ECNL wants to switch back to school year from birth year

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There are no better athletes in the world than there are in the US.

Too bad they don't play soccer, though.

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It will be a unanimous decision by all parties involved, hopefully this change will spur some success on the international level, with participation in traditional US sports waning, now would be the best opportunity to maybe switch some of those athletes over to soccer. There are no better athletes in the world than there are in the US.

International Success? Such as winning the Olympics, winning 2 of the last 3 world cups, or making the podium in all the major international tournaments across all age groups in the same year?

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All sports see participation rates drop at that age, and always have. Aspen report shows soccer is one of very few sports in america with a growing participation rate. Nearly all sports are losing kids at double digit negative participation rates. Soccer is positive. Go read the report yourself. Read back further and notice how participation rates in soccer were falling during the last several years of school year registration.

I am for the switch to eliminate the trapped player problem. The switch will help with that issue and that issue alone is worthy of the change. We don’t need to fabricate other issues.

If this changes, I wonder if US Soccer will issue a statement with their reasoning again (like in 2015). If they do, I'll bet they claim it will help participation.

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Forcing some to continue with the trapped player BS is not an option.

Only GY accomplishes that. But you don't really care that SY will still be "forcing some to continue with the trapped player BS." You just want your August or Q4 kid to be the oldest for a change, nope, you don't want anything to do with GY and actually getting rid of the trapped player issue. Let's go SY and serves those January kids and their annoying parents a taste of their own medicine, right?

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This means the current outliers MLSN/EA will have to join the change. MLS Academy will be the only party remains in BY. I think this is a overall good for youth soccer, when we put politics aside.

Yeah, I don't see where it says that. Maybe quote me the line that says that. You Q4 people keep reading things to say what you want them say. Here's the reality: MLSN hasn't made any statement on this issue and that silence is deafening. That leads many people to guess they are not on board with the ECNL and its SY movement. And there are rumblings of an MLSN2 on the way, so that would take another tier of boys. And if NAL stays as a 3rd tier, they'll probably do the same. MLSN has a huge chunk of the top boys clubs. If MLSN, MLSN2 and NAL stay BY, the whole boys side is likely to stay that way. The bias toward the girls side and ECNL on this board is amazing. Just pretending that the boys side is signed, sealed and delivered because they want SY so badly.

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Yeah, I don't see where it says that. Maybe quote me the line that says that. You Q4 people keep reading things to say what you want them say. Here's the reality: MLSN hasn't made any statement on this issue and that silence is deafening. That leads many people to guess they are not on board with the ECNL and its SY movement. And there are rumblings of an MLSN2 on the way, so that would take another tier of boys. And if NAL stays as a 3rd tier, they'll probably do the same. MLSN has a huge chunk of the top boys clubs. If MLSN, MLSN2 and NAL stay BY, the whole boys side is likely to stay that way. The bias toward the girls side and ECNL on this board is amazing. Just pretending that the boys side is signed, sealed and delivered because they want SY so badly.

They are silent, because they will be forced (by fear of losing revenue) to change as others. Wait for the MLSN announcement after 11/22.

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They are silent, because they will be forced (by fear of losing revenue) to change as others. Wait for the MLSN announcement after 11/22.

When I said ECNL will change to SY, people denied it. When I said ECNL will adjust as early as next Spring, people denied it. Let's see when MLSN surrenders.

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When I said ECNL will change to SY, people denied it. When I said ECNL will adjust as early as next Spring, people denied it. Let's see when MLSN surrenders.

Where did ECNL say they will implement in spring?

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Date cutoff isn’t the reason we suck internationally. How do you come up with this stuff?

Considering that February contains the least number of births and August/September contain nearly the most. Statistically this gives you a larger pool of RAE advantaged players than currently we have under BY.

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Only GY accomplishes that. But you don't really care that SY will still be "forcing some to continue with the trapped player BS." You just want your August or Q4 kid to be the oldest for a change, nope, you don't want anything to do with GY and actually getting rid of the trapped player issue. Let's go SY and serves those January kids and their annoying parents a taste of their own medicine, right?

We aren’t worried about the 50 players this impacts. You know you can just switch back to correct grade in public school, right?

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Considering that February contains the least number of births and August/September contain nearly the most. Statistically this gives you a larger pool of RAE advantaged players than currently we have under BY.

Yep and a bigger pool of better players means a better USYNT pool because the compounding effect RAE has for those advantages by it in the early years.

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Yep and a bigger pool of better players means a better USYNT pool because the compounding effect RAE has for those advantages by it in the early years.

Like what crack do you smoke? Good players can play up a year no problem. This only affects the fringe rl/nl kids a very small group

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Like what crack do you smoke? Good players can play up a year no problem. This only affects the fringe rl/nl kids a very small group

RAE is most impactful early on and is a powerful compounding effect so a change now isnt going to impact older players. Educate yourself. Wikipedia has a good article and so does ChatGPT.

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RAE is most impactful early on and is a powerful compounding effect so a change now isnt going to impact older players. Educate yourself. Wikipedia has a good article and so does ChatGPT.

lol so now you’re source of information is wiki? Bruh, 90% of girls are done growing by 14 read up. RAE is minimal after 13. Keep exaggerating and being dramatic

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lol so now you’re source of information is wiki? Bruh, 90% of girls are done growing by 14 read up. RAE is minimal after 13. Keep exaggerating and being dramatic

Growing in height is not the end of growing.