ECNL moving to school year not calendar

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it’s happening…

Agreed, it will probably just be swept under the rug

I was being sarcastic…the BY crowd is really trying to hang on…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it’s happening…

Agreed, it will probably just be swept under the rug

I was being sarcastic…the BY crowd is really trying to hang on…

Me too....I'm bored

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems like now would be the time to update everyone on the decision and pathway to new registration date.

💯

[Anonymous]

You should text Christian and let him know

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You should text Christian and let him know

?

[Anonymous]

Podcast announcement tomorrow?

[Anonymous]

Yeah…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The podcast only had one episode in February, will we get three in March then? HAHA

The podcast is hot garbage. It’s legit a couple of “two smart by half” bigwigs that belch out their happy hour pontifications and opinions. And congratulate each other on how brilliant they are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Listening to previous podcasts from ECNL and in January they had Mike Cullina on to discuss the history of the BY/SY registration, some interesting tidbits. At one point he was talking about the benefit of aligning club 9/1 registration with the YNT. Could you imagine if that happened?

It appears that is what England does, if you look at their U-15 roster the average age is 14.5 yrs old

But what does North Korea do?

Kidding…sort of.

People only go back as far as they want to justify their point. SY was the norm before US soccer took off in 99, that doesn’t mean it caused the launch.

It seems to me Gen X and Millenials are entering their full “in my day” and “it worked for me, so it will work for my kid” period of parenting.

Not advocating for BY, SY is fine by me. But the arguments supporting SY into tradition, prior results, participation, etc are all without foundation. They FEEL and SOUND right, but it’s all based on a limiting the window to fit the argument.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The podcast only had one episode in February, will we get three in March then? HAHA

They took the one with the US Soccer reps off the platform. I listened to it originally and then I went back to listen again and it was gone. Kind weird.

What was the subject of that specific podcast?

I am trying to remember some of the topics, but I am drawing a blank. I know it was the USYNT sporting director Matt Crocker and I came away thinking that youth soccer is going to be more aligned than what people think. Matt Crocker the director of football operations at Southhampton.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/4655857/2023/09/14/biobanding-late-maturing-footballers/

“Rationally, it didn’t add up. How could this skilful and confident kid not be able to perform in games? So we had to decide what to do with him. Luckily, we had a really good academy director in Matt Crocker (now sporting director of U.S. Soccer) and with conversations with him, Alex and his parents — his mum was a physio and his dad, Mark, was an ex-player — we made the decision to keep Alex at the club but hold him back a year and stay in the under-14s. He then broke into the first team when he was 16. It was crazy, but it was a lightbulb moment in my head as a fledgling performance guy in the industry.”

Biobanding, to put it frankly, is a legal way to rob one player roster position from his own age group, steal time from other players in their own team. If you cannot play in your own age group, there is always a B team.

Its too bad your "opinion" has no bearing on....anything

I don't give a f**k on you and your shorty kid. My kid is in ECNL. We don't have this stupid rule.

ECNL might not, but many ECNL clubs started experimenting with biobanding on the boys side a few years ago. The parent pushback was intense! And ECNL being led by practitioners of windsock strategy pushed back hard on the clubs.

Biobanding helps develop pros, but it doesn’t help place college athletes. ECNL will ship anyone regardless of talent to the college ranks, that’s their mission. Most of the kids don’t play more than 2 years, but they got to say they were a college athlete. Imagine if ECNL had skin in the game after collegiate placement….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems like now would be the time to update everyone on the decision and pathway to new registration date.

We're supposed to be getting these announcements tomorrow (March 5)

Who is we? Leagues? Clubs? Parents?

A statement confirming what happened at the AGM (and perhaps other guidance) should be published tomorrow, as I understand.

https://www.usyouthsoccer.org/news/2024/12/20/organizational-members-statement-on-age-group-formation-decision/

We as in “rec?” 🤣 USYS, gtfoh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it’s happening…

Agreed, it will probably just be swept under the rug

I was being sarcastic…the BY crowd is really trying to hang on…

🙄

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Listening to previous podcasts from ECNL and in January they had Mike Cullina on to discuss the history of the BY/SY registration, some interesting tidbits. At one point he was talking about the benefit of aligning club 9/1 registration with the YNT. Could you imagine if that happened?

It appears that is what England does, if you look at their U-15 roster the average age is 14.5 yrs old

But what does North Korea do?

Kidding…sort of.

People only go back as far as they want to justify their point. SY was the norm before US soccer took off in 99, that doesn’t mean it caused the launch.

It seems to me Gen X and Millenials are entering their full “in my day” and “it worked for me, so it will work for my kid” period of parenting.

Not advocating for BY, SY is fine by me. But the arguments supporting SY into tradition, prior results, participation, etc are all without foundation. They FEEL and SOUND right, but it’s all based on a limiting the window to fit the argument.

There is plenty of data to back it up and links to the literature have been posted here. Let me guess you don’t actually read anything, you just throw up straw men. Get out of here

[Anonymous]

If we don’t get an announcement today, it ain’t happening anymore

[Anonymous]

It’s Wednesday…