ECNL wants to switch back to school year from birth year

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Coaches are already looking at this years Q4 trapped 8th graders as next years starting players. They are going to hang on to the Q4 players who will be the new Q1 starters. Expect offers to go out early in the spring, club hopping will be big especially the GA players who head to ECNL since GA expected to fold in 2 years or be absorbed by ECNL.

So GA will lose all its best trapped players, and replace them with Q1-2 kids who fell off the bottom of ECNL teams? If true, why wouldn't good GA teams just jump ship into ECNL before tryouts this year?

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Man this is going to be so crazy….

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I'd like to see some data as to how many Q4 kids are even on ECNL teams. We have 1.

Anecdote from one club, one age group, just boys.

U12 boys, so pre-ECNL/RL. Teams 1-2 play NL, Team 3 plays RL. We have 12 teams in the AG, for context. 14 kids on each of the top 3 teams.

Aug-Dec kids by team:
Team 1: 3
Team 2: 4
Team 3: 4

Put these 11 together, they will beat the younger NL team by 2-3 goals, team 3 already beats the younger, regionally respected, NL team on a regular basis.

Aug-Dec makes up ~42% of the calendar year, Aug-Dec births make up 26% of the Team 1-3 rosters, underscoring RAE. I expect 5 of the Aug-Dec kids to make the younger NL and 6 to be on RL.

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On my kids top 50 in the nation via ranking app GA team.

Roster is 22 and there are...

- 3 Trapped players
- 1 girl playing a year up

18% of the team is not Q1 or Q2 of their Birth Year.

The one girl playing up has an early Jan birthday.

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Can someone explain the Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 cut offs? If you have a kid born in May where do they stand with the Q's? Can we assume that these will now be the youngest and will be dropped the quickest.

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May is q2
Don't make assumptions based on birth month.
Riley Jackson went pro straight out of high school and she's a December baby.

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What about USYS ODP (Olympic Development Program) and USCS id2 Regional and National Identification?

Will these programs follow the SY system for tryouts?

As for this years tryouts, they already separated U13 into two groups. This is the first time we did the try out, don't know if that's the same last year.

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May is q2
Don't make assumptions based on birth month.
Riley Jackson went pro straight out of high school and she's a December baby.

As has been said many times on this thread; true studs have nothing to be concerned about and aren't even paying attention to this conversation. this conversation is for the parents of the other 99.724% of the youth soccer playing population

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As has been said many times on this thread; true studs have nothing to be concerned about and aren't even paying attention to this conversation. this conversation is for the parents of the other 99.724% of the youth soccer playing population

I still want to know what the breakdown of Q's are? What are the months for Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4

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1Q Jan, Feb, March,
2Q April, May, June
3Q July, Aug, Sep
4Q Oct, Nov, Dec

changing to

1Q Aug, Sep, Oct
2Q Nov, Dec, Jan
3Q Feb, March, April
4Q May, Jun, July

[Guest]

I still want to know what the breakdown of Q's are? What are the months for Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4

Can't tell if you are seriously asking what calendar months are in each quarter. If someone tells you "I expect this project to be complete in Q1 2025," what months do you think they are referring to?

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Can't tell if you are seriously asking what calendar months are in each quarter. If someone tells you "I expect this project to be complete in Q1 2025," what months do you think they are referring to?

Apologies for the snark Guest 2:03, I misunderstood the question.

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Real question is how will clubs go about this? Will all fall kids (national and regional) make national team for their grade / SY?

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As has been said many times on this thread; true studs have nothing to be concerned about and aren't even paying attention to this conversation. this conversation is for the parents of the other 99.724% of the youth soccer playing population

True studs are worrying a little, but not about whether or not they will be on the team. For them, it's more about what their teams are going to look like after the change.

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1Q Jan, Feb, March,
2Q April, May, June
3Q July, Aug, Sep
4Q Oct, Nov, Dec

changing to

1Q Aug, Sep, Oct
2Q Nov, Dec, Jan
3Q Feb, March, April
4Q May, Jun, July

Thank you. So its most likely the new 3Q and 4Q will be the ones moving down due to size and maturity. Yes true studs are fine but all others need to worry. Lots of movement going to be happening this winter/spring.