ECNL moving to school year not calendar

[Anonymous]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DAYnlAAJI7J/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It will be harder to get the rest of youth soccer on board for grad year.

Grad year benefits ECNL a lot and aligns better with the college recruiting. They will go ahead regardless of the rest of the youth soccer. I heard ECNL will change for 25/26 and rest will change 26/27

All US Club soccer teams will use Aug 1.
ECNL and GA will go grad year as that better aligns with college recruiting. This will allow for the majority of clubs to be closely aligned where it won’t effect to much for team registration.

Will be Fall 25 maybe other leagues will go 26/27 but the majority will jump right to it.

Explain exactly how it helps college recruiting?
Several people keep saying it helps, but no one as a college recruiter has said how

[Anonymous]

The quality of your kids performance will go up if they change only ECNL to SY

Your kid will start to train more, harder, better and with more consistency.

You will see vast improvements in their game performance and potential.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It will be harder to get the rest of youth soccer on board for grad year.

Grad year benefits ECNL a lot and aligns better with the college recruiting. They will go ahead regardless of the rest of the youth soccer. I heard ECNL will change for 25/26 and rest will change 26/27

All US Club soccer teams will use Aug 1.
ECNL and GA will go grad year as that better aligns with college recruiting. This will allow for the majority of clubs to be closely aligned where it won’t effect to much for team registration.

Will be Fall 25 maybe other leagues will go 26/27 but the majority will jump right to it.

Explain exactly how it helps college recruiting?
Several people keep saying it helps, but no one as a college recruiter has said how

Instead of watching two games for graduate 202X, they only need to watch one game and multiply it by 100 for a college coach. It is a tremendous less workload for a recruit job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The quality of your kids performance will go up if they change only ECNL to SY

Your kid will start to train more, harder, better and with more consistency.

You will see vast improvements in their game performance and potential.

Well said. Once that relative age effect benefits the kids born later in the year, their motivation to train harder is going to go up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.instagram.com/p/DAYnlAAJI7J/

That’s not really breaking news. It’s exactly what they said on the podcast - the decision will be made mid to late October

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It will be harder to get the rest of youth soccer on board for grad year.

Grad year benefits ECNL a lot and aligns better with the college recruiting. They will go ahead regardless of the rest of the youth soccer. I heard ECNL will change for 25/26 and rest will change 26/27

All US Club soccer teams will use Aug 1.
ECNL and GA will go grad year as that better aligns with college recruiting. This will allow for the majority of clubs to be closely aligned where it won’t effect to much for team registration.

Will be Fall 25 maybe other leagues will go 26/27 but the majority will jump right to it.

Explain exactly how it helps college recruiting?
Several people keep saying it helps, but no one as a college recruiter has said how

See page 62 where college recruiter says helps with handling trapped players.

[Anonymous]

I cannot believe this threat is still going so strong off rumors and clickbait.

What are you SY truthers going to do when there is no announcement or change in October, November or December?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.instagram.com/p/DAYnlAAJI7J/

That’s not really breaking news. It’s exactly what they said on the podcast - the decision will be made mid to late October

It’s definately not happening for Fall 2025…that ship sailed last year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The quality of your kids performance will go up if they change only ECNL to SY

Your kid will start to train more, harder, better and with more consistency.

You will see vast improvements in their game performance and potential.

Well said. Once that relative age effect benefits the kids born later in the year, their motivation to train harder is going to go up.

I believe the PP was being cynical and sarcastic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.instagram.com/p/DAYnlAAJI7J/

That’s not really breaking news. It’s exactly what they said on the podcast - the decision will be made mid to late October

It’s definately not happening for Fall 2025…that ship sailed last year.

In 6 weeks, it will be settled. My bet is on switching to GY.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The quality of your kids performance will go up if they change only ECNL to SY

Your kid will start to train more, harder, better and with more consistency.

You will see vast improvements in their game performance and potential.

Well said. Once that relative age effect benefits the kids born later in the year, their motivation to train harder is going to go up.

And Q1 players will have to step up to maintain their slots on top teams. Will be an interesting short term shuffle.

[Anonymous]

The only good solution would be to have all schools change their enrollments to birth year instead of various cutoffs. ECNL thinks they control everything, so get to it.

[Anonymous]

This is 69 pages of red herring

Nothing said here is going to make the quality of individual player development better.

College coaches and recruiters are contacted by interested candidates or they find easily visible cream of the crop.
They know players graduation year and availability date for who they're interested in and want.

Your boot the ball ECNL player isn't getting on Rutgers squad ahead of the international transfer from Portugal with technical skills.
Regardless of ECNL cutoff month.
Nor ahead of the players from MLS Next

As someone already said, if your trapped player isn't shining today against his age group he ain't shining tomorrow by switching to SY.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is 69 pages of red herring

Nothing said here is going to make the quality of individual player development better.

College coaches and recruiters are contacted by interested candidates or they find easily visible cream of the crop.
They know players graduation year and availability date for who they're interested in and want.

Your boot the ball ECNL player isn't getting on Rutgers squad ahead of the international transfer from Portugal with technical skills.
Regardless of ECNL cutoff month.
Nor ahead of the players from MLS Next

As someone already said, if your trapped player isn't shining today against his age group he ain't shining tomorrow by switching to SY.

100% full agreement that you need the be "the guy" on your team to have a D1/pro chance...most of those kids are the best player on every team they play on (while already playing up a lot of the time). The foreign talent is also a huge hurdle that we all know about.

But adults can still talk about the ramifications a potential big change in the league their child is playing in. I think you probably need to take a deep breath and enjoy your Friday my guy. This forum is something you have to click on to enter. My suggestion is maybe don't do that if it bothers you.