Heaven knows I'm not the one to speak for Harry, but if you look at what he previously posted it makes sense for the club (club perspective, not necessarily player perspective) to use whatever legal/ethical ways to hold on to as many USYS state championship qualifications for Regionals through this year. The club doesn't want to host the Southern Regionals with none of its girls' teams in attendance. (Not to mention what it would be saying to USYS about the tournament it was hosting... "Thanks for letting us host your tournament, but we don't believe in it anyway and have gone ECNL?")
That said, if the club wants to evolve to become truly capable of offering its members an option or choice as to which model (high level ECNL or high level USYS), then after Regionals it would "separate" the ECNL and top non-ECNL rosters with a goal of getting those top non-ECNL teams into R3PLE or above.
Given this year's SC state cup results, if CESA separates the rosters for next year the club would not have teams in ECNL and R3PLE. They would be ECNL and State League (regardless of the name of the team). Hopefully (that's a CESA-only perspective), the seperate top non-ECNL teams would find their ways into R3PLE at next year's state cup... without "borrowing" from the ECNL roster.
Last edited by DeltaDog; 05/24/12 04:42 PM.