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Anonymous
| What does “reorg the player pool” mean? Start small in 2025 and full on in 2026? |
Anonymous
| Aww how cute, you think someone here is going to be able to answer that? Or are you just helping to get to 500??!! |
Anonymous
| Not trying to be cute. Just asking the dude to clarify what he’s talking about. |
Anonymous
| Someone thinks college soccer truth is going to have late breaking news, with the ECNL podcast just 1 day after that. And while both are good for educated speculation neither provide definite sources of truth. |
Anonymous
AMEN to this. They need to early adopt and gain the advantage here. Clubs don't need 18 months to make this change. Let them take 18 months for Rec or RL--but for the top team, we are talking @100 players--across all age groups. They can figure this out by Fall 2025. Clubs/teams who drag their feet on this are going to lose the talent because no players or parents want to deal with a lame duck team for a year. This is especially true for the 2027- 2029 grads (mix of 2008, 2009, 2010 BY) who don't want to scewed up recruiting cycle. More time pressure on the 2027s and 2028s to find the clubs who have their act together and make a move.... |
Anonymous
| ⬆️ THIS! |
Anonymous
I see it as 21 months. Some how 9 months isn't enough time for fall 2025 to make an age cutoff change even with a prior 10 month debate on what to do (which resulted in essentially saying do your own thing) so including next year it is a 21 month time frame before teams get reset. If no change is announced for fall 2025, clubs are going to have to start recruiting Aug-Dec kids for top teams and dropping down Q1/2 players that are on the back half of rosters. Probably not wholesale changes as clubs want wins but would imagine the back half of rosters to be packed with Q3-4 kids fighting for premium slots the following year one age group down. Any way you slice it, next year is going to be very awkward for all of the kids unless they follow through with major changes for 2025 like waivers for Q3/4 or as someone said earlier, having all Q1/2 kids play up a year next to mostly align with 2026 early. You can't say there will be a change in 2 years but please ignore it for next year. Clubs are going to adjust early to get an edge or keep up with their competition. It would be like the Fed announcing they are going to lower interest rates in 2% in 3 months but asking everyone to do nothing for the next 3 months and pretend like they didn't announce it. Not how the world works. Whether official or not, club decisions for players for fall 2025 will be affected by expected age cutoff changes for fall 2026. |
Anonymous
| 100% correct |
Anonymous
| I believe a limited number of Q3/Q4 waivers to allow the team to start the transition. |
Anonymous
People here say such waivers already exist and that it's now just a matter of using them as apparently they were loathe too in the past. |
Anonymous
The trapped player exemption at U15 is temporary, only for half a season and only for 2 players per team. It can bump current U14 players down the roster, causing too many players on the U14 team. Overall, too limited to be useful. It would need to be extended to the entire year and for all age groups to solve more problems than it causes. |
Anonymous
| 1000% true. In addition the current u14 players resent the presence of the trapped players taking their playtime. Not a good temporary situation. |
Anonymous
| Imagine if everyone put this much energy and effort into playing an active role in developing their kid versus looking for an advantage and easy route |
Anonymous
| I’m developing my trapped kid. I just graduated out a trapped player who had to deal with all the resentment of the 8th and 12th grade parents and players when my trapped kid played on their team during those two trap years and took all the playtime and captain’s bands from Q1 kids. |
Anonymous
and excuses |