Conversation re school year change over runs from 3:20 to 10:00.
Its funny to me that they would go back to a system that will be easily manipulated but honestly I'm not surprised by how youth soccer or really US soccer at any level is run anymore.
They will just move the cut-off from 1/1 to 7/1, so you still need to be no older than 2007/1/1 in order to join the 08/07 team.
I guess i don't get it. I thought its switching to what year your graduating high school is the team you would play on? My kids only been in birth year based.
I wouldn’t be surprised if USYS and USSF want to go with a 2026 start and US Club and ECNL get after it and go 2025. Everything said in the podcast goes with what I’ve been told and that’s ECNL and US Club are ready to pull the trigger just waiting for everyone to get on board.
I think all the NCAA lawsuits are in the back of ECNL leaderships head. Which is why they're pushing for the change now.
Thank you as that's exactly what I was thinking!
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Spot on. I think Karma is biting some cheaters in soccer who used male and female athletes and treated many as slaves without pay while many risk their lives playing a sport for a "free" education. Free my ass. Based on what my buddy did when he played football at D1 in the 80s and the back pain he's in today was not worth it. He was a stud. Too many on here put all the value on a scholarships. Seriously, a scholarship gave many abusive coaches power and some could revoke the deal after year one. Horrible, horrible and horrible for everyone but those who got paid.NCAA Shrinks in Importance as College Sports Turns Pro
The NCAA hopes that its settlement agreement will be approved, but it might not and even it is approved, it wouldn't stop other legal changes.
Here's a very good assessment of the current NCAA legal situation.
Reality is that in 2-3 years NCAA might not exist as we currently know it.
The change may or may not effect college recruiting.
Change is coming for NCAA.
In that universe, taken to its extreme, all college sports other than football and basketball will be dead anyway, so all the letter leagues that don't begin with MLS lose their purpose to exist.
This kind of news can't be good for ECNL. Why would a middle-class family (if we have any left) invest over $100,000 for this uncertainty? The rich Elites will just have their own league called, ECNL. High School Soccer and AYSO might just do the trick for 90% o the kids that will NOT go on to play in college. Its why all these colleges had 38 players on the roster to make Susie happy and the parents. However, little Susie sat on the bench, got verbally abused and in some cases sexually abused by coach. The whole things need to be blown up and then a big do-er. I see college soccer games and seems like a lot of people go and support the team and I love that. GDA was a dumb league for many reasons. My #1 complaint was the money being exchange in the back room for certain players with rich parents.
I’ve seen this happen firsthand at a SoCal ECNL club for U12. Doc asked a player, who by the way always played the full game, “Are you tired? Do you need to come out?” That question said it all. Everyone suspected the parents were paying off Doc because they were wealthy, and the player wasn’t at all that great...just average at best. It was obvious she wasn’t the goat
on the team so there was no reason for her to get full time play, that’s for sure! But he had to ask her at times if she needed a breather. 
Exactly...
The MLS Next and NWSL Next thing needs to die. Its stupid. Please tell me how many girls and boys actually go to the pros and bypass college? What a handful over the past 5 years. Its ridiculous. They need to be able to go to college and play the sport they love and get an education and have their sport pay for it, graduate and get a good job and live their life. Some can continue to play in the pros or national level. That's how it should work. But yeah that's going away. If that normal pathway does go away which his what's starting to happen everyone is going to question why these kids and parents are evening spending the money and resources and time to even play high level soccer. If anyone is playing ECNL and in high school and tells you their kids grades are not suffering because of their sport then they are straight up lying to you. All that time could be spent on school work so if the only pathway to college is school work and not sport then the sport goes away which means the ECNL goes away for Girls for example. Or they still have it but the level of play is going to seriously drop.
