Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Six month age groups

There is not a single negative to a six month age group.

Beyond Elementary school there isn't enough advantage to maintain the complexity.

Its not complex. Its very very simple.

Annnndddd...there absolutely are reasons to do this beyond elementary considering puberty isn't done until the middle part of HS.

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Anonymous wrote:Six month age groups

There is not a single negative to a six month age group.

Beyond Elementary school there isn't enough advantage to maintain the complexity.

Six month age groups

There is not a single negative to a six month age group.

[quote=Anonymous]So your saying football should change to birth year? That sounds stupid [/quote]

School based and school run sports should obviously use the school cutoff dates but that isn't necessary for anything that isn't school based or school run. The world just isn't run by school cutoffs.

So your saying football should change to birth year? That sounds stupid

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Funny we dominate the majority of sports around the world besides soccer. We changed the to birth year and so far our national team sucks worse and numbers are down in youth area. Football,Basketball,Baseball all follow school year, so tell me the problem with this? [/quote]

LOL

Jesus, this is so beyond stupid.

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Football and baseball are losing kids way faster than soccer so those examples just weaken your argument.

[quote=Anonymous][quote[i]]America today in a nutshell. Instead of focusing on how to get better, let's talk about how to change rules (or preserve them), or why this rule is unfair to this group (which means that an alternative would necessarily be unfair to another). The incessant blaming, the relentless whines, the focus on rules instead of improvement, the resentment of others, the parental angling for any advantage, it's all just so f'n repulsive. Can it.

What are you whining about?

It's the game, not the age groupings, that has your kid and you confused. More of that. My kid is gonna play regardless, and play well. STFU.


Care to give your name keyboard ninja?[/i] [/quote]

And what would you do with he name if you knew it? [/quote]

Go check into 1100 Alabama Ave SE, Washington, DC

[quote[i]]America today in a nutshell. Instead of focusing on how to get better, let's talk about how to change rules (or preserve them), or why this rule is unfair to this group (which means that an alternative would necessarily be unfair to another). The incessant blaming, the relentless whines, the focus on rules instead of improvement, the resentment of others, the parental angling for any advantage, it's all just so f'n repulsive. Can it.

What are you whining about?

It's the game, not the age groupings, that has your kid and you confused. More of that. My kid is gonna play regardless, and play well. STFU.


Care to give your name keyboard ninja?[/i] [/quote]

And what would you do with he name if you knew it?

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]America today in a nutshell. Instead of focusing on how to get better, let's talk about how to change rules (or preserve them), or why this rule is unfair to this group (which means that an alternative would necessarily be unfair to another). The incessant blaming, the relentless whines, the focus on rules instead of improvement, the resentment of others, the parental angling for any advantage, it's all just so f'n repulsive. Can it.[/quote]

What are you whining about?[/quote]

It's the game, not the age groupings, that has your kid and you confused. More of that. My kid is gonna play regardless, and play well. STFU.[/quote]


Care to give your name keyboard ninja?

[quote=Anonymous]Funny we dominate the majority of sports around the world besides soccer. We changed the to birth year and so far our national team sucks worse and numbers are down in youth area. Football,Basketball,Baseball all follow school year, so tell me the problem with this? [/quote]

LOL

Jesus, this is so beyond stupid.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:America today in a nutshell. Instead of focusing on how to get better, let's talk about how to change rules (or preserve them), or why this rule is unfair to this group (which means that an alternative would necessarily be unfair to another). The incessant blaming, the relentless whines, the focus on rules instead of improvement, the resentment of others, the parental angling for any advantage, it's all just so f'n repulsive. Can it.

What are you whining about?

It's the game, not the age groupings, that has your kid and you confused. More of that. My kid is gonna play regardless, and play well. STFU.

Funny we dominate the majority of sports around the world besides soccer. We changed the to birth year and so far our national team sucks worse and numbers are down in youth area. Football,Basketball,Baseball all follow school year, so tell me the problem with this?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:America today in a nutshell. Instead of focusing on how to get better, let's talk about how to change rules (or preserve them), or why this rule is unfair to this group (which means that an alternative would necessarily be unfair to another). The incessant blaming, the relentless whines, the focus on rules instead of improvement, the resentment of others, the parental angling for any advantage, it's all just so f'n repulsive. Can it.

What are you whining about?

They are pretty much calling out the truth. Most folks arguing about the cutoff are not concerned about development as they are about the advantage being slightly older and bigger at younger ages affords their kids.

RAE is real in regards to developing cohorts at early ages that rarely change. It is a sad commentary that kids are given a undeserving advantage and others are equally given a undeserving disadvantage.

The problem truly lies in the arrogance on one side and the feeling of hopelessness on the other side.

Talent in the end should always win out but opportunities are not offered based on talent early on.

When we changed from school to birth year there were lots of Sept kids who got a gut punch when they were now among the smaller kids. Some were talented and hung in their and got better while others were simply exposed as just having been bigger.

Those Jan-March kids were now the bigger and more experienced kids and were now suddenly viewed as better.

Did ANY of the kids change? No, not really just the circumstance and their relative context.

If anything schools should go by birth year. January is the 1st month of the year. Also stop with the classmate argument. Leave that with the rec leagues. If you want to compete and be on a tryout competitive team. ˇIts not about classmates its about competitive athletes. Broaden your kids friendships with things they have in common by choice like soccer rather than just their neighbor and 3rd grade class..

Anonymous wrote:America today in a nutshell. Instead of focusing on how to get better, let's talk about how to change rules (or preserve them), or why this rule is unfair to this group (which means that an alternative would necessarily be unfair to another). The incessant blaming, the relentless whines, the focus on rules instead of improvement, the resentment of others, the parental angling for any advantage, it's all just so f'n repulsive. Can it.

What are you whining about?