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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][quote=Anonymous]It is extremely weird to call Tier 2 “academy” when they revolve their season around HS soccer.  Such an obvious marketing gimmick.  Do they think parents are that stupid?  Oh right, they are.[/quote]

Extremely weird? It’s actually pretty normal in youth sports. “Academy” used to mean something specific. Now it just tantamount to “program.” It’s marketing at this point.[/quote]

Substituting the ever-so-prominent “MLS Academy” name, that so many Dads on here drool over, and imparting it to their second tier league, is weird yes.  In fact it is blatantly deceitful because it used to be the pinnacle of what parents could tell others and now it means the opposite.  It also forces those same dips*!t parents to say homegrown which is in and of itself self a weird name .[/quote]

It's going to be really interesting if MLSN/GA stays BY.[/quote]

True.  Would be a very strange business decision on their part but could be the best thing for p2p honestly as it gives true space for an SY league like ECNL .  But from a national standpoint, I think it hampers developing and determining the best players as the two leagues would play each other almost never.   [/quote]

I think it's strange people don't understand why they would and who believe SY is the end all be all.[/quote]

If MLSN is okay with reducing both the number and quality of potential players then staying BY could be for them.  But if they didn’t care about those two things, that would be strange.  
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Not sure where you get that.[/quote]

Splitting the talent pool by age group is one reason.  Kids that are top players in u8-u12 via SY and want to keep that will gravitate towards SY league at u13 and above.  That’s also less number of strong players who provide competition within MLSN.  Not sure how you don’t get that.[/quote]

It’s going to be very difficult for August-December birthdays who are in a SY system (as all ulittle teams will be) to switch to a BY system for mlsnext. Skipping an age group and remaining competitive is going to be very tough. Some will, but many others will just head to ecnl. The best thing for ecnl is for mlsnext to stay BY.[/quote]

IF ECNL wants to be the next USYS.[/quote]

If you could somehow temporarily set aside your raging hard on for MLSN, splitting the age cutoff among the youth soccer landscape will fundamentally change the p2p market and compromise MLSN and potentially the national team at developing and identifying top players.  To think ALL the best players will ALL gravitate towards BY leagues is being daft.  The best players at u13 and u14 are many times not the best at u16 and u17.  Talent ID in soccer is remains very subjective and perhaps more so than any other sport.

Will kids and parents forgo and risk staying top team in the SY league to join if somehow a BY league was the only bonafide path to being pro or national team?  Or is it possible that many very talented players would continue with their cohort age group up to that point because they like their team or don’t want to play professional or college, or like being on the top team.  You could argue that only true top talents would take the risk, but that is daft as well: RAE is a real bias and exists internationally at the top academies.  However, even if you believe all top world class players would take that risk, you would still be losing a cohort of very competitive SY league players which at the very least would help develop and strengthen BY league competition.

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I find it funny how ECNL was founded because it wanted to separate itself and provide a competitive alternative to the USYS system. Now it's trying to become the USYS. What happened?[/quote]

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