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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This whole thread is hilarious since people actually think that ECNL cares about kids playing in HS[/quote]

Right, they don't care about HS.  It's just a coincidence that they have their seasons scheduled around each state's HS schedule.[/quote]

Clubs make the schedule with ECNL and  have a lot of say since it’s their fields. Our club (Virginia) has no games April and May but other VA clubs go right through. It’s really up to the clubs as to what they want to do…but agree they don’t care really all that much about high school other than the fact that it gives them a differentiating edge with players/parents against prior DA and MLS which made it difficult if not impossible to play HS soccer unless you are on scholarship. Some kids want that experience (not for the soccer but for the social). What ECNL really cares about is college placement record of its players, hence this thread about the move from birth to college calendar year…They are now putting additional rigor/focus on boys track record here (which never really used to be a focus given their origination as a girls league)…for girls they already have the market cornered hwre  (pure numbers of college placements via a via other leagues). and they now need to capture the white space on boys side…which is a fractured pipeline coming from multiple leagues sources and countries…[/quote]

Sounds like ECNL using slight of hand to make gullible parents feel this increases chances for their sons to get into their desired college through soccer

You're going to graduate HS when you're going to graduate, regardless of what you're doing in club soccer. 
The colleges want you for your qualities that matches what they need.

How does ecnl changing from calendar year to school year help a kid's recruitment odds over his competition at Bethesda playing in MLS Next?
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Ohhh yes all parents of trapped players must be gullible.  [/quote]

There are only two main times where the kids get trapped:

8th grade and 12th grade.

Most of the kids trapped at 12th grade have already gotten their looks and have enough of a record on film and statistics.

The 8th graders are the ones that sort of miss a year of good challenging development with their grade peers - but not really much in the case of true development  because ECNL teams aren’t built for “school friends” anyway - so it’s so sort of 90% a feeling and 10% a truth / fact.[/quote]

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