ECNL moving to school year not calendar

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Anonymous wrote:After listening, I heard a strong lean toward Sept 1, that it fixes the trapped player problem at a higher percentage than Aug 1.

Is that because of the reverse trap? Meaning most August kids started earlier and are on the younger side rather than the older side?

Because 8/1 would definitely prevent more kids from being trapped.

Agree that 8/1 would prevent more kids from being trapped. But the best solution I saw was posted on this discussion several pages back - Go to School Year with the age range being 9/1 to 7/31, and have August birthdays sorted by the grade that the kid is in.

How are these guys not understanding the downside of a 9/1 date? With an 8/1 cutoff August born kids who are young for their grade could opt to play up to be aligned with their grade (or not). They would have options. But with a 9/1 cutoff the older August kids don’t have an option. They remain trapped with the grade above their own grade, and even worse than in birth year because their 9/1 to 12/31 classmates are no longer trapped with them. This can't be the intended outcome with a move back to school year. How do we get feedback to ECNL / Club Soccer about the 9/1 to 7/31 approach with August kids playing with their grade?

It also might be our hyper competitive bubble that is the DMV that has more parents of kids with August birthday's holding them back rather than starting on time.

I am now hearing that they are looking at changing the dates to August 1 -July 31. Evidently, there are more August birthdays than other month, and the majority will be trapped.

How did they not look at the data or think of this before making an announcement? It was August 1- July 31 before they made the change...why switch to September 1 ...and not have concrete data to support that change, or why make an announcement if didn't have time to do that? It's just not organized.

Anyways...from what I am hearing..it will most likely change to August 1 cutoff..but won't be sorted until the fall/thanksgiving.

I guess it only affects August birthdays, so not a huge impact, but still those parents won't know the new age group for another 7 months.

I assume you are the parent of an August bday? Next time, you should try reading. It's fundamental.

U.S. Soccer performed an assessment of available data (e.g., 2020 U.S. Census & National Center for Education Statistics) and qualitative feedback and determined that September 1 represents most school districts’ calendars (~68%) across the country.

https://www.calnorth.org/news/us-youth-soccer-us-club-soccer-and-ayso-returning-to-seasonal-year-age-group-formation-in-2026

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Lol the trolls are out and in full force

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I heard it's 7/1

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One of the few details we got from the ECNL podcast is that it was going to be 9/1.
Not 7/1 or 6/1

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Anonymous wrote:One of the few details we got from the ECNL podcast is that it was going to be 9/1.
Not 7/1 or 6/1

ECNL will be 9/1. Aug. parents can hope for an exception, which I do not believe will happen. The best ECNL can do is showcase in GY.

[Anonymous]

What does this mean if your kid is at a grade level higher than the birth year cut off. For example post 9/1 2011 birthday currently in 8th grade but is young enough to play a birth year down now with 2012s becuase of post 9/1 birthday?

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Man, everyone is so hostile to someone who just posted what they heard. It's a forum, isn't that what you're supposed to do? Sheesh.

[Anonymous]

Just don’t post fake shit. It’s dumb and look at the energy it wasted on the reactions people had

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Man, everyone is so hostile to someone who just posted what they heard. It's a forum, isn't that what you're supposed to do? Sheesh.

Because that post is a troll, he deserves the humiliation.

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Anonymous wrote:Just don’t post fake shit. It’s dumb and look at the energy it wasted on the reactions people had

It's no more dumb than 95% of the shit people have already posted.

Plus, how else are we going to get to 1000?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I heard it's 7/1

Nope 12/1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Man, everyone is so hostile to someone who just posted what they heard. It's a forum, isn't that what you're supposed to do? Sheesh.

Have no doubt that many August parents have expressed their frustrations to USYS and USCS. And not just the ones in the states where August 1 is the school cutoff..............

But since this decision was literally just made - if you aren't going to say where the rumor came from (other than "they"), you deserve what you get.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Man, everyone is so hostile to someone who just posted what they heard. It's a forum, isn't that what you're supposed to do? Sheesh.

Have no doubt that many August parents have expressed their frustrations to USYS and USCS. And not just the ones in the states where August 1 is the school cutoff..............

But since this decision was literally just made - if you aren't going to say where the rumor came from (other than "they"), you deserve what you get.

Not the OP, but to be fair, there are still a handful of organizations and leagues that haven't said a single word about the age change. They could be talking about that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Man, everyone is so hostile to someone who just posted what they heard. It's a forum, isn't that what you're supposed to do? Sheesh.

Have no doubt that many August parents have expressed their frustrations to USYS and USCS. And not just the ones in the states where August 1 is the school cutoff..............

But since this decision was literally just made - if you aren't going to say where the rumor came from (other than "they"), you deserve what you get.

Not the OP, but to be fair, there are still a handful of organizations and leagues that haven't said a single word about the age change. They could be talking about that.

Same reaction the BY parents gave when people 'heard' they were switching to SY. Go figure.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Man, everyone is so hostile to someone who just posted what they heard. It's a forum, isn't that what you're supposed to do? Sheesh.

Have no doubt that many August parents have expressed their frustrations to USYS and USCS. And not just the ones in the states where August 1 is the school cutoff..............

But since this decision was literally just made - if you aren't going to say where the rumor came from (other than "they"), you deserve what you get.

Not the OP, but to be fair, there are still a handful of organizations and leagues that haven't said a single word about the age change. They could be talking about that.

Same reaction the BY parents gave when people 'heard' they were switching to SY. Go figure.

Yea but this time theres actually published new age group tables for 26/27 that specifically reference the 9/1 date.