You don't know any clubs creating grade practice sessions then. Ok. |
Except tryouts are mostly a formality. You can't say go to the younger age team prior when almost half of the older age group is going down also and won't be there for the trial. So tryouts are going to have to actually be run in a way to assess and we know how great clubs are at that. |
Maybe from the player’s standpoint but plenty of reasons for the club to do it for their own benefit. |
Its mostly just one parent that refuses to admit that college coaches recruit by grade. |
Name the ways players playing on a grade down team makes things easier for clubs. |
Clubs don't want to open the floodgates of allowing players to play up except in extremely rare instances otherwise the FOMO will be to great to hold back all the other parents. |
That makes no sense. Theres no "floodgates" involved with playing on a team thats your grade in school. Keep the list going btw... I'll wait.. |
Arlington is trying to avoid playing up, what team is enforcing playing up? |
| Big fact -- Arlington -- a top club in the ECNL -- is not forcing players misaligned to play up to be in the same grade. It says right there in the FAQ that grade alone doesn't mean a player gets to play up. If they're doing that, dollars to donuts most clubs also are, too. You're wrong, dude. Done and dusted! I guess you can keep trying to annoy us here. That's all you got! |
So think about what you just said. Arlington wants you to pay a big fat check to play competitive soccer. But at the same time wants your kid to play on a team thats a grade down in school. Which will make them unrecruitable for college. Does this sound smart to you? Does this sound like something parents will catch onto and say no, you're not going to play my kid on a grade down team. |
-Bolded commenter above, wait no longer....Clubs want those August and September kids, (i.e. the oldest, biggest, fastest & best kids) on every team to play down on each team. By forcing that, it makes every team more competitive. That is why clubs will want to keep the kids playing within the new age-brackets & not by grade. If you don't and you try to keep all the teams by Grade, then you will constantly have a team of 6th graders going up against a team of 6th and 7th graders. |
Ok coach from Arlington. You the same person that wrote the absolute horrendous FAQ people are linking to? Its terrible remedial English at best. |
You have no idea what youre talking about. This is the problem with this discussion. People that cant read a calendar can comment. |
Not if that player gets good by doing so well at the age group, they end up playing up on grade. That's the ideal development track. Player development is a process where the player evolves each year and why you can't have dumb rules where you force players to play by grade. You are such a GY homer! |
Keep up the insults, but you are wrong! Or, find us some evidence to support your theory. Otherwise, nan nan nan hey hey goodbye! |