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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]US Youth Soccer has asked its State Association Presidents to provide feedback on the impacts that occurred when changes were made from a school year to calendar year, and what they’d foresee as impacts if we went back.[/quote]

It will only cause more kids to quit — I don’t really have a Preference between the two, but the change itself was incredibly disruptive and shouldn’t happen to the same generation of kids again.[/quote]

Agreed.  The kids are on teams that have now been together for awhile and are just returning to play with COVID restrictions.  Why disrupt that?

I disagreed with this change when it was made but if they want to go back, they should roll it in for younger groups.  Like K-1 and just let it work it’s way through.[/quote]

I totally agree with this. My kids were really hurt when the age groups changed, but now that they are older, changing back wouldn't make much of a difference. Personally, I preferred the older age group, mostly because of the year when part of a team is in 8th grade and part is in 9th. However, if they change it back, I hope it is phased in for younger kids only.

I don't even understand any of these discussions anyway. US Soccer makes policies for the thousands of kids playing soccer based on concerns that might only impact the top 1% of players. If coaches and scouts were better at assessing talent, there would be  no need to play with age groups. We should be less concerned with identifying the top 1% and more concerned with the vast majority of players who will never be professionals or on the national team. Let's care about keeping them playing soccer as long as possible.[/quote]

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