The ECNL is only in year 4, so I guess your daughter played the first couple of years. Again, our experience has been great over the past 4 years. We still have much too small a sample to determine of this was a good move for CESA.
Yes, CESA is a small market team...even if they pull from the entire state of SC. Look at the numbers the GA and NC clubs pull from, and its not even close population wise. I'm sure there are some other small market clubs, but they are probably still bigger than CESA.
Like I said in my previous post, there is a huge difference in being competitive in games vs. winning each game. Only been a couple of games over the past 4 years where I could say we weren't competitive in either Premier or ECNL leagues. Lets take a look at the CESA teams after year 10 in ECNL and then we will have enough data points to make an informed decision on if this was a good move or not.