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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want, try to play up (with your current team for those Aug/Dec kids) until it matters - recruiting age. Then, it makes no sense to be the youngest on an older team who is all going to graduate a year before you, if of course the goal is to go to college. Scouts will be looking at your teammates, and not you. And then when it’s time for them to look at you, your team will be too old for prime recruiting. [/quote]

If you've done your homework and you're a younger birth month on a top team, the scouts know who you are. The problem now will be the misaligned grades from kids who are in an actual higher grade then their soccer age group.[/quote]
Exactly all the August players that started school on time,  it will be real interesting if they play a grade lower to be on a higher team than they would make in their school grade group. [/quote]
And what do you think will happen if an aug birthday kid does well playing down a grade? Thats right the parents will hold them back a year to redo classes and get better grades the 2nd time. Which along with being the oldest on a team will make them more appealing to scouts.

This is what leagues are trying to avoid. They dont want to be responsible for causing kids to be held back in school.

Other sports deal with this type of thing all the time. In Lacrosse theres literally 20 year old high school seniors. This happens because parents hold their kid back 2 times![/quote]
If they were trying to avoid this they would have stuck with the original 9/1 date or been creative with exceptions.  They did neither.  [/quote]

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