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Diiscussion about Aug birthdays playing up. Without the play with your age thread monkey commenting every 3 minutes. It looks like parents with Aug birtday kids are leaning to playing them up with their correct grade.

One person was planning to play they kid down on an 8th grade team and not play high school soccer their kids freshman year.Is this what clubs are recommending? Crazy

[/quote]Wtf? Did you even read the comments when you post?[/quote]
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My kid is also an August birthday and we're having him play up. While he'll be one of the younger players on his team he'll be aligned with his school grade and will play high school with his friends.[/quote]This is a smart play for rec where the teams aren't picked so much as made up of a group of friends. Glad the kid can find the right path to enjoy the beautiful game.[/quote]
So rec players know what grade they're playing at but competitive players and college coaches cant figure it out?

You are ridiculous and dishonest[/quote]In rec you get to play with friends, in travel players are assigned based on evaluations and birthdates.

Wonder if that kid who was the back half of the age group under BY would have played in college under SY. Now we will never know...[/quote]

Well, MLSN is still BY. Also, most of the back half of the age group is now the oldest in SY. It's July that got the worst of this, although those Aug-Sep kids playing up before ready might be shooting themselves in the foot, too. It's not impossible but it'll be a harder path.[/quote]
Aug-Dec birthdays playing up a grade in BY is more appealing to college coaches

Aug-Dec birthdays playing down a grade in SY is less appealing to college coaches

Pretty simple[/quote]

It's not that simple. August players playing 'down'  can help through U-14. Why? College coaches aren't really paying attention to the youngest age groups--13 and U-14.  You will be better than the rest of the team at U13 and U14, and get exposure and name recognition (whether locally among top clubs, regionally for all conference etc).  That selection in the early years has nothing to do with your grad year--they are just looking for the players who stand out on their teams--and as the oldest you will likely be bigger and stronger on the team. The more exposure you get the younger you are the better as those lists get recycled as you get older and become harder to break into--you get a boost from having been ID'd as a younger player which gives you momentum heading into the cusp of recruiting windows  When it comes time for college recruiting window (freshman year) your name is already out there as a top player or on all the lists that college coaches see because you have had the exposure.At that point you make the switch and get with your graduating class so that your name can be associated with the right grad year. [/quote]
You give college coaches too much credit.[/quote]

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