ECNL moving to school year not calendar

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does 7v7 help with RAE. If anything a more physically mature player has a bigger impact.

Seriously? Have you never watched or played soccer?

Make the field smaller and more technical players shine. For example, size and speed is not a big advantage in futsal.

Futsal fields usually much smaller than a 7v7 field.

[Anonymous]

Because the disagreement about this change is people who are desperate to stay on the right side of it with no regard for the 5 months of trapped players that they bennifit from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why RAE keeps being brought up on a thread about BY and SY?

Why?

Because BY parents are scrambling for any way possible to keep the current system in place. They DO NOT wan't to compete against kids in the same grade, they enjoy watching their 8th graders play with 7th graders and have no interest competing against other 8th graders. Its simultaneously panic around RAE going away and threads about how RAE doesn't matter so we should just leave the system in place we have now. Its pretty wild, don't try to make sense of any of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does 7v7 help with RAE. If anything a more physically mature player has a bigger impact.

Seriously? Have you never watched or played soccer?

Make the field smaller and more technical players shine. For example, size and speed is not a big advantage in futsal.

That's the opposite that happens the larger kids with no skill plow through the smaller kids. I have a small fast kid she can't wait to get to 11v11. 9v9 on a larger field when she can find space to not get knocked over by someone who weighs twice as much as her she shines.

Two things can be true at once. Big kids have an advantage because rules aren't enforced. If its a futsal, technical environment big clumsy kids struggle. Like everything else we argue about here its nuanced and heavily dependent on whos on the field.

Not really..Larger field better for big/ fast players and athletes. Smaller better for soccer iq/ technical abilities. To say otherwise tells me you never played.

[Anonymous]

But RAE is the same under BY and SY

So I ask again, why do people keep bringing up RAE when discussing BY or SY?

Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why RAE keeps being brought up on a thread about BY and SY?

Why?

Because BY parents are scrambling for any way possible to keep the current system in place. They DO NOT wan't to compete against kids in the same grade, they enjoy watching their 8th graders play with 7th graders and have no interest competing against other 8th graders. Its simultaneously panic around RAE going away and threads about how RAE doesn't matter so we should just leave the system in place we have now. Its pretty wild, don't try to make sense of any of it.

RAE does not go away by switching from BY to SY.

You understand this, correct?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why RAE keeps being brought up on a thread about BY and SY?

Why?

Because BY parents argue SY is stupid and RAE doesn’t exist…their kid is just talented and the August/ Dec birthdays are not.

SY parents arguing their kid struggles against older players and would be great to have their kid not be the youngest finally.

Irrelevant to the actual discussion..just more of parents don’t want to believe their kid was given an advantage or vice versa - easier to believe your kid has some sort of natural talent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why RAE keeps being brought up on a thread about BY and SY?

Why?

Because BY parents are scrambling for any way possible to keep the current system in place. They DO NOT wan't to compete against kids in the same grade, they enjoy watching their 8th graders play with 7th graders and have no interest competing against other 8th graders. Its simultaneously panic around RAE going away and threads about how RAE doesn't matter so we should just leave the system in place we have now. Its pretty wild, don't try to make sense of any of it.

Completely true.

[Anonymous]

Weekend hasn’t even started and we’re on the verge of 425!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why RAE keeps being brought up on a thread about BY and SY?

Why?

Because BY parents are scrambling for any way possible to keep the current system in place. They DO NOT wan't to compete against kids in the same grade, they enjoy watching their 8th graders play with 7th graders and have no interest competing against other 8th graders. Its simultaneously panic around RAE going away and threads about how RAE doesn't matter so we should just leave the system in place we have now. Its pretty wild, don't try to make sense of any of it.

RAE does not go away by switching from BY to SY.

You understand this, correct?

PP clearly meant the positive RAE for that group going away. Not the overall RAE going away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does 7v7 help with RAE. If anything a more physically mature player has a bigger impact.

Seriously? Have you never watched or played soccer?

Make the field smaller and more technical players shine. For example, size and speed is not a big advantage in futsal.

That's the opposite that happens the larger kids with no skill plow through the smaller kids. I have a small fast kid she can't wait to get to 11v11. 9v9 on a larger field when she can find space to not get knocked over by someone who weighs twice as much as her she shines.

Two things can be true at once. Big kids have an advantage because rules aren't enforced. If its a futsal, technical environment big clumsy kids struggle. Like everything else we argue about here its nuanced and heavily dependent on whos on the field.

Not really..Larger field better for big/ fast players and athletes. Smaller better for soccer iq/ technical abilities. To say otherwise tells me you never played.

I played Div 1 but I guess I know nothing. I know I watch my child get taken down from behind almost every game. Dribbling through multiple players until someone twice her size pushes her in the back. But there are still larger players that when are forced to actually run and cover more ground will be left in the dust.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why RAE keeps being brought up on a thread about BY and SY?

Why?

Because BY parents are scrambling for any way possible to keep the current system in place. They DO NOT wan't to compete against kids in the same grade, they enjoy watching their 8th graders play with 7th graders and have no interest competing against other 8th graders. Its simultaneously panic around RAE going away and threads about how RAE doesn't matter so we should just leave the system in place we have now. Its pretty wild, don't try to make sense of any of it.

Completely true.

This whole thing is silly having KIDS play agaisnt other KIDS in a lower grade..... Whoever thought up that plan is an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does 7v7 help with RAE. If anything a more physically mature player has a bigger impact.

Seriously? Have you never watched or played soccer?

Make the field smaller and more technical players shine. For example, size and speed is not a big advantage in futsal.

That's the opposite that happens the larger kids with no skill plow through the smaller kids. I have a small fast kid she can't wait to get to 11v11. 9v9 on a larger field when she can find space to not get knocked over by someone who weighs twice as much as her she shines.

Two things can be true at once. Big kids have an advantage because rules aren't enforced. If its a futsal, technical environment big clumsy kids struggle. Like everything else we argue about here its nuanced and heavily dependent on whos on the field.

Not really..Larger field better for big/ fast players and athletes. Smaller better for soccer iq/ technical abilities. To say otherwise tells me you never played.

What advantage is size on a big field? Fast ofcourse, but big? Have you ever touched a soccer ball? Its Futbol, not football buddy. Get it right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But RAE is the same under BY and SY

So I ask again, why do people keep bringing up RAE when discussing BY or SY?

Why?

Asked and answered.

Short is answer you are either belligerent or struggle with basic concepts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why RAE keeps being brought up on a thread about BY and SY?

Why?

Because BY parents are scrambling for any way possible to keep the current system in place. They DO NOT wan't to compete against kids in the same grade, they enjoy watching their 8th graders play with 7th graders and have no interest competing against other 8th graders. Its simultaneously panic around RAE going away and threads about how RAE doesn't matter so we should just leave the system in place we have now. Its pretty wild, don't try to make sense of any of it.

RAE does not go away by switching from BY to SY.

You understand this, correct?

Yawn....and around and around we go. So why switch? Is that where we going again? Because of trapped kids. Then you say trapped kids isn't a thing and they should just try harder. Then I say, then you say, then I say.

We get it. You like your advantage. You want to keep your advantage. You don't want your kid to compete against their peers. You'd rather they play with the kids at the elementary school across the street in the small yard. WE GET IT. You don't want the recruiters to see your kid play against other high school juniors. You hope they won't notice your kid is just so-so by playing with freshmen.

We're sorry for your loss, what do you want us to say? You'll have to compete in 2026, get over it.