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Agree. Grad year age groups benefits have nothing to do with RAE! RAE will always exist. Going to Graduation Year age groups has everything to do with aligning to college recruiting, eliminating 1/3 trapped players at 8th/9th and junior/senior years, stopping the 15% and growing decline in youth soccer participation, eliminating single teams for double year age band for juniors & seniors, taking advantage of social & scheduling benefits of having players grouped by grade, etc. Grad year is simply the best way to group by far because most of our kids attend school and want to go to college - and are grouped and recruited by grade already. College coaches couldn’t care less what year you were born. College coaches only care what year you’re going to graduate!
While the ignorant argue over RAE...birth year age groups are quickly making soccer even more irrelevant than it was. Until kids are recruited to college based on birth year and high school grade levels are determined by birth year, the obvious best age group method is grade/graduation year! Duh!
Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
Agree. Grad year age groups benefits have nothing to do with RAE! RAE will always exist. Going to Graduation Year age groups has everything to do with aligning to college recruiting, eliminating 1/3 trapped players at 8th/9th and junior/senior years, stopping the 15% and growing decline in youth soccer participation, eliminating single teams for double year age band for juniors & seniors, taking advantage of social & scheduling benefits of having players grouped by grade, etc. Grad year is simply the best way to group by far because most of our kids attend school and want to go to college - and are grouped and recruited by grade already. College coaches couldn’t care less what year you were born. College coaches only care what year you’re going to graduate!
While the ignorant argue over RAE...birth year age groups are quickly making soccer even more irrelevant than it was. Until kids are recruited to college based on birth year and high school grade levels are determined by birth year, the obvious best age group method is grade/graduation year! Duh!
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