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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not all travel has elite players, to say that you should play rec is very arguable. .05% will make it to some kind of pro and 8% will make D-1 and have playing time. So to disrupt the school system for those very few athletes makes no sense. I feel most people that argue on each side of the line have children at each spectrum. If your child is that good then the birth year wont affect playing anyway. Most of the top kids are at the top programs or are being played up an age group anyway. [/quote]

There are two groups on the Birth school year kick. Parents of elementary age kids for whom rec is a perfectly acceptable solution if they feel their child's interests requires playing with schoolmates.

And then there are those who believe graduation year offers some help for their older kids when it comes to college recruiting. These parents believe that college coaches just walk showcase fields aimlessly and pull up a chair at a game and have no idea what age the kids are. These folks fail to understand that players reach out to college coaches and these coaches make up their schedule based on the kids stated graduation year and showcase schedule. College coaches know well beforehand who they are going to watch at any given showcase or league game.

And as everyone loves to point out, only 5% of players play on in college anyway so there is little reason to change a cutoff date to accommodate such a small number of people.

And then there are those parents who have middle school kids who are promoting the cutoff date that gets their bubble player on the A team.

It is a cutoff date and nothing more. Changing it won't keep players involved in the sport longer. Changing it will not make your bubble player better than they are. Changing it won't make college recruiting any easier for anyone. In short, changing it would only result in changing it. Kids will still quit playing, kids will still be affected positively or adversely by RAE and kids will still get recruited based on merit. [/quote]

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