Great point! Also, here is something I was thinking about:
Why is US Soccer going to come forward with the new GDA with combined birth years after all of the fuss just barely a year ago about switching to age pure teams? It's too contradicting.
1) There are still players playing up no matter where you go. There are '03s playing on '02 teams, there are '02s on '01s at the ECNL level, at SCDSL, at CRL, etc.
2) YNT and WNT isn't "age-pure". There are 15 yr olds on the u17 there was 15 yr old MP on the U20s for ages... etc.
3) If GDA is supposed to be the "elite" platform/place to play, then why is it that the GDA teams are age combined but the rest of the teams in that club will not be?
There's more but that's the jist. Just a couple thoughts...