ECNL moving to school year not calendar

[Anonymous]

Does this mean someone with an August birthday playing in MLS next could graduate, take a gap year, and play a year in ECNL?

[Anonymous]

Futsal going SY too

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Futsal going SY too

Source? I’ve been wondering about futsal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does this mean someone with an August birthday playing in MLS next could graduate, take a gap year, and play a year in ECNL?

Doubt it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Futsal going SY too

Source? I’ve been wondering about futsal.

I haven't heard anything about it but Futsal can do whatever it wants. Although most likely it will align to whatever grouping the biggest youngers leagues choose to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does this mean someone with an August birthday playing in MLS next could graduate, take a gap year, and play a year in ECNL?

You can already do that? Read the ECNL rule book. As long as you’re not playing college soccer and meet the age requirement you’re eligible to play.

Example a current senior with a 1/2007 birthday can play U19 07/08s next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does this mean someone with an August birthday playing in MLS next could graduate, take a gap year, and play a year in ECNL?

You can already do that? Read the ECNL rule book. As long as you’re not playing college soccer and meet the age requirement you’re eligible to play.

Example a current senior with a 1/2007 birthday can play U19 07/08s next year.

Yes this is why I said allowing holdbacks for senior year (GY) won’t matter because the rules already allow it for essentially (kids/young adults?) with Jan to July birthdays who were held back get an extra year of play.
Kids born Aug to Dec would not get this same advantage. Another reason why going to SY is the best fit for soccer.

BY heavily favors one group by a large margin in a variety of different ways.

[Anonymous]

If MLS is the shadow government of USSF why do people think MLSN will not stay BY?

It seems like the big 3 wanted SY but because MLS wanted to stay BY USSF decided to not side with the majority and instead just decided to let leagues do what they wanted.

What was the purpose of that? Unless some league want to stay BY long term?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does this mean someone with an August birthday playing in MLS next could graduate, take a gap year, and play a year in ECNL?

You can already do that? Read the ECNL rule book. As long as you’re not playing college soccer and meet the age requirement you’re eligible to play.

Example a current senior with a 1/2007 birthday can play U19 07/08s next year.

Yes this is why I said allowing holdbacks for senior year (GY) won’t matter because the rules already allow it for essentially (kids/young adults?) with Jan to July birthdays who were held back get an extra year of play.
Kids born Aug to Dec would not get this same advantage. Another reason why going to SY is the best fit for soccer.

BY heavily favors one group by a large margin in a variety of different ways.

That's interesting. Didn't know that. Thanks for sharing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If MLS is the shadow government of USSF why do people think MLSN will not stay BY?

It seems like the big 3 wanted SY but because MLS wanted to stay BY USSF decided to not side with the majority and instead just decided to let leagues do what they wanted.

What was the purpose of that? Unless some league want to stay BY long term?

MLS wanted USSF to make everyone stay BY. Now that everyone else is SY, going to be hard for MLS to stay BY on their own. They could still make the decision to stay BY, will make ecnl more competitive though by pushing many August-December birthdays there so they don’t have to skip an age group. Lots of changes coming in the next few years!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If MLS is the shadow government of USSF why do people think MLSN will not stay BY?

It seems like the big 3 wanted SY but because MLS wanted to stay BY USSF decided to not side with the majority and instead just decided to let leagues do what they wanted.

What was the purpose of that? Unless some league want to stay BY long term?

MLS wanted USSF to make everyone stay BY. Now that everyone else is SY, going to be hard for MLS to stay BY on their own. They could still make the decision to stay BY, will make ecnl more competitive though by pushing many August-December birthdays there so they don’t have to skip an age group. Lots of changes coming in the next few years!

No that wont be happening. As long as MLSN has academies nothing will change.

This is why the girls parents are watching NWSL so closely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If MLS is the shadow government of USSF why do people think MLSN will not stay BY?

It seems like the big 3 wanted SY but because MLS wanted to stay BY USSF decided to not side with the majority and instead just decided to let leagues do what they wanted.

What was the purpose of that? Unless some league want to stay BY long term?

MLS wanted USSF to make everyone stay BY. Now that everyone else is SY, going to be hard for MLS to stay BY on their own. They could still make the decision to stay BY, will make ecnl more competitive though by pushing many August-December birthdays there so they don’t have to skip an age group. Lots of changes coming in the next few years!

No that wont be happening. As long as MLSN has academies nothing will change.

This is why the girls parents are watching NWSL so closely.

Academies may do something different than p2p mlsnext clubs.

People have talked big plans for girls for decades. San Diego FC has plans for a fully funded girls program. In 30 years I’ve yet to see anything actually come to fruition. I am a girl parent so hope you are right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If MLS is the shadow government of USSF why do people think MLSN will not stay BY?

It seems like the big 3 wanted SY but because MLS wanted to stay BY USSF decided to not side with the majority and instead just decided to let leagues do what they wanted.

What was the purpose of that? Unless some league want to stay BY long term?

MLS wanted USSF to make everyone stay BY. Now that everyone else is SY, going to be hard for MLS to stay BY on their own. They could still make the decision to stay BY, will make ecnl more competitive though by pushing many August-December birthdays there so they don’t have to skip an age group. Lots of changes coming in the next few years!

No that wont be happening. As long as MLSN has academies nothing will change.

This is why the girls parents are watching NWSL so closely.

Academies may do something different than p2p mlsnext clubs.

People have talked big plans for girls for decades. San Diego FC has plans for a fully funded girls program. In 30 years I’ve yet to see anything actually come to fruition. I am a girl parent so hope you are right.

NWSL makes more money approving new franchise clubs right now. I think the last one they allowed in cost over 100 million. Which gets split between all current owners.

Soon they'll need to justify the new franchise spend and viewership numbers for a better media package. The only way to make this happen is to up on-field performance. The only way to up on-field performance is Acadamies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If MLS is the shadow government of USSF why do people think MLSN will not stay BY?

It seems like the big 3 wanted SY but because MLS wanted to stay BY USSF decided to not side with the majority and instead just decided to let leagues do what they wanted.

What was the purpose of that? Unless some league want to stay BY long term?

MLS wanted USSF to make everyone stay BY. Now that everyone else is SY, going to be hard for MLS to stay BY on their own. They could still make the decision to stay BY, will make ecnl more competitive though by pushing many August-December birthdays there so they don’t have to skip an age group. Lots of changes coming in the next few years!

No that wont be happening. As long as MLSN has academies nothing will change.

This is why the girls parents are watching NWSL so closely.

Academies may do something different than p2p mlsnext clubs.

People have talked big plans for girls for decades. San Diego FC has plans for a fully funded girls program. In 30 years I’ve yet to see anything actually come to fruition. I am a girl parent so hope you are right.

P2P will go SY for sure, otherwise their pipeline loses a year of development (and revenue).

[Anonymous]

Also for those that dont know SDFC facilities are on Sycuan (Casino) tribal land which is on the outskirts of both San Diego and Tijuana which means they can homegrown from 2 major cities in 2 countries. Give it some time. Everyone involved is professional (not college) soccer oriented.