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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If US Soccer goes back to school year, then there will be no “trapped player”. I see people mixing in ideas of bio-banding and playing up, but that’s all noise. The term “trapped player” is specific to kids who are born in (September?) Oct, Nov, December and therefore are  in a different school class than the kids born Jan-September.

That’s it, nothing fancy or strange. Sure, there will be edge cases of kids who are held back or moved forward in school, but for the vast majority, the move would re-align them for the purposes of college recruiting.

Frankly, if I had a trapped player I would want this. It really sucks for the kids who are sophomores in HS during that crucial year when all of their teammates are all-in on recruiting. Most significant is just the sheer number of coaches that show up. If you are U17, you might have 60-120 College coaches show up at your ECNL showcase or Jeff Cup game. When you are U18/19, it’s 35 coaches, and half of them are only showing up to make sure the kids they already signed aren’t slacking off.[/quote]

Won't there still be players whose soccer year and club year are misaligned?  If the soccer year starts 8/1 but the school cut off is 10/1, the August-September kids are playing a year "down" compared to their school year, right?  Is the answer just that there are fewer of them or they are somehow not "trapped"? [/quote]

“Trapper” players are so rarely on a top team or a top player it is stupid to move everything for these few players. The vast majority of good players(75%j have birthdays Jan - June. Why upset everything for so little benefit.[/quote]

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