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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Girls lacrosse is school grade and it’s terribly unfair due to excessive redshirting around here. 
US lacrosse changed to birth year and NGLL (this area) didn’t follow. [/quote]

Agree with this, too many girls that are nearly a full year older than their peers.[/quote]

Whats the difference between a January 2004 birthday and a December 2004 birthday? A whole year. This is the problem. It always favor the older kids regardless the cutoff. Its a no win for the younger kids[/quote]

With school grade it could be Jan 2004 playing against December 2006.[/quote]

Which is likely to produce more variation in age?  Question answer itself. Grade-based. This is beyond stupid. [/quote]

Birth year. 1/3 of your kid’s classmates are playing up - no matter what. We are programmed to compare our kids based on other 2005s or 2004s. That’s all wrong. Compare them vs classmates. Look at the grad years. That’s what college coaches will do.[/quote]

Nonsense.  I grew up playing with the old way and hated it.  Birth year maximally produces 364 days difference.  If you are playing up, so be it.  But it's rare and a function of ability.  The problem is that if your kid is smart (mine is), advanced by a year (he is), and surrounded by average-intelligence kids whose dumber parents redshirt them in kindergarten so they can go to James Madison instead of community college, your stuck playing with a bunch of dumb big kids.  Do you want me to go on?  Because I can.[/quote]

I hate to break it to you. But redshirting happens and nothing you can will change it. Do you think that college coaches care that the older graduating senior who was held back and has an extra year of maturity, size and strength is unfairly a better prospect that your kid? They don’t care. Unfair? They don’t care. It happens all the time in football and other sports. You are already competing against your graduating class. And when you get to college it’s kids 3 years older taking your field time. The current system only falsely protects and makes Jan-Jun kids look great until recruiting time. Recruiting happens by class and that’s how the kids should play.[/quote]

96% of kids don't get recruited. It just doesn't matter. Colleges figure it out. Youth soccer is under no obligation to arrange cutoff years to suit college recruiting.

There are lots of things that actually should be done to mitigate RAE but aren't being done. Changing from birth to graduation year does little to combat RAE.[/quote]

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