Ok, I guess I'm a moron. My understanding was that the NL, or ECNL was formed for girls as kind of the feminine equivalent ot the USSF Academy program. Why would the boys need to do that?

Seems like there are two models going on. USYSA and USSF Academy.

USYSA involves ODP, State Cup, Region league play, Regions and Nationals.

So what is this thing they'e created thats interfering with State Cup? Is this kind of a US CLub soccer thing?