It seems like once ECNL announces when the change willl occur and a possible plan like the one you mentioned, GA will be forced to respond. If they do not also move to school year, they will likely have an exodus of fall birthdays looking for ECNL/RL spots.
your serious? Do you know how many ECRL teams had ECNL girls on their teams during the last ECRL playoffs? These rules and dates are definitely going to be exploited to win games. Your absolutely bonkers if you think coaches and DOCs will not take advantage of this. I know of a team that had what 5or6 NL girls playing at the RL playoffs. The SoCal landscape is win at all costs.I don't think this will be an issue since in soccer it works the opposite way. The best players play up an age group(s) at the highest level and are still impactful. Nobody is going to (or at least, shouldn't) brag about playing down an age group or two and how they're killing it there
Details on tryout dates can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19i_HAUsN75dvDyLkg76QK9mQYbZ_MIbj/
I agree with you, in that there will always be those who take advantage of the rules (or their own interpretation of the rules) to make their team more competitive in the postseason. As far as I can tell, here's what they are supposed to be allowed to do:
all you have to do is roster NL girls on your RL roster. They can play NL during league and then go down to RL for Playoffs. You could field a whole NL team at the RL playoffs like this. It was all done in the rules. Shady but within the ECNL rules. My point is coaches and DOC will use these new rule changes and then the fact that different leagues have different age rules its going to be a disaster. Glad my kid is almost done with this.
The shorter list would be who didn't do this
Youth baseball has a birthday cutoff that is in the middle of the year. Instead of U10, U11, U12, etc., the age groups are referred to as 10U, 11U, 12U, etc. It's not related to grade level.
Call them out. People like to think that good RL teams are sneaking in ECNL players when they aren't. Our Beach RL's do not sneak in ECNL players. ECNL might bring in RL players to help, or RL might bring in NPL players to help. But very rarely do players drop down a level to help...and when they do it's usually because they're about to get cut and get shipped down for the coming season.The shorter list would be who didn't do this
Makes sense. Beach in particular has been a bit of a weird case in the recent past. In some age groups (girls), their RL team is as strong as their NL team. RL is head and shoulders above their peers, while NL is not as competitive with theirs. At this point, it's only the case for their 2011G teams, there is more of a separation between the two in the older ages:
I record my games and can tell you first hand that it’s not uncommon to see 6-7 NL girls helping the RL team in league matches and in playoffs. This is what furiates parents on both sides. Parent on the team with NL players are upset because they’re kid isn’t getting playtime and parents playing against team with NL players feels cheated not playing the same team that’s been there for other teams to play against.
These are the trends I see happening as well.
There is also talk of banning foreign students from receiving scholarships at American universities who receive federal funding.
I mean, really, why would you recruit from high schools if you're a coach (unless you're the dream school)? Even then, most kids are going to redshirt, yes? Used to be a kid committed and their name came out of the hat. Now, that kid is always available. And with 28, how many can you afford to have inactive?
All in favor of this for sports. In Europe there is general restriction of foreigners without dual citizenship being able to join local clubs unless they have been living in the country for 5 years and did not make the move to play soccer. In England they restrict further to living within specified distance of the club.
