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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The more this conversation goes on, the more I still feel like just a handful of people even get this.  So here's a few relevant pieces of info:

1. The idea here is for kids to play with their school grade. Every US Club/US Soccer communication says this.  7/31 is the earliest cutoff meaning as long as your kid started school on time, they are allowed to play with their school grade.  This was the goal.

2. The term they use for kids playing a grade below because of school cutoff and birthday after Aug 1 is "force down" not play down, because playing down isn't allowed, but playing up is.  So a "force down" is when a club forces a player to play with a lower grade.  This was not the intent of the change.

3. One of the specified goals was to help facilitate college recruiting because college scouts are usually recruiting a specific graduation year.  They are not often looking at multiple age groups at once and they will be going where the majority of the players they need are playing.  If you aren't playing with your graduation year, you are at a significant disadvantage and this was acknowledged so the change is truly meant to align this. [/quote]More to the point, they said they wanted to better align with grades, reduce trapped problem and increase participation. By not saying they wanted to perfectly align with grades or eliminate the trap problem, they did what they said they would do. They created age groups based on 8/1 - 7/31 and are not consider grades as criteria for age groups for the rules.[/quote]

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