Demise of DA

anothercrazysoccerdad wrote:

NoSpinZone wrote:

abc000 wrote:So you still beat the drum.... “top player must play top league “. My kid has played in all the “top”  leagues with and against all the “top” players. They are all good players.  But guess what? For each one there is another 5 who play on another team or just high school.   I think you may have missed my point with the vehemence of your reaction.... agreed there will be many coaches at a DA or ECNL or whatever it is called next year and nearly none (that you know of anyway) at a LHGCL game. Makes no difference if they are not watching the DA/ECNL game at the exact moment your kid does something great. Much more productive to send email with video and attend a school ID Camp. If the coach is interested in what a player can do for their team and they will come watch a game- even if it is not a DA/ECNL game ! And yes for you snobs out there, that includes D1.

Yes the fees for a Plano team or ECNL team at Sting are the same. My point is parents will choose to stick their kid on the Sting ECNL 2 team and pay that fee to Sting rather than paying Texas Spirit or Fusion or a FC Dallas Team just to see the 4 precious letters on the kids sleeve.  So if nothing else the kid will see great business tactics at play.

As for your characterization of my kids soccer journey and my parenting as a fail that is completely classless and contemptible. The reason I rarely look at or respond to this forum and will refrain from ever doing it again is people like you.  In my personal opinion the girls who are in high school now have been done a huge disservice by the constant merry go round of chasing the next big thing beginning with age pure and ending with the abrupt shutdown of DA. With so many leagues
being touted and all the travel involved you really cannot see this has been for the adults and not the kids?
My kid is multidimensional and we have tried to navigate a path where she can experience all the things she wants to try. The soccer decision were made based on what Was important to her at that time. In hindsight were all the decisions for the best? Maybe, maybe not. But to state it was our failure to predict 2 coaching changes within 6 weeks of the first practice, age pure separating girls who wanted to play together, the constant unknown of what teams would exist and what they would be called is dogmatic of you.

My kid is unusually cognizant of what is going on around her and all the upheaval every year has taken a toll on her. I am so sorry you cannot appreciate my disappointment for her. She may or may not play college.... it is completely up to her. If I had to guess at this moment I would say no. And when she joins another sport, excels in art or music, becomes a leader among her peers, or anything else her heart desires this failure of a parent will cheer her on with vigor and not even think twice about wether or not she plays soccer.

Peace Out

You'll have to excuse BigEgo at the moment.  First his precious DA went away, and now FCD getting plucked of coaches and talent. I'm sure you understand.

With all of these changes, maybe BigErn will have a new club to support, maybe some Sting tassels?

dtk9119 wrote:Hot off the presses this morning...

https://149363092.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/2020-21-Girls-ECNL-Club-Map-as-of-51920.001.jpeg

Where is the 2nd Sting team?

Durian wrote:As far as the girls side. Whats happening with FCD? Why can't they have two ECNL teams? Like AG @ Sting they have plenty of players. Or are they gone with LW?

Deuce wrote:ECNL tweeted this and put on the website today. Includes the 2nd Sting Dallas team on the Texas Conference page ... p15 in the slide deck

(The Northeast Conference was also split up -- creating New England and North Atlantic conferences for next season.)

ECNL Marketing Deck

dtk9119 wrote:

Deuce wrote:ECNL tweeted this and put on the website today. Includes the 2nd Sting Dallas team on the Texas Conference page ... p15 in the slide deck

(The Northeast Conference was also split up -- creating New England and North Atlantic conferences for next season.)

ECNL Marketing Deck

Well, at least they finally made it official. So a 22 game regular season next year? DFW gets 10 local games and only has to travel south 2x. 3 trips to DFW for STX teams but at least its 2 games each trip.

PLAYERONE wrote:Mariscal and Tatu are coaching what ages?   AG still coaches there.  

Deuce wrote:

PLAYERONE wrote:Mariscal and Tatu are coaching what ages?   AG still coaches there.  

Sting posted girls coaches for next season on their social media last night

Tatu and Audrey have the Sting Black ECNL teams. Mariscal has Sting Royal 06 & 07 ECNL. Looks like they pulled up NPL teams and also plugged in some of the new hires to do the ECRL teams.

https://twitter.com/StingSoccerClub/status/1263250489518575616

Deuce wrote:

PLAYERONE wrote:Mariscal and Tatu are coaching what ages?   AG still coaches there.  

Sting posted girls coaches for next season on their social media last night

Tatu and Audrey have the Sting Black ECNL teams. Mariscal has Sting Royal 06 & 07 ECNL. Looks like they pulled up NPL teams and also plugged in some of the new hires to do the ECRL teams.

https://twitter.com/StingSoccerClub/status/1263250489518575616

cenTex wrote:

Deuce wrote:

PLAYERONE wrote:Mariscal and Tatu are coaching what ages?   AG still coaches there.  

Sting posted girls coaches for next season on their social media last night

Tatu and Audrey have the Sting Black ECNL teams. Mariscal has Sting Royal 06 & 07 ECNL. Looks like they pulled up NPL teams and also plugged in some of the new hires to do the ECRL teams.

https://twitter.com/StingSoccerClub/status/1263250489518575616

Is Sting Black the A team and Royal the B team? Or do the just mean different campuses or something like that?

AllTheBluebellsAreBlue wrote:It isn't "A" team and "B" team. Sting Royal is a separate entity within the club. A branch, subsidiary or whatever you want to call it.

Sting Tatu's current 07' ECNL is a mixture of the old Parsons/Glotzbach/Wes Larry teams. No idea where Heinz went. I remember it being a shock they (Heinz) didn't qualify that first year.

They (Parsons) weren't killing anyone in the Lake Highlands D3 spot they had originally earned or the following year in D1. Wes Larry wasn't killing anyone in D1 last year and Tatu's team wasn't either after he took over.

In fact when they did the little "switch-a-roo" to create the "Tatu stronger team" the so called "weaker team" beat them that next weekend.

I'd take the bet that Dan's "Former FC Dallas DA defense" can handle Tatu's team no problem...

AllTheBluebellsAreBlue wrote:It isn't "A" team and "B" team. Sting Royal is a separate entity within the club. A branch, subsidiary or whatever you want to call it.

Sting Tatu's current 07' ECNL is a mixture of the old Parsons/Glotzbach/Wes Larry teams. No idea where Heinz went. I remember it being a shock they (Heinz) didn't qualify that first year.

They (Parsons) weren't killing anyone in the Lake Highlands D3 spot they had originally earned or the following year in D1. Wes Larry wasn't killing anyone in D1 last year and Tatu's team wasn't either after he took over.

In fact when they did the little "switch-a-roo" to create the "Tatu stronger team" the so called "weaker team" beat them that next weekend.

I'd take the bet that Dan's "Former FC Dallas DA defense" can handle Tatu's team no problem...

cenTex wrote:

AllTheBluebellsAreBlue wrote:It isn't "A" team and "B" team. Sting Royal is a separate entity within the club. A branch, subsidiary or whatever you want to call it.

Sting Tatu's current 07' ECNL is a mixture of the old Parsons/Glotzbach/Wes Larry teams. No idea where Heinz went. I remember it being a shock they (Heinz) didn't qualify that first year.

They (Parsons) weren't killing anyone in the Lake Highlands D3 spot they had originally earned or the following year in D1. Wes Larry wasn't killing anyone in D1 last year and Tatu's team wasn't either after he took over.

In fact when they did the little "switch-a-roo" to create the "Tatu stronger team" the so called "weaker team" beat them that next weekend.

I'd take the bet that Dan's "Former FC Dallas DA defense" can handle Tatu's team no problem...

Gotta think last year's FC Dallas DA team would stomp last years Sting ECNL team. They were the best team we played all year.   Did the whole team stay together and move over like a bunch of Lonestar teams did to Sting Austin? If so, Royal will almost certainly be better than Black.

07soccerdad wrote:

cenTex wrote:

AllTheBluebellsAreBlue wrote:It isn't "A" team and "B" team. Sting Royal is a separate entity within the club. A branch, subsidiary or whatever you want to call it.

Sting Tatu's current 07' ECNL is a mixture of the old Parsons/Glotzbach/Wes Larry teams. No idea where Heinz went. I remember it being a shock they (Heinz) didn't qualify that first year.

They (Parsons) weren't killing anyone in the Lake Highlands D3 spot they had originally earned or the following year in D1. Wes Larry wasn't killing anyone in D1 last year and Tatu's team wasn't either after he took over.

In fact when they did the little "switch-a-roo" to create the "Tatu stronger team" the so called "weaker team" beat them that next weekend.

I'd take the bet that Dan's "Former FC Dallas DA defense" can handle Tatu's team no problem...

Gotta think last year's FC Dallas DA team would stomp last years Sting ECNL team. They were the best team we played all year.   Did the whole team stay together and move over like a bunch of Lonestar teams did to Sting Austin? If so, Royal will almost certainly be better than Black.

5 players from the FCD DA team went over.  2 went to Solar.  The rest stayed at FCD.  Not sure why the team broke up though..

AllTheBluebellsAreBlue wrote:No Spin Zone: Those three I think you are talking about will play both 07' and 06' for Sting ECNL.

But they are practicing with a full team already and I talked to a dad who told me they like Dan's coaching style (Why they are following) and he has seen his child grow her IQ and ability leaps and bounds and he isn't worried about the team they build around them.

It all sounded so drama free and they will miss the players that decided to stay.

NoSpinZone wrote:

AllTheBluebellsAreBlue wrote:No Spin Zone: Those three I think you are talking about will play both 07' and 06' for Sting ECNL.

But they are practicing with a full team already and I talked to a dad who told me they like Dan's coaching style (Why they are following) and he has seen his child grow her IQ and ability leaps and bounds and he isn't worried about the team they build around them.

It all sounded so drama free and they will miss the players that decided to stay.

My understanding is 1 ECNL game a day, so will be interesting to see what team gets them most. Can't pull double duty on ECNL weekends(in same day).

AllTheBluebellsAreBlue wrote:Checkpoint Charlie: I'm only saying that based off the fact that my 07' is on a lowly, unexciting team that has played LH for three years and our team has beat both Tatu/Larry in a Labor Day Tournsment and Glotsbach we have beat/tied a few times.

I cannot speak to the talent they may have picked up last year when they became ECNL.

But I can say my DD has made their best forward cry on a few occasions. And that girl is great.

So my opinion comes based off of thinking real DA girls could easily shut that down.

I have high opinions about the Sting 07's. They have many teams fielding great girls.