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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just don't understand why a parent would fight for their kid to play down. When i was young if you werem't the same ability as kids your age you didnt play.

The crazy parents were the ones fighting for their kid to play up against older players on an older team. Sometimes these parents were justified. Sometimes they thought their kid was better than they were. But it didn't matter because the older kids would sort that out on the field with the younger player.[/quote]
The push to playi down started 20 years ago but became more mainstream 10 years ago. You see it all the time at private schools.16 year old freshman are becoming the norm for private schools that recruit.

Youth Soccer has always been grouped based on a 12 month calendar. The cheaters hate it and want to change soccer into another GY sport. This will never happen because clubs control competition and college recruitment pathways. Clubs make much more money not implementing GY not allowing players to play down.[/quote]
Adding on...

This is why Christian Lavars (the ECNL grand puba) said on the first podcast where they brought up switching from BY to SY. That he didnt agree with players playing down. He said this to calm all the ECNL clubs that know GY would quickly translate into less revenue if implemented.[/quote]FYI, the discussion was in reference to playing down on age when trapped and had nothing to do with school grades. He said this because it created temporary disruptions for the younger team; like too many players for half a season. They also were/are generally against playing up in age except in very rare cases.[/quote]
So the change from BY to SY was to accommodate more players playing with their grade in school...

Got it[/quote]
Exactly! You cant have it both ways.

ECNL is going to implement a rule not allowing Aug birthdays to play down with players a grade below then in school.[/quote]

They aren't.[/quote]
But yet they will.

And even if they dont others will if they switch to SY just to annoy ECNL.

Continuing to allow playing down will make ECNL look lik a rec league.[/quote] Actually the rules are the other way around. ECNL is age based not grade based and rec tends to be age based with some grade exceptions depending on the locale. If you are looking for grade based, school is your best bet.[/quote]
If ECNL is age based why do they care about trapped (in school) players?

You cant have it both ways.[/quote]

They don’t care about trapped players otherwise they would have made adjustments this year. What ECNL cares about is groupings that align with college recruiters. Whatever draws in colleges will continue to keep players and families choosing their platform once they lose the college coaches ECNL is done as the elite girls platform.

That being said they still have to operate within the rules and framework provided by US Club/USSF. They will keep their one year window because they got their way for SY over BY.

Showcases is potentially the only way for them to change age rules in some way.

Would parents hold their kid back for a few showcases only when they can’t play league or nationals with that team?[/quote]
Its mind numbing that you wont just admit that ECNL changed from Birth Year to School Year because they want to alight with grade in school.

So dishonest [/quote]

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