ECNL moving to school year not calendar

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our tryouts aren't until June!

curios.do states have rules about all clubs must tryout in a certain month? what state are you in? I know florida starts May 1 for everyone so I figure it's a rule somewhere???

[Anonymous]

Iowa

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s insane how many meetings they have about something so simple…next year, if you are born between 9/1 and 8/31, you play soccer with this assigned age group that most likely correlates to your grade. Done. Now that so many areas of the country have hosted tryouts and filled rosters, ECNL is not dropping that bomb. It seemed so simple…how do all
these players have to wait well over a year when a lot of them won’t be playing on the same team.

no. my daughters birthday is in August and our schools start mid August, she will not be able to play with her grade

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Iowa

Where is that?

[Anonymous]

Minnesota tryouts are late July.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Iowa

Where is that?

Iowa is basically South Minnesota.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our tryouts aren't until June!

curios.do states have rules about all clubs must tryout in a certain month? what state are you in? I know florida starts May 1 for everyone so I figure it's a rule somewhere???

Wisconsin as a state wide tryout period that has to be followed, including a state wide "recruiting" time as well.

But ECNL and GA do not have to follow it, just USYS clubs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whatever cutoff of SY or BY is used, MLSN and MLSN2 will have the same cutoff of 1/1 or 9/1. At our club our 2nd teams just switched to MLSN2 from ECNL and the big selling points were ease of transition of players between teams and the MLSN2 teams playing in the same showcases as MLSN. There is simply no scenario if which MLSN2 teams will be forced to play up an age division in showcases and have no Jan to Aug birthdays while MLSN P2P and Academies will.

BY parents desperately pray P2P MLSN will stay in BY with all kinds of mental gymnastics. P2P MLSN is a business in the name of youth soccer. Their No. 1 goal is to make money.

[Anonymous]

Pretty clear my sons MLSN2 team is going SY. Anyone whos watched practice would understand why certain kids are now showing up as regulars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not happening. My kids ecnl team has 7 out of 17 trapped players. Nice thought, but no way that’s happening.

All they need to do is allow it, not force it, and then the clubs can handle the numbers as they see fit. Your club may simply elect not to move kids for the showcase if they can't figure it out, but others would.

Exactly. Let the clubs decide what they want to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s insane how many meetings they have about something so simple…next year, if you are born between 9/1 and 8/31, you play soccer with this assigned age group that most likely correlates to your grade. Done. Now that so many areas of the country have hosted tryouts and filled rosters, ECNL is not dropping that bomb. It seemed so simple…how do all
these players have to wait well over a year when a lot of them won’t be playing on the same team.

This is correct 💯

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not happening. My kids ecnl team has 7 out of 17 trapped players. Nice thought, but no way that’s happening.

All they need to do is allow it, not force it, and then the clubs can handle the numbers as they see fit. Your club may simply elect not to move kids for the showcase if they can't figure it out, but others would.

Exactly. Let the clubs decide what they want to do.

ECNL can extend the current 8th-grade trap year players' exception to all age groups and leave it to the clubs to decide if they want to transit or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pretty clear my sons MLSN2 team is going SY. Anyone whos watched practice would understand why certain kids are now showing up as regulars.

I have seen the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not happening. My kids ecnl team has 7 out of 17 trapped players. Nice thought, but no way that’s happening.

All they need to do is allow it, not force it, and then the clubs can handle the numbers as they see fit. Your club may simply elect not to move kids for the showcase if they can't figure it out, but others would.

Exactly. Let the clubs decide what they want to do.

ECNL can extend the current 8th-grade trap year players' exception to all age groups and leave it to the clubs to decide if they want to transit or not.

Agree. It’s such a simple solution. It would also be optional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pretty clear my sons MLSN2 team is going SY. Anyone whos watched practice would understand why certain kids are now showing up as regulars.

What do you mean “showing up as regulars”.