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Anonymous
| Haha get back to soccer? This thread stopped being about soccer about page 2. The rest of the hundreds of pages are just opinions and bitching. |
Anonymous
| ODP worked out well for Lucas Mendes |
Anonymous
No - ARL and DCU did. But as they say, victory has a thousand fathers. |
Anonymous
No kidding. Geez. Here's one. What is the general consensus on the impact of the age group change for U11 and above? Are there a lot of completely new teams out there where families used the change to find a new club? Are there teams who kept most of the group together and are playing some kids up a year? Fall season should be interesting. |
Anonymous
That "one" has been asked multiple times and is probably on 50 pages within this thread |
Anonymous
HP Elite would say they had a hand in the making. Although I believe if Lucas had had none of the additional training, he would still have been a phenomenal player. |
Anonymous
| W-L HS also was there in the end |
Anonymous
youth soccer rankings says it's impossible to track teams under the old system to the new so they are discarding all rankings before Aug 1st. NCSL and any other league that has pro/rel is probably going to take a long time to get sorted out correctly. http://youthsoccerrankings.us/ |
Anonymous
I don't think it will take more than 1 year, essentially two seasons, for NCSL and most leagues to position teams where they need to be. Fall 2016 is going to be fun to watch though, I kinda like how the teams were split up, it gives a chance to a few kids to start over and perhaps try to get a different reputation than the one they had. It's not necessarily like swapping clubs, but there is still a 'fresh start aura' that has been felt at the practices. |
Anonymous
OMG. Do you really believe that? It's becoming standard practice to drop Academy in senior year in HS so the kids can play at least 1 year of HS soccer. I've seen several hundreds people at HS games for otherwise unremarkable games, and then see 50 at club games - even regional championships. Elite club players do it for the fun and excitement and time with their school friends. All the HS coach has to do is watch them play and don't do anything to injure them. |
Anonymous
| My sons club coach urged kids to not play high school. |
Anonymous
Of course he did, that is the position of 99% of club coaches of elite teams. |
Anonymous
I think it's a good question. The first 49 pages or so of the discussion on this issue started with philosophical arguments (the sky is falling people vs. the no biggie ones) then covered the pre-implementation practical questions as people tried to figure out what their club was going to do, whether other clubs might be a better option, etc. Now that most people actually know what their kids' rosters look like and teams are beginning pre-season training, we can begin to asses the impact for our families and clubs and on the larger soccer community. |
Anonymous
I read a lot of soccer forums and sites and had never seen youthsoccerrankings before you linked to it. It doesn't seem remotely accurate for region 1, at least for the boys' age group I'm most familiar with (2000s/U17 for the coming year). Gotsoccer is flawed, but seems more on target. It is letting teams keep points if they have a sufficient number of returning players. |
Anonymous
On the DA-v-HS front, the Mendes example is atypical for top players in our experience. Most college coaches want their recruits in DA their junior and senior years so they can get the benefit of the superior training and decrease the risk of injury. It's common for players to leave DA and return to high school if they don't get much DA playing time or don't get recruited, but not for a player at his level. Either way, agree that his HS played little role in his development. It does happen, but rarely in public schools. |