Anonymous
10/23/2025 21:50
Subject: How will clubs make the school year teams?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Big fact -- Arlington -- a top club in the ECNL -- is not forcing players misaligned to play up to be in the same grade. It says right there in the FAQ that grade alone doesn't mean a player gets to play up. If they're doing that, dollars to donuts most clubs also are, too. You're wrong, dude. Done and dusted! I guess you can keep trying to annoy us here. That's all you got!
Ok coach from Arlington.
You the same person that wrote the absolute horrendous FAQ people are linking to? Its terrible remedial English at best.
Keep up the insults, but you are wrong! Or, find us some evidence to support your theory. Otherwise, nan nan nan hey hey goodbye!
Anonymous
10/23/2025 21:48
Subject: How will clubs make the school year teams?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Arlington is trying to avoid playing up, what team is enforcing playing up?Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Clubs don't want to open the floodgates of allowing players to play up except in extremely rare instances otherwise the FOMO will be to great to hold back all the other parents.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So then this part is false, "Most clubs wont allow this" because clubs will allow August kids to play on grade. Can you name a club that is doing tryouts by grade instead of age? Seems not.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Which specific club won't allow children to play in their age group? Sounds suspect.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't see how this is at all complicated.
Clubs will have tryouts like usual, and sort the kids into teams like usual.
Its not complicated. Unfortunately with SY a door has been opened for Aug and younger birthdays to play on a grade below them team. Most clubs wont allow this and will put these players on their grade B team if they cant make the A team.
Its not that clubs won't let players play with kids their grade in school.
Its the weasel parents that are looking for ways to play their kid down on a grade below them team.
Why dont you wait and watch how clubs implement rosters.
Theres multiple reasons to group players by eligibility window and grade.
Theres very few reasons to let players play on a grade down team.
Maybe from the player’s standpoint but plenty of reasons for the club to do it for their own benefit.
Name the ways players playing on a grade down team makes things easier for clubs.
That makes no sense. Theres no "floodgates" involved with playing on a team thats your grade in school.
Keep the list going btw... I'll wait..
So think about what you just said.
Arlington wants you to pay a big fat check to play competitive soccer. But at the same time wants your kid to play on a team thats a grade down in school. Which will make them unrecruitable for college.
Does this sound smart to you? Does this sound like something parents will catch onto and say no, you're not going to play my kid on a grade down team.
Not if that player gets good by doing so well at the age group, they end up playing up on grade. That's the ideal development track. Player development is a process where the player evolves each year and why you can't have dumb rules where you force players to play by grade. You are such a GY homer!
Anonymous
10/23/2025 21:47
Subject: How will clubs make the school year teams?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Arlington is trying to avoid playing up, what team is enforcing playing up?Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Clubs don't want to open the floodgates of allowing players to play up except in extremely rare instances otherwise the FOMO will be to great to hold back all the other parents.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So then this part is false, "Most clubs wont allow this" because clubs will allow August kids to play on grade. Can you name a club that is doing tryouts by grade instead of age? Seems not.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Which specific club won't allow children to play in their age group? Sounds suspect.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't see how this is at all complicated.
Clubs will have tryouts like usual, and sort the kids into teams like usual.
Its not complicated. Unfortunately with SY a door has been opened for Aug and younger birthdays to play on a grade below them team. Most clubs wont allow this and will put these players on their grade B team if they cant make the A team.
Its not that clubs won't let players play with kids their grade in school.
Its the weasel parents that are looking for ways to play their kid down on a grade below them team.
Why dont you wait and watch how clubs implement rosters.
Theres multiple reasons to group players by eligibility window and grade.
Theres very few reasons to let players play on a grade down team.
Maybe from the player’s standpoint but plenty of reasons for the club to do it for their own benefit.
Name the ways players playing on a grade down team makes things easier for clubs.
That makes no sense. Theres no "floodgates" involved with playing on a team thats your grade in school.
Keep the list going btw... I'll wait..
-Bolded commenter above, wait no longer....Clubs want those August and September kids, (i.e. the oldest, biggest, fastest & best kids) on every team to play down on each team. By forcing that, it makes every team more competitive. That is why clubs will want to keep the kids playing within the new age-brackets & not by grade. If you don't and you try to keep all the teams by Grade, then you will constantly have a team of 6th graders going up against a team of 6th and 7th graders.
You have no idea what youre talking about.
This is the problem with this discussion. People that cant read a calendar can comment.
Anonymous
10/23/2025 21:45
Subject: How will clubs make the school year teams?
Anonymous wrote:Big fact -- Arlington -- a top club in the ECNL -- is not forcing players misaligned to play up to be in the same grade. It says right there in the FAQ that grade alone doesn't mean a player gets to play up. If they're doing that, dollars to donuts most clubs also are, too. You're wrong, dude. Done and dusted! I guess you can keep trying to annoy us here. That's all you got!
Ok coach from Arlington.
You the same person that wrote the absolute horrendous FAQ people are linking to? Its terrible remedial English at best.
Anonymous
10/23/2025 21:43
Subject: How will clubs make the school year teams?
Anonymous wrote:Arlington is trying to avoid playing up, what team is enforcing playing up?Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Clubs don't want to open the floodgates of allowing players to play up except in extremely rare instances otherwise the FOMO will be to great to hold back all the other parents.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So then this part is false, "Most clubs wont allow this" because clubs will allow August kids to play on grade. Can you name a club that is doing tryouts by grade instead of age? Seems not.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Which specific club won't allow children to play in their age group? Sounds suspect.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't see how this is at all complicated.
Clubs will have tryouts like usual, and sort the kids into teams like usual.
Its not complicated. Unfortunately with SY a door has been opened for Aug and younger birthdays to play on a grade below them team. Most clubs wont allow this and will put these players on their grade B team if they cant make the A team.
Its not that clubs won't let players play with kids their grade in school.
Its the weasel parents that are looking for ways to play their kid down on a grade below them team.
Why dont you wait and watch how clubs implement rosters.
Theres multiple reasons to group players by eligibility window and grade.
Theres very few reasons to let players play on a grade down team.
Maybe from the player’s standpoint but plenty of reasons for the club to do it for their own benefit.
Name the ways players playing on a grade down team makes things easier for clubs.
That makes no sense. Theres no "floodgates" involved with playing on a team thats your grade in school.
Keep the list going btw... I'll wait..
-Bolded commenter above, wait no longer....Clubs want those August and September kids, (i.e. the oldest, biggest, fastest & best kids) on every team to play down on each team. By forcing that, it makes every team more competitive. That is why clubs will want to keep the kids playing within the new age-brackets & not by grade. If you don't and you try to keep all the teams by Grade, then you will constantly have a team of 6th graders going up against a team of 6th and 7th graders.
Anonymous
10/23/2025 21:42
Subject: How will clubs make the school year teams?
Anonymous wrote:Arlington is trying to avoid playing up, what team is enforcing playing up?Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Clubs don't want to open the floodgates of allowing players to play up except in extremely rare instances otherwise the FOMO will be to great to hold back all the other parents.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So then this part is false, "Most clubs wont allow this" because clubs will allow August kids to play on grade. Can you name a club that is doing tryouts by grade instead of age? Seems not.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Which specific club won't allow children to play in their age group? Sounds suspect.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't see how this is at all complicated.
Clubs will have tryouts like usual, and sort the kids into teams like usual.
Its not complicated. Unfortunately with SY a door has been opened for Aug and younger birthdays to play on a grade below them team. Most clubs wont allow this and will put these players on their grade B team if they cant make the A team.
Its not that clubs won't let players play with kids their grade in school.
Its the weasel parents that are looking for ways to play their kid down on a grade below them team.
Why dont you wait and watch how clubs implement rosters.
Theres multiple reasons to group players by eligibility window and grade.
Theres very few reasons to let players play on a grade down team.
Maybe from the player’s standpoint but plenty of reasons for the club to do it for their own benefit.
Name the ways players playing on a grade down team makes things easier for clubs.
That makes no sense. Theres no "floodgates" involved with playing on a team thats your grade in school.
Keep the list going btw... I'll wait..
So think about what you just said.
Arlington wants you to pay a big fat check to play competitive soccer. But at the same time wants your kid to play on a team thats a grade down in school. Which will make them unrecruitable for college.
Does this sound smart to you? Does this sound like something parents will catch onto and say no, you're not going to play my kid on a grade down team.
Anonymous
10/23/2025 21:42
Subject: How will clubs make the school year teams?
Big fact -- Arlington -- a top club in the ECNL -- is not forcing players misaligned to play up to be in the same grade. It says right there in the FAQ that grade alone doesn't mean a player gets to play up. If they're doing that, dollars to donuts most clubs also are, too. You're wrong, dude. Done and dusted! I guess you can keep trying to annoy us here. That's all you got!
Anonymous
10/23/2025 21:37
Subject: How will clubs make the school year teams?
Arlington is trying to avoid playing up, what team is enforcing playing up?Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Clubs don't want to open the floodgates of allowing players to play up except in extremely rare instances otherwise the FOMO will be to great to hold back all the other parents.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So then this part is false, "Most clubs wont allow this" because clubs will allow August kids to play on grade. Can you name a club that is doing tryouts by grade instead of age? Seems not.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Which specific club won't allow children to play in their age group? Sounds suspect.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't see how this is at all complicated.
Clubs will have tryouts like usual, and sort the kids into teams like usual.
Its not complicated. Unfortunately with SY a door has been opened for Aug and younger birthdays to play on a grade below them team. Most clubs wont allow this and will put these players on their grade B team if they cant make the A team.
Its not that clubs won't let players play with kids their grade in school.
Its the weasel parents that are looking for ways to play their kid down on a grade below them team.
Why dont you wait and watch how clubs implement rosters.
Theres multiple reasons to group players by eligibility window and grade.
Theres very few reasons to let players play on a grade down team.
Maybe from the player’s standpoint but plenty of reasons for the club to do it for their own benefit.
Name the ways players playing on a grade down team makes things easier for clubs.
That makes no sense. Theres no "floodgates" involved with playing on a team thats your grade in school.
Keep the list going btw... I'll wait..
Anonymous
10/23/2025 21:35
Subject: How will clubs make the school year teams?
Anonymous wrote:Clubs don't want to open the floodgates of allowing players to play up except in extremely rare instances otherwise the FOMO will be to great to hold back all the other parents.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So then this part is false, "Most clubs wont allow this" because clubs will allow August kids to play on grade. Can you name a club that is doing tryouts by grade instead of age? Seems not.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Which specific club won't allow children to play in their age group? Sounds suspect.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't see how this is at all complicated.
Clubs will have tryouts like usual, and sort the kids into teams like usual.
Its not complicated. Unfortunately with SY a door has been opened for Aug and younger birthdays to play on a grade below them team. Most clubs wont allow this and will put these players on their grade B team if they cant make the A team.
Its not that clubs won't let players play with kids their grade in school.
Its the weasel parents that are looking for ways to play their kid down on a grade below them team.
Why dont you wait and watch how clubs implement rosters.
Theres multiple reasons to group players by eligibility window and grade.
Theres very few reasons to let players play on a grade down team.
Maybe from the player’s standpoint but plenty of reasons for the club to do it for their own benefit.
Name the ways players playing on a grade down team makes things easier for clubs.
That makes no sense. Theres no "floodgates" involved with playing on a team thats your grade in school.
Keep the list going btw... I'll wait..
Anonymous
10/23/2025 21:32
Subject: How will clubs make the school year teams?
Clubs don't want to open the floodgates of allowing players to play up except in extremely rare instances otherwise the FOMO will be to great to hold back all the other parents.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So then this part is false, "Most clubs wont allow this" because clubs will allow August kids to play on grade. Can you name a club that is doing tryouts by grade instead of age? Seems not.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Which specific club won't allow children to play in their age group? Sounds suspect.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't see how this is at all complicated.
Clubs will have tryouts like usual, and sort the kids into teams like usual.
Its not complicated. Unfortunately with SY a door has been opened for Aug and younger birthdays to play on a grade below them team. Most clubs wont allow this and will put these players on their grade B team if they cant make the A team.
Its not that clubs won't let players play with kids their grade in school.
Its the weasel parents that are looking for ways to play their kid down on a grade below them team.
Why dont you wait and watch how clubs implement rosters.
Theres multiple reasons to group players by eligibility window and grade.
Theres very few reasons to let players play on a grade down team.
Maybe from the player’s standpoint but plenty of reasons for the club to do it for their own benefit.
Name the ways players playing on a grade down team makes things easier for clubs.
Anonymous
10/23/2025 21:28
Subject: How will clubs make the school year teams?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So then this part is false, "Most clubs wont allow this" because clubs will allow August kids to play on grade. Can you name a club that is doing tryouts by grade instead of age? Seems not.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Which specific club won't allow children to play in their age group? Sounds suspect.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't see how this is at all complicated.
Clubs will have tryouts like usual, and sort the kids into teams like usual.
Its not complicated. Unfortunately with SY a door has been opened for Aug and younger birthdays to play on a grade below them team. Most clubs wont allow this and will put these players on their grade B team if they cant make the A team.
Its not that clubs won't let players play with kids their grade in school.
Its the weasel parents that are looking for ways to play their kid down on a grade below them team.
Why dont you wait and watch how clubs implement rosters.
Theres multiple reasons to group players by eligibility window and grade.
Theres very few reasons to let players play on a grade down team.
Maybe from the player’s standpoint but plenty of reasons for the club to do it for their own benefit.
Name the ways players playing on a grade down team makes things easier for clubs.
Anonymous
10/23/2025 21:27
Subject: How will clubs make the school year teams?
Anonymous wrote:So many uptight parents stealing the joy of soccer from the kids. Let them play and have fun.
And, trust your club to make the change properly, or, you're at the wrong club. Or, I suppose you could be that one a$$hole parent that makes everyone crazy and they'll be glad to see you leave
Its mostly just one parent that refuses to admit that college coaches recruit by grade.
Anonymous
10/23/2025 21:26
Subject: How will clubs make the school year teams?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So then this part is false, "Most clubs wont allow this" because clubs will allow August kids to play on grade. Can you name a club that is doing tryouts by grade instead of age? Seems not.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Which specific club won't allow children to play in their age group? Sounds suspect.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't see how this is at all complicated.
Clubs will have tryouts like usual, and sort the kids into teams like usual.
Its not complicated. Unfortunately with SY a door has been opened for Aug and younger birthdays to play on a grade below them team. Most clubs wont allow this and will put these players on their grade B team if they cant make the A team.
Its not that clubs won't let players play with kids their grade in school.
Its the weasel parents that are looking for ways to play their kid down on a grade below them team.
Why dont you wait and watch how clubs implement rosters.
Theres multiple reasons to group players by eligibility window and grade.
Theres very few reasons to let players play on a grade down team.
Maybe from the player’s standpoint but plenty of reasons for the club to do it for their own benefit.
Anonymous
10/23/2025 21:24
Subject: How will clubs make the school year teams?
Anonymous wrote:I don't see how this is at all complicated.
Clubs will have tryouts like usual, and sort the kids into teams like usual.
Except tryouts are mostly a formality. You can't say go to the younger age team prior when almost half of the older age group is going down also and won't be there for the trial. So tryouts are going to have to actually be run in a way to assess and we know how great clubs are at that.
Anonymous
10/23/2025 21:24
Subject: How will clubs make the school year teams?
You don't know any clubs creating grade practice sessions then. Ok.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So then this part is false, "Most clubs wont allow this" because clubs will allow August kids to play on grade. Can you name a club that is doing tryouts by grade instead of age? Seems not.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Which specific club won't allow children to play in their age group? Sounds suspect.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't see how this is at all complicated.
Clubs will have tryouts like usual, and sort the kids into teams like usual.
Its not complicated. Unfortunately with SY a door has been opened for Aug and younger birthdays to play on a grade below them team. Most clubs wont allow this and will put these players on their grade B team if they cant make the A team.
Its not that clubs won't let players play with kids their grade in school.
Its the weasel parents that are looking for ways to play their kid down on a grade below them team.
Why dont you wait and watch how clubs implement rosters.
Theres multiple reasons to group players by eligibility window and grade.
Theres very few reasons to let players play on a grade down team.