I’d like to see scdsl and coast use this time to come together and reform local club soccer in So Cal. Figure out a way to keep teams from long drives and make sure all games are competitively bracketed.
Sounds like the old Presidio and CSL model of 20 years ago. Lower levels on the competitive scale, since there are more teams on those levels, were broken up into local circuits, so a team may play its entire season within a radius of 20 miles or so. At the higher levels, selected through a pyramid of promotion and relegation, teams had to accept that the higher level play comes with the cost of a wider travel area during the season. The systems put together by both of those leagues suffered by pressure to win every game in order to achieve promotion for next season (or at least avoid relegation), player development supposedly suffered, player numbers dropped off with age, and the politics in the placement hearings got silly, especially for teams that moved from one club to another. The result of that was the birth of SCDSL that took out of a lot of CSL teams followed soon after by SDDA operating in parallel with Presidio, replacing and expanding its Premier circuits.