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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think reality is finally starting to sink into age guys head. He's starting to realize that playing down isnt a golden ticket to an A team.[/quote]There is no age person because people can't pick and choose their kids age categories like ordering a pizza. People aren't giving people advice. They are saying what is happening. Leagues said 8/1 - 7/31 except MLSN1. Clubs said only best play up. College coaches said they don't care about your age group, just be good and have good grades. No advice, just facts.[/quote]
Heres a fact. If August birthdays choose to play on a grade down club team they will be ignored by college coaches.[/quote]

That's just not true and you'd know that if you actually talked to any college coaches.  Most college coaches have no clue how these changes will impact recruiting short term.  Even the ones that were around a decade ago before BY need time to figure it out again.  The coaches I know and have talked to directly have said that ID camps and direct player outreach are still the top ways they recruit players.  Parents can assume all they want, but that doesn't make it true.

And, yes, my DC is an August birthday in a state with a 9/1 cutoff.[/quote]
What you need to do is sink 5-6k into college id camps to compensate for your August birthday kid being misaligned and playing down.

Or just play you kid on a team thats their grade and recruitment just works because everything clubs and leagues have setup to highlight your kid to college coaches works like its supposed to.

People typically attend private schools when the public choices fail them.

Almost anyone can get a 6k scholarship to a 90k per year private school. But why? You could probably get the same thing with a Tuba scholarship in band.[/quote][/quote]

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