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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]None of it matters until 10th grade. None of it. Zero percent of it. [/quote]

This is silly.
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This is fact. Majority of teams are held up by a few outlines or early bloomers  Many of the advantages disappear after puberty . The 10th grade year is about the time things become equal. U16-17 years are the most competetive in youth soccer for a reason. Its also the year rwcruiting starts.

No youth teams remain successful throughout their life span without the injection of new talent. Most successful U16-17 team rosters have changed drastically.[/quote]

This is utter nonsense.  The majority of teams are not "held up by a few early bloomers" and many of the advantages do not disappear after puberty.  There are a handful of players who possess a temporary significant physical advantage over other kids, but
-  it usually lasts a year or two only
-  those kids often play up a year - in my experience this is more likely to happen on the clubs with stronger records as well
-  the best teams often have none of these players in any case
-  by seventh and eighth grade well coached kids with good technical skills will usually beat stronger faster kids with lesser technical skills, and the kids with the best technical skills in seventh and eighth grade usually have the best technical skills in tenth, eleventh and twelth grade as well - so the gap actually grows as they catch up physically.

And yes of course teams change over time as kids move and clubs recruit - but (a) good clubs don't make wholesale changes and there is considerable continuity from one year to the next, and (b) I don't see why this means the the results from U13,14, 15 and 16 aren't important.  Those results are indicative of how well the club is developing younger players.[/quote]

Non-sense? Tell me how many cycles you have witnessed. Anyone....and I mean anyone...who had a kid go through an entire cycle can tell you that the super star pre-puberty team will look nothing like the U17 team. 
Picking winners and lovers before puberty is an absolute waste in time.

This is not a statement about development. Its a statement about younger teams being carried. In the vast majority of cases,  I can handpick two kids from any top team and drastically change the outcome of that team. [/quote]

I'm on my third cycle as a parent.  And - while there is certainly some truth to what you're saying at rec level and probably at the lower levels of travel - the higher level the less it is the case, and at the very top level it is not the case at all.
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