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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Moving to the Aug1 - Jul31 model will align players with college recruiting as the new platform for development. The NCAA rule change to delay in recruiting impacted this situation. College coaches want to see players on the field with classmates to better judge the talent pool. It makes little sense right now to have 1/3 of the junior class born after August 03 playing with committed seniors (U18/19) and makes even less sense next spring. The younger 03 players are now all playing up a year for college recruiting! It would be better to add that pool of talent to the U17s. It’s not fair to the older 05s who now have 1/3 of their ‘23 classmates (born after Aug 2004) automatically playing up getting exposure with ‘22 Juniors and makes recruiting a mess. Let 10th graders play with 10th graders and 11th graders play with 11th graders.[/quote]

Exactly this. This move originally was done in part to hamstring the college system because US Soccer wants to get colleges out of the high level soccer game, for a variety of reasons (some good, some not good). But unfortunately for US soccer, kids still want to go to college and play college. If you have any interaction with college coaches, they generally want to switch back to school calendar.

If you want your kid to play college soccer, switching back is a good idea.[/quote]

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