don’t think that ECRL=SCCL. The only clubs to announce ECRL are clubs with ECNL teams. We are witnessing the splitting of soccer into 2 camps—MLS Next and GA v ECNL. The real question is where are the medium size clubs going.

I dont think ECRL will be anything other than the ECNL clubs. No way they let Roswell/ other medium sized clubs in. Will be interesting to see what happens to them.

oh crud, yea, GSA is in, I accidently left them off.
I saw nasa/tophat confirm it on their webpage.

link - nasa -
www.nth-nasa.com/Default.aspx?tabid=1076865

I think it makes sense also, not just to analyze smaller clubs, similar to what you mention -- but the easiest way to identify and recruit talent in my opinion is to play them in your league.

Agreed - that was exactly my thought.  Unless there is something else at play here like money.

Most smaller/medium clubs aren’t going Ecnl/ECRL because Campbell at GSA is vetoing any ECNL additions from Atlanta (including Tophat). Gsa is scared that anymore ECNL clubs will threaten their dwindling numbers. They don’t want to be AFU, they want to keep AFU where they are, on the bottom.

IMO it is possible for Santos and Ambush to get in. Looking at FL and SC, they gave the ECNL clubs plus a few with ECNL playing in the Regional leagues. So there’s a precedent there.

Oh it would be possible on paper. But not with the soccer politics in Atlanta. Like I stated in another post, Campbell at GSA will veto anymore additions to Ecnl/ECRL in the metro area. Other wise Rush and Ambush would have been in for sure, though sounds like Santos has decided to go the MLSNext/GAL route.