With NSL recently announcing their direct pathway to the USYS Eastern Regional Championships, and a number of teams returning to the league, how does it currently sit in the New England league landscape?
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It exists in the New England league landscape.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post -
Give it a couple more years, at most, and all teams will belong to NEFC, GPS, Bolts , Stars, Aztec, Seacoast, South Shore. Perhaps a few more, Liverpool, AVSC, FCUSA. McSoccer has taken over in Mass. NEP is the new NSL.Comment
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Based on last fall & this past spring, even at the "Elite" level, most NSL teams I saw were no better than town teams (I think some maybe some WERE town teams). The team my kid played for routinely had to resort to playing keep-away to avoid running the score up too much. It didn't really do much to help the kids develop, and if the upcoming season goes like that, I can see a number of them jumping ship to get onto a NEP team.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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It is indeed. But as long as the games are competitive and the scores not lopsided, mission accomplished.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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They don’t have enough teams to generate evenly matched games week in and week out.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
Its time to move on and not waste your time and money on this.Comment
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Quote from the announcement of this new championship league: “The amount of time to travel, missing school, and the high cost of attending multiple competitions is done. This is the future and we are excited to participate.”
First championship weekend is June 13-14, 2020 in Spotsylvania, Virginia. So how does this help “the amount of time to travel, missing school, and the high cost of attending multiple competitions is done. This is the future and we are excited to participate.”???? Making NSL that can barely afford to travel across state lines in New England go all the way down to Virginia when some schools here might be still in session and having final exams and projects?
Talk about giving parents and players something they didn’t want and ask for!Comment
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Most of the teams in NEP were NSL clubs within the last few years. To say it’s more competitive is a stretch. It’s just more sustainable, because it has more players and teams to support its league play.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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NEP has it's share of town teams now too. It's not a stretch to call NEP the new MAPLE. NEP is now everything they said they would not be.Comment
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Maybe in the lower NEP divisions, but the NEP "Premiership" teams I saw in the spring season were light years ahead of the NSL "Elite" teams my kid played against in the fall.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Because most of the players flicked from the NSL to the NEP at all levels. You can’t compare. There are hardly any teams left in NSL. NEP is the new NSL .And NPL is the new NEP. And so on...Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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That makes absolutely no sense. If all the mediocre NSL players suddenly moved to NEP, then how did I see a giant leap in competition? And where did the higher level NEP kids disappear to?Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Depends on the age group... on the girls side, for example, this year's U13s, the top teams from NEFC, SSS, Seacoast, Oakwood have moved to NEGDL (pre-GDA league), top 2 teams from Scorpions, CFC have moved to ECNL and ECNLR (formerly NE NPL) and the top 4 teams from Stars are in ECNL (2) and ECNLR (2). So, beyond U13 (and even starting at U12 with pre-ECNL and pre-DA), NEP loses lots of talent to other leagues.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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There will be a midterm and a final exam on this...……..Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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