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Anonymous
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Its going to be really hard on tournaments to have MLSN2 on BY and Everyone else on SY.
Seems they need to be on one or the other. |
Anonymous
As a general matter, a player should play up if they (and the parents) want to play up. The club shouldn't force someone to play up. If they try it, can always go elsewhere. |
Anonymous
Not necessarily. You just would have some teams playing up in the tournaments -- which, checks notes, already happens under BY. |
Anonymous
I think MLSN2 will be SY so shouldn’t be a problem |
Anonymous
There are a ton of issues with having 2 different registrations. I haven't seen anything that convinces me that it would be beneficial for anyone to stay BY other than to say you align with international standards. |
Anonymous
| Most MLSN/GA/ECNL clubs all play within their own conference. Rarely playing outside tournaments. With all the new 2nd leagues being added it will be the same. MLSN/MLSN2 will just play amongst themselves. They also allow biobanding which they could do for tournaments outside their own league. |
Anonymous
On one of the ECNL podcast they had their technical director on, who is from the UK(9/1 cutoff) and he said with the premier league teams they will have a pretty much even split between older and younger kids, so international game play isn't really an issue because they have plenty of reserves. It promotes a culture of playing "up", but they never had to deal with registration changes as far as I know, so there isn't a stigma attached to Q4 kids. |
Anonymous
We actually would potentially limit the impact of RAE otherwise we're just betting the increased participation makes up for it. |
Anonymous
It MAY benefit players within the current system, if clubs go crazy and force kids off teams for sept/Q4 players. It would give them options. |
Anonymous
That's a great point but I'm not sure anyone wants to potentially take a hit to their bottom dollar to help with RAE. These will be business decisions. |
Anonymous
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Just to catch everyone up
US club/USYS, AYSO is going SY in 26/27 (9/1-8/31). We have not received direction from US soccer GA/MLSN, etc has not said anything Do you still think we can get to 1000 pages? What else is there to discuss |
Anonymous
ECNL hasn't said anything specifically and when they do, 1000 is imminent. |
Anonymous
5K if MLSN goes |
Anonymous
If US Soccer sends out transitional guidance that recommends doing SY teams at any point in 25/26 (even if it's limited) - we will go from 757 to 1000 within a week. |
Anonymous
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• U.S. Soccer will build resources and tools to support members.
There will be webinars, training, and feedback forums for members and leagues to support their decision-making and participants with navigating a change. U.S. Soccer will maintain a website that hosts the considerations, best practices, and tracks the decisions member organizations / leagues make over time. |