Yeah those numbers will continue to go down, Beach has 13 of the 35, 03's on their roster. Galaxy SD has 9 of the 35. Which mean the other 4 have 12 03's combined. I think that is what the numbers will look like, 3 or 4 03's per team at the most.
I actually think that the DA's decision to make 03 a DA Pilot and sanction the 03's as their own age group is going to make things even worse here in SoCal. I have heard that an entire Simi Valley Eclipse 03 Coast Premier team is moving to LA Premier DA. Somehow poaching an entire team from another club is the solution? I think that a lot of these clubs will try to move their 02 DPL players to DA02/03, push their 03 DA players to 03 pilot and promote from within to 02 DPL. Further watering down, the SCDSL, CSL, Discovery, ECNL whatever? But will the 02 DPL players be willing to move to full time DA?
What really sucks is 10-12 years ago we had a nice little soccer pyramid here in SoCal, it was Coast Soccer League, and if you won you moved up, all the way to Premier, and Premier was where it was at. Small clubs could compete, travel was less onerous. There was enough competition in SoCal for this too succeed. Instead we made SCDSL, ECNL, USSDA and now, we have to travel to god knows where to play games, North Carolina, Phoenix, Florida, etc... when we could have just stayed here. All this travel is stupid, to watch a bunch of kids play kickball.