ECNL moving to school year not calendar

[Anonymous]

I’m still struggling with this. My DD now in HS has August 31 bday. Her school year teammate has Sept 2 bday. They are a full year apart in age and play on two different BY teams for club. but in the same grade as both met the Sept 1 cutoff for being xx age in kindergarten.
What happens with the new system? Same team or different team?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m still struggling with this. My DD now in HS has August 31 bday. Her school year teammate has Sept 2 bday. They are a full year apart in age and play on two different BY teams for club. but in the same grade as both met the Sept 1 cutoff for being xx age in kindergarten.
What happens with the new system? Same team or different team?

You realize there are examples exactly like this wherever the cutoff is, right? December 30th and January 2nd. It's not a feature of *where* the cutoff is, it's a feature of having *a* cutoff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How will the age brackets be named?

Maybe with school grade ordinal numbers?

Something like Chicago Fire 6th grade, Cleveland Force 3rd grade etc ….

I guess this all U14, U13, U12 naming will go away forever.

Example using current BY bracket for 2015s below:

BY = Jan 1 - Dec 31 2015 = U10
SY = Aug 1 2015 - Sep 30 2016 = U10

The only thing that would go away is teams that formally/informally use the actual birth year (e.g., “2015B Color”) in their team name…

[Anonymous]

My dates ^ are wrong for SY. But you get the point (hopefully).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So my u14 / 2011 DS can technically move down to the U13 team in this upcoming spring??

We've got to stop looking at this as playing down.
Playing down has a negative connotation.

These are new teams. New records. New lineups.

Maybe this is the opportunity to play with School Year team?

I’m thrilled about him being able to play with the kid who was born a month later. Bring it on. I’m asking as I want my DS to get to know kids next year who will be full time teammates moving forward.

My DS has a December bday and for years has done double practice on years ASA aligned u9/u10 at the same time to be with both his teammates and his classmates. It’s an opportunity for him to be with those kids in the future and he will enjoy seeing his classmates at practice.

I’m the everyday person who is not the 1% for pro/college. I’m the 99% who wants my son to enjoy his time and not quit soccer because next year he has no spring team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m still struggling with this. My DD now in HS has August 31 bday. Her school year teammate has Sept 2 bday. They are a full year apart in age and play on two different BY teams for club. but in the same grade as both met the Sept 1 cutoff for being xx age in kindergarten.
What happens with the new system? Same team or different team?

Near as I read it, they would be in the same situation they are now. If they want to play on the same club team, they would need to find a team where the younger of the 2 can play up a year. Conjecture would be that now being so close to the cutoff, it would be more likely to be allowed under a SY date system than BY.

[Anonymous]

The change from BY to SY will happen. Organizations don't telegraph stuff and then not do it. It's called Change Management, not Change Speculation.

Changing from BY to SY will fix way more problems than it creates. A subsequent shift to GY will then cause way more problems than it fixes. The only people arguing that BY is the best system are the ones benefitting from RAE today and who believe their kid is one well-cropped VEO clip away from a shot at playing in Europe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The change from BY to SY will happen. Organizations don't telegraph stuff and then not do it. It's called Change Management, not Change Speculation.

Changing from BY to SY will fix way more problems than it creates. A subsequent shift to GY will then cause way more problems than it fixes. The only people arguing that BY is the best system are the ones benefitting from RAE today and who believe their kid is one well-cropped VEO clip away from a shot at playing in Europe.

Yeah, agree 100% !

[Anonymous]

What about USYS ODP (Olympic Development Program) and USCS id2 Regional and National Identification?

Will these programs follow the SY system for tryouts?

[Anonymous]

MLS Next and GA look like they are staying BY

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MLS Next and GA look like they are staying BY[

Why is that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How will the age brackets be named?

Maybe with school grade ordinal numbers?

Something like Chicago Fire 6th grade, Cleveland Force 3rd grade etc ….

I guess this all U14, U13, U12 naming will go away forever.

I suspect they will use graduation year like 2029, 2030, etc.

ECNL and other academies will go grad year. Everyone else will use U8-U18.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MLS Next and GA look like they are staying BY

Quit spitting BS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MLS Next and GA look like they are staying BY

My daughter plays GA our club manager said we will change with whatever US soccer decides. Which looks like it’s going to be School year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MLS Next and GA look like they are staying BY

My daughter plays GA our club manager said we will change with whatever US soccer decides. Which looks like it’s going to be School year.

My Daughter plays GA and out club manager hasn't said anything.