ECNL moving to school year not calendar

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Anonymous wrote:ECNL has always been 1 game per day, not weekend.

Meaning players can’t play in the ECNL game and RL game against the same club.

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After the team formation, I don't see why ECNL does not allow clubs to move Q3/Q4 players around to start the transition. Only BY parents are against it and try to use US Soccer with no registration change to prove their point.

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BY is dead. ECNL is changing next year. But wont announce until after tryouts.

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This forum is SO good at rumors. I love it.

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Our club is switching from ECNL to GA and they had a town hall a few weeks ago. The commissioner of GA was there and said as of right now they do not plan to switch to SY.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our club is switching from ECNL to GA and they had a town hall a few weeks ago. The commissioner of GA was there and said as of right now they do not plan to switch to SY.

They are adding biobanding.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our club is switching from ECNL to GA and they had a town hall a few weeks ago. The commissioner of GA was there and said as of right now they do not plan to switch to SY.

They are adding biobanding.

False! The commissioner is not going to tell some random club their plan without announcing it to everyone.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our club is switching from ECNL to GA and they had a town hall a few weeks ago. The commissioner of GA was there and said as of right now they do not plan to switch to SY.

They are adding biobanding.

False! The commissioner is not going to tell some random club their plan without announcing it to everyone.

I’m not the biobanding person. But the commissioner did say they did not plan to switching to SY.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our club is switching from ECNL to GA and they had a town hall a few weeks ago. The commissioner of GA was there and said as of right now they do not plan to switch to SY.

They are adding biobanding.

False! The commissioner is not going to tell some random club their plan without announcing it to everyone.

Good luck keeping teams without a youth pipeline. You will miss Q4 players who would have to jump an age group

I’m not the biobanding person. But the commissioner did say they did not plan to switching to SY.

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Anonymous wrote:Our club is switching from ECNL to GA and they had a town hall a few weeks ago. The commissioner of GA was there and said as of right now they do not plan to switch to SY.

They are adding biobanding.

False! The commissioner is not going to tell some random club their plan without announcing it to everyone.

Good luck keeping teams without a youth pipeline. You will miss Q4 players who would have to jump an age group

I’m not the biobanding person. But the commissioner did say they did not plan to switching to SY.

Not my circus not my monkeys.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After the team formation, I don't see why ECNL does not allow clubs to move Q3/Q4 players around to start the transition. Only BY parents are against it and try to use US Soccer with no registration change to prove their point.

You mean SeptQ4 ... Maybe flexibility will still be given but Jul-Aug currently remains on the younger side of things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our club is switching from ECNL to GA and they had a town hall a few weeks ago. The commissioner of GA was there and said as of right now they do not plan to switch to SY.

Interesting…

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Anonymous wrote:Why is MLS NEXT adding Quality of Play rankings specifically to U13 and U14?
There are just over 5,600 U13 and U14 players registered in MLS NEXT, more than 1/3 of the organization’s 16,000 players across the U.S. and Canada. They are the two most malleable age groups.

Robles referenced the book, "Outliers," in which author Malcom Gladwell tracked how American hockey players born in the first three months of the year were more likely to go pro.

They had been bigger and stronger when they were younger, and thus placed into a top-level national pipeline because they were fortunate enough to be born in January, February or March.

"If you're born in January, as opposed to someone that's born in December in the same year, it’s 10% of muscle development,” Robles said. “You're not even sure which direction that's going. We have to find ways to be able to mitigate that."

Because that is the last year before they enter “the sprint” of the academy….duh.

How are so many of you obsessed with the pathway but so obtuse about it too?

Who's obtuse? This is literally what the technical director for MLSN stated, it's his quote.

link?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2025/04/02/mls-next-quality-of-play-rankings-explainer/82772806007/

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Dude…you’re saying one thing, wondering another, and posting a quote of a third…

I think you’re invested in an outcome, not the process or the facts.

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Anonymous wrote:Remember folks this is an anonymous message board! Check out MLSN newest post on Instagram, they will rank their U-13/14's based on quality of play, pretty cool program that every club/league should take part in eventually. Looks like the Q4's who have developed tactically because of their lack of size will be advantaged under this new ranking system.


Can you post a link or screenshot? I couldn't find this. Thx!

MLSN will do whatever they want. They will not be peer pressured into 9/1. Glad they are thinking outside the box.

Wrong. They will do whatever can bring in more money. The scam "MLSN2" is a good indication. The moment they rebarnd EA into MLS2 to bundle with MLS, so they can scam more money, we know they will go to SY.

Sorry BY hopeful, your days are counted.

If MLSN was changing, don’t you think USSF would have just made a change vs split the baby with the “choose your own adventure” decision?

It was a diplomatic decision and I think it's why we haven't seen any information that was promised from USSF. They didn't want to get into another mess with mandating registration, the US is a massive country, it's why we have state govt vs fed govt, state govt (should) know what works for their constituents better than the DC.

Your diplomatic answer is unclear as to what you’re trying to say. Do you disagree or agree with PP?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:ECNL deal with USSF is they will not make any changes until their new league policy changes are released in July. But ECNL is working on rules in place for Q3/4 to play down next season. No wasted year if that’s how you look at it. Players will not be required to play down.

ECNL has to wait until everyone’s tryout window time is over.

Be ready it’s coming.

BY advocates will be going into meltdown mode then. They thought they had one more year.

You’re an idiot. Why do you keep the “us vs them” thing going? The kids are all on the same teams and you’re not on it…your kid is. Are you so vicariously resentful of other kids success that you blame your kid for the birth month 9 months after you conceived? Get a grip.