ECNL moving to school year not calendar

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Anonymous wrote:The good transition plan will allow 3/4 Q3/Q4 to play down this fall before a hard switch next year.

Maybe for kids not on top team. Otherwise those kids should stay where they are until it matters.

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Anonymous wrote:The good transition plan will allow 3/4 Q3/Q4 to play down this fall before a hard switch next year.

Maybe for kids not on top team. Otherwise those kids should stay where they are until it matters.

ECNL should quickly align with the SY for college recruiting. It will immediately increase their recruiting ratio. This will also give some GA clubs with strong boys programs a push to switch.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The good transition plan will allow 3/4 Q3/Q4 to play down this fall before a hard switch next year.

Maybe for kids not on top team. Otherwise those kids should stay where they are until it matters.

ECNL should quickly align with the SY for college recruiting. It will immediately increase their recruiting ratio. This will also give some GA clubs with strong boys programs a push to switch.

I'm not following the increasing recruiting ratio? Do you mean compared to MLSN? What about the GA clubs that already have strong ECNL teams? Think that makes them want to switch girls to ECNL as well?

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Anonymous wrote:There is no plan for 25/26. It will remain BY. They will announce plan for 26/27, and give suggestions on how to best prepare for that switch.

what type of "suggestions" would US Club possibly have, for example? Keep it all BY and simply think ahead to what your SY teams will be the following year?

This transition will not be easy for clubs. There will be a lot of issues. The suggestions likely will be how to think of the groups and ages -- plans for playing up --- introducing some kids to other teams. These suggestions will be in general form in March/April and will be in detail in August.

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Anonymous wrote:The problem with making adjustments for next year is ecnl clubs are hosting tryouts this month. California already hosted ecnl tryouts? North Carolina ecnl clubs host tryouts in February. Would those clubs just make adjustments to rosters if they decided to allow some early changes for a limited number of trapped players in 25/26?

I really doubt there will be any changes at all for 25/26 -- including adjustments.

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Anonymous wrote:The problem with making adjustments for next year is ecnl clubs are hosting tryouts this month. California already hosted ecnl tryouts? North Carolina ecnl clubs host tryouts in February. Would those clubs just make adjustments to rosters if they decided to allow some early changes for a limited number of trapped players in 25/26?

I really doubt there will be any changes at all for 25/26 -- including adjustments.

Keep your doubt for the next 24 days.

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Anonymous wrote:The problem with making adjustments for next year is ecnl clubs are hosting tryouts this month. California already hosted ecnl tryouts? North Carolina ecnl clubs host tryouts in February. Would those clubs just make adjustments to rosters if they decided to allow some early changes for a limited number of trapped players in 25/26?

ECNL team can have a team of 28 players. It is easy to fit 2/3 trapped players per team. The bench Q1/Q2 parents will be grumpy, but who cares?

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Anonymous wrote:The problem with making adjustments for next year is ecnl clubs are hosting tryouts this month. California already hosted ecnl tryouts? North Carolina ecnl clubs host tryouts in February. Would those clubs just make adjustments to rosters if they decided to allow some early changes for a limited number of trapped players in 25/26?

ECNL team can have a team of 28 players. It is easy to fit 2/3 trapped players per team. The bench Q1/Q2 parents will be grumpy, but who cares?

I find it annoying when we have 16 field players - 28 must mean a bunch don't even suit up each week. What's the point!

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Anonymous wrote:The problem with making adjustments for next year is ecnl clubs are hosting tryouts this month. California already hosted ecnl tryouts? North Carolina ecnl clubs host tryouts in February. Would those clubs just make adjustments to rosters if they decided to allow some early changes for a limited number of trapped players in 25/26?

ECNL team can have a team of 28 players. It is easy to fit 2/3 trapped players per team. The bench Q1/Q2 parents will be grumpy, but who cares?

Just because a player is older and trapped doesn’t mean they are any better than the team below. Sometimes that team doing better, especially in the standings.

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My daughter was trapped and when she played on the team below in 8th and 12th she was better and took all the playtime and captains bands of the players on the team below.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem with making adjustments for next year is ecnl clubs are hosting tryouts this month. California already hosted ecnl tryouts? North Carolina ecnl clubs host tryouts in February. Would those clubs just make adjustments to rosters if they decided to allow some early changes for a limited number of trapped players in 25/26?

ECNL team can have a team of 28 players. It is easy to fit 2/3 trapped players per team. The bench Q1/Q2 parents will be grumpy, but who cares?

Just because a player is older and trapped doesn’t mean they are any better than the team below. Sometimes that team doing better, especially in the standings.

gives you a perspective: a bench Q4 player was dominating in the intra-club scrimmage against the younger team, which happened just to beat an MLS academy team.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem with making adjustments for next year is ecnl clubs are hosting tryouts this month. California already hosted ecnl tryouts? North Carolina ecnl clubs host tryouts in February. Would those clubs just make adjustments to rosters if they decided to allow some early changes for a limited number of trapped players in 25/26?

ECNL team can have a team of 28 players. It is easy to fit 2/3 trapped players per team. The bench Q1/Q2 parents will be grumpy, but who cares?

Just because a player is older and trapped doesn’t mean they are any better than the team below. Sometimes that team doing better, especially in the standings.

gives you a perspective: a bench Q4 player was dominating in the intra-club scrimmage against the younger team, which happened just to beat an MLS academy team.

And one of his teammates, another Q4, bioband in the younger team because he gets zero minutes. And he is one of the best players there. They beat a MLS Academy team recently.

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Anonymous wrote:The problem with making adjustments for next year is ecnl clubs are hosting tryouts this month. California already hosted ecnl tryouts? North Carolina ecnl clubs host tryouts in February. Would those clubs just make adjustments to rosters if they decided to allow some early changes for a limited number of trapped players in 25/26?

ECNL team can have a team of 28 players. It is easy to fit 2/3 trapped players per team. The bench Q1/Q2 parents will be grumpy, but who cares?

Just because a player is older and trapped doesn’t mean they are any better than the team below. Sometimes that team doing better, especially in the standings.

gives you a perspective: a bench Q4 player was dominating in the intra-club scrimmage against the younger team, which happened just to beat an MLS academy team.

And one of his teammates, another Q4, bioband in the younger team because he gets zero minutes. And he is one of the best players there. They beat a MLS Academy team recently.

It's ALL relative. In the region where I live, I am aware of a first-place ECNL team THAT also plays up a year in a USYS national league holding its own (for extra practice, I guess) while some of the team's best players are all on the younger side of the age group and routinely have played up and have already excelled in Super Y and ODP. They also field nationally competitive futsal teams. AND, perhaps more to the point, the age group above is nowhere near as accomplished.

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