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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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If ECNL switches their age groups from starting Jan 1 to starting Aug1 (the year prior) it means their equivalent age groups to calendar defined teams will have players potentially 5 months older.

See how it works ;-)

Also calender based teams can play in ECNL tournaments but ECNL teams can't play in calendar based tournaments.

See how it works ;-)

Also also ECNL clubs can't switch over to GA without switching up their teams but GA clubs can switch over to ECNL without changing anything.

See how it works ;-)

It seems like the change is for the kids but it's not.

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Who is moving a club from ECNL to GA without being kicked out of ECNL? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣[/quote]
You never know. Things change all the time.

It doesn't change the real rationale behind ECNL considering an age cutoff change.

It's not to help out the the "trapped" players. It's to give ECNL an advantage of older players and put up a virtual fence around ECNL clubs so they don't participate in other leagues events.[/quote]

At the risk of stoking a completely different flame (war), ECNL doesn’t need any advantage of older or more mature player than GA. GA, with about 86% as many teams (and maybe 85-88% as many girls) as ECNL , has significantly poorer outcomes for ex-placement. I’m not sure what the advantage ECNL would gain would be when they’re already dominating D1, YNT and WNTs ranks.[/quote]

Right...

So ECNL gains nothing from making it so its member clubs can't play in other League tournaments and its players are 5 months older then other leagues.

Keep drinking the Koolaid [/quote]

I’m not advocating for either / or. I’m just suggesting that 5 months of maturation from ages ~11-14 for Aug-Dec girls is so marginal a gain for ECNL in a competitive landscape with GA that I doubt that is anywhere close to the rational behind why ECNL would move back to 8/1 cutoff.

You are aware this exact same date swap thing has happened multiple times over the past 20 years of club soccer right? This isn’t a new phenomenon. [/quote]

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