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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Moving the date fixes trapped players. Trapped players do not exist if you move the date to August 1. No matter how you feel about it, and how important it is to you, it is a problem that can be solved.

Current system: RA and trapped players
Old/Proposed system: RA

Other posters have mentioned the different impacts of trapping players - recruiting, maturity differences, lost seasons - and its up to the governing bodies to decide if it's worth the disruption.[/quote]

You will still have players whose club year is misaligned with their school year.  With an 8/1 cutoff for ECNL and a 10/1 (or later) cutoff for school, you have players born 8/1-9/30, who are playing soccer with kids the grade below them.  So, when scouts are scouting for their grade, the scout has to go to watch two age groups.   Because different school districts/regions have different school cutoffs, there is always going to be misalignment.  Why disrupt the whole system to change to a system that isn't actually better?  If 8/1 was better, why did they change back to calendar year?[/quote]

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