Leaving ECNL for a moment, SCYSA is the only USYSA state association in Region 3 who decides their state champions (representatives to the regionals) before Christmas. All of the others play their state cups in the spring. I took a team to regionals in 2008 and we didn't know the other teams from the other states in our age group until late May. And in at least five of those states high school soccer is played in the spring (Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Oklahoma, Tennessee). I'll bet they have some real conflicts between club and high school in those states.
I know SCYSA would love to see high soccer moved to the fall in SC so they could move their season to the spring. Then their state champions wouldn't be going to the regionals 6 months after completing their season and playing against other state champions who just finished theirs. But we all know that isn't going to happen because it would conflict with the king of sports in SC, gridiron football.
