Your post prompted me to see how the San Diego ECNL teams were doing in the standings. Not impressed at all. Most age groups for Rebels and Sharks are losing big. After Surf lost ECNL I thought that Sharks might have been able to sway some top B team players to come over, but I heard Surf is keeping them with promises of playing on the DA team.
Rebels on the other hand, it is their first year so I’ll have to cut them some slack. Yet I heard that Albion with all its faults was still able to sway a few of Rebels top players to come over to DA. I would have thought that there would have been a migration back to the South Bay from Surf and other clubs north of downtown for local girls that wanted to play close to home.
I wonder what ECNL will do if the only 2 ECNL clubs in San Diego continue to lose? I wonder if it would have been better to have one central San Diego ECNL club? Despite ECNL having a great platform to showcase players to be recruited, at some point naive parents get sick of losing.