ECNL moving to school year part 2

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1 In BY, Jan-Jul player with grade below.

2. Multiple clubs said - The new two-year age group structure will not negatively impact college recruiting. College coaches evaluate players based on their performance, development, and potential—not the exact age grouping of their club team.

https://www.eastsidefc.or.../agegroups

3. Why are teams organized by the August 1–July 31 date range rather than strictly by "Grade Level"? While the new age group system is often referred to as "School Year" because it aligns better with school grades than the calendar year, we will use the nationwide age groupings of August 1st to July 31st date range for safety and fairness.

We cannot organize strictly by "Grade" because grade levels are variable, whereas birth dates are factual. Organizing strictly by grade can create significant risks:

The Age Gap Risk: Because kids start school at different ages, are held back, or skip grades, a single grade level can include children whose ages span 2+ years.
Physical Safety: We already see significant physical differences within a standard 12-month age gap. If we were to widen that window to 24+ months (as seen in strict grade-based grouping), the physical disparity becomes dangerous. A "held-back" 13-year-old competing against a young 11-year-old in the same grade poses a real safety concern.
Developmental Fairness: When age gaps widen beyond 12 months, the disparity in talent and physical maturity widens considerably. Keeping the grouping within the August 1–July 31 window ensures players compete with and against peers of similar physiological, emotional, and social maturity.

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Anonymous wrote:Clubs allowing Aug to Dec players to play with their grade and forcing it are very different.

It doesn’t make sense for any player to play up and be a sub if you ca be a starter in your own age group.

But players/families can do whatever they want.

Agree and most around here aren't allowing playing up unless you are a superstar.

Might as well play town/rec if you have no aspirations for playjng in college.

I agree with this from the view why pay all this money if your kid has no interest in playing in college. However if a kid wants to compete and their highest level possible then go do something else for college that’s alright also.

That being said your comment makes no sense based off what was being discussed?

Meaning if Aug birthday players intend to play in college they need to play on their correct grade in school team. If they dont college coaches and recruiters will ignore them.

All the BY September- December birth months college soccer players and current committed recruits are scratching their heads

As are the Jan- July recruits that got recruited while playing with half the age group in a grade down.

Again in BY trapped players are playing up.There are no other options.

In SY Aug/Sept and sometimes Nov qualify for the grade down team. If they choose to play on that team they will be ignored by college coaches when it comes time for recruiting. The easy solution is for Aug birthdays to play up on their correcr grade in school team.

In BY, Jan- Jul were playing in a grade below. Didn't hurt recruiting. Easy solution is to stay with facts, birthdays rather than something variable by state, school start ages which grades don't even have official documents to report to verification firms. College coaches said they aren't ignoring anyone, they don't care about age groups. Recruits have to seek out colleges.

What a web we weave when we aim to deceive

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Anonymous wrote:Clubs allowing Aug to Dec players to play with their grade and forcing it are very different.

It doesn’t make sense for any player to play up and be a sub if you ca be a starter in your own age group.

But players/families can do whatever they want.

Agree and most around here aren't allowing playing up unless you are a superstar.

Might as well play town/rec if you have no aspirations for playjng in college.

I agree with this from the view why pay all this money if your kid has no interest in playing in college. However if a kid wants to compete and their highest level possible then go do something else for college that’s alright also.

That being said your comment makes no sense based off what was being discussed?

Meaning if Aug birthday players intend to play in college they need to play on their correct grade in school team. If they dont college coaches and recruiters will ignore them.

All the BY September- December birth months college soccer players and current committed recruits are scratching their heads

As are the Jan- July recruits that got recruited while playing with half the age group in a grade down.

Again in BY trapped players are playing up.There are no other options.

In SY Aug/Sept and sometimes Nov qualify for the grade down team. If they choose to play on that team they will be ignored by college coaches when it comes time for recruiting. The easy solution is for Aug birthdays to play up on their correcr grade in school team.

In BY, Jan- Jul were playing in a grade below. Didn't hurt recruiting. Easy solution is to stay with facts, birthdays rather than something variable by state, school start ages which grades don't even have official documents to report to verification firms. College coaches said they aren't ignoring anyone, they don't care about age groups. Recruits have to seek out colleges.

What a web we weave when we aim to deceive

No deception -- it's just making a point by applying the logic of aug. mean-spirted arguments that attempt to shame and deride people for playing on age.

[Anonymous]

Poor August kids are going from focusing on the task at hand of being the best they can be at soccer to being pawns in this neurotic craziness of some parents

[Anonymous]

Not a problem for aug boys who wants to play at high level, as mls next hg stays BY. I saw clubs are making pre mls teams aligning BY as well

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Anonymous wrote:Clubs allowing Aug to Dec players to play with their grade and forcing it are very different.

It doesn’t make sense for any player to play up and be a sub if you ca be a starter in your own age group.

But players/families can do whatever they want.

Agree and most around here aren't allowing playing up unless you are a superstar.

Might as well play town/rec if you have no aspirations for playjng in college.

I agree with this from the view why pay all this money if your kid has no interest in playing in college. However if a kid wants to compete and their highest level possible then go do something else for college that’s alright also.

That being said your comment makes no sense based off what was being discussed?

Meaning if Aug birthday players intend to play in college they need to play on their correct grade in school team. If they dont college coaches and recruiters will ignore them.

All the BY September- December birth months college soccer players and current committed recruits are scratching their heads

As are the Jan- July recruits that got recruited while playing with half the age group in a grade down.

Again in BY trapped players are playing up.There are no other options.

In SY Aug/Sept and sometimes Nov qualify for the grade down team. If they choose to play on that team they will be ignored by college coaches when it comes time for recruiting. The easy solution is for Aug birthdays to play up on their correcr grade in school team.

In BY, Jan- Jul were playing in a grade below. Didn't hurt recruiting. Easy solution is to stay with facts, birthdays rather than something variable by state, school start ages which grades don't even have official documents to report to verification firms. College coaches said they aren't ignoring anyone, they don't care about age groups. Recruits have to seek out colleges.

What a web we weave when we aim to deceive

Yep everyone can see that clubs are going to play August / September birthdays on their grade in school team.

Age guy is going to kick and scream even when it happens. Trying to convince patents to play their kids down. When a few of the idiots that choose to play down describe the difficulties that had to go through for college recruiting nobody will pay down anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:Clubs allowing Aug to Dec players to play with their grade and forcing it are very different.

It doesn’t make sense for any player to play up and be a sub if you ca be a starter in your own age group.

But players/families can do whatever they want.

Agree and most around here aren't allowing playing up unless you are a superstar.

Might as well play town/rec if you have no aspirations for playjng in college.

I agree with this from the view why pay all this money if your kid has no interest in playing in college. However if a kid wants to compete and their highest level possible then go do something else for college that’s alright also.

That being said your comment makes no sense based off what was being discussed?

Meaning if Aug birthday players intend to play in college they need to play on their correct grade in school team. If they dont college coaches and recruiters will ignore them.

All the BY September- December birth months college soccer players and current committed recruits are scratching their heads

As are the Jan- July recruits that got recruited while playing with half the age group in a grade down.

Again in BY trapped players are playing up.There are no other options.

In SY Aug/Sept and sometimes Nov qualify for the grade down team. If they choose to play on that team they will be ignored by college coaches when it comes time for recruiting. The easy solution is for Aug birthdays to play up on their correcr grade in school team.

In BY, Jan- Jul were playing in a grade below. Didn't hurt recruiting. Easy solution is to stay with facts, birthdays rather than something variable by state, school start ages which grades don't even have official documents to report to verification firms. College coaches said they aren't ignoring anyone, they don't care about age groups. Recruits have to seek out colleges.

What a web we weave when we aim to deceive

No deception -- it's just making a point by applying the logic of aug. mean-spirted arguments that attempt to shame and deride people for playing on age.

You lie and deceive every day trying to convince people to play Aug birthdays on teams where they're the only kid who is a grade older. No kid wants this. You want it for your ego and plastic trophies.

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Anonymous wrote:Clubs allowing Aug to Dec players to play with their grade and forcing it are very different.

It doesn’t make sense for any player to play up and be a sub if you ca be a starter in your own age group.

But players/families can do whatever they want.

Agree and most around here aren't allowing playing up unless you are a superstar.

Might as well play town/rec if you have no aspirations for playjng in college.

I agree with this from the view why pay all this money if your kid has no interest in playing in college. However if a kid wants to compete and their highest level possible then go do something else for college that’s alright also.

That being said your comment makes no sense based off what was being discussed?

Meaning if Aug birthday players intend to play in college they need to play on their correct grade in school team. If they dont college coaches and recruiters will ignore them.

All the BY September- December birth months college soccer players and current committed recruits are scratching their heads

As are the Jan- July recruits that got recruited while playing with half the age group in a grade down.

Again in BY trapped players are playing up.There are no other options.

In SY Aug/Sept and sometimes Nov qualify for the grade down team. If they choose to play on that team they will be ignored by college coaches when it comes time for recruiting. The easy solution is for Aug birthdays to play up on their correcr grade in school team.

In BY, Jan- Jul were playing in a grade below. Didn't hurt recruiting. Easy solution is to stay with facts, birthdays rather than something variable by state, school start ages which grades don't even have official documents to report to verification firms. College coaches said they aren't ignoring anyone, they don't care about age groups. Recruits have to seek out colleges.

What a web we weave when we aim to deceive

No deception -- it's just making a point by applying the logic of aug. mean-spirted arguments that attempt to shame and deride people for playing on age.

You lie and deceive every day trying to convince people to play Aug birthdays on teams where they're the only kid who is a grade older. No kid wants this. You want it for your ego and plastic trophies.

Yet you're the one thinking it's same people are posting all the time, even on other boards. They're not. There just explaining what's happening. Also, if kid's didn't want to play with younger grades, you wouldn't have HS soccer!

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Anonymous wrote:Clubs allowing Aug to Dec players to play with their grade and forcing it are very different.

It doesn’t make sense for any player to play up and be a sub if you ca be a starter in your own age group.

But players/families can do whatever they want.

Agree and most around here aren't allowing playing up unless you are a superstar.

Might as well play town/rec if you have no aspirations for playjng in college.

I agree with this from the view why pay all this money if your kid has no interest in playing in college. However if a kid wants to compete and their highest level possible then go do something else for college that’s alright also.

That being said your comment makes no sense based off what was being discussed?

Meaning if Aug birthday players intend to play in college they need to play on their correct grade in school team. If they dont college coaches and recruiters will ignore them.

All the BY September- December birth months college soccer players and current committed recruits are scratching their heads

As are the Jan- July recruits that got recruited while playing with half the age group in a grade down.

Again in BY trapped players are playing up.There are no other options.

In SY Aug/Sept and sometimes Nov qualify for the grade down team. If they choose to play on that team they will be ignored by college coaches when it comes time for recruiting. The easy solution is for Aug birthdays to play up on their correcr grade in school team.

In BY, Jan- Jul were playing in a grade below. Didn't hurt recruiting. Easy solution is to stay with facts, birthdays rather than something variable by state, school start ages which grades don't even have official documents to report to verification firms. College coaches said they aren't ignoring anyone, they don't care about age groups. Recruits have to seek out colleges.

What a web we weave when we aim to deceive

Yep everyone can see that clubs are going to play August / September birthdays on their grade in school team.

Age guy is going to kick and scream even when it happens. Trying to convince patents to play their kids down. When a few of the idiots that choose to play down describe the difficulties that had to go through for college recruiting nobody will pay down anymore.

It's really youth soccer that's leading this AND telling people recruiting will be OK in these rare situations. It set up the rules this way, knowing it wouldn't perfectly align.

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Anonymous wrote:Clubs allowing Aug to Dec players to play with their grade and forcing it are very different.

It doesn’t make sense for any player to play up and be a sub if you ca be a starter in your own age group.

But players/families can do whatever they want.

Agree and most around here aren't allowing playing up unless you are a superstar.

Might as well play town/rec if you have no aspirations for playjng in college.

I agree with this from the view why pay all this money if your kid has no interest in playing in college. However if a kid wants to compete and their highest level possible then go do something else for college that’s alright also.

That being said your comment makes no sense based off what was being discussed?

Meaning if Aug birthday players intend to play in college they need to play on their correct grade in school team. If they dont college coaches and recruiters will ignore them.

All the BY September- December birth months college soccer players and current committed recruits are scratching their heads

As are the Jan- July recruits that got recruited while playing with half the age group in a grade down.

Again in BY trapped players are playing up.There are no other options.

In SY Aug/Sept and sometimes Nov qualify for the grade down team. If they choose to play on that team they will be ignored by college coaches when it comes time for recruiting. The easy solution is for Aug birthdays to play up on their correcr grade in school team.

In BY, Jan- Jul were playing in a grade below. Didn't hurt recruiting. Easy solution is to stay with facts, birthdays rather than something variable by state, school start ages which grades don't even have official documents to report to verification firms. College coaches said they aren't ignoring anyone, they don't care about age groups. Recruits have to seek out colleges.

What a web we weave when we aim to deceive

No deception -- it's just making a point by applying the logic of aug. mean-spirted arguments that attempt to shame and deride people for playing on age.

You lie and deceive every day trying to convince people to play Aug birthdays on teams where they're the only kid who is a grade older. No kid wants this. You want it for your ego and plastic trophies.

Yet you're the one thinking it's same people are posting all the time, even on other boards. They're not. There just explaining what's happening. Also, if kid's didn't want to play with younger grades, you wouldn't have HS soccer!

Nobody plays down in HS soccer unless they were held back in school. You play on an older team or you play on the team thats your grade in school.

On Senior night they don't call up all the Seniors from lower level teams to be given an award / acknowledgment.

If you dont make the team that's your grade you stop playing.

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Anonymous wrote:Clubs allowing Aug to Dec players to play with their grade and forcing it are very different.

It doesn’t make sense for any player to play up and be a sub if you ca be a starter in your own age group.

But players/families can do whatever they want.

Agree and most around here aren't allowing playing up unless you are a superstar.

Might as well play town/rec if you have no aspirations for playjng in college.

I agree with this from the view why pay all this money if your kid has no interest in playing in college. However if a kid wants to compete and their highest level possible then go do something else for college that’s alright also.

That being said your comment makes no sense based off what was being discussed?

Meaning if Aug birthday players intend to play in college they need to play on their correct grade in school team. If they dont college coaches and recruiters will ignore them.

All the BY September- December birth months college soccer players and current committed recruits are scratching their heads

As are the Jan- July recruits that got recruited while playing with half the age group in a grade down.

Again in BY trapped players are playing up.There are no other options.

In SY Aug/Sept and sometimes Nov qualify for the grade down team. If they choose to play on that team they will be ignored by college coaches when it comes time for recruiting. The easy solution is for Aug birthdays to play up on their correcr grade in school team.

In BY, Jan- Jul were playing in a grade below. Didn't hurt recruiting. Easy solution is to stay with facts, birthdays rather than something variable by state, school start ages which grades don't even have official documents to report to verification firms. College coaches said they aren't ignoring anyone, they don't care about age groups. Recruits have to seek out colleges.

What a web we weave when we aim to deceive

Yep everyone can see that clubs are going to play August / September birthdays on their grade in school team.

Age guy is going to kick and scream even when it happens. Trying to convince patents to play their kids down. When a few of the idiots that choose to play down describe the difficulties that had to go through for college recruiting nobody will pay down anymore.

It's really youth soccer that's leading this AND telling people recruiting will be OK in these rare situations. It set up the rules this way, knowing it wouldn't perfectly align.

The rules are 100% setup so Aug birthdays will play on their grade in school team.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Clubs allowing Aug to Dec players to play with their grade and forcing it are very different.

It doesn’t make sense for any player to play up and be a sub if you ca be a starter in your own age group.

But players/families can do whatever they want.

Agree and most around here aren't allowing playing up unless you are a superstar.

Might as well play town/rec if you have no aspirations for playjng in college.

I agree with this from the view why pay all this money if your kid has no interest in playing in college. However if a kid wants to compete and their highest level possible then go do something else for college that’s alright also.

That being said your comment makes no sense based off what was being discussed?

Meaning if Aug birthday players intend to play in college they need to play on their correct grade in school team. If they dont college coaches and recruiters will ignore them.

All the BY September- December birth months college soccer players and current committed recruits are scratching their heads

As are the Jan- July recruits that got recruited while playing with half the age group in a grade down.

Again in BY trapped players are playing up.There are no other options.

In SY Aug/Sept and sometimes Nov qualify for the grade down team. If they choose to play on that team they will be ignored by college coaches when it comes time for recruiting. The easy solution is for Aug birthdays to play up on their correcr grade in school team.

In BY, Jan- Jul were playing in a grade below. Didn't hurt recruiting. Easy solution is to stay with facts, birthdays rather than something variable by state, school start ages which grades don't even have official documents to report to verification firms. College coaches said they aren't ignoring anyone, they don't care about age groups. Recruits have to seek out colleges.

What a web we weave when we aim to deceive

Yep everyone can see that clubs are going to play August / September birthdays on their grade in school team.

Age guy is going to kick and scream even when it happens. Trying to convince patents to play their kids down. When a few of the idiots that choose to play down describe the difficulties that had to go through for college recruiting nobody will pay down anymore.

It's really youth soccer that's leading this AND telling people recruiting will be OK in these rare situations. It set up the rules this way, knowing it wouldn't perfectly align.

Internally ECNL leadership has been telling DOCs to roster Aug birthdays on their correct grade in school team. The entire push for SY was to align players with their grade in school team. Not to create a new issue where Aug birthdays play down a grade.

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Anonymous wrote:Clubs allowing Aug to Dec players to play with their grade and forcing it are very different.

It doesn’t make sense for any player to play up and be a sub if you ca be a starter in your own age group.

But players/families can do whatever they want.

Agree and most around here aren't allowing playing up unless you are a superstar.

Might as well play town/rec if you have no aspirations for playjng in college.

I agree with this from the view why pay all this money if your kid has no interest in playing in college. However if a kid wants to compete and their highest level possible then go do something else for college that’s alright also.

That being said your comment makes no sense based off what was being discussed?

Meaning if Aug birthday players intend to play in college they need to play on their correct grade in school team. If they dont college coaches and recruiters will ignore them.

All the BY September- December birth months college soccer players and current committed recruits are scratching their heads

As are the Jan- July recruits that got recruited while playing with half the age group in a grade down.

Again in BY trapped players are playing up.There are no other options.

In SY Aug/Sept and sometimes Nov qualify for the grade down team. If they choose to play on that team they will be ignored by college coaches when it comes time for recruiting. The easy solution is for Aug birthdays to play up on their correcr grade in school team.

In BY, Jan- Jul were playing in a grade below. Didn't hurt recruiting. Easy solution is to stay with facts, birthdays rather than something variable by state, school start ages which grades don't even have official documents to report to verification firms. College coaches said they aren't ignoring anyone, they don't care about age groups. Recruits have to seek out colleges.

What a web we weave when we aim to deceive

Yep everyone can see that clubs are going to play August / September birthdays on their grade in school team.

Age guy is going to kick and scream even when it happens. Trying to convince patents to play their kids down. When a few of the idiots that choose to play down describe the difficulties that had to go through for college recruiting nobody will pay down anymore.

It's really youth soccer that's leading this AND telling people recruiting will be OK in these rare situations. It set up the rules this way, knowing it wouldn't perfectly align.

Internally ECNL leadership has been telling DOCs to roster Aug birthdays on their correct grade in school team. The entire push for SY was to align players with their grade in school team. Not to create a new issue where Aug birthdays play down a grade.

All we've seen publicly is most ECNL clubs say case-by-case (and one in Kansas quite clearly say they don't care about grade). Their famous podcast also said this is quite individual. Only ECNL leadership chatter has been trust me bro anonymous claims.

Even if everyone does that, you'll still have kids playing in different grades from misaligned summer Bdays and kids misaligned with later fall bdays.

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Anonymous wrote:Clubs allowing Aug to Dec players to play with their grade and forcing it are very different.

It doesn’t make sense for any player to play up and be a sub if you ca be a starter in your own age group.

But players/families can do whatever they want.

Agree and most around here aren't allowing playing up unless you are a superstar.

Might as well play town/rec if you have no aspirations for playjng in college.

I agree with this from the view why pay all this money if your kid has no interest in playing in college. However if a kid wants to compete and their highest level possible then go do something else for college that’s alright also.

That being said your comment makes no sense based off what was being discussed?

Meaning if Aug birthday players intend to play in college they need to play on their correct grade in school team. If they dont college coaches and recruiters will ignore them.

All the BY September- December birth months college soccer players and current committed recruits are scratching their heads

As are the Jan- July recruits that got recruited while playing with half the age group in a grade down.

Again in BY trapped players are playing up.There are no other options.

In SY Aug/Sept and sometimes Nov qualify for the grade down team. If they choose to play on that team they will be ignored by college coaches when it comes time for recruiting. The easy solution is for Aug birthdays to play up on their correcr grade in school team.

In BY, Jan- Jul were playing in a grade below. Didn't hurt recruiting. Easy solution is to stay with facts, birthdays rather than something variable by state, school start ages which grades don't even have official documents to report to verification firms. College coaches said they aren't ignoring anyone, they don't care about age groups. Recruits have to seek out colleges.

What a web we weave when we aim to deceive

No deception -- it's just making a point by applying the logic of aug. mean-spirted arguments that attempt to shame and deride people for playing on age.

You lie and deceive every day trying to convince people to play Aug birthdays on teams where they're the only kid who is a grade older. No kid wants this. You want it for your ego and plastic trophies.

Yet you're the one thinking it's same people are posting all the time, even on other boards. They're not. There just explaining what's happening. Also, if kid's didn't want to play with younger grades, you wouldn't have HS soccer!

Nobody plays down in HS soccer unless they were held back in school. You play on an older team or you play on the team thats your grade in school.

On Senior night they don't call up all the Seniors from lower level teams to be given an award / acknowledgment.

If you dont make the team that's your grade you stop playing.

Last year on my kid's varsity soccer team they had players from 9-12 grades on the team. Clearly, the seniors played with underclassmen. It's OK.

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Anonymous wrote:Clubs allowing Aug to Dec players to play with their grade and forcing it are very different.

It doesn’t make sense for any player to play up and be a sub if you ca be a starter in your own age group.

But players/families can do whatever they want.

Agree and most around here aren't allowing playing up unless you are a superstar.

Might as well play town/rec if you have no aspirations for playjng in college.

I agree with this from the view why pay all this money if your kid has no interest in playing in college. However if a kid wants to compete and their highest level possible then go do something else for college that’s alright also.

That being said your comment makes no sense based off what was being discussed?

Meaning if Aug birthday players intend to play in college they need to play on their correct grade in school team. If they dont college coaches and recruiters will ignore them.

All the BY September- December birth months college soccer players and current committed recruits are scratching their heads

As are the Jan- July recruits that got recruited while playing with half the age group in a grade down.

Again in BY trapped players are playing up.There are no other options.

In SY Aug/Sept and sometimes Nov qualify for the grade down team. If they choose to play on that team they will be ignored by college coaches when it comes time for recruiting. The easy solution is for Aug birthdays to play up on their correcr grade in school team.

In BY, Jan- Jul were playing in a grade below. Didn't hurt recruiting. Easy solution is to stay with facts, birthdays rather than something variable by state, school start ages which grades don't even have official documents to report to verification firms. College coaches said they aren't ignoring anyone, they don't care about age groups. Recruits have to seek out colleges.

What a web we weave when we aim to deceive

Yep everyone can see that clubs are going to play August / September birthdays on their grade in school team.

Age guy is going to kick and scream even when it happens. Trying to convince patents to play their kids down. When a few of the idiots that choose to play down describe the difficulties that had to go through for college recruiting nobody will pay down anymore.

It's really youth soccer that's leading this AND telling people recruiting will be OK in these rare situations. It set up the rules this way, knowing it wouldn't perfectly align.

The rules are 100% setup so Aug birthdays will play on their grade in school team.

And the rules are 100% setup so Aug birthdays can play in their age group. And anyone, not just Aug bdays can play up. Hopefully, it's because they are good enough and that makes sense soccerwise.