ECNL moving to school year not calendar

[Anonymous]

They dont need to check the Birth date... RAE advantage is clear in most cases. Coaches absolutly check the BD too.

[Anonymous]

512 pages of a bunch of insecure people wondering if their kids will be at an advantage or not.

If your kid is U13 and up you know chances are coaches know where your kid stand as far as playing at the next level.

You have the all-stars - the kids that you can see on the field and just think damn they are good. Easily Power 5 D1.

The steady Freddy’s -kids that play on top teams and do things on the field right 90% of the time. A little scared to be creative but could make a top team at just about every local club. D1 but not very big schools.

Lower end of of your ecnl/ga team could possibly go d1 but very unlikely. Now you’re getting into D2/D3 kids or maybe even kids that will have to find another passion.

There are some teams though where you have 80% of the team going D1 ( see teams that have won a national championship at U15 and up)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:512 pages of a bunch of insecure people wondering if their kids will be at an advantage or not.

If your kid is U13 and up you know chances are coaches know where your kid stand as far as playing at the next level.

You have the all-stars - the kids that you can see on the field and just think damn they are good. Easily Power 5 D1.

The steady Freddy’s -kids that play on top teams and do things on the field right 90% of the time. A little scared to be creative but could make a top team at just about every local club. D1 but not very big schools.

Lower end of of your ecnl/ga team could possibly go d1 but very unlikely. Now you’re getting into D2/D3 kids or maybe even kids that will have to find another passion.

There are some teams though where you have 80% of the team going D1 ( see teams that have won a national championship at U15 and up)

That's the whole point about going from SY from BY
All stars could become Freds and vice versa, Freds and lower end of team could switch, kids going from ECNL to ECRL and ECRL to ECNL.

SY coming in will flip a not insignificant number of say 11-12-13 year old kids off the college path and a similar number on the college path.

[Anonymous]

I just heard it’s official glad I skipped 512 pages

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just heard it’s official glad I skipped 512 pages

There will be 500 more pages before it’s official 😂

[Anonymous]

What do you need to hear to make it “official” for you 🤣

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you need to hear to make it “official” for you 🤣

No one has laid out a detailed plan to go to SY. To be clear I believe they will, but I won’t believe it’s official until ECNL and my state association say

[Anonymous]

the goal is to align ECNL with college. it is easier and smoother when you go by school year. the elite kids will be elite no matter what and will make the national teams cause they are just that good. but for the rest of players, 99.9% of them, aligning with college and those opportunities is the most advantageous, especially for trapped players.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the goal is to align ECNL with college. it is easier and smoother when you go by school year. the elite kids will be elite no matter what and will make the national teams cause they are just that good. but for the rest of players, 99.9% of them, aligning with college and those opportunities is the most advantageous, especially for trapped players.

Agree, it’s a great summary 👍

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If I'm a club with pre-ecnl starting at 2015 now? I'm filling that team with q3 q4 kids at tryouts this year.

No you’re not…you’re filling it with the best kids in that age band that fill your roster.

All this complaining about RAE, and nobody seems to get how RAE works.

The coach will prefer Q3/Q4 bench players than Q1/Q2 bench. Starters are from the best players regardless Q.

Nice dream.

The coach prefers bench players that have an impact. Not bench players with some magical birthday. But you go on thinking the the birthday is the most important thing,

The thought wasn’t the coach would choose all Q3/4 players but rather choose them instead of Q1/2 players if the talent level was similar.

What do you think happened before? If you have two kids with similar talent fighting for the last spot on a team…the coach picks the one he likes most…they don’t check their birth certificate….and they won’t check the birth certificate in the future either.

This is some weird wishful thinking. Coaches give zero rips on birthdates. They don’t care at u-little, they don’t care at u-tween, and they don’t care even more in the teen years.

If you’re small and can ball, they aren’t checking your birth certificate, if you’re tall and can ball, they’re not checking your birth certificate.

If you’re tall and you suck…they’re not checking your birth certificate, if you’re small and suck…also not checking. Just because the coaches tell you they’re putting the kids that suck, regardless of birthday, on a lower level team to give them “time to develop” doesn’t mean what you think it means. The onus of developing footballers falls on the kid and parents, not the club.

Parents that think the club is going to pump out little college stars with team practice 4 days a week, 14 games, a couple of tournies and showcases must be the same ones convinced that the age cut-off makes any different at all. Just put your head down, put your kids head down and work your asses off…that is the only solution regardless of genetic gifts. The only solution is doing the hard work, even when and especially when nobody is looking.

No you have it wrong. The Blues only practice 2 days per week and we pump out college stars on a regular basis along with national team callups. You have no idea how elite soccer works. Go back in the corner and sit down.

😂

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Anonymous wrote:If I'm a club with pre-ecnl starting at 2015 now? I'm filling that team with q3 q4 kids at tryouts this year.

No you’re not…you’re filling it with the best kids in that age band that fill your roster.

All this complaining about RAE, and nobody seems to get how RAE works.

The coach will prefer Q3/Q4 bench players than Q1/Q2 bench. Starters are from the best players regardless Q.

Nice dream.

The coach prefers bench players that have an impact. Not bench players with some magical birthday. But you go on thinking the the birthday is the most important thing,

The thought wasn’t the coach would choose all Q3/4 players but rather choose them instead of Q1/2 players if the talent level was similar.

What do you think happened before? If you have two kids with similar talent fighting for the last spot on a team…the coach picks the one he likes most…they don’t check their birth certificate….and they won’t check the birth certificate in the future either.

This is some weird wishful thinking. Coaches give zero rips on birthdates. They don’t care at u-little, they don’t care at u-tween, and they don’t care even more in the teen years.

If you’re small and can ball, they aren’t checking your birth certificate, if you’re tall and can ball, they’re not checking your birth certificate.

If you’re tall and you suck…they’re not checking your birth certificate, if you’re small and suck…also not checking. Just because the coaches tell you they’re putting the kids that suck, regardless of birthday, on a lower level team to give them “time to develop” doesn’t mean what you think it means. The onus of developing footballers falls on the kid and parents, not the club.

Parents that think the club is going to pump out little college stars with team practice 4 days a week, 14 games, a couple of tournies and showcases must be the same ones convinced that the age cut-off makes any different at all. Just put your head down, put your kids head down and work your asses off…that is the only solution regardless of genetic gifts. The only solution is doing the hard work, even when and especially when nobody is looking.

RAE reckoning coming.

RAE Reckoning?🤣

“How dare you be born before my child, in 2026 the tables will turn, and my child will be better because of new age cutoffs…beware! Your reckoning is coming for having a child born before mine!!!”

You’re crazy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the goal is to align ECNL with college. it is easier and smoother when you go by school year. the elite kids will be elite no matter what and will make the national teams cause they are just that good. but for the rest of players, 99.9% of them, aligning with college and those opportunities is the most advantageous, especially for trapped players.

The elite thing is interesting.

Podcast mentioned pages ago pointed out that the main reason that BY was mandated was because at the time most of the youth national team "elite" players were born in Sep-Dec and US youth teams were young at international events and not doing well. The youth national teams needed the "elite" players to born in Jan-May.

Switching from SY to BY for most of the leagues will result in many different players making youth national teams then would have if most leagues were to stay BY.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They dont need to check the Birth date... RAE advantage is clear in most cases. Coaches absolutly check the BD too.

They absolutely do not. Maybe you HOPE they do…but they do not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:512 pages of a bunch of insecure people wondering if their kids will be at an advantage or not.

If your kid is U13 and up you know chances are coaches know where your kid stand as far as playing at the next level.

You have the all-stars - the kids that you can see on the field and just think damn they are good. Easily Power 5 D1.

The steady Freddy’s -kids that play on top teams and do things on the field right 90% of the time. A little scared to be creative but could make a top team at just about every local club. D1 but not very big schools.

Lower end of of your ecnl/ga team could possibly go d1 but very unlikely. Now you’re getting into D2/D3 kids or maybe even kids that will have to find another passion.

There are some teams though where you have 80% of the team going D1 ( see teams that have won a national championship at U15 and up)

That's the whole point about going from SY from BY
All stars could become Freds and vice versa, Freds and lower end of team could switch, kids going from ECNL to ECRL and ECRL to ECNL.

SY coming in will flip a not insignificant number of say 11-12-13 year old kids off the college path and a similar number on the college path.

No….