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ECNL moving to school year not calendar
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Anonymous
College has made the U.S. a pretty advanced nation. Just sayin'. |
Anonymous
Not in "soccer" aka futbol. Just sayin'. |
Anonymous
College soccer gives kids more future opportunities (because of the education) than futbol, the kids and parents know this. And football folks know college is the ticket, not the pros, also. Some youth soccer umbrella organization was never going to change this by going birth year to copy foreign countries. Giving up say 5,000 STEM grads for say one Landon Donovan and 4,999 Uber drivers maybe a deal you want but wouldn't be one that most of the 5,000 would take. The opportunity costs are not aligned for pro soccer in the U.S. Don't blame the player, blame the game. |
Anonymous
You sound like the ultimate safety net type of person. Try hard but not that hard. Pathetic. |
Anonymous
You got kinda lost there. People aren't using education as a safety net, they are using it as a path that rewards hard work. See the thread on the reasons kids quit soccer. |
Anonymous
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I feel like I’m missing something here, so I need some DCUM help. My daughter turned 11 on September 9th and currently plays on a Virginia based pre-ECNL 2013 team. She’s in 6th grade.
If 8/1 is the new cutoff does that mean she could be on a team with 6th graders next year when she’s in 7th? Meaning now she potentially becomes a trapped player when she wasn’t before? |
Anonymous
Not a problem, she can stay on her current team. You can always play up. |
Anonymous
Absolutely, but that’s the case now, right? Unless I’m missing something this feels like (in VA at least where the SY cutoff is 9/30) we’re just moving the trapped player window from 10/1 - 12/31 to 8/1 - 9/30. |
Anonymous
| If you can list any pro of using BY compared to SY, just notify the ECNL. In their podcast, they clearly indicate SY is better than BY and they will proceed. They hope the other leagues will follow. The vote on Nov. is just a "show". Such an important change has already been communicated and decided along with all the interested parties long before the vote. The "vote" will not have any surprise to anyone involved. My guess is ECNL/GA/DPL will do SY in 25/26. Socal League will be 26/27. MLSN and EA will stay in BY. |
Anonymous
Ugh why is this so challenging for people to understand. If your child is currently playing with their grade level and the cutoff changes they can always play up to stay with players in their own grade. They are not trapped they have a choice. Currently the trapped players are not ALLOWED to play with their grade level because they are too 'old'. Stop misusing TRAPPED. |
Anonymous
I think it doesn’t solve the trapped player problem but there will be fewer trapped players because there will be only two months now instead of three in your case. So, when your daughter is in 9th grade, she would have three options: A) Play up above her age bracket to play on a team with mainly 9th graders B) Don’t join HS team C) Join HS team but miss a season |
Anonymous
This is a bit misleading. It’s a choice only if the kid is good enough/well developed to play up the age bracket. So, it’s not 100% based on choices. |
Anonymous
Stop being so sensitive. This is fairly nuanced for people, especially ones like me fairly new to travel soccer who have kids in VA that fall into this new window. That said, your reply actually helped. So, thanks. |
Anonymous
+1 outside the benefits of team sports, physical and mental health,…. The only non-soccer and health related goal I’ve got in supporting my daughter at the level of ECNL is a separate admission line to a college she chooses. Not pros. Not even D1 (that’s up to her). It’s to get her into the best school she can to get the best education. Could she get in anyway without soccer? Possibly. But the admission line is likely shorter with ECNL/GA so I pay and she plays. |
Anonymous
Completely agree. This past week my 2012 ECNL daughter played a scrimmage against her sister’s 2010 ECRL trapped players and one impact team. The 2 2010 teams had enough trapped players to field 15 kids. None of these kids got a choice to play up or down. They are just sitting out a season while the rest of their team plays in HS. |