Okay -- I think there are two subjects -- one which is college visibility and the other which is player development. The above seems to be about player development.
There are three sub-regions within RIIIPL; the East, the Central, and the West.
On the girls side, RIIIPL-West is clearly dominant. RIIIPL-Central is in my opinion the weakest, and RIIIPL-East is in the middle. But again, RIIIPL-West is much, much stronger than either.
If you were making the argument that CESA should travel to Texas and schedule more scrimmages/games against Texas and Oklahoma teams, then I'd agree if the parents can afford it. In fact, I know of attempts to do just that (but have seen little in the way of fruition.) If you want to fly farther, then flying out to southern California will also get you some of the best competition in the country.
But WAGS and CASL are relatively ineffective ways to get that level of competition. The spring/summer Las Vegas and Houston tournaments are better; but it's a lot of money for a couple of games. If you're focused on player development on the girls side, it's my opinion that you should do what CESA actually does -- play at home but play younger boys teams and for a different flavor schedule a lot of games with Atlanta teams.
The Women's U20 National team at Clemson the other day was playing a younger (U16) CESA boys team -- so I'm pretty sure that the strategy CESA is using isn't completely stupid.
