ECNL moving to school year not calendar

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's defiantly happening, I have an uncle who overheard someone at FIFA discussing this. So, I consider it a done deal. A big announcement is pending to be released on October 1st 2024 to quell all the rumors.

FIFA

[Anonymous]

Can someone explain in very simple terms why a MLS Next kid born in November 2008 is going to have no problems with getting recruited and signed to a good college soccer program but an ECNL November 2008 kid will have barricades?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain in very simple terms why a MLS Next kid born in November 2008 is going to have no problems with getting recruited and signed to a good college soccer program but an ECNL November 2008 kid will have barricades?

and they go to the same HS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain in very simple terms why a MLS Next kid born in November 2008 is going to have no problems with getting recruited and signed to a good college soccer program but an ECNL November 2008 kid will have barricades?

Is MLS next goal pro or college? Is the MLS Next kid born in November biobanded?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Other people are saying it’s not happening as much as this guys says it is. Everyone’s insiders are giving mixed signals or people are just making things up.

After reading that thread it sounded like they didn’t know what was going to happen with kids being grandfathered in? Not sure how that would even work. Kids can always play up so would you force some kids to stay up rather than go down? Sounds like a mess.

The cheerleaders are wishcasting. ECNL would have addressed it publicly if it had legs, even just to acknowledge the internal discussions with USCS and USSF. They haven’t.

And all the “internal email I wish I could share” posts haven’t shown up anywhere: Reddit, twitter, Facebook, etc…bluring and blacking out replacing deets is not some new thing that is hard to do.

I had a convo with someone the other day at a practice who said they overheard the coaches in the bathroom. When I asked more like “how’d you know it was coaches?” “Did you recognize any of their voices” it quickly turned into “well, I misspoke, it was actually so-and-so who heard it and told me, so I don’t know which coaches.”

Technically they did address it publicly on the ECNL podcast. That’s pretty public. But I agree that the silence since then is meaning things are not progressing like they hoped. Last week I was texted a photo of an email from Doug the ECNL vice president acknowledging that discussions have taken place and that changing back is a real possibility for fall 25. But the email did not say it was definitely happening.

Technically they didn’t address it at all. Technically they discussed the topic of trapped players, not of ECNL discussions to make a change, etc….

And there you have the “I saw a photo…” lack of proof. Put the photo on Imgur and send a link to this thread then!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain in very simple terms why a MLS Next kid born in November 2008 is going to have no problems with getting recruited and signed to a good college soccer program but an ECNL November 2008 kid will have barricades?

and they go to the same HS

100% because of the home environment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain in very simple terms why a MLS Next kid born in November 2008 is going to have no problems with getting recruited and signed to a good college soccer program but an ECNL November 2008 kid will have barricades?

Is MLS next goal pro or college? Is the MLS Next kid born in November biobanded?

This isn't even close to an answer of the question posed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain in very simple terms why a MLS Next kid born in November 2008 is going to have no problems with getting recruited and signed to a good college soccer program but an ECNL November 2008 kid will have barricades?

Is MLS next goal pro or college? Is the MLS Next kid born in November biobanded?

The MLS Next kid is not biobanded

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Other people are saying it’s not happening as much as this guys says it is. Everyone’s insiders are giving mixed signals or people are just making things up.

After reading that thread it sounded like they didn’t know what was going to happen with kids being grandfathered in? Not sure how that would even work. Kids can always play up so would you force some kids to stay up rather than go down? Sounds like a mess.

The cheerleaders are wishcasting. ECNL would have addressed it publicly if it had legs, even just to acknowledge the internal discussions with USCS and USSF. They haven’t.

And all the “internal email I wish I could share” posts haven’t shown up anywhere: Reddit, twitter, Facebook, etc…bluring and blacking out replacing deets is not some new thing that is hard to do.

I had a convo with someone the other day at a practice who said they overheard the coaches in the bathroom. When I asked more like “how’d you know it was coaches?” “Did you recognize any of their voices” it quickly turned into “well, I misspoke, it was actually so-and-so who heard it and told me, so I don’t know which coaches.”

Technically they did address it publicly on the ECNL podcast. That’s pretty public. But I agree that the silence since then is meaning things are not progressing like they hoped. Last week I was texted a photo of an email from Doug the ECNL vice president acknowledging that discussions have taken place and that changing back is a real possibility for fall 25. But the email did not say it was definitely happening.

Technically they didn’t address it at all. Technically they discussed the topic of trapped players, not of ECNL discussions to make a change, etc….

And there you have the “I saw a photo…” lack of proof. Put the photo on Imgur and send a link to this thread then!

I don’t know what Imgur is? Why don’t you make an email address and post it here and I’ll send it to you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Other people are saying it’s not happening as much as this guys says it is. Everyone’s insiders are giving mixed signals or people are just making things up.

After reading that thread it sounded like they didn’t know what was going to happen with kids being grandfathered in? Not sure how that would even work. Kids can always play up so would you force some kids to stay up rather than go down? Sounds like a mess.

The cheerleaders are wishcasting. ECNL would have addressed it publicly if it had legs, even just to acknowledge the internal discussions with USCS and USSF. They haven’t.

And all the “internal email I wish I could share” posts haven’t shown up anywhere: Reddit, twitter, Facebook, etc…bluring and blacking out replacing deets is not some new thing that is hard to do.

I had a convo with someone the other day at a practice who said they overheard the coaches in the bathroom. When I asked more like “how’d you know it was coaches?” “Did you recognize any of their voices” it quickly turned into “well, I misspoke, it was actually so-and-so who heard it and told me, so I don’t know which coaches.”

Technically they did address it publicly on the ECNL podcast. That’s pretty public. But I agree that the silence since then is meaning things are not progressing like they hoped. Last week I was texted a photo of an email from Doug the ECNL vice president acknowledging that discussions have taken place and that changing back is a real possibility for fall 25. But the email did not say it was definitely happening.

Technically they didn’t address it at all. Technically they discussed the topic of trapped players, not of ECNL discussions to make a change, etc….

And there you have the “I saw a photo…” lack of proof. Put the photo on Imgur and send a link to this thread then!

You should check out page 3 on this so cal thread.

https://socalsoccer.com/threads/get-ready-folks.21527/page-3

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Other people are saying it’s not happening as much as this guys says it is. Everyone’s insiders are giving mixed signals or people are just making things up.

After reading that thread it sounded like they didn’t know what was going to happen with kids being grandfathered in? Not sure how that would even work. Kids can always play up so would you force some kids to stay up rather than go down? Sounds like a mess.

The cheerleaders are wishcasting. ECNL would have addressed it publicly if it had legs, even just to acknowledge the internal discussions with USCS and USSF. They haven’t.

And all the “internal email I wish I could share” posts haven’t shown up anywhere: Reddit, twitter, Facebook, etc…bluring and blacking out replacing deets is not some new thing that is hard to do.

I had a convo with someone the other day at a practice who said they overheard the coaches in the bathroom. When I asked more like “how’d you know it was coaches?” “Did you recognize any of their voices” it quickly turned into “well, I misspoke, it was actually so-and-so who heard it and told me, so I don’t know which coaches.”

Technically they did address it publicly on the ECNL podcast. That’s pretty public. But I agree that the silence since then is meaning things are not progressing like they hoped. Last week I was texted a photo of an email from Doug the ECNL vice president acknowledging that discussions have taken place and that changing back is a real possibility for fall 25. But the email did not say it was definitely happening.

Technically they didn’t address it at all. Technically they discussed the topic of trapped players, not of ECNL discussions to make a change, etc….

And there you have the “I saw a photo…” lack of proof. Put the photo on Imgur and send a link to this thread then!

You should check out page 3 on this so cal thread.

https://socalsoccer.com/threads/get-ready-folks.21527/page-3

“Sent to me this morning (9/18)”

But it’s the exact same language as the email on page 42 of this thread (9/14) An email that was posted as text on talking-soccer a week ago (9/11) with nobody having actually received the email, but just “a buddy sent me this screenshot.”

The sender is blacked out, so nobody can even validate it. But the screenshot has the jankiest logos I’ve ever seen. Also, it seems you ran to a few message boards to direct everyone to “socalsoccer page 3”.

I dunno bruh, this seems like you’re selling everyone really hard on this “it’s happening” thing. Not to be reflexive, but I think this “evidence” doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.

Again, just post it on Imgur and send the link if it was sent to you. It’s not hard to figure out how to do that.

[Anonymous]

I think ECNL will make a change. It is waiting to see if USYS or someone higher up will make the exact change on a boarder scale. If not, then ECNL will announce its own change within the ECNL system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain in very simple terms why a MLS Next kid born in November 2008 is going to have no problems with getting recruited and signed to a good college soccer program but an ECNL November 2008 kid will have barricades?

The silence is deafening

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Other people are saying it’s not happening as much as this guys says it is. Everyone’s insiders are giving mixed signals or people are just making things up.

After reading that thread it sounded like they didn’t know what was going to happen with kids being grandfathered in? Not sure how that would even work. Kids can always play up so would you force some kids to stay up rather than go down? Sounds like a mess.

The cheerleaders are wishcasting. ECNL would have addressed it publicly if it had legs, even just to acknowledge the internal discussions with USCS and USSF. They haven’t.

And all the “internal email I wish I could share” posts haven’t shown up anywhere: Reddit, twitter, Facebook, etc…bluring and blacking out replacing deets is not some new thing that is hard to do.

I had a convo with someone the other day at a practice who said they overheard the coaches in the bathroom. When I asked more like “how’d you know it was coaches?” “Did you recognize any of their voices” it quickly turned into “well, I misspoke, it was actually so-and-so who heard it and told me, so I don’t know which coaches.”

Technically they did address it publicly on the ECNL podcast. That’s pretty public. But I agree that the silence since then is meaning things are not progressing like they hoped. Last week I was texted a photo of an email from Doug the ECNL vice president acknowledging that discussions have taken place and that changing back is a real possibility for fall 25. But the email did not say it was definitely happening.

Technically they didn’t address it at all. Technically they discussed the topic of trapped players, not of ECNL discussions to make a change, etc….

And there you have the “I saw a photo…” lack of proof. Put the photo on Imgur and send a link to this thread then!

You should check out page 3 on this so cal thread.

https://socalsoccer.com/threads/get-ready-folks.21527/page-3

“Sent to me this morning (9/18)”

But it’s the exact same language as the email on page 42 of this thread (9/14) An email that was posted as text on talking-soccer a week ago (9/11) with nobody having actually received the email, but just “a buddy sent me this screenshot.”

The sender is blacked out, so nobody can even validate it. But the screenshot has the jankiest logos I’ve ever seen. Also, it seems you ran to a few message boards to direct everyone to “socalsoccer page 3”.

I dunno bruh, this seems like you’re selling everyone really hard on this “it’s happening” thing. Not to be reflexive, but I think this “evidence” doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.

Again, just post it on Imgur and send the link if it was sent to you. It’s not hard to figure out how to do that.

Not my picture I just saw the post on the CA thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain in very simple terms why a MLS Next kid born in November 2008 is going to have no problems with getting recruited and signed to a good college soccer program but an ECNL November 2008 kid will have barricades?

If you’re just talking about the recruiting window barricades … My understanding is that MLS Next is considered the higher tier of play for boys. Scouts for boys will spend more time going to MLS games, and initially guess that the MLS player is just stronger before seeing them. The MLS player’s older teammates, many of whom want to go pro, will stay engaged during their younger teammate’s college recruiting window. So the MLS player will easily get in front of scouts. The ECNL player is going to be overlooked because he relies on showcases for scouting, and he’s at the wrong age group there, or not there at all bc his teammates no longer want to go.

But even though the MLS player has some advantages, if his goal is college, not pro, he does also have some “barricades.” He’s just more likely to overcome them.