Get ready folks

Derek1800 said:
This is what a complete lack of leadership looks like. A free for all for Fall 26 will be entertaining though…
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Majority will do school year in 2026. If they want true grade year or close to it, 9/1 cut off makes more sense US club runs just about every tournament and they are in line with ECNL. The text of those 2 pages from US soccer BOD meeting is ridiculous though. Make a decision based on feedback and move on with it. At least all our poor babies hearts won't be broken...yet!
 
soccer4us said:
Majority will do school year in 2026. If they want true grade year or close to it, 9/1 cut off makes more sense US club runs just about every tournament and they are in line with ECNL. The text of those 2 pages from US soccer BOD meeting is ridiculous though. Make a decision based on feedback and move on with it. At least all our poor babies hearts won't be broken...yet!
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Are you speculating 9/1 or hearing that from US Club?
 
The Path Forward Plan reads like its written by a 10 year old...you'd think US Soccer would have a few people on board that could've gotten out ahead of this and put a coherent plan together...not "we can't do it now, we'll let you guys figure out whether or not to do it in 26/27, and who knows about 27/28!!"

Total clown show. Did they not know they were going to be voting on this for 2 months or more?!
 
SoccerSanDiego said:
The Path Forward Plan reads like its written by a 10 year old...you'd think US Soccer would have a few people on board that could've gotten out ahead of this and put a coherent plan together...not "we can't do it now, we'll let you guys figure out whether or not to do it in 26/27, and who knows about 27/28!!"

Total clown show. Did they not know they were going to be voting on this for 2 months or more?!
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I agree how they were not ready for this to roll out is beyond me. Get some people to work and get it done instead of taken 3 or 4 more months to come up with a draft plan to move forward. Clubs need to step up and adjust for 1-6 player movement per team like they do every year.
The whole thing of waiting a year is crazy. It does give clubs over a whole year to recruit players though I guess.
 
So for the SoCal people who said their coaches or directors told them it wasn’t happening in 25 I guess you guys are right! The way the pathway forward reads though certainly does feel like by 2026 there is a good chance change will be made.
 
reading the memo, some realities come through: rec soccer and low level programs suffer with birth year system. For programs that aspire to be on the 'world stage' like MLSN and ECNL, it doesn't really matter since 6 months age difference doesn't affect high level players. International programs are birth year, players struggling in these programs are asking for school year, so there are pros and cons. My take, if your player is struggling and you think school year is the solution, it may work in the short term, but the writing is on the wall in the long term.
 
Not to rain on the 2026/27 festivities.

But, a million things can change in youth soccer in a year and a half. I still put the chances of BY changing to SY at a 50/50 chance of happening even with a more clearly defined timeline.

At least we'll know more about if NCAA has blown up by that time. Which would make the change from BY to SY useless. This would be because of college purging non revenue sports. Which would essentially make USM/WNT and college players the same pool because of limited roster spots.
 
Carlsbad7 said:
Not to rain on the 2026/27 festivities.

But, a million things can change in youth soccer in a year and a half. I still put the chances of BY changing to SY at a 50/50 chance of happening even with a more clearly defined timeline.

At least we'll know more about if NCAA has blown up by that time. Which would make the change from BY to SY useless. This would be because of college purging non revenue sports. Which would essentially make USM/WNT and college players the same pool because of limited roster spots.
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They already gave the green light to change in 2026…ECNL will do that 100%..maybe earlier
 
Carlsbad7 said:
Not to rain on the 2026/27 festivities.

But, a million things can change in youth soccer in a year and a half. I still put the chances of BY changing to SY at a 50/50 chance of happening even with a more clearly defined timeline.

At least we'll know more about if NCAA has blown up by that time. Which would make the change from BY to SY useless. This would be because of college purging non revenue sports. Which would essentially make USM/WNT and college players the same pool because of limited roster spots.
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USYS, U.S. Club, and AYSO have clearly signaled that they want to go back to SY. They have members on the USSF Board that were involved in the re-evaluation. This is headed to SY for most leagues in 26-27.
 
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