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Anonymous
| I think ECNL can do SY right away but compete in the name of BY. So, the 2009/8 to 2010/7 team will become the 2009 team. 2008/8 and older will have a new age group for the transition year. This will avoid one-year uncertainty. |
Anonymous
The 12% is grad year which (tin foil hat time) I’m hearing ECNL IS strongly considering for Fall 26. More than likely will go 8/1 for Fall 25 as well. |
Anonymous
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This is the best they could do? The worst option they could go with is of course the option they chose! Next year will be terrible.
Is this posted on thier official site yet or just sent by google docs? |
Anonymous
ECNL has said it wants to revert to 8/1-7/31 - not grad year. And us soccer is giving them the green light. |
Anonymous
I did say TFH but don’t be surprised if ECNL goes Fall 25 for 8/1 cut off. And I really have heard GY is something they are kicking the tires on. |
Anonymous
Many teams/leagues did not think they would be ready. We can argue if they are lazy or incompetent but I do believe them. |
Anonymous
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I think most are lazy. Just get the job done and move on already. Each individual club should be able to handle 1-6 player movement per team, they will do that anyway at tryout.
Flex your muscle US Soccer and make people work to get it done. Oh wait it going to take you till March 25 to figure out birth range, something you knew was coming for months. Total weakness by them! |
Anonymous
| My son's ECNL team has a 30% to 40% roster change every season. TBH, adding 1 or 2 Q3/Q4 players from an older NL team is really not a big deal. |
Anonymous
| I guess my 2011 Q4 starter on a top Ecnl team will get to play football next year during the trap year. I have pushed him away from it for years but looks like he will get the opportunity now. We get the glory of being the last trapped year team….oh joy |
Anonymous
| We're definitely getting 400 now folks!! Told ya it was better to let BY'ers gloat for a bit before dropping the obvious hammer, lol! |
Anonymous
Aaaaand the tables turn once again. This is AMAZING. Not one official word and we got 50 pages out of it. Now we get to debate if the misspelled blurry facebook email is a fake or the professional looking pdf that finally got leaked. |
Anonymous
Haha! Roll out the five stages of grief for the BY folks. No loss staying BY. My daughter is a beast and has played a grade up her whole life. Its weird but she figures it out. When they go SY your 2012 Q1 kid is going to need a new team. It's a bit cruel but I don't feel bad because she was going to take your scholarship eventually. The sooner we stop lying to some of these kids the better. |
Anonymous
| Each leak is looking more and more legit. The truth is almost here folks! RAE deniers are about to get a wake up call. Get ready to see what a difference a quarter makes! |
Anonymous
| Let's wait ECNL annoucement. I hope they will do sth for the trap players soon. |
Anonymous
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How does everyone STILL not understand how this works? The change to SY has been telegraphed for MONTHS now. You don't thank all your constituents for their hard work over the past few months and put out a questionnaire with two options for the change only to say oops sorry we're not gonna change. Remember, this is also all about $$$ for US soccer - and finances drive decision-making. The hit on finances since the change to BY are very clear. And NOW, they're release statistics showing a clear majority being against BY (59% are against BY) ... again, you don't do that only to say actually wait screw the majority we're gonna leave it as BY. This *is* happening, but just not overnight as some SY supporters had wished for. As a previous poster said ~100 pages ago, what you're seeing play out right now is change management by US soccer. Hell, they even use those words ("change management") in the official-looking PDF. Tell them what you're gonna tell them, tell them, then tell them what you told them. I get that US Soccer may not make decisions in a way that YOU'D make them if you were running a massive national enterprise, but what they're doing is VERY consistent with how large scale organizations make large scale changes: telegraphed, gradual, and (my guess) with finer and finer guidance as the months go along. In the end, to US Soccer's credit, the way they're playing this is going to look less like a directive from the enterprise and more-and-more like a decision that member organizations "came to on their own" given US Soccer putting their finger on the scale in the background. That, my friends, is change management at its best - when you want the change but you make constituents believe they decided on their own will to change.
Honestly I want to stop reading this damn thread but also secretly look forward to hitting 350 by Thanksgiving. This post gets us one comment closer! |