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ECNL moving to school year not calendar
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Anonymous
| I am not the mysterious person who posted the "week before xmas" but, I would bet a whole lot on Aug 1st b/c that's what they did prior to 2017. |
Anonymous
Don't feed the trolls. |
Anonymous
| A club is hosting a town hall meeting on 12/10 to discuss the age group change. I hope we can have the news before that date. |
Anonymous
That's vague. What league? |
Anonymous
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Without stating who I am, I can only say the board spent most of their time reading online forums and trying to imagine who wrote which post. Most board members turned out to be amateurs painters who managed to sketch almost three dozen images. Needless to say, most images were of overweight men in their 40s, about 50% of whom were bold or were hats.
I could also confirm that there was a big debate on the matter of birth year. It finally came down to an arm wrestling match between ECNL CEO and an angry Q2 parent during the happy hour. It led to a draw. The beer pong battle followed, it was still a tie. Finally, during the after party, it became obvious that education level, income and gender played a crucial part in how everyone voted on the cutoff. The poor and uneducated mainly favored 7/1 cutoff but highly educated and wealthy women had some other ideas on their mind. In the end, only one thing was agreed. That it was too much fun to watch everyone argue on the internet. And everyone wanted to keep the mega threads alive until Christmas or maybe even until April 1. |
Anonymous
| 289 here we come |
Anonymous
| If ECNL is the only league to do SY in 25/26 while other leagues plan to do in 26/27, then ECNL, RL and pre ECNL will grab many good Q3/Q4 players, esp. the upcoming trap players from other leagues. |
Anonymous
That’s a good point |
Anonymous
| The last time they made the change in September and gave everyone some time to implement it but just about everyone went ahead and started using it in their next registration. I think telling a team they would delay breaking up a team for another year won’t inspire much confidence unless that team is in its last year. Teams that will have their youngest play up won’t really won’t be affected internally although the level of their competition might increase. |
Anonymous
💯, my daughter will be a trapped 8th grader next year on a GA club. We will switch to ECNL even though it adds a bigger inconvenience getting to and from practice if this happens. |
Anonymous
I doubt your kid is on a GA team. I also doubt that you'll drive an extra 30 minutes to and from practice just because of a rule change. |
Anonymous
If you throw enough things at the wall, something will stick eventually. |
Anonymous
She is and we will. If this is the difference between having a full season this year and not having to worry about having 3/4 of her team playing for recruits when she is just a freshman and can't be recruited. Or having a crappy junior year experience. The list goes on. |
Anonymous
Yeah sure. No one is talking about GA not changing as well. You ecnl parents are so ridiculous |