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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a parent of an August misaligned player, I hear the concerns about playing on age and how it could affect recruiting.

But I also wonder, what are the college recruiting chances when playing up with your grade if you are now the youngest competing with players 12 months older.[/quote]

One way or another your player is going to be competing for college spots against other players who are available on the market (graduating) the same year.[/quote]
This is correct. College coaches will compare your kid with other players in their grade for who they want to recruit. If an Aug birthday is playing up on a team thats their grade in school they're the same as all other players in their graduating class/year. If an Aug birthday is playing down on a team thats a grade below them in school they're considered worse across all attributes college coaches are looking for. Which puts them at a serious disadvantage for being recruited.

What the age guy doesnt understand is top college coaches will only be interested in the top 1-2 players on each team. And guess what? If these players are August birthdays they're the ones most likely to be playing up on a correct grade team. Lather rinse repeat and what happens is college coaches quickly (re)discover that Aug birthdays that choose to play down are a waste of their time.[/quote]Parrotting yourself again. So much wrong with your post. Just rampant speculation from a bunch of "if"s without facts.

More than top 1-2 players on each go to play in college, top colleges. Top college coaches only follow players that have interest in their program, they don't follow teams.

August players competing with all in graduation class plus transfers plus foreign players. They have to max out their talent which is often achieved by being the oldest in an age group. And get good grades in school. Everybody gets compared against everyone else and where you are playing, good team, bad team, young team, old team, foreign team, college team, is irrelevant.

College coaches on Facebook and told two teams that they don't care what age group you are in, only that you are good enough (verified earlier). The youngest in each age group is at a serious disadvantage of going far in soccer and has an increased chance of quitting (it's science).[/quote]

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