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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From US Club

Additional Note - Players “trapped down”

Due to the 8/1 cutoff for soccer and 9/1 school cutoff in California, many players with an August birthday will be eligible to play in the age group younger than most players of their school grade. This could put those players at the very disadvantage that the age group change was designed to avoid. The bright side, however, is that the solution to this problem is entirely in the hands of clubs.

US Club gets it + understands that Aug birthdays playing on a grade down team is an issue. So do we want to call this a recommendation from US Club that younger than the SY eligibility window should play with their grade? Seems like that it whats being recommended.[/quote]
This to me says that US Club recognizes the "disadvantage" of August birthdays playing down in SY depending on when their school starts. It also implies that allowing playing down a grade was not their intention when switching to SY. In the last sentence US Club punts the issue to clubs.

What this says to me is clubs that want to have the best possible college recruits will not allow August birthdays to play on a grade down team. You might see it at tournaments with eligible players playing down as guests. You might also see it at the littles level when it doesnt matter. But they will need to play with they grade eventually to get recruited for college. The longer you wait to play on the correct grade team the harder it is to make the jump up.
[/quote]No, US club went SY for retention. Have no idea how you invented a bizarre college recruiting issue that doesn't and won't exist for anybody ever.[/quote]

It's his thing. He's so convinced by it, he feels the need to "educate" all of us here. All the pushback only encourages him more toward his goal to tell people they're wrong.[/quote]
Next season when theres no players playing down on top teams will sort everything out.[/quote]

^^^^Case-in-point ^^^^[/quote]

Yup! - I can't wait until next year one of the Aug kids on my daughter's "top team" does in fact play in the correct new age group (not down ffs).[/quote]
Everyone whos either gone though college recruiting or are currently in a college recruiting age group knows that you have to play with your grade to get noticed. Theres too much competition for roster spots and college coaches jobs are directly tied to wins. [/quote]

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