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11/27/2024 10:39

Subject: ECNL moving to school year not calendar

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Anonymous wrote:For club players their last chance to impress is their junior year season. For Trapped players they basically dont have a normal team to play on and have to hope that they have been spotted in their sophomore year.

Trapped players don’t lose their junior season….

Yes they do. Why you ask? Because during their prime recruiting year when they should be at showcases, they are on a team full of seniors who are focussed elsewhere and bail out- especially if they have decided they don’t want to play in college. They don’t want to go to showcases (too busy studying for SAT, applications etc) and they just don’t care by that point. The junior player is at the beck and call of a team of checked out seniors. Could they go find another club. Of course! But it would still be with seniors who in a different life stage with different priorities. They can’t even get the seniors out to practice 3 days a week much less travel to all the showcases-especially those in March- May which should be the prime time for the junior. It’s an albatross being on a senior team when you are not a senior.

Jesus man, listen to yourself. You’re blaming other kids for your kids outcome.

What you’re saying is “they don’t have the team I want them to have, with a focus the benefits my kid.”

Clearly your club doesn’t send teams to nationals or even the consolation nationals, and the kids have nothing to play for (including college). Sounds like a club change is needed, not a universal rule change.

You misread it. They are faulting the calendar year date cutoffs for putting kids in different school grades on the same team.

No they got it right. Everything is everyone else's fault. Grow up, actively recruit for your decent player. If your kid is good enough coaches will be interested. Stop blaming everything else under the sun for why a 'younger kid' doesn't make it to whatever you expect them to make. Kids making National teams at 15/16 and the a national team in their late teens should be more than enough to make you fall birthday parents shut up about how unfair the world is to your previous fall babies.

Face facts: your kid isn't as great as you think they are. That's the problem not the birth cut off.

Fun fact: your kid isn’t good. Just older. Good luck on the B team. Sorry man. Maybe invest time in helping your kid develop skills instead of whining about the change.

The logic these sorts of takes required is astounding.

“My younger but same age kid isn’t as good as your older but same age kid, but my kid is ACTUALLY better because they are younger and have (1 to 11) months to make up an deficiencies.”

It’s such an outsider perspective that is uninformed.

If the kids are 8/9 sure…you’ve got time.

10/12…better hurry up and close that gap.

13+ the ability to bridge the gap becomes exponentially harder and more expensive (hence why all sports lose nearly 80% of their youth players at this stage).

Hard truth! If you’re not the best or in the “top” mix between 8-12 you are not going to be the best at 13+ and very rarely will you make the jump to be “in the mix.”

The goal of every top 8-12yo is to increase the talent delta between themselves and the rest. The idea that some “Moe” big dumb oaf is taking up all the high talent roster spots is 20 years out of date.

400 pages and you still won't get it. You're kid isn't better because they are Q1, they were just given the advantage. All SY fans are saying is why does my Q4 kid need to compete their entire lives with kids they won't even be recruited with. That's it! If someone is getting an advantage (and the advantage is obvious if youre looking), make it classmates against classmates.

My daughter is incredible. She starts, plenty of playing time, lots of recognition, etc. But the difference between JUCO and Florida State recruiting is vast. I get this isn't an issue for the 99% of you that aren't college bound. You're talking about rec league playing time. I'm talking about national team level exposure. We're not concerned about the same issues and we aren't talking the same language. I don't expect you to understand why this all matters so much to the kids with the most talent. I see why your confused but to our defense this is the ENCL thread, not the AYSO thread.