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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Exactly. Please tell us your magic utopian sport that doesn't have a relative age effect at the youth level. [/quote]

I don't know anyone who was upset over the age change because of RAE.  It's because of trapped kids and also the relationship between club soccer and school ball, pure and simple, not because of what teams their kids can or cannot make.[/quote]

There are plenty of people upset over the age change because of RAE--it's just not a convincing argument.[/quote]

Maybe they are; maybe they aren't.  But the real reason to do it is what I mentioned:  it has yielded no real benefit (because there is always RAE no matter what you do) but it has caused trapped players and a negative dynamic for the 8th grade/9th grade group, as well as the 11th grade/12th grade group (where sometimes a single player or 2-3 must now join a new team their senior year, when they should be enjoying that final year with the team they spent the last several years with.  While this always happens sometimes in some rare cases, now it has become a norm.  And to no added value of moving to a calendar year.  My kids were not impacted by the RAE because they are spring births, but I still say it is net a problem.[/quote]

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