ECNL moving to school year not calendar

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Anonymous wrote:Any idea what mlsnext’s main objection in moving to SY is? It’s going to be so difficult to stay BY when all of the u8-u12 ages are moving to SY. Obviously the English clubs with a 9/1 cutoff are able to compete internationally. SY also easier for college recruiting which is where the majority of boys playing mls academy or mlsnext will end up. Is it just that they don’t want to be told what to do?

If you go back a few hundred pages the BY crazies claim that MLSN will stay BY because we all know the best players are born earlier in the calendar year….and not because of anything else besides hard work and dedication!

SY parents should petition the Vatican, UN, IOC, and FIFA to do away with the Gregorian calendar.

You have to admit that a system with different age cutoffs is going to be an issue. I don’t care 1/1 or 9/1, but us soccer should have made a decision and done something consistent. Towns offering rec soccer can obviously do whatever they want (and they do go by GY in my town) but competitive soccer should be consistent.

Why? Who cares if there are two different leagues / systems - who don't play each other?

This is why leagues don't want to go back to SY. It doesn't matter what you do somone won't like how SY is implemented. This is because a single cutoff date doesn't work for everyone.

It's either have everyone equally complain about "trapped players" with BY or have some SY people complain and others not.

What will happen next is some leagues will allow accommodation for the small remaining number of trapped players to play down. Then the loophole will get exploited and SY people will complain about that. There's no way to win.

Wait until NCAA blows up and youth soccer becomes more about going pro and there's a big push to go back to BY again because they can't compete internationally with SY.

100% correct unfortunately the squeaky wheels just won't shutup about SY likely because they see it as some advantage for their kid. Newsflash if your needs to play down to be a superstar your kid isn't that good. If they're a superstar they'll be playing up and starting.

You can't reason with SY people because they don't understand or don't care about the reasons leagues switch to BY before.

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Anonymous wrote:Any idea what mlsnext’s main objection in moving to SY is? It’s going to be so difficult to stay BY when all of the u8-u12 ages are moving to SY. Obviously the English clubs with a 9/1 cutoff are able to compete internationally. SY also easier for college recruiting which is where the majority of boys playing mls academy or mlsnext will end up. Is it just that they don’t want to be told what to do?

If you go back a few hundred pages the BY crazies claim that MLSN will stay BY because we all know the best players are born earlier in the calendar year….and not because of anything else besides hard work and dedication!

SY parents should petition the Vatican, UN, IOC, and FIFA to do away with the Gregorian calendar.

You have to admit that a system with different age cutoffs is going to be an issue. I don’t care 1/1 or 9/1, but us soccer should have made a decision and done something consistent. Towns offering rec soccer can obviously do whatever they want (and they do go by GY in my town) but competitive soccer should be consistent.

Why? Who cares if there are two different leagues / systems - who don't play each other?

This is why leagues don't want to go back to SY. It doesn't matter what you do somone won't like how SY is implemented. This is because a single cutoff date doesn't work for everyone.

It's either have everyone equally complain about "trapped players" with BY or have some SY people complain and others not.

What will happen next is some leagues will allow accommodation for the small remaining number of trapped players to play down. Then the loophole will get exploited and SY people will complain about that. There's no way to win.

Wait until NCAA blows up and youth soccer becomes more about going pro and there's a big push to go back to BY again because they can't compete internationally with SY.

100% correct unfortunately the squeaky wheels just won't shutup about SY likely because they see it as some advantage for their kid. Newsflash if your needs to play down to be a superstar your kid isn't that good. If they're a superstar they'll be playing up and starting.

You can't reason with SY people because they don't understand or don't care about the reasons leagues switch to BY before.

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Anonymous wrote:Any idea what mlsnext’s main objection in moving to SY is? It’s going to be so difficult to stay BY when all of the u8-u12 ages are moving to SY. Obviously the English clubs with a 9/1 cutoff are able to compete internationally. SY also easier for college recruiting which is where the majority of boys playing mls academy or mlsnext will end up. Is it just that they don’t want to be told what to do?

If you go back a few hundred pages the BY crazies claim that MLSN will stay BY because we all know the best players are born earlier in the calendar year….and not because of anything else besides hard work and dedication!

SY parents should petition the Vatican, UN, IOC, and FIFA to do away with the Gregorian calendar.

You have to admit that a system with different age cutoffs is going to be an issue. I don’t care 1/1 or 9/1, but us soccer should have made a decision and done something consistent. Towns offering rec soccer can obviously do whatever they want (and they do go by GY in my town) but competitive soccer should be consistent.

Why? Who cares if there are two different leagues / systems - who don't play each other?

This is why leagues don't want to go back to SY. It doesn't matter what you do somone won't like how SY is implemented. This is because a single cutoff date doesn't work for everyone.

It's either have everyone equally complain about "trapped players" with BY or have some SY people complain and others not.

What will happen next is some leagues will allow accommodation for the small remaining number of trapped players to play down. Then the loophole will get exploited and SY people will complain about that. There's no way to win.

Wait until NCAA blows up and youth soccer becomes more about going pro and there's a big push to go back to BY again because they can't compete internationally with SY.

100% correct unfortunately the squeaky wheels just won't shutup about SY likely because they see it as some advantage for their kid. Newsflash if your needs to play down to be a superstar your kid isn't that good. If they're a superstar they'll be playing up and starting.

You can't reason with SY people because they don't understand or don't care about the reasons leagues switch to BY before.

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Anonymous wrote:Any idea what mlsnext’s main objection in moving to SY is? It’s going to be so difficult to stay BY when all of the u8-u12 ages are moving to SY. Obviously the English clubs with a 9/1 cutoff are able to compete internationally. SY also easier for college recruiting which is where the majority of boys playing mls academy or mlsnext will end up. Is it just that they don’t want to be told what to do?

If you go back a few hundred pages the BY crazies claim that MLSN will stay BY because we all know the best players are born earlier in the calendar year….and not because of anything else besides hard work and dedication!

SY parents should petition the Vatican, UN, IOC, and FIFA to do away with the Gregorian calendar.

You have to admit that a system with different age cutoffs is going to be an issue. I don’t care 1/1 or 9/1, but us soccer should have made a decision and done something consistent. Towns offering rec soccer can obviously do whatever they want (and they do go by GY in my town) but competitive soccer should be consistent.

Why? Who cares if there are two different leagues / systems - who don't play each other?

This is why leagues don't want to go back to SY. It doesn't matter what you do somone won't like how SY is implemented. This is because a single cutoff date doesn't work for everyone.

It's either have everyone equally complain about "trapped players" with BY or have some SY people complain and others not.

What will happen next is some leagues will allow accommodation for the small remaining number of trapped players to play down. Then the loophole will get exploited and SY people will complain about that. There's no way to win.

Wait until NCAA blows up and youth soccer becomes more about going pro and there's a big push to go back to BY again because they can't compete internationally with SY.

100% correct unfortunately the squeaky wheels just won't shutup about SY likely because they see it as some advantage for their kid. Newsflash if your needs to play down to be a superstar your kid isn't that good. If they're a superstar they'll be playing up and starting.

You can't reason with SY people because they don't understand or don't care about the reasons leagues switch to BY before.

This is great. Can you remind me again what the "reason leagues switch[ed] to BY before"? I can't remember.

Also, who is "playing down" in a SY format? Everyone is in the same school grade..............

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Anonymous wrote:Any idea what mlsnext’s main objection in moving to SY is? It’s going to be so difficult to stay BY when all of the u8-u12 ages are moving to SY. Obviously the English clubs with a 9/1 cutoff are able to compete internationally. SY also easier for college recruiting which is where the majority of boys playing mls academy or mlsnext will end up. Is it just that they don’t want to be told what to do?

If you go back a few hundred pages the BY crazies claim that MLSN will stay BY because we all know the best players are born earlier in the calendar year….and not because of anything else besides hard work and dedication!

SY parents should petition the Vatican, UN, IOC, and FIFA to do away with the Gregorian calendar.

You have to admit that a system with different age cutoffs is going to be an issue. I don’t care 1/1 or 9/1, but us soccer should have made a decision and done something consistent. Towns offering rec soccer can obviously do whatever they want (and they do go by GY in my town) but competitive soccer should be consistent.

Why? Who cares if there are two different leagues / systems - who don't play each other?

This is why leagues don't want to go back to SY. It doesn't matter what you do somone won't like how SY is implemented. This is because a single cutoff date doesn't work for everyone.

It's either have everyone equally complain about "trapped players" with BY or have some SY people complain and others not.

What will happen next is some leagues will allow accommodation for the small remaining number of trapped players to play down. Then the loophole will get exploited and SY people will complain about that. There's no way to win.

Wait until NCAA blows up and youth soccer becomes more about going pro and there's a big push to go back to BY again because they can't compete internationally with SY.

100% correct unfortunately the squeaky wheels just won't shutup about SY likely because they see it as some advantage for their kid. Newsflash if your needs to play down to be a superstar your kid isn't that good. If they're a superstar they'll be playing up and starting.

You can't reason with SY people because they don't understand or don't care about the reasons leagues switch to BY before.

This is great. Can you remind me again what the "reason leagues switch[ed] to BY before"? I can't remember.

Also, who is "playing down" in a SY format? Everyone is in the same school grade..............

I thought they were being sarcastic but who knows...

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Anonymous wrote:Any idea what mlsnext’s main objection in moving to SY is? It’s going to be so difficult to stay BY when all of the u8-u12 ages are moving to SY. Obviously the English clubs with a 9/1 cutoff are able to compete internationally. SY also easier for college recruiting which is where the majority of boys playing mls academy or mlsnext will end up. Is it just that they don’t want to be told what to do?

If you go back a few hundred pages the BY crazies claim that MLSN will stay BY because we all know the best players are born earlier in the calendar year….and not because of anything else besides hard work and dedication!

SY parents should petition the Vatican, UN, IOC, and FIFA to do away with the Gregorian calendar.

You have to admit that a system with different age cutoffs is going to be an issue. I don’t care 1/1 or 9/1, but us soccer should have made a decision and done something consistent. Towns offering rec soccer can obviously do whatever they want (and they do go by GY in my town) but competitive soccer should be consistent.

Why? Who cares if there are two different leagues / systems - who don't play each other?

This is why leagues don't want to go back to SY. It doesn't matter what you do somone won't like how SY is implemented. This is because a single cutoff date doesn't work for everyone.


It's either have everyone equally complain about "trapped players" with BY or have some SY people complain and others not.

What will happen next is some leagues will allow accommodation for the small remaining number of trapped players to play down. Then the loophole will get exploited and SY people will complain about that. There's no way to win.

Wait until NCAA blows up and youth soccer becomes more about going pro and there's a big push to go back to BY again because they can't compete internationally with SY.

100% correct unfortunately the squeaky wheels just won't shutup about SY likely because they see it as some advantage for their kid. Newsflash if your needs to play down to be a superstar your kid isn't that good. If they're a superstar they'll be playing up and starting.

You can't reason with SY people because they don't understand or don't care about the reasons leagues switch to BY before.

This is great. Can you remind me again what the "reason leagues switch[ed] to BY before"? I can't remember.

Also, who is "playing down" in a SY format? Everyone is in the same school grade..............

This is what I keep thinking. My fourth grader isn't playing down in the future becuase he's playing with other fourth graders, your fifth grader has been playing down against 4th graders this whole time.

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Anonymous wrote:Any idea what mlsnext’s main objection in moving to SY is? It’s going to be so difficult to stay BY when all of the u8-u12 ages are moving to SY. Obviously the English clubs with a 9/1 cutoff are able to compete internationally. SY also easier for college recruiting which is where the majority of boys playing mls academy or mlsnext will end up. Is it just that they don’t want to be told what to do?

If you go back a few hundred pages the BY crazies claim that MLSN will stay BY because we all know the best players are born earlier in the calendar year….and not because of anything else besides hard work and dedication!

SY parents should petition the Vatican, UN, IOC, and FIFA to do away with the Gregorian calendar.

You have to admit that a system with different age cutoffs is going to be an issue. I don’t care 1/1 or 9/1, but us soccer should have made a decision and done something consistent. Towns offering rec soccer can obviously do whatever they want (and they do go by GY in my town) but competitive soccer should be consistent.

Why? Who cares if there are two different leagues / systems - who don't play each other?

This is why leagues don't want to go back to SY. It doesn't matter what you do somone won't like how SY is implemented. This is because a single cutoff date doesn't work for everyone.

It's either have everyone equally complain about "trapped players" with BY or have some SY people complain and others not.

What will happen next is some leagues will allow accommodation for the small remaining number of trapped players to play down. Then the loophole will get exploited and SY people will complain about that. There's no way to win.

Wait until NCAA blows up and youth soccer becomes more about going pro and there's a big push to go back to BY again because they can't compete internationally with SY.

100% correct unfortunately the squeaky wheels just won't shutup about SY likely because they see it as some advantage for their kid. Newsflash if your needs to play down to be a superstar your kid isn't that good. If they're a superstar they'll be playing up and starting.

You can't reason with SY people because they don't understand or don't care about the reasons leagues switch to BY before.

This is great. Can you remind me again what the "reason leagues switch[ed] to BY before"? I can't remember.

Also, who is "playing down" in a SY format? Everyone is in the same school grade..............

I thought they were being sarcastic but who knows...

If so, excellent troll, but yeah they really believe it.

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Anonymous wrote:Any idea what mlsnext’s main objection in moving to SY is? It’s going to be so difficult to stay BY when all of the u8-u12 ages are moving to SY. Obviously the English clubs with a 9/1 cutoff are able to compete internationally. SY also easier for college recruiting which is where the majority of boys playing mls academy or mlsnext will end up. Is it just that they don’t want to be told what to do?

If you go back a few hundred pages the BY crazies claim that MLSN will stay BY because we all know the best players are born earlier in the calendar year….and not because of anything else besides hard work and dedication!

SY parents should petition the Vatican, UN, IOC, and FIFA to do away with the Gregorian calendar.

You have to admit that a system with different age cutoffs is going to be an issue. I don’t care 1/1 or 9/1, but us soccer should have made a decision and done something consistent. Towns offering rec soccer can obviously do whatever they want (and they do go by GY in my town) but competitive soccer should be consistent.

Why? Who cares if there are two different leagues / systems - who don't play each other?

This is why leagues don't want to go back to SY. It doesn't matter what you do somone won't like how SY is implemented. This is because a single cutoff date doesn't work for everyone.

It's either have everyone equally complain about "trapped players" with BY or have some SY people complain and others not.

What will happen next is some leagues will allow accommodation for the small remaining number of trapped players to play down. Then the loophole will get exploited and SY people will complain about that. There's no way to win.

Wait until NCAA blows up and youth soccer becomes more about going pro and there's a big push to go back to BY again because they can't compete internationally with SY.

100% correct unfortunately the squeaky wheels just won't shutup about SY likely because they see it as some advantage for their kid. Newsflash if your needs to play down to be a superstar your kid isn't that good. If they're a superstar they'll be playing up and starting.

You can't reason with SY people because they don't understand or don't care about the reasons leagues switch to BY before.

Jan-May kids under BY model have been playing down…..guess that’s why the BY crowd is scared of the change

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Anonymous wrote:Any idea what mlsnext’s main objection in moving to SY is? It’s going to be so difficult to stay BY when all of the u8-u12 ages are moving to SY. Obviously the English clubs with a 9/1 cutoff are able to compete internationally. SY also easier for college recruiting which is where the majority of boys playing mls academy or mlsnext will end up. Is it just that they don’t want to be told what to do?

If you go back a few hundred pages the BY crazies claim that MLSN will stay BY because we all know the best players are born earlier in the calendar year….and not because of anything else besides hard work and dedication!

SY parents should petition the Vatican, UN, IOC, and FIFA to do away with the Gregorian calendar.

You have to admit that a system with different age cutoffs is going to be an issue. I don’t care 1/1 or 9/1, but us soccer should have made a decision and done something consistent. Towns offering rec soccer can obviously do whatever they want (and they do go by GY in my town) but competitive soccer should be consistent.

Why? Who cares if there are two different leagues / systems - who don't play each other?

This is why leagues don't want to go back to SY. It doesn't matter what you do somone won't like how SY is implemented. This is because a single cutoff date doesn't work for everyone.

It's either have everyone equally complain about "trapped players" with BY or have some SY people complain and others not.

What will happen next is some leagues will allow accommodation for the small remaining number of trapped players to play down. Then the loophole will get exploited and SY people will complain about that. There's no way to win.

Wait until NCAA blows up and youth soccer becomes more about going pro and there's a big push to go back to BY again because they can't compete internationally with SY.

100% correct unfortunately the squeaky wheels just won't shutup about SY likely because they see it as some advantage for their kid. Newsflash if your needs to play down to be a superstar your kid isn't that good. If they're a superstar they'll be playing up and starting.

You can't reason with SY people because they don't understand or don't care about the reasons leagues switch to BY before.

This is great. Can you remind me again what the "reason leagues switch[ed] to BY before"? I can't remember.

Also, who is "playing down" in a SY format? Everyone is in the same school grade..............

At this point, I wouldn’t even call it denial. I call it straight up lying.

Are you honestly saying SY proponents are not rooting for playing down? Parents of kids born in October 2010 want their kids to play against kids born in 2011. That is playing down no matter how much bs excuses of “trap” and whatever else you coat it with.

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Anonymous wrote:Any idea what mlsnext’s main objection in moving to SY is? It’s going to be so difficult to stay BY when all of the u8-u12 ages are moving to SY. Obviously the English clubs with a 9/1 cutoff are able to compete internationally. SY also easier for college recruiting which is where the majority of boys playing mls academy or mlsnext will end up. Is it just that they don’t want to be told what to do?

If you go back a few hundred pages the BY crazies claim that MLSN will stay BY because we all know the best players are born earlier in the calendar year….and not because of anything else besides hard work and dedication!

SY parents should petition the Vatican, UN, IOC, and FIFA to do away with the Gregorian calendar.

You have to admit that a system with different age cutoffs is going to be an issue. I don’t care 1/1 or 9/1, but us soccer should have made a decision and done something consistent. Towns offering rec soccer can obviously do whatever they want (and they do go by GY in my town) but competitive soccer should be consistent.

Why? Who cares if there are two different leagues / systems - who don't play each other?

This is why leagues don't want to go back to SY. It doesn't matter what you do somone won't like how SY is implemented. This is because a single cutoff date doesn't work for everyone.

It's either have everyone equally complain about "trapped players" with BY or have some SY people complain and others not.

What will happen next is some leagues will allow accommodation for the small remaining number of trapped players to play down. Then the loophole will get exploited and SY people will complain about that. There's no way to win.

Wait until NCAA blows up and youth soccer becomes more about going pro and there's a big push to go back to BY again because they can't compete internationally with SY.

100% correct unfortunately the squeaky wheels just won't shutup about SY likely because they see it as some advantage for their kid. Newsflash if your needs to play down to be a superstar your kid isn't that good. If they're a superstar they'll be playing up and starting.

You can't reason with SY people because they don't understand or don't care about the reasons leagues switch to BY before.

Jan-May kids under BY model have been playing down…..guess that’s why the BY crowd is scared of the change

The current calendar used to determine ages globally wasn’t something BY parents came up with. Get a grip!

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Anonymous wrote:Any idea what mlsnext’s main objection in moving to SY is? It’s going to be so difficult to stay BY when all of the u8-u12 ages are moving to SY. Obviously the English clubs with a 9/1 cutoff are able to compete internationally. SY also easier for college recruiting which is where the majority of boys playing mls academy or mlsnext will end up. Is it just that they don’t want to be told what to do?

If you go back a few hundred pages the BY crazies claim that MLSN will stay BY because we all know the best players are born earlier in the calendar year….and not because of anything else besides hard work and dedication!

SY parents should petition the Vatican, UN, IOC, and FIFA to do away with the Gregorian calendar.

You have to admit that a system with different age cutoffs is going to be an issue. I don’t care 1/1 or 9/1, but us soccer should have made a decision and done something consistent. Towns offering rec soccer can obviously do whatever they want (and they do go by GY in my town) but competitive soccer should be consistent.

Why? Who cares if there are two different leagues / systems - who don't play each other?

This is why leagues don't want to go back to SY. It doesn't matter what you do somone won't like how SY is implemented. This is because a single cutoff date doesn't work for everyone.

It's either have everyone equally complain about "trapped players" with BY or have some SY people complain and others not.

What will happen next is some leagues will allow accommodation for the small remaining number of trapped players to play down. Then the loophole will get exploited and SY people will complain about that. There's no way to win.

Wait until NCAA blows up and youth soccer becomes more about going pro and there's a big push to go back to BY again because they can't compete internationally with SY.

100% correct unfortunately the squeaky wheels just won't shutup about SY likely because they see it as some advantage for their kid. Newsflash if your needs to play down to be a superstar your kid isn't that good. If they're a superstar they'll be playing up and starting.

You can't reason with SY people because they don't understand or don't care about the reasons leagues switch to BY before.

This is great. Can you remind me again what the "reason leagues switch[ed] to BY before"? I can't remember.

Also, who is "playing down" in a SY format? Everyone is in the same school grade..............

At this point, I wouldn’t even call it denial. I call it straight up lying.

Are you honestly saying SY proponents are not rooting for playing down? Parents of kids born in October 2010 want their kids to play against kids born in 2011. That is playing down no matter how much bs excuses of “trap” and whatever else you coat it with.

Parents of kids born in Jan- March want their kids to play against other kids a grade below….that’s playing down…

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Anonymous wrote:Any idea what mlsnext’s main objection in moving to SY is? It’s going to be so difficult to stay BY when all of the u8-u12 ages are moving to SY. Obviously the English clubs with a 9/1 cutoff are able to compete internationally. SY also easier for college recruiting which is where the majority of boys playing mls academy or mlsnext will end up. Is it just that they don’t want to be told what to do?

If you go back a few hundred pages the BY crazies claim that MLSN will stay BY because we all know the best players are born earlier in the calendar year….and not because of anything else besides hard work and dedication!

SY parents should petition the Vatican, UN, IOC, and FIFA to do away with the Gregorian calendar.

You have to admit that a system with different age cutoffs is going to be an issue. I don’t care 1/1 or 9/1, but us soccer should have made a decision and done something consistent. Towns offering rec soccer can obviously do whatever they want (and they do go by GY in my town) but competitive soccer should be consistent.

Why? Who cares if there are two different leagues / systems - who don't play each other?

This is why leagues don't want to go back to SY. It doesn't matter what you do somone won't like how SY is implemented. This is because a single cutoff date doesn't work for everyone.

It's either have everyone equally complain about "trapped players" with BY or have some SY people complain and others not.

What will happen next is some leagues will allow accommodation for the small remaining number of trapped players to play down. Then the loophole will get exploited and SY people will complain about that. There's no way to win.

Wait until NCAA blows up and youth soccer becomes more about going pro and there's a big push to go back to BY again because they can't compete internationally with SY.

100% correct unfortunately the squeaky wheels just won't shutup about SY likely because they see it as some advantage for their kid. Newsflash if your needs to play down to be a superstar your kid isn't that good. If they're a superstar they'll be playing up and starting.

You can't reason with SY people because they don't understand or don't care about the reasons leagues switch to BY before.

Jan-May kids under BY model have been playing down…..guess that’s why the BY crowd is scared of the change

The current calendar used to determine ages globally wasn’t something BY parents came up with. Get a grip!

England….goes SY….sorry, but your kid should play against kids in their grade.

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Anonymous wrote:Any idea what mlsnext’s main objection in moving to SY is? It’s going to be so difficult to stay BY when all of the u8-u12 ages are moving to SY. Obviously the English clubs with a 9/1 cutoff are able to compete internationally. SY also easier for college recruiting which is where the majority of boys playing mls academy or mlsnext will end up. Is it just that they don’t want to be told what to do?

If you go back a few hundred pages the BY crazies claim that MLSN will stay BY because we all know the best players are born earlier in the calendar year….and not because of anything else besides hard work and dedication!

SY parents should petition the Vatican, UN, IOC, and FIFA to do away with the Gregorian calendar.

You have to admit that a system with different age cutoffs is going to be an issue. I don’t care 1/1 or 9/1, but us soccer should have made a decision and done something consistent. Towns offering rec soccer can obviously do whatever they want (and they do go by GY in my town) but competitive soccer should be consistent.

Why? Who cares if there are two different leagues / systems - who don't play each other?

This is why leagues don't want to go back to SY. It doesn't matter what you do somone won't like how SY is implemented. This is because a single cutoff date doesn't work for everyone.

It's either have everyone equally complain about "trapped players" with BY or have some SY people complain and others not.

What will happen next is some leagues will allow accommodation for the small remaining number of trapped players to play down. Then the loophole will get exploited and SY people will complain about that. There's no way to win.

Wait until NCAA blows up and youth soccer becomes more about going pro and there's a big push to go back to BY again because they can't compete internationally with SY.

100% correct unfortunately the squeaky wheels just won't shutup about SY likely because they see it as some advantage for their kid. Newsflash if your needs to play down to be a superstar your kid isn't that good. If they're a superstar they'll be playing up and starting.

You can't reason with SY people because they don't understand or don't care about the reasons leagues switch to BY before.

Jan-May kids under BY model have been playing down…..guess that’s why the BY crowd is scared of the change

The current calendar used to determine ages globally wasn’t something BY parents came up with. Get a grip!

"Globally" implies all other countries use the same system. They don't. Some use birth year, and some use their country's school year.

It's one thing to have a debate. It's another thing to lie as part of your argument.