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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I keep shaking my head at all these comments.  Did any of the parents of kids playing today play when they were younger?  The age groups aligned with the school year none of this mental gymnastics was needed.   Problems were created when the change was made while solving nothing.  There are two sides obviously Q4 parents want their kids to not be trapped and have an advantage of playing with their classmates instead of always a grade older.  The other side must just be scared that the Q4 kids in their kids grade are actually better than them.  [/quote]

There are zero mental gymnastics required for birth year…the school year stuff never made sense because from a U(age) perspective with cutoffs in August - that’s the cutoff that requires mental gymnastics, regardless, the gymnastics aren’t hard - any parent that can’t do the mental gymnastics requires for sport registration probably isn’t employable.

At young ages I rarely had schoolmates on my teams. Only until middle school and HS when the pyramids consolidated did I play with any schoolmates, but not many. But HS soccer was also the recruitment pathway back then. NPL, Classic and ODP were also the competitive places to get looks. The world is different.

The idea that ECNL teams are made up of school mates is sort of ludicrous on its face. HOWEVER - there are some HS coaches in states like Cali, PA, NJ, MA that have regulations for club soccer to incentivize HS soccer where the coaches recruit to the HS to keep the club teams together as much as possible. Those are typically not ECNL or GA players though.

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