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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone just recap for me what this one posted is so upset about? What's his deal? [/quote] Aug poster is trying to create a scenario where his September daughter doesn't have to compete with an August girl currently an age group up (he mentioned he has a September girl who is around U14/15 and a younger July girl around say U10/U11 and his hating on August kids makes it clear that an August girl would replace his Sept girl under SY). Because the August girl went to school on time, she will be misaligned Sy with her age group and school grade.

The Aug poster spent months on this forum trying to convince leagues to go grade year with his they must create SY+30 or 60, meaning SY but the kids around the cutoff must play on grade instead of age. It didn't work.

His basic ruse is that kids misaligning with age group and grade will somehow be blocked from playing in college. Teams and college coaches said it doesn't matter, they will take the best fit regardless. And he can't explain how foreign kids get recruited or gap years or how colleges recruit now with age groups across two grades, etc.

Then he put his hope on teams forcing kids to play on grade while the leagues are trying to dissuade from playing up and don't recognize grades. Almost all of teams said that playing up was skill based and said grade really don't matter but a few were going to try to replicate grades. So this was a dead end for him also but he was kicking and screaming saying that August kids must be allowed to play up if they went to school on time.

Then he went on a campaign saying leagues have to have guidance to clubs to force August kids to play up when they already said the opposite.

Finally, he is trying to convince August born kids misaligned with age group and grade that playing up is the smart thing to do. He is mad now because he can't explain away how the oldest in an age group is most likely to play in college vs the youngest while the youngest in an age group is most likely to quit early. Essentially central tenets of the relative age effect. So to scare August kids to play up he has to pretend the relative age effect doesn't exist and kids can't ever ever ever play soccer in college if they didn't play on grade in club soccer. When people point out that citations saying college coaches don't care about your you age group and the impact of the relative age effect, he gets angry. Doesn't provide evidence refuting, he just gets angry and rewrites his misguided biased opinion to helicopter a rule to save his daughter at the expense of others.

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He's also convinced he's saving Aug-Sep parents from what he views is bad advice on this forum -- that's his stated justification where he also projects his behavior, calling others who challenge him trolls who sit on the thread, when he is truth is most the prolific poster present on any thread even somewhat related when it comes to this topic. [/quote]Yes, he has hijacked DCUM soccer. Jeff S. had some funny end of year things to say about DCIM soccer

If the August poster is Carlsbad7 from Socal and matching his comment that a small, outside the city team in NJ ECRL was close to his situation, then a reasonable guess would be that his daughter is in a local ECRL team in southern Ca. No idea why he would be non stop posting in a local forum for the DC area. Bat crap crazy.[/quote]

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