How will clubs make the school year teams?

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Anonymous wrote:Aug - Dec kids who are on top teams and on grade and get at least half playing time - clubs will leave them alone UNLESS parents want to move them down to younger team.

Aug - Dec kids who are on top team but NOT on grade - clubs will try to push them to younger team. Parents who disagree will get to argue their case but club will likely comply.

Aug - Dec kids who are NOT on top teams - honestly it doesn’t matter much to the club which teams your kids are on especially if much loved than RL. They will move your kids to grade level. This new change doesn’t impact your recruiting if your kids are playing in other leagues that ECNL/GA/ RL/MLSN

Clubs won't know or care about grades of most kids. Kids come and go.

They will because it makes a differnece in who gets recruited for college and who does not.

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Anonymous wrote:Aug - Dec kids who are on top teams and on grade and get at least half playing time - clubs will leave them alone UNLESS parents want to move them down to younger team.

Aug - Dec kids who are on top team but NOT on grade - clubs will try to push them to younger team. Parents who disagree will get to argue their case but club will likely comply.

Aug - Dec kids who are NOT on top teams - honestly it doesn’t matter much to the club which teams your kids are on especially if much loved than RL. They will move your kids to grade level. This new change doesn’t impact your recruiting if your kids are playing in other leagues that ECNL/GA/ RL/MLSN

Clubs won't know or care about grades of most kids. Kids come and go.

They will because it makes a differnece in who gets recruited for college and who does not.

Clubs want winning teams, wins, records and championships matter more to clubs, because that is a big driver of club recruitment. Their primary goal is not to send kids off to college. So, the clubs will absolutely go into a season with the strongest team possible. That means playing the older kids from August and September (who are 1 grade above) to play on the team. Any club that does not play the oldest kids on the teams, will be at an 16.6% disadvantage against clubs who do include them. Grade year consideration is secondary to winning.

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Anonymous wrote:Aug - Dec kids who are on top teams and on grade and get at least half playing time - clubs will leave them alone UNLESS parents want to move them down to younger team.

Aug - Dec kids who are on top team but NOT on grade - clubs will try to push them to younger team. Parents who disagree will get to argue their case but club will likely comply.

Aug - Dec kids who are NOT on top teams - honestly it doesn’t matter much to the club which teams your kids are on especially if much loved than RL. They will move your kids to grade level. This new change doesn’t impact your recruiting if your kids are playing in other leagues that ECNL/GA/ RL/MLSN

Clubs won't know or care about grades of most kids. Kids come and go.

They will because it makes a differnece in who gets recruited for college and who does not.

Clubs want winning teams, wins, records and championships matter more to clubs, because that is a big driver of club recruitment. Their primary goal is not to send kids off to college. So, the clubs will absolutely go into a season with the strongest team possible. That means playing the older kids from August and September (who are 1 grade above) to play on the team. Any club that does not play the oldest kids on the teams, will be at an 16.6% disadvantage against clubs who do include them. Grade year consideration is secondary to winning.

As someone with a u16 on a top GA team in the nation trust me teams stop caring about wins at u15 and everything changes to recruiting. I wish we could play top teams (that are actually trying to win) in tournaments. But it just doesnt happen anymore.

The person. thats telling you that clubs will group players by grade for recruiting is correct. This is for both GA and ECNL.

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Anonymous wrote:Aug - Dec kids who are on top teams and on grade and get at least half playing time - clubs will leave them alone UNLESS parents want to move them down to younger team.

Aug - Dec kids who are on top team but NOT on grade - clubs will try to push them to younger team. Parents who disagree will get to argue their case but club will likely comply.

Aug - Dec kids who are NOT on top teams - honestly it doesn’t matter much to the club which teams your kids are on especially if much loved than RL. They will move your kids to grade level. This new change doesn’t impact your recruiting if your kids are playing in other leagues that ECNL/GA/ RL/MLSN

Clubs won't know or care about grades of most kids. Kids come and go.

They will because it makes a differnece in who gets recruited for college and who does not.

Clubs want winning teams, wins, records and championships matter more to clubs, because that is a big driver of club recruitment. Their primary goal is not to send kids off to college. So, the clubs will absolutely go into a season with the strongest team possible. That means playing the older kids from August and September (who are 1 grade above) to play on the team. Any club that does not play the oldest kids on the teams, will be at an 16.6% disadvantage against clubs who do include them. Grade year consideration is secondary to winning.

As someone with a u16 on a top GA team in the nation trust me teams stop caring about wins at u15 and everything changes to recruiting. I wish we could play top teams (that are actually trying to win) in tournaments. But it just doesnt happen anymore.

The person. thats telling you that clubs will group players by grade for recruiting is correct. This is for both GA and ECNL.

Hahahaha...

Agree 💯 unfortunately the hard heads have to learn from personal experience.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aug - Dec kids who are on top teams and on grade and get at least half playing time - clubs will leave them alone UNLESS parents want to move them down to younger team.

Aug - Dec kids who are on top team but NOT on grade - clubs will try to push them to younger team. Parents who disagree will get to argue their case but club will likely comply.

Aug - Dec kids who are NOT on top teams - honestly it doesn’t matter much to the club which teams your kids are on especially if much loved than RL. They will move your kids to grade level. This new change doesn’t impact your recruiting if your kids are playing in other leagues that ECNL/GA/ RL/MLSN

Clubs won't know or care about grades of most kids. Kids come and go.

They will because it makes a differnece in who gets recruited for college and who does not.

Clubs want winning teams, wins, records and championships matter more to clubs, because that is a big driver of club recruitment. Their primary goal is not to send kids off to college. So, the clubs will absolutely go into a season with the strongest team possible. That means playing the older kids from August and September (who are 1 grade above) to play on the team. Any club that does not play the oldest kids on the teams, will be at an 16.6% disadvantage against clubs who do include them. Grade year consideration is secondary to winning.

As someone with a u16 on a top GA team in the nation trust me teams stop caring about wins at u15 and everything changes to recruiting. I wish we could play top teams (that are actually trying to win) in tournaments. But it just doesnt happen anymore.

The person. thats telling you that clubs will group players by grade for recruiting is correct. This is for both GA and ECNL.

Recruiting is a priority BUT there are plenty of misaligned players in the current system where you can't group players by grade. I know a top team that recruited one from our club specifically to compete for a national title.

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Anonymous wrote:Aug - Dec kids who are on top teams and on grade and get at least half playing time - clubs will leave them alone UNLESS parents want to move them down to younger team.

Aug - Dec kids who are on top team but NOT on grade - clubs will try to push them to younger team. Parents who disagree will get to argue their case but club will likely comply.

Aug - Dec kids who are NOT on top teams - honestly it doesn’t matter much to the club which teams your kids are on especially if much loved than RL. They will move your kids to grade level. This new change doesn’t impact your recruiting if your kids are playing in other leagues that ECNL/GA/ RL/MLSN

Clubs won't know or care about grades of most kids. Kids come and go.

They will because it makes a differnece in who gets recruited for college and who does not.

Clubs want winning teams, wins, records and championships matter more to clubs, because that is a big driver of club recruitment. Their primary goal is not to send kids off to college. So, the clubs will absolutely go into a season with the strongest team possible. That means playing the older kids from August and September (who are 1 grade above) to play on the team. Any club that does not play the oldest kids on the teams, will be at an 16.6% disadvantage against clubs who do include them. Grade year consideration is secondary to winning.

As someone with a u16 on a top GA team in the nation trust me teams stop caring about wins at u15 and everything changes to recruiting. I wish we could play top teams (that are actually trying to win) in tournaments. But it just doesnt happen anymore.

The person. thats telling you that clubs will group players by grade for recruiting is correct. This is for both GA and ECNL.

Recruiting is a priority BUT there are plenty of misaligned players in the current system where you can't group players by grade. I know a top team that recruited one from our club specifically to compete for a national title.

Current BY players are "misaligned" playjng up a grade nobody has issues with this.

Under SY misaligned Aug Sept birthdays will be playing down a grade and unrecruitable.

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Anonymous wrote:Aug - Dec kids who are on top teams and on grade and get at least half playing time - clubs will leave them alone UNLESS parents want to move them down to younger team.

Aug - Dec kids who are on top team but NOT on grade - clubs will try to push them to younger team. Parents who disagree will get to argue their case but club will likely comply.

Aug - Dec kids who are NOT on top teams - honestly it doesn’t matter much to the club which teams your kids are on especially if much loved than RL. They will move your kids to grade level. This new change doesn’t impact your recruiting if your kids are playing in other leagues that ECNL/GA/ RL/MLSN

Clubs won't know or care about grades of most kids. Kids come and go.

They will because it makes a differnece in who gets recruited for college and who does not.

Clubs want winning teams, wins, records and championships matter more to clubs, because that is a big driver of club recruitment. Their primary goal is not to send kids off to college. So, the clubs will absolutely go into a season with the strongest team possible. That means playing the older kids from August and September (who are 1 grade above) to play on the team. Any club that does not play the oldest kids on the teams, will be at an 16.6% disadvantage against clubs who do include them. Grade year consideration is secondary to winning.

As someone with a u16 on a top GA team in the nation trust me teams stop caring about wins at u15 and everything changes to recruiting. I wish we could play top teams (that are actually trying to win) in tournaments. But it just doesnt happen anymore.

The person. thats telling you that clubs will group players by grade for recruiting is correct. This is for both GA and ECNL.

Recruiting is a priority BUT there are plenty of misaligned players in the current system where you can't group players by grade. I know a top team that recruited one from our club specifically to compete for a national title.

Current BY players are "misaligned" playjng up a grade nobody has issues with this.

Under SY misaligned Aug Sept birthdays will be playing down a grade and unrecruitable.

Stop with the unrecruitable nonsense! Worry about your own kid! Parents like you are the worst part about soccer.

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Anonymous wrote:Aug - Dec kids who are on top teams and on grade and get at least half playing time - clubs will leave them alone UNLESS parents want to move them down to younger team.

Aug - Dec kids who are on top team but NOT on grade - clubs will try to push them to younger team. Parents who disagree will get to argue their case but club will likely comply.

Aug - Dec kids who are NOT on top teams - honestly it doesn’t matter much to the club which teams your kids are on especially if much loved than RL. They will move your kids to grade level. This new change doesn’t impact your recruiting if your kids are playing in other leagues that ECNL/GA/ RL/MLSN

Clubs won't know or care about grades of most kids. Kids come and go.

They will because it makes a differnece in who gets recruited for college and who does not.

Clubs want winning teams, wins, records and championships matter more to clubs, because that is a big driver of club recruitment. Their primary goal is not to send kids off to college. So, the clubs will absolutely go into a season with the strongest team possible. That means playing the older kids from August and September (who are 1 grade above) to play on the team. Any club that does not play the oldest kids on the teams, will be at an 16.6% disadvantage against clubs who do include them. Grade year consideration is secondary to winning.

As someone with a u16 on a top GA team in the nation trust me teams stop caring about wins at u15 and everything changes to recruiting. I wish we could play top teams (that are actually trying to win) in tournaments. But it just doesnt happen anymore.

The person. thats telling you that clubs will group players by grade for recruiting is correct. This is for both GA and ECNL.

Recruiting is a priority BUT there are plenty of misaligned players in the current system where you can't group players by grade. I know a top team that recruited one from our club specifically to compete for a national title.

Current BY players are "misaligned" playjng up a grade nobody has issues with this.

Under SY misaligned Aug Sept birthdays will be playing down a grade and unrecruitable.

Stop with the unrecruitable nonsense! Worry about your own kid! Parents like you are the worst part about soccer.

Unrecruitable

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Anonymous wrote:Aug - Dec kids who are on top teams and on grade and get at least half playing time - clubs will leave them alone UNLESS parents want to move them down to younger team.

Aug - Dec kids who are on top team but NOT on grade - clubs will try to push them to younger team. Parents who disagree will get to argue their case but club will likely comply.

Aug - Dec kids who are NOT on top teams - honestly it doesn’t matter much to the club which teams your kids are on especially if much loved than RL. They will move your kids to grade level. This new change doesn’t impact your recruiting if your kids are playing in other leagues that ECNL/GA/ RL/MLSN

Clubs won't know or care about grades of most kids. Kids come and go.

They will because it makes a differnece in who gets recruited for college and who does not.

Clubs want winning teams, wins, records and championships matter more to clubs, because that is a big driver of club recruitment. Their primary goal is not to send kids off to college. So, the clubs will absolutely go into a season with the strongest team possible. That means playing the older kids from August and September (who are 1 grade above) to play on the team. Any club that does not play the oldest kids on the teams, will be at an 16.6% disadvantage against clubs who do include them. Grade year consideration is secondary to winning.

As someone with a u16 on a top GA team in the nation trust me teams stop caring about wins at u15 and everything changes to recruiting. I wish we could play top teams (that are actually trying to win) in tournaments. But it just doesnt happen anymore.

The person. thats telling you that clubs will group players by grade for recruiting is correct. This is for both GA and ECNL.

Recruiting is a priority BUT there are plenty of misaligned players in the current system where you can't group players by grade. I know a top team that recruited one from our club specifically to compete for a national title.

Current BY players are "misaligned" playjng up a grade nobody has issues with this.

Under SY misaligned Aug Sept birthdays will be playing down a grade and unrecruitable.

Stop with the unrecruitable nonsense! Worry about your own kid! Parents like you are the worst part about soccer.

Unrecruitable

Until they develop into better players they otherwise would have been because they got the room to grow that they deserved AND they rock the at grade-level showcase OR get good enough to play up. ... Forcing them to a B team Or the A team bench purely because of their grade would be a ticket to nowhere more often than not. You are wrong to try to push them there.

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Anonymous wrote:Aug - Dec kids who are on top teams and on grade and get at least half playing time - clubs will leave them alone UNLESS parents want to move them down to younger team.

Aug - Dec kids who are on top team but NOT on grade - clubs will try to push them to younger team. Parents who disagree will get to argue their case but club will likely comply.

Aug - Dec kids who are NOT on top teams - honestly it doesn’t matter much to the club which teams your kids are on especially if much loved than RL. They will move your kids to grade level. This new change doesn’t impact your recruiting if your kids are playing in other leagues that ECNL/GA/ RL/MLSN

Clubs won't know or care about grades of most kids. Kids come and go.

They will because it makes a differnece in who gets recruited for college and who does not.

Clubs want winning teams, wins, records and championships matter more to clubs, because that is a big driver of club recruitment. Their primary goal is not to send kids off to college. So, the clubs will absolutely go into a season with the strongest team possible. That means playing the older kids from August and September (who are 1 grade above) to play on the team. Any club that does not play the oldest kids on the teams, will be at an 16.6% disadvantage against clubs who do include them. Grade year consideration is secondary to winning.

As someone with a u16 on a top GA team in the nation trust me teams stop caring about wins at u15 and everything changes to recruiting. I wish we could play top teams (that are actually trying to win) in tournaments. But it just doesnt happen anymore.

The person. thats telling you that clubs will group players by grade for recruiting is correct. This is for both GA and ECNL.

Recruiting is a priority BUT there are plenty of misaligned players in the current system where you can't group players by grade. I know a top team that recruited one from our club specifically to compete for a national title.

Current BY players are "misaligned" playjng up a grade nobody has issues with this.

Under SY misaligned Aug Sept birthdays will be playing down a grade and unrecruitable.

Stop with the unrecruitable nonsense! Worry about your own kid! Parents like you are the worst part about soccer.

Unrecruitable

Until they develop into better players they otherwise would have been because they got the room to grow that they deserved AND they rock the at grade-level showcase OR get good enough to play up. ... Forcing them to a B team Or the A team bench purely because of their grade would be a ticket to nowhere more often than not. You are wrong to try to push them there.

No I'm not.

Also, this is exactly what coaches and clubs will do. You just haven't experienced it yet.

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Anonymous wrote:Aug - Dec kids who are on top teams and on grade and get at least half playing time - clubs will leave them alone UNLESS parents want to move them down to younger team.

Aug - Dec kids who are on top team but NOT on grade - clubs will try to push them to younger team. Parents who disagree will get to argue their case but club will likely comply.

Aug - Dec kids who are NOT on top teams - honestly it doesn’t matter much to the club which teams your kids are on especially if much loved than RL. They will move your kids to grade level. This new change doesn’t impact your recruiting if your kids are playing in other leagues that ECNL/GA/ RL/MLSN

Clubs won't know or care about grades of most kids. Kids come and go.

They will because it makes a differnece in who gets recruited for college and who does not.

Clubs want winning teams, wins, records and championships matter more to clubs, because that is a big driver of club recruitment. Their primary goal is not to send kids off to college. So, the clubs will absolutely go into a season with the strongest team possible. That means playing the older kids from August and September (who are 1 grade above) to play on the team. Any club that does not play the oldest kids on the teams, will be at an 16.6% disadvantage against clubs who do include them. Grade year consideration is secondary to winning.

As someone with a u16 on a top GA team in the nation trust me teams stop caring about wins at u15 and everything changes to recruiting. I wish we could play top teams (that are actually trying to win) in tournaments. But it just doesnt happen anymore.

The person. thats telling you that clubs will group players by grade for recruiting is correct. This is for both GA and ECNL.

DD plays on a top ECNL team. They try to win every game.

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Anonymous wrote:Aug - Dec kids who are on top teams and on grade and get at least half playing time - clubs will leave them alone UNLESS parents want to move them down to younger team.

Aug - Dec kids who are on top team but NOT on grade - clubs will try to push them to younger team. Parents who disagree will get to argue their case but club will likely comply.

Aug - Dec kids who are NOT on top teams - honestly it doesn’t matter much to the club which teams your kids are on especially if much loved than RL. They will move your kids to grade level. This new change doesn’t impact your recruiting if your kids are playing in other leagues that ECNL/GA/ RL/MLSN

Clubs won't know or care about grades of most kids. Kids come and go.

They will because it makes a differnece in who gets recruited for college and who does not.

Clubs want winning teams, wins, records and championships matter more to clubs, because that is a big driver of club recruitment. Their primary goal is not to send kids off to college. So, the clubs will absolutely go into a season with the strongest team possible. That means playing the older kids from August and September (who are 1 grade above) to play on the team. Any club that does not play the oldest kids on the teams, will be at an 16.6% disadvantage against clubs who do include them. Grade year consideration is secondary to winning.

As someone with a u16 on a top GA team in the nation trust me teams stop caring about wins at u15 and everything changes to recruiting. I wish we could play top teams (that are actually trying to win) in tournaments. But it just doesnt happen anymore.

The person. thats telling you that clubs will group players by grade for recruiting is correct. This is for both GA and ECNL.

Recruiting is a priority BUT there are plenty of misaligned players in the current system where you can't group players by grade. I know a top team that recruited one from our club specifically to compete for a national title.

Current BY players are "misaligned" playjng up a grade nobody has issues with this.

Under SY misaligned Aug Sept birthdays will be playing down a grade and unrecruitable.

Stop with the unrecruitable nonsense! Worry about your own kid! Parents like you are the worst part about soccer.

Unrecruitable

Until they develop into better players they otherwise would have been because they got the room to grow that they deserved AND they rock the at grade-level showcase OR get good enough to play up. ... Forcing them to a B team Or the A team bench purely because of their grade would be a ticket to nowhere more often than not. You are wrong to try to push them there.

No I'm not.

Also, this is exactly what coaches and clubs will do. You just haven't experienced it yet.

Neither have you. While we are returning to Aug-Jul, it's not the same landscape. You're speculating on what you think will happen. The only evidence we've seen is grade will be considered but can't be the only factor. The latter suggests you're wrong about forcing up. (And this is from a top of the line ECNL club).

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Anonymous wrote:Aug - Dec kids who are on top teams and on grade and get at least half playing time - clubs will leave them alone UNLESS parents want to move them down to younger team.

Aug - Dec kids who are on top team but NOT on grade - clubs will try to push them to younger team. Parents who disagree will get to argue their case but club will likely comply.

Aug - Dec kids who are NOT on top teams - honestly it doesn’t matter much to the club which teams your kids are on especially if much loved than RL. They will move your kids to grade level. This new change doesn’t impact your recruiting if your kids are playing in other leagues that ECNL/GA/ RL/MLSN

Clubs won't know or care about grades of most kids. Kids come and go.

They will because it makes a differnece in who gets recruited for college and who does not.

Clubs want winning teams, wins, records and championships matter more to clubs, because that is a big driver of club recruitment. Their primary goal is not to send kids off to college. So, the clubs will absolutely go into a season with the strongest team possible. That means playing the older kids from August and September (who are 1 grade above) to play on the team. Any club that does not play the oldest kids on the teams, will be at an 16.6% disadvantage against clubs who do include them. Grade year consideration is secondary to winning.

As someone with a u16 on a top GA team in the nation trust me teams stop caring about wins at u15 and everything changes to recruiting. I wish we could play top teams (that are actually trying to win) in tournaments. But it just doesnt happen anymore.

The person. thats telling you that clubs will group players by grade for recruiting is correct. This is for both GA and ECNL.

Recruiting is a priority BUT there are plenty of misaligned players in the current system where you can't group players by grade. I know a top team that recruited one from our club specifically to compete for a national title.

Current BY players are "misaligned" playjng up a grade nobody has issues with this.

Under SY misaligned Aug Sept birthdays will be playing down a grade and unrecruitable.

Stop with the unrecruitable nonsense! Worry about your own kid! Parents like you are the worst part about soccer.

Unrecruitable

Until they develop into better players they otherwise would have been because they got the room to grow that they deserved AND they rock the at grade-level showcase OR get good enough to play up. ... Forcing them to a B team Or the A team bench purely because of their grade would be a ticket to nowhere more often than not. You are wrong to try to push them there.

No I'm not.

Also, this is exactly what coaches and clubs will do. You just haven't experienced it yet.

Do you have any proof of this, like a club has announced it will go grade instead of age groups, or is this something you are just merely speculating without any evidence?

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Anonymous wrote:Aug - Dec kids who are on top teams and on grade and get at least half playing time - clubs will leave them alone UNLESS parents want to move them down to younger team.

Aug - Dec kids who are on top team but NOT on grade - clubs will try to push them to younger team. Parents who disagree will get to argue their case but club will likely comply.

Aug - Dec kids who are NOT on top teams - honestly it doesn’t matter much to the club which teams your kids are on especially if much loved than RL. They will move your kids to grade level. This new change doesn’t impact your recruiting if your kids are playing in other leagues that ECNL/GA/ RL/MLSN

Clubs won't know or care about grades of most kids. Kids come and go.

They will because it makes a differnece in who gets recruited for college and who does not.

Clubs want winning teams, wins, records and championships matter more to clubs, because that is a big driver of club recruitment. Their primary goal is not to send kids off to college. So, the clubs will absolutely go into a season with the strongest team possible. That means playing the older kids from August and September (who are 1 grade above) to play on the team. Any club that does not play the oldest kids on the teams, will be at an 16.6% disadvantage against clubs who do include them. Grade year consideration is secondary to winning.

As someone with a u16 on a top GA team in the nation trust me teams stop caring about wins at u15 and everything changes to recruiting. I wish we could play top teams (that are actually trying to win) in tournaments. But it just doesnt happen anymore.

The person. thats telling you that clubs will group players by grade for recruiting is correct. This is for both GA and ECNL.

Recruiting is a priority BUT there are plenty of misaligned players in the current system where you can't group players by grade. I know a top team that recruited one from our club specifically to compete for a national title.

Current BY players are "misaligned" playjng up a grade nobody has issues with this.

Under SY misaligned Aug Sept birthdays will be playing down a grade and unrecruitable.

Stop with the unrecruitable nonsense! Worry about your own kid! Parents like you are the worst part about soccer.

Unrecruitable

Until they develop into better players they otherwise would have been because they got the room to grow that they deserved AND they rock the at grade-level showcase OR get good enough to play up. ... Forcing them to a B team Or the A team bench purely because of their grade would be a ticket to nowhere more often than not. You are wrong to try to push them there.

No I'm not.

Also, this is exactly what coaches and clubs will do. You just haven't experienced it yet.

Neither have you. While we are returning to Aug-Jul, it's not the same landscape. You're speculating on what you think will happen. The only evidence we've seen is grade will be considered but can't be the only factor. The latter suggests you're wrong about forcing up. (And this is from a top of the line ECNL club).

You literally wrote that clubs will be using grade in school to determine team placement. Then discounted it, like what was written didnt exist. 🤣

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Anonymous wrote:Aug - Dec kids who are on top teams and on grade and get at least half playing time - clubs will leave them alone UNLESS parents want to move them down to younger team.

Aug - Dec kids who are on top team but NOT on grade - clubs will try to push them to younger team. Parents who disagree will get to argue their case but club will likely comply.

Aug - Dec kids who are NOT on top teams - honestly it doesn’t matter much to the club which teams your kids are on especially if much loved than RL. They will move your kids to grade level. This new change doesn’t impact your recruiting if your kids are playing in other leagues that ECNL/GA/ RL/MLSN

Clubs won't know or care about grades of most kids. Kids come and go.

They will because it makes a differnece in who gets recruited for college and who does not.

Clubs want winning teams, wins, records and championships matter more to clubs, because that is a big driver of club recruitment. Their primary goal is not to send kids off to college. So, the clubs will absolutely go into a season with the strongest team possible. That means playing the older kids from August and September (who are 1 grade above) to play on the team. Any club that does not play the oldest kids on the teams, will be at an 16.6% disadvantage against clubs who do include them. Grade year consideration is secondary to winning.

As someone with a u16 on a top GA team in the nation trust me teams stop caring about wins at u15 and everything changes to recruiting. I wish we could play top teams (that are actually trying to win) in tournaments. But it just doesnt happen anymore.

The person. thats telling you that clubs will group players by grade for recruiting is correct. This is for both GA and ECNL.

Hahahaha...

Agree 💯 unfortunately the hard heads have to learn from personal experience.

Makes sense that teams could lean grade at junior year but not want anyone playing up before then. So best to stay on age until at least junior year.