FC Stars Big Announcement

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This is the year Blackwell matures!

That won’t happen any time soon not even in this next decade.

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This is the year Blackwell matures!

When pigs fly.

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Is it an age change? Heard youth clubs want to go back to the school calendar year for teams vs birth year.

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Is it an age change? Heard youth clubs want to go back to the school calendar year for teams vs birth year.

Which school calendar do they propose?

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Which school calendar do they propose?

If they want to cater to kids/parents looking to play college soccer, graduation year, obviously.

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This is the year Blackwell matures!

Or stops being a creeper!

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If they want to cater to kids/parents looking to play college soccer, graduation year, obviously.

Not so obvious. Many advocate for the school calendar year.

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Or stops being a creeper!

but his hair looks good

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but his hair looks good

Why do they keep him. He's a creep HS figured it out. why not stars

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Why do they keep him. He's a creep HS figured it out. why not stars

that's a questions for jd and the board

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If they want to cater to kids/parents looking to play college soccer, graduation year, obviously.

This is such an obvious opportunity for ECNL.

Posting that we want it to happen isn't real helpful Does anyone have insight as to what keeps them from changing to grad year? Insurance? Hope for NT placement? other?

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This is such an obvious opportunity for ECNL.

Posting that we want it to happen isn't real helpful Does anyone have insight as to what keeps them from changing to grad year? Insurance? Hope for NT placement? other?

All I know is that the original argument that it would help align us with the world stage is crap. All the best players are playing up. As they should. Look at AS from SSS. What is she 13 or 14 playing on a U20 team? Those special kids will be brought up through the system and placed accordingly. We don't have to screw up our youth teams to make that happen. Players can always play up. They can never play down.

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All I know is that the original argument that it would help align us with the world stage is crap. All the best players are playing up. As they should. Look at AS from SSS. What is she 13 or 14 playing on a U20 team? Those special kids will be brought up through the system and placed accordingly. We don't have to screw up our youth teams to make that happen. Players can always play up. They can never play down.

No she does not. Also plays on 16’s in club.

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No she does not. Also plays on 16’s in club.

She has played up on the u18 wnt and she has played up at SSS for years. I don’t believe select has GDA teams above u16 for this year, correct?

I think the poster’s point is that a kid like AS will be found by US Soccer regardless of how the age groups are structured. Birth year is a negative for any kid that is born sept-Jan and doesn’t play DA. Being a trapped player in 8th grade and then again as a junior is frustrating for kids and parents and is a pain for clubs to deal with. Grad year gives every kid a team to play on every year. It also makes recruiting easier for college coaches. Every player on the field is in the same recruiting class. Lacrosse goes by grad year and it seems to work well.

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She has played up on the u18 wnt and she has played up at SSS for years. I don’t believe select has GDA teams above u16 for this year, correct?

I think the poster’s point is that a kid like AS will be found by US Soccer regardless of how the age groups are structured. Birth year is a negative for any kid that is born sept-Jan and doesn’t play DA. Being a trapped player in 8th grade and then again as a junior is frustrating for kids and parents and is a pain for clubs to deal with. Grad year gives every kid a team to play on every year. It also makes recruiting easier for college coaches. Every player on the field is in the same recruiting class. Lacrosse goes by grad year and it seems to work well.

Lax only goes to college level so no infighting yet to deter the flow.