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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]Aug - Dec kids who are on top teams and on grade and get at least half playing time - clubs will leave them alone UNLESS parents want to move them down to younger team.

Aug - Dec kids who are on top team but NOT on grade - clubs will try to push them to younger team. Parents who disagree will get to argue their case but club will likely comply.

Aug - Dec kids who are NOT on top teams - honestly it doesn’t matter much to the club which teams your kids are on especially if much loved than RL. They will move your kids to grade level. This new change doesn’t impact your recruiting if your kids are playing in other leagues that ECNL/GA/ RL/MLSN[/quote]Clubs won't know or care about grades of most kids. Kids come and go.[/quote]
They will because it makes a differnece in who gets recruited for college and who does not.[/quote]

Clubs want winning teams, wins, records and championships matter more to clubs, because that is a big driver of club recruitment.  Their primary goal is not to send kids off to college.  So, the clubs will absolutely go into a season with the strongest team possible.  That means playing the older kids from August and September (who are 1 grade above) to play on the team. Any club that does not play the oldest kids on the teams, will be at an 16.6% disadvantage against clubs who do include them.  Grade year consideration is secondary to winning.[/quote]
As someone with a u16 on a top GA team in the nation trust me teams stop caring about wins at u15 and everything changes to recruiting. I wish we could play top teams (that are actually trying to win) in tournaments. But it just doesnt happen anymore.

The person. thats telling you that clubs will group players by grade for recruiting is correct. This is for both GA and ECNL.[/quote]
Hahahaha...

Agree 💯 unfortunately the hard heads have to learn from personal experience. [/quote]Makes sense that teams could lean grade at junior year but not want anyone playing up before then. So best to stay on age until at least junior year.[/quote]
It makes even more sense for clubs to adopt a policy that all players must play on the team thats their grade in school. This way teams grow up playing together and are able to dominate at all ages.[/quote]If clubs cared about growing as a team over the years they wouldn't be putting almost everything into recruiting and so little into development. Clubs know so few kids on top teams at their club will still be on their top club from elementary to HS that to expect them to care about lining kids up for college at say age 5-6 is not believable.[/quote]
My kids team has 5 that started with the team in 1st grade. They're u15 now. Top 30 in the country. Seems to be about the norm when I think about other teams and all the kids they played futsal with through the years.[/quote]Oh and about 5-6 have been brought up through the B team through the years. That puts it at 50/50 internally developed vs recruited.

Defiantly a good reason to group by grade all the way down into littles.[/quote]

The didn’t group by grade pre-2016. They don’t now. I have coached for over 15 years at clubs up and down the east coast. I have never been to one of our tryouts or evaluated a player where the player’s grade has ever come up or even been discussed.

If the player is in the age grouping that’s where they play unless they can make a serious impact a year up and the parents are okay with that. At smaller clubs there is more of this of course and normally a bit more of it on the girls side.

I don’t understand why the last 20 years of youth soccer is suddenly going to change and care about grade in 26/27. [/quote]

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