its very sad. some girls get cut for the next year and then its just like embarrassing at state cup. That was one of the worst things I have seen so far and some girls didn't recover from it and quit the sport.
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Soccermomma24
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Yep very sad.
PurpleCrush
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Even though some clubs have internally confirmed it will be delayed for a year (which is odd without the vote taking place yet), I wonder what happens if US Club Soccer votes to implement immediately and tells leagues they are required to do so.
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Confirmed delayed until Fall 2025? or are you suggesting Fall 26? It's a waiting game for everyone to see what happens....
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Some clubs have confirmed with coaches it’s being delayed until Fall 2026
Socal is delayed to 2026, but I believe ECNL clubs like Surf and Rebel will do SY in 2025 with their local team play up.
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Because of SOCAL logic.
Doesn’t make sense at all, but my guess is you might see many teams with players playing up a year.
There's a way to make everyone happy and for clubs to make even more money.
Just run 2 concurrent leagues.
League A will be Jan 1st to July 1st
League B will be July 1st to Dec 31st
If players want to play with kids in their grade in school either they'll be forced to (July 1st to Dec 31st) or they'll have the option to play up with their grade (Jan 1st to July 1st)
This solves RAE, lets kids play with their grade in school, and creates more teams for kids to play on. Which means more $$$ for clubs.
Why have an A and B team when you can have two A teams.
Just run 2 concurrent leagues.
League A will be Jan 1st to July 1st
League B will be July 1st to Dec 31st
If players want to play with kids in their grade in school either they'll be forced to (July 1st to Dec 31st) or they'll have the option to play up with their grade (Jan 1st to July 1st)
This solves RAE, lets kids play with their grade in school, and creates more teams for kids to play on. Which means more $$$ for clubs.
Why have an A and B team when you can have two A teams.
Do you see the difference between what we have now and this proposal?
Right now Jan 1st birthdays have an advantage. In the proposal I defined above Jan 1st birthdays have the choice to have an advantage playing down or can choose to play up with kids in their grade in school.
I like how it naturally calls out the BS of players playing "down" for wins. It's also gently encourages players to play up with their age group for things like showcases.
This wouldn’t work for tournaments
Is anyone hearing anything from their clubs on the plan to handle SoCal’s incompetence? I see rumors of Surf and Rebels playing up but has anyone heard anything?
It would because this is just a way to hide age groups.
You'd end up with teams grouped July 1st to July 1st. One per year. Which is SY.
What's slightly different is letting the Jan 1st to July 1st players play down if they want. This addresses RAE.
Because this is based on specific Calendar Dates not arbitrary school cutoff dates it would make things simple for clubs to implement which is what BY people like. But in the end you still get SY groupings which makes things easy for recruiters.
Soccermomma24
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Does anyone have any leaked info coming from DOCs or directors before the US Soccer meeting tomorrow?
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That is exactly what I have been trying to point out. The same people who claim trapped players are not disadvataged by the age difference in BY system, argue that the same trapped players will have and age advantage if switched to SY. It can't be both ways. I honostly don't think the age difference of 3-6 months makes any real difference.
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Before the switch we refered to teams by U15, U12, etc.. After the switch teams started being identified by Birthyear. The U.. system was confusing because the team identifier changed every season. Hopefully we don't go back to that. I think identifing team by Grad Year would be the best scenario if the cut-off date changes.