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Anonymous wrote:Well! You should contact your club Technical Director or Director of Coaching for more information.

It's their job to keep their paying customers informed . It shouldn't come to a thousands parents having to individually contact them.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone's club provided real information on how it/the leagues/VYSA plan to approach the age group change? We have heard nothing.

VYSA announced that they are adopting the changes for the 2016 season. Clubs have no say in this at this point. The real question for most, as alluded just above are the relative coaching assignments.

Also, league rules determine how many "playups" are allowed, so the thought that entire teams move up will be first, league dependent and then club needs. This doesn't mean that leagues can't adopt some grandfathering to help out the transition though.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone's club provided real information on how it/the leagues/VYSA plan to approach the age group change? We have heard nothing.

VYSA announced that they are adopting the changes for the 2016 season. Clubs have no say in this at this point. The real question for most, as alluded just above are the relative coaching assignments.

Also, league rules determine how many "playups" are allowed, so the thought that entire teams move up will be first, league dependent and then club needs. This doesn't mean that leagues can't adopt some grandfathering to help out the transition though.

And has anyone heard what the leagues are going to do?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone's club provided real information on how it/the leagues/VYSA plan to approach the age group change? We have heard nothing.

VYSA announced that they are adopting the changes for the 2016 season. Clubs have no say in this at this point. The real question for most, as alluded just above are the relative coaching assignments.

Also, league rules determine how many "playups" are allowed, so the thought that entire teams move up will be first, league dependent and then club needs. This doesn't mean that leagues can't adopt some grandfathering to help out the transition though.

And has anyone heard what the leagues are going to do?

The leagues have to implement what VYSA adopts. The leagues will go Birth year in the fall of 2016. Basically, register for tryouts for the eligible age group as you normally would. That is the easy part. Determining who your coach will be is up to your club, and that may be the hard part as the clubs may not know themselves. Often clubs hand teams over to new coaches every couple of years anyway so this may accelerate this change to put it on the normal track that the club has always had.

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I heard that the NCSL is allowing unlimited play ups starting this spring season to help with the transition. I would assume that it will allow unlimited play ups next year as well then. Otherwise, it wouldn't make much sense to do it in the spring. Keep in mind that your club can still limit the number of kids playing up.

I heard WAGS has not made any decisions on play ups yet.

I have no clue about CCL.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard that the NCSL is allowing unlimited play ups starting this spring season to help with the transition. I would assume that it will allow unlimited play ups next year as well then. Otherwise, it wouldn't make much sense to do it in the spring. Keep in mind that your club can still limit the number of kids playing up.

I heard WAGS has not made any decisions on play ups yet.

I have no clue about CCL.

As far as I know, only WAGS and ODSL have roster limits for playups anyway. NPL/VPL do not and I don't think CCL does either but not sure their either.

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CCL has no limits on play ups. One club has their U15 team play in the U17 slot, i.e., the entire team is playing up 2 years every game.

I like what McLean is doing, having sessions set up by birth year to check out what things might look like.

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Any views on if and how Arlington's recently-announced U12-U14 Academy will impact the elite soccer landscape?

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Anonymous wrote:Any views on if and how Arlington's recently-announced U12-U14 Academy will impact the elite soccer landscape?

McLean and Loudon got it as well.

Shit in, shit out. The program's only work if the best players are selected without politics. US soccer hasn't had success with these academies.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard that the NCSL is allowing unlimited play ups starting this spring season to help with the transition. I would assume that it will allow unlimited play ups next year as well then. Otherwise, it wouldn't make much sense to do it in the spring. Keep in mind that your club can still limit the number of kids playing up.

I heard WAGS has not made any decisions on play ups yet.

I have no clue about CCL.

As far as I know, only WAGS and ODSL have roster limits for playups anyway. NPL/VPL do not and I don't think CCL does either but not sure their either.

Currently NCSL only allows two kids to play up per team.

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Anonymous wrote:CCL has no limits on play ups. One club has their U15 team play in the U17 slot, i.e., the entire team is playing up 2 years every game.

I like what McLean is doing, having sessions set up by birth year to check out what things might look like.

Smart club. Our club doesn't even let kids play up in practices, nor do they have mixing of teams in the age group. Another club we know also has their kids compete against stronger, faster players by placing them an age group up in tournaments. If you are never challenged, you don't improve.

Re. McLean--will they mix all the kids? Will they keep them with the kids of same team color---all whites, etc. ? Could you provide feedback? Thanks!

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Anonymous wrote:CCL has no limits on play ups. One club has their U15 team play in the U17 slot, i.e., the entire team is playing up 2 years every game.

I like what McLean is doing, having sessions set up by birth year to check out what things might look like.

Why do you like that? So you can see who your son's teammates will be? So your son will see who his teammates will be? or you like it because the coaches will see who are in the same age groups?

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Anonymous wrote:CCL has no limits on play ups. One club has their U15 team play in the U17 slot, i.e., the entire team is playing up 2 years every game.

I like what McLean is doing, having sessions set up by birth year to check out what things might look like.

Why do you like that? So you can see who your son's teammates will be? So your son will see who his teammates will be? or you like it because the coaches will see who are in the same age groups?

Duh. Not the poster you are asking, but it makes sense to ease the transition. Teams are going to be split in half. Our club is doing these types of practices as well.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CCL has no limits on play ups. One club has their U15 team play in the U17 slot, i.e., the entire team is playing up 2 years every game.

I like what McLean is doing, having sessions set up by birth year to check out what things might look like.

Why do you like that? So you can see who your son's teammates will be? So your son will see who his teammates will be? or you like it because the coaches will see who are in the same age groups?

Duh. Not the poster you are asking, but it makes sense to ease the transition. Teams are going to be split in half. Our club is doing these types of practices as well.

My son went to one of these (he's got to go up, not down) and he thought the competition was easier in the age-group above him. He said it was much easier than his current age group.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CCL has no limits on play ups. One club has their U15 team play in the U17 slot, i.e., the entire team is playing up 2 years every game.

I like what McLean is doing, having sessions set up by birth year to check out what things might look like.

Why do you like that? So you can see who your son's teammates will be? So your son will see who his teammates will be? or you like it because the coaches will see who are in the same age groups?

Duh. Not the poster you are asking, but it makes sense to ease the transition. Teams are going to be split in half. Our club is doing these types of practices as well.

My son went to one of these (he's got to go up, not down) and he thought the competition was easier in the age-group above him. He said it was much easier than his current age group.

That is the exact reason the kids should be allowed to mix amongst all groups and let things fall where they may. This is the perfect opportunity for clubs to fix placements done several years prior or kids that have progressed more rapidly in a few years. It should be used as a fresh start.