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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]US Soccer is looking into it. The development platform for girls is now college. NCAA soccer system is widely seen as the sole US advantage on the women’s side. Men’s side is different due to the professional money in MLS and international club system. The best men get signed professionally early and don’t go to college. It is all part of the dismantling of DA. It will happen to align with the women’s college development platform.[/quote]

US Soccer doesn't care about college soccer. It just doesn't matter if it is slightly easier for college coaches or not.

People have this belief that college coaches just go to showcases pull up to a random game and just watch and come up with a list of players to recruit from the game.

There is no real reason to cater any age cutoff for the benefit of colleges because the impact is pretty minimal.

What US Soccer does care about is their National Team and it is far easier for them to scout players based on international cutoff standards where their kids will be playing.

US soccer changed to Birth Year for their benefit and the reasons for that initial change have not changed at all for US Soccer. [/quote]

US soccer does care about dwindling numbers playing youth soccer in America, and they want to encourage kids to stay on the teams and keep playing.

One of the suggestions is that kids will be more apt to play with their schoolmates than their teammates. YMMV, but it's being looked at as one way of keeping kids playing past the magic 13-year-old point where 75% of kids quit the game. They may be more likely to play with classmates they see on and off the field, rather than teammates they just see at practices and games. [/quote]

A lot of really good players I know quit at U13/14 because of years of the same old bureaucracy.  Kids change and develop drastically different from age 8 to age 13 and beyond, yet almost every soccer club in the area values keeping the teams the same year in year out. The kids that have moved beyond and drastically changed are tired of getting the shaft and say f*ck you to soccer.  US soccer loses out on so much potential for not upsetting the apple cart and not LOOKING at tryouts.  The pre-sort of kids based on some label they got at age 9 sticks.  I see so many great players that are just beginning to come into their potential get frustrated and leave the sport completely. [/quote]

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