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2021 Recruiting: 2002 v. 2003 evaluation

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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!

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      My kid is a stud. I couldn't care less about birth year of school year.

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        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
        Quote:
        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!
        The only reason that graduation year is even a thing is because that is how the recruiting rules are written in order to be universally fair. All these rules are in place to keep coach player contact at bay until the point that a student is far enough along in school and maturity to make a more sound decision for their college choice.

        These rules are there to PROTECT the student and not to help the college coaches or make their lives convenient. But, these rules do not mean a coach can't ID a player to follow at nearly any age. Again, the coaching rules of engagement are based on graduation year but the ability to identify talent is not made easier because of graduation year or birth year.

        Contacting a player and determining if a player checks off the boxes are not the same thing but they get conflated.

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