ECNL moving to school year part 2
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Anonymous
They are letting everyone play up an age group. They don't care about grades. |
Anonymous
Correct that anyone can play up. However the only group with an incentive to play up is Aug birthdays so they can play on a team with players their grade in school.l and be aligned with level played in club and grade in school. Other players can play up but all they're doing is making college recruitment more difficult because their graduation year (grade in school) and level played in club are out of alignement. This would be the same issue Aug-Dec birthdays in BY are going through right now. Recruitment has cycles and times when college coaches are looking for players with the expectation that they'll graduate a specific year. Being out of alignement either way younger or older makes things much more difficult. |
Anonymous
How does that make a difference? Levels... 8/1/2008 and younger 8/1/2009 and younger 8/1/2010 and younger 8/1/2011 and younger 8/1/2012 and younger 8/1/2013 and younger etc |
Anonymous
College coaches told clubs they don't care what age group you are in. They take the best players from HS, transfers and Internationals and compare them against each other regardless of team they play on. And most contact them. The incentive is to be the oldest and play on age but FOMO and bragging at the bus stop pushes some to play up and sit on the bench. |
Anonymous
It doesn't of course, since the beginning of time, lage clubs limit playing up in soccer, in other sports and kids rarely enter school a year early also. It's a silly argument that because you can you should or that it would be allowed at most clubs for your kid. It isn't 9 times out of 10. |
Anonymous
You keep trying to twist people's words. College coaches 100% only care about players graduating year or grade in school. Age is irrelevant because grade in school is all that matters. Logically people know that you're lieing to try and push a narrative. |
Anonymous
Why would a club "limit playing up in soccer"? The things you write make no sense. Levels... 8/1/2008 and younger 8/1/2009 and younger 8/1/2010 and younger 8/1/2011 and younger 8/1/2012 and younger 8/1/2013 and younger Is exactly how groupings function in SY because players can play up. |
Anonymous
Your Dr. Evil bias to help your kid is having you conveniently ignore that a kids graduation year and youth soccer age group are different. College coaches told clubs they don't care what age group the kids play in or the quality of the team they play on. They take the best that reach out to them, transfers, foreign and HS players regardless of their team. |
Anonymous
Seems of Millions of folks, you're the only one having sleepless nights about this |
Anonymous
First you say all clubs rosters will have the same graduation year and now you say playing up will be running rampant contrary to what has ever happened in youth soccer? Your inconsistent positions undermine your creditiblilty. |
Anonymous
Why have more under 8/1/2008 and younger? |
Anonymous
Because these are the different levels defined in SY. Which roughly aligns to grade in school. You pick the level that is your kids grade in school. |
Anonymous
Theres no inconsistency. 2011 as an example in SY this fall will be all Sophmores and 2012 will be all Freshman. |
Anonymous
Heres what it will look like this fall when SY kicks in. I'd include 2010 and above but this is the u18/u19 (Junior/Senior) combined group which would just confuse people. 8/1/2011 and younger = Sophmore 8/1/2012 and younger = Freshman 8/1/2013 and younger = 8th etc |
Anonymous
Bad advice that local clubs aren't buying. They assign your age group based on DOB. Play on age here, best play up which is limited. For rec or lower level teams, playing up considered more likely. Colorado Rapids sums things up. Will players be organized strictly by their school grade? No. Players will be organized by "School-Year Age Groups" (August 1-July 31), not by their specific academic grade. Here is the difference: While the new system will naturally align most players with their classmates, "Grade Level" is an academic designation that varies from family to family (due to children starting school early or late, repeating a year, or varying state enrollment dates). "School-Year Age Groups" use a strict national birthdate range (August 1 to July 31). This ensures a nationwide consistent, fair, and objective standard for safety and competition, regardless of a player’s individual academic path. 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. |