ECNL moving to school year not calendar

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone catch this? Does this mean some will decide to not change? Or if is soccer says no some will change anyways?

While the decision will ultimately be made by US Soccer, the implementation could vary across sanctioning bodies. Our focus remains on ensuring that our league is prepared, regardless of the outcome.

DPL is saying that overall it's US Soccer decision.

DPL is also saying that if US Soccer doesn't give certain leagues what they want they'll likely go SY on their own.

So basically not much has changed and we still don't have a statement from US Soccer on the matter.

I was trying to understand that statement? Didn’t know what they meant by “the implementation could vary across sanctioning bodies”.

To me it sounded like maybe ECNL will goto grad year potentially if approved?

The statement “the implementation could vary across sanctioning bodies” could mean a lot of things.

I assume it means that with some leagues SY cutoff would be Aug 1. But in other leagues it might mean SY cutoff is whatever grade players are enrolled in.

BTW 16 year old held back freshman playing against 13 and 14 year old freshman is one of the major reasons why US Soccer changed to BY in back in 2018.

Hopefully they only go with grad year for Soph to Senior year. By then for most top level teams the physical differences won’t be as apparent.

Every level of complexity added makes the rules harder to enforce.

Count on leagues doing the laziest thing possible which means whatever grade in school is the level you play in.

Before above happens count on leagues providing all kinds of special waivers for private school kids and players from districts that have odd cutoff dates.

Ughh!! This is going to be madness!!!

Welcome to the reasons why US Soccer changed to BY in 2018.

Watch, the trapped player parents are going to be happy as a clam playing down with their age grouo while the Jan 1st birthday kids who used to be superstars get booted.

Which will end up with an all new group of parents complaining

It wouldn’t be the January superstars. What you will probably see happen if anything will be some May-July kids lose their spots on average. But great players will be fine regardless. It will be the kids who are currently Jan to July who are subs lose spots to kids who are subs or start from the Aug to Dec camp from the age group above.

Yep, and in 24-48 hours they're going to figure out what's going on and lobby for BY to their clubs.

I want BY and my kid is a trapped player. Either way we're going to be fine. However I can promise you that if SY happens someone is getting booted from a year down team.

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone catch this? Does this mean some will decide to not change? Or if is soccer says no some will change anyways?

While the decision will ultimately be made by US Soccer, the implementation could vary across sanctioning bodies. Our focus remains on ensuring that our league is prepared, regardless of the outcome.

DPL is saying that overall it's US Soccer decision.

DPL is also saying that if US Soccer doesn't give certain leagues what they want they'll likely go SY on their own.

So basically not much has changed and we still don't have a statement from US Soccer on the matter.

I was trying to understand that statement? Didn’t know what they meant by “the implementation could vary across sanctioning bodies”.

To me it sounded like maybe ECNL will goto grad year potentially if approved?

The statement “the implementation could vary across sanctioning bodies” could mean a lot of things.

I assume it means that with some leagues SY cutoff would be Aug 1. But in other leagues it might mean SY cutoff is whatever grade players are enrolled in.

BTW 16 year old held back freshman playing against 13 and 14 year old freshman is one of the major reasons why US Soccer changed to BY in back in 2018.

Hopefully they only go with grad year for Soph to Senior year. By then for most top level teams the physical differences won’t be as apparent.

Every level of complexity added makes the rules harder to enforce.

Count on leagues doing the laziest thing possible which means whatever grade in school is the level you play in.

Before above happens count on leagues providing all kinds of special waivers for private school kids and players from districts that have odd cutoff dates.

Ughh!! This is going to be madness!!!

Welcome to the reasons why US Soccer changed to BY in 2018.

Watch, the trapped player parents are going to be happy as a clam playing down with their age grouo while the Jan 1st birthday kids who used to be superstars get booted.

Which will end up with an all new group of parents complaining

It wouldn’t be the January superstars. What you will probably see happen if anything will be some May-July kids lose their spots on average. But great players will be fine regardless. It will be the kids who are currently Jan to July who are subs lose spots to kids who are subs or start from the Aug to Dec camp from the age group above.

If change to SY, half of the ECNL teams will be dropped. That is why Q1/Q2 parents are mad as hell to against any change.

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone catch this? Does this mean some will decide to not change? Or if is soccer says no some will change anyways?

While the decision will ultimately be made by US Soccer, the implementation could vary across sanctioning bodies. Our focus remains on ensuring that our league is prepared, regardless of the outcome.

DPL is saying that overall it's US Soccer decision.

DPL is also saying that if US Soccer doesn't give certain leagues what they want they'll likely go SY on their own.

So basically not much has changed and we still don't have a statement from US Soccer on the matter.

I was trying to understand that statement? Didn’t know what they meant by “the implementation could vary across sanctioning bodies”.

To me it sounded like maybe ECNL will goto grad year potentially if approved?

The statement “the implementation could vary across sanctioning bodies” could mean a lot of things.

I assume it means that with some leagues SY cutoff would be Aug 1. But in other leagues it might mean SY cutoff is whatever grade players are enrolled in.

BTW 16 year old held back freshman playing against 13 and 14 year old freshman is one of the major reasons why US Soccer changed to BY in back in 2018.

Hopefully they only go with grad year for Soph to Senior year. By then for most top level teams the physical differences won’t be as apparent.

Every level of complexity added makes the rules harder to enforce.

Count on leagues doing the laziest thing possible which means whatever grade in school is the level you play in.

Before above happens count on leagues providing all kinds of special waivers for private school kids and players from districts that have odd cutoff dates.

Ughh!! This is going to be madness!!!

Welcome to the reasons why US Soccer changed to BY in 2018.

Watch, the trapped player parents are going to be happy as a clam playing down with their age grouo while the Jan 1st birthday kids who used to be superstars get booted.

Which will end up with an all new group of parents complaining

It wouldn’t be the January superstars. What you will probably see happen if anything will be some May-July kids lose their spots on average. But great players will be fine regardless. It will be the kids who are currently Jan to July who are subs lose spots to kids who are subs or start from the Aug to Dec camp from the age group above.

If change to SY, half of the ECNL teams will be dropped. That is why Q1/Q2 parents are mad as hell to against any change.

Making the change from SY to BY back in 2018 was easy because the displaced players (ie trapped players) played up. This was a challenge for players.

Changing from BY to SY will mean top players a year older will suddenly be playing down. As much as coach's want to stick with current teams if they plan to stay competitive they'll need to recruit the top age up trapped players.

Bye bye Jan-July birthdays have fun on the B team.

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone catch this? Does this mean some will decide to not change? Or if is soccer says no some will change anyways?

While the decision will ultimately be made by US Soccer, the implementation could vary across sanctioning bodies. Our focus remains on ensuring that our league is prepared, regardless of the outcome.

DPL is saying that overall it's US Soccer decision.

DPL is also saying that if US Soccer doesn't give certain leagues what they want they'll likely go SY on their own.

So basically not much has changed and we still don't have a statement from US Soccer on the matter.

I was trying to understand that statement? Didn’t know what they meant by “the implementation could vary across sanctioning bodies”.

To me it sounded like maybe ECNL will goto grad year potentially if approved?

The statement “the implementation could vary across sanctioning bodies” could mean a lot of things.

I assume it means that with some leagues SY cutoff would be Aug 1. But in other leagues it might mean SY cutoff is whatever grade players are enrolled in.

BTW 16 year old held back freshman playing against 13 and 14 year old freshman is one of the major reasons why US Soccer changed to BY in back in 2018.

Hopefully they only go with grad year for Soph to Senior year. By then for most top level teams the physical differences won’t be as apparent.

Every level of complexity added makes the rules harder to enforce.

Count on leagues doing the laziest thing possible which means whatever grade in school is the level you play in.

Before above happens count on leagues providing all kinds of special waivers for private school kids and players from districts that have odd cutoff dates.

Ughh!! This is going to be madness!!!

Welcome to the reasons why US Soccer changed to BY in 2018.

Watch, the trapped player parents are going to be happy as a clam playing down with their age grouo while the Jan 1st birthday kids who used to be superstars get booted.

Which will end up with an all new group of parents complaining

It wouldn’t be the January superstars. What you will probably see happen if anything will be some May-July kids lose their spots on average. But great players will be fine regardless. It will be the kids who are currently Jan to July who are subs lose spots to kids who are subs or start from the Aug to Dec camp from the age group above.

If change to SY, half of the ECNL teams will be dropped. That is why Q1/Q2 parents are mad as hell to against any change.

Making the change from SY to BY back in 2018 was easy because the displaced players (ie trapped players) played up. This was a challenge for players.

Changing from BY to SY will mean top players a year older will suddenly be playing down. As much as coach's want to stick with current teams if they plan to stay competitive they'll need to recruit the top age up trapped players.

Bye bye Jan-July birthdays have fun on the B team.

Any great player will be fine. You will see the Jan-July kids fighting for roster spots get dropped. The top players BY or SY are fine regardless of a switch or not. Players who only have a size advantage are the ones who are potentially in trouble. If ECNL goes straight grad year then will see some hold backs taking spots also regardless of birth month.

But I don’t see that as a girls problem of anything there are more girls who started early than late.

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone catch this? Does this mean some will decide to not change? Or if is soccer says no some will change anyways?

While the decision will ultimately be made by US Soccer, the implementation could vary across sanctioning bodies. Our focus remains on ensuring that our league is prepared, regardless of the outcome.

DPL is saying that overall it's US Soccer decision.

DPL is also saying that if US Soccer doesn't give certain leagues what they want they'll likely go SY on their own.

So basically not much has changed and we still don't have a statement from US Soccer on the matter.

I was trying to understand that statement? Didn’t know what they meant by “the implementation could vary across sanctioning bodies”.

To me it sounded like maybe ECNL will goto grad year potentially if approved?

The statement “the implementation could vary across sanctioning bodies” could mean a lot of things.

I assume it means that with some leagues SY cutoff would be Aug 1. But in other leagues it might mean SY cutoff is whatever grade players are enrolled in.

BTW 16 year old held back freshman playing against 13 and 14 year old freshman is one of the major reasons why US Soccer changed to BY in back in 2018.

Hopefully they only go with grad year for Soph to Senior year. By then for most top level teams the physical differences won’t be as apparent.

Every level of complexity added makes the rules harder to enforce.

Count on leagues doing the laziest thing possible which means whatever grade in school is the level you play in.

Before above happens count on leagues providing all kinds of special waivers for private school kids and players from districts that have odd cutoff dates.

Ughh!! This is going to be madness!!!

Welcome to the reasons why US Soccer changed to BY in 2018.

Watch, the trapped player parents are going to be happy as a clam playing down with their age grouo while the Jan 1st birthday kids who used to be superstars get booted.

Which will end up with an all new group of parents complaining

It wouldn’t be the January superstars. What you will probably see happen if anything will be some May-July kids lose their spots on average. But great players will be fine regardless. It will be the kids who are currently Jan to July who are subs lose spots to kids who are subs or start from the Aug to Dec camp from the age group above.

If change to SY, half of the ECNL teams will be dropped. That is why Q1/Q2 parents are mad as hell to against any change.

Making the change from SY to BY back in 2018 was easy because the displaced players (ie trapped players) played up. This was a challenge for players.

Changing from BY to SY will mean top players a year older will suddenly be playing down. As much as coach's want to stick with current teams if they plan to stay competitive they'll need to recruit the top age up trapped players.

Bye bye Jan-July birthdays have fun on the B team.

SD Surf 2011 ECNL will get 3 2010 NL players, 6 or 7 RL players (they have 2 RL teams), and several late birthday players from MLSN teams like Albion, City, and CV. I would imagine that 70% to 80% of players will be replaced. To lose an ECNL spot in Surf is unthinkable to those Q1/Q2 parents.

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone catch this? Does this mean some will decide to not change? Or if is soccer says no some will change anyways?

While the decision will ultimately be made by US Soccer, the implementation could vary across sanctioning bodies. Our focus remains on ensuring that our league is prepared, regardless of the outcome.

DPL is saying that overall it's US Soccer decision.

DPL is also saying that if US Soccer doesn't give certain leagues what they want they'll likely go SY on their own.

So basically not much has changed and we still don't have a statement from US Soccer on the matter.

I was trying to understand that statement? Didn’t know what they meant by “the implementation could vary across sanctioning bodies”.

To me it sounded like maybe ECNL will goto grad year potentially if approved?

The statement “the implementation could vary across sanctioning bodies” could mean a lot of things.

I assume it means that with some leagues SY cutoff would be Aug 1. But in other leagues it might mean SY cutoff is whatever grade players are enrolled in.

BTW 16 year old held back freshman playing against 13 and 14 year old freshman is one of the major reasons why US Soccer changed to BY in back in 2018.

Hopefully they only go with grad year for Soph to Senior year. By then for most top level teams the physical differences won’t be as apparent.

Every level of complexity added makes the rules harder to enforce.

Count on leagues doing the laziest thing possible which means whatever grade in school is the level you play in.

Before above happens count on leagues providing all kinds of special waivers for private school kids and players from districts that have odd cutoff dates.

Ughh!! This is going to be madness!!!

Welcome to the reasons why US Soccer changed to BY in 2018.

Watch, the trapped player parents are going to be happy as a clam playing down with their age grouo while the Jan 1st birthday kids who used to be superstars get booted.

Which will end up with an all new group of parents complaining

It wouldn’t be the January superstars. What you will probably see happen if anything will be some May-July kids lose their spots on average. But great players will be fine regardless. It will be the kids who are currently Jan to July who are subs lose spots to kids who are subs or start from the Aug to Dec camp from the age group above.

If change to SY, half of the ECNL teams will be dropped. That is why Q1/Q2 parents are mad as hell to against any change.

Making the change from SY to BY back in 2018 was easy because the displaced players (ie trapped players) played up. This was a challenge for players.

Changing from BY to SY will mean top players a year older will suddenly be playing down. As much as coach's want to stick with current teams if they plan to stay competitive they'll need to recruit the top age up trapped players.

Bye bye Jan-July birthdays have fun on the B team.

SD Surf 2011 ECNL will get 3 2010 NL players, 6 or 7 RL players (they have 2 RL teams), and several late birthday players from MLSN teams like Albion, City, and CV. I would imagine that 70% to 80% of players will be replaced. To lose an ECNL spot in Surf is unthinkable to those Q1/Q2 parents.

Every team will see different levels of turnover. The boys side if GY also would mean any holdbacks from the 2010 age group would also be “2011” or “2029” team eligible. I hope everyone’s ready for a wild ride because we are about to get the wild Wild West during spring tryouts.

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone catch this? Does this mean some will decide to not change? Or if is soccer says no some will change anyways?

While the decision will ultimately be made by US Soccer, the implementation could vary across sanctioning bodies. Our focus remains on ensuring that our league is prepared, regardless of the outcome.

DPL is saying that overall it's US Soccer decision.

DPL is also saying that if US Soccer doesn't give certain leagues what they want they'll likely go SY on their own.

So basically not much has changed and we still don't have a statement from US Soccer on the matter.

I was trying to understand that statement? Didn’t know what they meant by “the implementation could vary across sanctioning bodies”.

To me it sounded like maybe ECNL will goto grad year potentially if approved?

The statement “the implementation could vary across sanctioning bodies” could mean a lot of things.

I assume it means that with some leagues SY cutoff would be Aug 1. But in other leagues it might mean SY cutoff is whatever grade players are enrolled in.

BTW 16 year old held back freshman playing against 13 and 14 year old freshman is one of the major reasons why US Soccer changed to BY in back in 2018.

Hopefully they only go with grad year for Soph to Senior year. By then for most top level teams the physical differences won’t be as apparent.

Every level of complexity added makes the rules harder to enforce.

Count on leagues doing the laziest thing possible which means whatever grade in school is the level you play in.

Before above happens count on leagues providing all kinds of special waivers for private school kids and players from districts that have odd cutoff dates.

Ughh!! This is going to be madness!!!

Welcome to the reasons why US Soccer changed to BY in 2018.

Watch, the trapped player parents are going to be happy as a clam playing down with their age grouo while the Jan 1st birthday kids who used to be superstars get booted.

Which will end up with an all new group of parents complaining

It wouldn’t be the January superstars. What you will probably see happen if anything will be some May-July kids lose their spots on average. But great players will be fine regardless. It will be the kids who are currently Jan to July who are subs lose spots to kids who are subs or start from the Aug to Dec camp from the age group above.

If change to SY, half of the ECNL teams will be dropped. That is why Q1/Q2 parents are mad as hell to against any change.

Making the change from SY to BY back in 2018 was easy because the displaced players (ie trapped players) played up. This was a challenge for players.

Changing from BY to SY will mean top players a year older will suddenly be playing down. As much as coach's want to stick with current teams if they plan to stay competitive they'll need to recruit the top age up trapped players.

Bye bye Jan-July birthdays have fun on the B team.

SD Surf 2011 ECNL will get 3 2010 NL players, 6 or 7 RL players (they have 2 RL teams), and several late birthday players from MLSN teams like Albion, City, and CV. I would imagine that 70% to 80% of players will be replaced. To lose an ECNL spot in Surf is unthinkable to those Q1/Q2 parents.

Agreed 👍

Wait until the new faces start showing up at practice. Could easily be 10+ current players that lose their roster spots.

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone catch this? Does this mean some will decide to not change? Or if is soccer says no some will change anyways?

While the decision will ultimately be made by US Soccer, the implementation could vary across sanctioning bodies. Our focus remains on ensuring that our league is prepared, regardless of the outcome.

DPL is saying that overall it's US Soccer decision.

DPL is also saying that if US Soccer doesn't give certain leagues what they want they'll likely go SY on their own.

So basically not much has changed and we still don't have a statement from US Soccer on the matter.

I was trying to understand that statement? Didn’t know what they meant by “the implementation could vary across sanctioning bodies”.

To me it sounded like maybe ECNL will goto grad year potentially if approved?

The statement “the implementation could vary across sanctioning bodies” could mean a lot of things.

I assume it means that with some leagues SY cutoff would be Aug 1. But in other leagues it might mean SY cutoff is whatever grade players are enrolled in.

BTW 16 year old held back freshman playing against 13 and 14 year old freshman is one of the major reasons why US Soccer changed to BY in back in 2018.

Hopefully they only go with grad year for Soph to Senior year. By then for most top level teams the physical differences won’t be as apparent.

Every level of complexity added makes the rules harder to enforce.

Count on leagues doing the laziest thing possible which means whatever grade in school is the level you play in.

Before above happens count on leagues providing all kinds of special waivers for private school kids and players from districts that have odd cutoff dates.

Ughh!! This is going to be madness!!!

Welcome to the reasons why US Soccer changed to BY in 2018.

Watch, the trapped player parents are going to be happy as a clam playing down with their age grouo while the Jan 1st birthday kids who used to be superstars get booted.

Which will end up with an all new group of parents complaining

It wouldn’t be the January superstars. What you will probably see happen if anything will be some May-July kids lose their spots on average. But great players will be fine regardless. It will be the kids who are currently Jan to July who are subs lose spots to kids who are subs or start from the Aug to Dec camp from the age group above.

If change to SY, half of the ECNL teams will be dropped. That is why Q1/Q2 parents are mad as hell to against any change.

Making the change from SY to BY back in 2018 was easy because the displaced players (ie trapped players) played up. This was a challenge for players.

Changing from BY to SY will mean top players a year older will suddenly be playing down. As much as coach's want to stick with current teams if they plan to stay competitive they'll need to recruit the top age up trapped players.

Bye bye Jan-July birthdays have fun on the B team.

SD Surf 2011 ECNL will get 3 2010 NL players, 6 or 7 RL players (they have 2 RL teams), and several late birthday players from MLSN teams like Albion, City, and CV. I would imagine that 70% to 80% of players will be replaced. To lose an ECNL spot in Surf is unthinkable to those Q1/Q2 parents.

Every team will see different levels of turnover. The boys side if GY also would mean any holdbacks from the 2010 age group would also be “2011” or “2029” team eligible. I hope everyone’s ready for a wild ride because we are about to get the wild Wild West during spring tryouts.

Nobody is going to waste their time with tryouts. Trapped player parents will make deals and play down. Current players will get booted.

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Will ECNL put out a written statement like DPL did, beyond the podcast?

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If school year is put back in place.

My daughter is U12 born in July but is in 5th grade. She is in a top pre ECNL team. Will she have eligible to playing u12 again next year?

I'm confused about what will happen in this case.

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Anonymous wrote:If school year is put back in place.

My daughter is U12 born in July but is in 5th grade. She is in a top pre ECNL team. Will she have eligible to playing u12 again next year?

I'm confused about what will happen in this case.

No one knows. Maybe there will be some club discretion at the younger years for July/August kids to place them in their skills appropriate team.

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Anonymous wrote:Humorous...

First it started out that after ECNL leadership brought up SY in a podcast that the change would be coming in August. Then it was a 100% lock that the decision would happen in October. Then the 100% lock SY decision moved November.

Now the November meeting that was a 100% lock on SY decision changed to "the topic will be discussed" and a decision won't happen until next summer.

Anyone else get the feeling that ECNL SY proponents are just making things up to start rumors?

Sure seems that way to me.

If you listen to people online you are a fool. Even listening to myself would indeed be foolish. But they never said on any of the podcasts this would be decided in August. All we heard was there was “momentum” towards a shift to school year. Until the podcast last month we never got anything officially out in the open. Which they said it would be settled by late October or early November I believe?

We are at a ECNL showcase in SD and a team manager at one of the large girls clubs said their director/coach said we will know sometime before thanksgiving and nothing was decided officially at this point. So no one knows for sure not even the big ECNL clubs.

Damn, I make fun of you for making things up and you reply with more made up nonsense.

So pathetic...

I said believing people online is foolish? Also that was not made up. Maybe the person who told me that made it up?… The world may never know!?

If I told you the sky was green and horses pooped rainbows would you jump online and tell everyone about how the sky was green and horses pooped rainbows?

At some point you need to step back and realize that people are playing you.

Trust, but verify.

The fact you are putting scenarios such as those with people posting anything about a change to school year is kind of crazy. ECNL president addressed that the rumors of the discussion are true. Does that mean it’s happening idk? Maybe? But at this point it being a possibility is definitely a real thing.

If you go on the co cal forum they have a thread where the person who started said he heard from league operators it is going to happen. And that it will be decided in November by us soccer. That post was made probably a good 3 weeks before the ECNL president said the exact same thing on the podcast? So did that guy just make all that up and then just happen the ECNL president made up the same exact statement?

I’m not saying this is happening but there’s definitely a chance it will.

That guy, literally copy/pasted a post from here, DCUM, and passed it off as an email.

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If the change is made to the Aug 1 to July 31 dates for cutoffs, it will be interesting to see how rosters shake out.

My DD's 2009 ECNL team is an interesting mix - my DD is a January birthday but there are about 6 girls on the team who fall into that post Aug 1 spot. So, they would drop down to play with the now 2010 squad.

The 2008 team has about the same number of girls with post Aug 1 b-days so they also move down.

Roster turnover has been pretty low - 1 to 2 spots per year. She is still playing with majority of the girls from U13 and even some of the same girls from way back in U10. I don't see a big influx of "older" players from our RL teams moving onto the ENCL-NL rosters.

Being 2009, we are beyond all the trapped player early HS business, but there is some concern with large roster changeover from my DD.

All speculation at this point, and really beyond our direct control. So, at this point, I say sit back and see where things fall and worry about it then.

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Anonymous wrote:DPL put out a statement:

https://dpleague.org/birth-year/

Well I guess that other dude feels real stupid now! Lol

Why would anyone feel stupid for waiting until an official statement is made?

Also the DPL link only confirms that discussions are happening. Not what the outcome of those discussions might be.

One thing that's worth calling out is that DPL is saying that in the end it's US Soccer's decision.

We already know what the outcome is, you know also. Look in your heart. It’s already over. These talks have been going on for a while and so has the push behind the scenes.

At this point is just everyone getting their ducks in a row and Us soccer saying. Okay….

ECNL president already said more likely to happen than not. And the majority of club operators agree a one time disruption is worth it to get this right.

Because that’s not wishcasting, assuming and conspiracy making…

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Anonymous wrote:If this ends up happening there's going to be all kinds of trapped GA and ECNL players taking an age level down roster spots.

Haha watch the moms moan and cry then.

The whiners will still be whiners. They don’t understand that about themselves, there is always an external excuse to be had for their child not fulfilling their dream for them.