ECNL moving to school year not calendar

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GA does not need to do what MLSN does. Completely different leagues serving completely different clientele.

Another BY delusional parent holding on tight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just need some clarification if my daughter is an August born 2009 grade 9 . Would she be able to play her senior year? Are local cut off was 8/15.

Forgot to add would she be able to play club in 26/27?

Seems so, because kids now in grade 10 would be seniors that season. I think you may mean 27/28. I'd hope they'd make an exception (you think they would).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just need some clarification if my daughter is an August born 2009 grade 9 . Would she be able to play her senior year? Are local cut off was 8/15.

Forgot to add would she be able to play club in 26/27?

Seems so, because kids now in grade 10 would be seniors that season. I think you may mean 27/28. I'd hope they'd make an exception (you think they would).

I think someone is pointing out that SY without defined waivers still has trapped players.

If theres trapped players there's still issues.

[Anonymous]

GA going SY, per the commissioner. Can’t wait to hear which date they chose! We’ll
find out next week!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GA Commish confirmed school year, per board. Board met Wednesday and approved. Official announcement next week. You are welcome.

Hope this is the end result. But this isn’t true. If it were, it would have leaked.

This IS your leak. I have it in writing from the commissioner. If you don’t want to believe it, I guess you will find out next week when it’s formally announced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GA Commish confirmed school year, per board. Board met Wednesday and approved. Official announcement next week. You are welcome.

Hope this is the end result. But this isn’t true. If it were, it would have leaked.

This IS your leak. I have it in writing from the commissioner. If you don’t want to believe it, I guess you will find out next week when it’s formally announced.

Post the email? Good old fashion copy and paste.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just need some clarification if my daughter is an August born 2009 grade 9 . Would she be able to play her senior year? Are local cut off was 8/15.

Forgot to add would she be able to play club in 26/27?

Seems so, because kids now in grade 10 would be seniors that season. I think you may mean 27/28. I'd hope they'd make an exception (you think they would).

So she will be a junior when most of her team of 09s are seniors. I meant the year after 27/28 would be her senior year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GA does not need to do what MLSN does. Completely different leagues serving completely different clientele.

Just like GA, mlsnext can do whatever they want but they face the same logistical challenges in trying to be the only league staying BY while everyone else changes to SY. They could go SY (I think GA likely, mlsnext less likely) or BY with some exceptions for sept-dec (more likely for mlsnext given they already have a somewhat similar process with biobanding albeit different purpose). They may be unhappy about it but they will be forced to react to the entire youth soccer landscape going SY.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GA Commish confirmed school year, per board. Board met Wednesday and approved. Official announcement next week. You are welcome.

Hope this is the end result. But this isn’t true. If it were, it would have leaked.

This IS your leak. I have it in writing from the commissioner. If you don’t want to believe it, I guess you will find out next week when it’s formally announced.

Post the email? Good old fashion copy and paste.

Copy and paste.

We will have to switch
So going school year to align with everyone else but haven't made final announcement on this will release next week as just approved by my board

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GA does not need to do what MLSN does. Completely different leagues serving completely different clientele.

Just like GA, mlsnext can do whatever they want but they face the same logistical challenges in trying to be the only league staying BY while everyone else changes to SY. They could go SY (I think GA likely, mlsnext less likely) or BY with some exceptions for sept-dec (more likely for mlsnext given they already have a somewhat similar process with biobanding albeit different purpose). They may be unhappy about it but they will be forced to react to the entire youth soccer landscape going SY.

Is there any incentive or advantage at all for MLSNext staying BY when the whole landscape is changing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GA does not need to do what MLSN does. Completely different leagues serving completely different clientele.

Just like GA, mlsnext can do whatever they want but they face the same logistical challenges in trying to be the only league staying BY while everyone else changes to SY. They could go SY (I think GA likely, mlsnext less likely) or BY with some exceptions for sept-dec (more likely for mlsnext given they already have a somewhat similar process with biobanding albeit different purpose). They may be unhappy about it but they will be forced to react to the entire youth soccer landscape going SY.

Is there any incentive or advantage at all for MLSNext staying BY when the whole landscape is changing?

I guess we will find out when they announce a decision. I don’t think p2p clubs can manage two different systems and the transition between SY and BY at U11-U13 or whenever a q4 enters the club from a SY team. If there is an advantage maybe mls academies will stay BY.

[Anonymous]

People insisting that mlsnext will stay BY because that was what they were arguing for in Nov 2024 forget what actually happened. Mlsnext wanted US soccer to keep everyone BY. They did not want the result that Us soccer announced in Nov which was leaving the choice up to the leagues and basically letting everyone do whatever they want which apparently is SY. I think the mlsnext decision is a little bit less certain compared to GA and I am curious as to what they decide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GA does not need to do what MLSN does. Completely different leagues serving completely different clientele.

Just like GA, mlsnext can do whatever they want but they face the same logistical challenges in trying to be the only league staying BY while everyone else changes to SY. They could go SY (I think GA likely, mlsnext less likely) or BY with some exceptions for sept-dec (more likely for mlsnext given they already have a somewhat similar process with biobanding albeit different purpose). They may be unhappy about it but they will be forced to react to the entire youth soccer landscape going SY.

Is there any incentive or advantage at all for MLSNext staying BY when the whole landscape is changing?

I think there are way too many issues and risks staying BY. Also, MLSN is already winning the battle with ECNL; staying BY would give ECNL new life in the boys side. It would also leave room for another new league to further reduce MLSN player pool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GA does not need to do what MLSN does. Completely different leagues serving completely different clientele.

Just like GA, mlsnext can do whatever they want but they face the same logistical challenges in trying to be the only league staying BY while everyone else changes to SY. They could go SY (I think GA likely, mlsnext less likely) or BY with some exceptions for sept-dec (more likely for mlsnext given they already have a somewhat similar process with biobanding albeit different purpose). They may be unhappy about it but they will be forced to react to the entire youth soccer landscape going SY.

Is there any incentive or advantage at all for MLSNext staying BY when the whole landscape is changing?

The mlsn2 product is somewhat for kids who want to play high school so BY makes absolutely no sense. Also how do you move up and down between next 1 and 2 if they have different cut offs.

[Anonymous]

People also forget that MLSN and GA have an alliance and many clubs are now including both. In those situations, having one BY and one SY would not help those clubs.