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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK, bubble-dwelling bullies living vicariously through your early-blooming kids. Let's drop a few facts here:

1. Plenty of Fairfax County middle schoolers have to catch buses before 7 a.m. Kilmer starts at 7:30. Typical bus rider is on the bus between 6:30 and 7.

[b]That still doesn't mean that your kid will be practicing from 8-9:30
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2. Sure, the truly elite players who could be playing up an age group anyway aren't affected by the age-group change, and they'll stand out in 100-player cattle-call tryouts. Let the rest of us have a conversation without passive-aggressively bragging about your brilliant kid.

[b]The Bell Curve holds true for both ends. The truth is kids 20-80 are closer and harder to figure out. Go to a smaller club if you don't like the "cattle call."
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3. Tryouts are good for telling you the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent. It's easy for the rest to get lost in the shuffle, especially when you have coaches paying intermittent attention. The best of both worlds is to have a "blind" tryout with independent evaluators AND opinions from current coaches, which can be weighed in whatever ratio makes sense.

[b]It wouldn't  matter because kids 20-80 are on a sliding gradient scale. No matter how many double blind tryouts you run there will be mistakes made.
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4. The age-group change screwed tons of kids. Yes, again, your little Christian Pulisic or Mallory Pugh wouldn't be affected. The average player who had to jump from U9 to U11 is suddenly going against players who have two years of travel soccer to her one. That's a massive difference. It's not just that they were "the big kids" in the old age groups and now they're smaller. They did, in fact, lose an entire year of development. If the new age groups had been in place when they started, then they would've been among the younger U9s, but they would have had a year of U9, then a year of U10 and so forth. They did not. Get that through that thick mass of insecurity over your kids' accomplishments that you call a brain.

[b]The age group change happened, we are a year into already, move on. There has always been kids who were lucky to get the "good birthday". I'm sorry that you didn't but that is out of your control. What is in your control is working with your kid or getting extra training for your kid.

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Read it again to see why this isn't a simple case of "the good birthday." It's a case of putting second-year and first-year travel players together at U10, and it's a case of putting third-year and second-year players together at U11. That screwed up everyone trying to arrange competitive matchups, and kids who aren't early-blooming athletes struggled against kids who had an extra year of experience.

It's not about my kid. I'm capable of thinking outside my bubble.

Now -- is there anything we can do about it today? No. Changing it back would just mess everyone up once again. Some clubs have curricula in which they plan out how they're going to train kids year by year, and they've already had to change on the fly for kids who've skipped a year. Going back would make it worse.

But just be aware that when you say it all evened out because it just changed who was older within an age group, you're wrong. That's all.[/quote]

My kid  had no travel experience before this year at u10 and was according to the coach, his best player at year end.  You are making a mountain outmoded a molehill.[/quote]

Which means there are 10-11 kids on his team alone whose experience differs from yours.

Congratulations on your kid being exceptionally talented or an athletic early bloomer. You are clearly the superior parent, and we all await your future directives.[/quote]

Nope, just a normal kid whose parent doesn't spend pages making excuses for on a message board.  There is no "missed" year except in your head.[/quote]

NP here, perhaps it would be clearer to say "missed a year *of travel*." It's simply impossible to deny it. For example, every kid in travel soccer with an August-Dec 2006 birthday went from U9 (2015 - 2016 season) to U11 (2016 - 2017 season). U10 was missed. Period. [/quote]

Except a U19 age group has been added. So no, nobody has lost a year. [/quote]

Omg you are crazy. [/quote]

Omg quit soccer then. This topic has been beaten to death last year. Get your kid into camps and play some Super Y over the summer and catch up on the technical side. This you could have always done regardless of birthdate and club soccer.

Your kid has missed roughly 75 practices and 35 games for a total of about 140 hours of soccer. That is the "giant" hole you're in. Or in adult time frame your kid is 3.5 work weeks behind. This is not insurmountable lost experience. Take that $2000 you saved by not paying for your missed year of travel and find some camps and quit bitching.
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Who is bitching? My kid was born in July. The change was great for him. This is just about your weird problem admitting that some kids missed a year. It's annoying to see what is clearly a fact being debated. But whatever--there are many way more important facts under threat to worry about.[/quote]

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