ECNL wants to switch back to school year from birth year

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Insult? His comment was pretty benign, especially for this board.

I suppose you are right, but none of it is necessary. Too bad we can’t ban them.

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Direct from US Soccer.

https://www.ussoccer.com/stories/201...r-registration

https://web.archive.org/web/20150905...nt-initiatives
https://web.archive.org/web/20150917...g-initiatives/

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https://web.archive.org/web/20150905...nt-initiatives
https://web.archive.org/web/20150917...g-initiatives/

You’ve been busy surfing the World Wide Web like it’s 1994 and AOL just sent you a hard disk in the snail mail.

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I suppose you are right, but none of it is necessary. Too bad we can’t ban them.

Let’s go Brandon!

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If no one has figured it out yet. There is some sort of combat bot cruising around here. Probably created by a parent trying to crush our little discussion here. Momentum building. You can tell it is when they start to panic.

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You’ve been busy surfing the World Wide Web like it’s 1994 and AOL just sent you a hard disk in the snail mail.

You the same guy who complained about insults?

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Well, Aspen certainly saw a correlation, and they have US Soccer's ear far more than any of us. I think you meant it to insult everyone and change the subject, but I agree - nothing to really do but practice. Whether it changes or not, you're going to make better teams if you're a better player. Don't burn any bridges that you'll need if it changes or not.

Aspen can see that there was a downward trend before BY. US Soccer can see that too.

Aspen can see that many GY sports have large negative participation rates year over year. US Soccer can see that too.

I am content with either BY or GY, no agenda here, but these numbers are not supporting GY like you think they are.

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Aspen can see that there was a downward trend before BY. US Soccer can see that too.

Aspen can see that many GY sports have large negative participation rates year over year. US Soccer can see that too.

I am content with either BY or GY, no agenda here, but these numbers are not supporting GY like you think they are.

You should write Aspen a letter and explain to them why they were wrong and should retract the statements they made when interpreting their data. They probably have a lot more influence than anyone posting in this clown-show thread.

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In accordance with the new sexy initiative, birth-year registration calendars will now align with the start of the calendar year and run from January to December, rather than August to July as it had previously. The initiative will align registration with the international standard.

How to determine the birth year used for a competition: Birth year registration should be based on the year in which the season ends. For example, if a season begins in the fall of 2018 and ends in the summer of 2019 (ex: 2018-19 season), the players would be registered based on their age in the year 2019. Competitions that take place in a single year (ex: fall of 2018 only) should use that year to determine birth year. To simplify determining the age group, just subtract the birth year from the year the season ends.

Year Season Ends – Birth Year = Age Group:

• 2018-2019 (Season) – 2003 (Birth Year) = U16 (Age Group)
• 2022-2023 (Season) – 2016 (Birth Year) = U7 (Age Group)
• 2018 (Season) – 2012 (Birth Year) = U6 (Age Group)

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18 U.S.C. § 2257 and C.F.R. 75
You should write Aspen a letter and explain to them why they were wrong and should retract the statements they made when interpreting their data. They probably have a lot more influence than anyone posting in this clown-show thread.

Well that too... Aspen? Marblehead? Eh, nevertheless I know ballers on both the blues and surf ecnl 02 teams and they played ECNL not DA. The original point was that someone was discrediting ECNL national champions saying it’s dilute and tier 2 teams but that is not accurate. Especially since everyone doesn't even neccessarily have access to both ECNL and DA. At this point with DA still in its baby stage for the girls side both ECNL & DA are both top tier leagues period.

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Well that too... Aspen? Marblehead? Eh, nevertheless I know ballers on both the blues and surf ecnl 02 teams and they played ECNL not DA. The original point was that someone was discrediting ECNL national champions saying it’s dilute and tier 2 teams but that is not accurate. Especially since everyone doesn't even neccessarily have access to both ECNL and DA. At this point with DA still in its baby stage for the girls side both ECNL & DA are both top tier leagues period.

You mean 12, right? Not 02? Nope not a Surf homer, blues homer. But overall focused on my DD's development. Surf can't say that ECNL sucks they had ECNL set from their top 16 team up set for 2018-19. We all know $$ drives youth club soccer motives at this point. But I just want others to respect talent as it is and not downplay people winning a national championship. How many of these parents that say the national championship for ECNL is dilute now, have won a national anything, on any level??

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You mean 12, right? Not 02? Nope not a Surf homer, blues homer. But overall focused on my DD's development. Surf can't say that ECNL sucks they had ECNL set from their top 16 team up set for 2018-19. We all know $$ drives youth club soccer motives at this point. But I just want others to respect talent as it is and not downplay people winning a national championship. How many of these parents that say the national championship for ECNL is dilute now, have won a national anything, on any level??

Unfortunately, the prevalence of pay-to-play and the reluctance to demote legacy (royal) players with subpar skills seems more pronounced in NS than anywhere else. And it may stem from baby Silicon Valley's affluent (Woburn down to Waltham) parents and their influence, which may run much deeper in theNS and its clubs than any other places. Results definitely highlight NS teams' lack of competitiveness in ECNL, GA, ECRL, NPL, and all national club competitions.

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Exactly, if you do school year alone you'll have parents holding their kid back so their kid can be the biggest fastest on the team.

18 year old freshman in high schools.

Parents can already hold kids back to get an extra year. If you have a January to June birthday you can repeat a grade and get 2 years of U19. So if parents wanted too they could take advantage of the system the way it is.

changing to grad year wouldn’t make a difference. Outside of evening things out and not just stacking the deck for Q1/2 player development.

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Birth year is the way to do it. Stupid parents will hold their kids back for some perceived advantage and it becomes a mess. The rare trapped player issue isn't worth encouraging parental stupidity in this day & age. We dont need 19 year old HS seniors.

The reason trapped players are rare is because our soccer system disregards their development and the majority end up quitting. Also we can already have 19 year olds play high school if parents want to go that route so that excuse doesnt work try another.

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The reason trapped players are rare is because our soccer system disregards their development and the majority end up quitting. Also we can already have 19 year olds play high school if parents want to go that route so that excuse doesnt work try another.

Off topic, but on my mind;

Recently, I’ve seen a lot of VRBO advertising that the difference with them is that you always get the entire place to yourself and that this is better yada yada yada.

This doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. Airbnb has a ton of listings that are the entire home and it’s not like the customer isn’t aware of whether they’ll have the whole place to themselves before they arrive.

Is the whole point just disingenuously implying that Airbnb has a lower quality service because you can also rent a room?

It’s like a fruit market advertising that they only sell whole watermelons unlike their competition which also sells halves.

*** BC Mommy; what do you think?