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    Birth Year Hysteria.....?

    Do you remember when the switch to Birth Year age groups was announced? Seems like forever ago, but there was a massive outcry and people turning over cars and burning them in the streets. Now, the new season is upon us, practices are starting up and everything seems to be OK. If you're old enough to remember, it feels like New Years Eve-1999 with the Y2K debacle. When the clock struck 12:01 AM on 1/1/2000 - and nothing happened! No planes fell from the sky, etc.

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    The new hysteria is around girls DA! ussda should just announce all the clubs already rather than in waves as this causes unwanted stupidity and unwarranted as well as unnecessary competition !
    Coaches and clubs should focus on developing their players and stop the bull and ego trash talking between clubs etx...

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      #3
      It's only as if everything is fine because people are doing the only thing they can do now... deal with it. That doesn't change the fact it was an unnecessary move that has created turmoil. Teams have broken up, kids have left clubs they were happy with fearing not having a team, and you have teams in the boat we're in. We have a blended team that includes 8th graders to sophomores, playing U16. Far from ideal.

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        #4
        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
        The new hysteria is around girls DA! ussda should just announce all the clubs already rather than in waves as this causes unwanted stupidity and unwarranted as well as unnecessary competition !
        Coaches and clubs should focus on developing their players and stop the bull and ego trash talking between clubs etx...
        Or make clubs actually work got a GDA and to really meet the requirements . Might have helped elevate soccer in Florida.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
          Do you remember when the switch to Birth Year age groups was announced? Seems like forever ago, but there was a massive outcry and people turning over cars and burning them in the streets. Now, the new season is upon us, practices are starting up and everything seems to be OK. If you're old enough to remember, it feels like New Years Eve-1999 with the Y2K debacle. When the clock struck 12:01 AM on 1/1/2000 - and nothing happened! No planes fell from the sky, etc.
          The Birth Year hysteria revolves around GotSoccer points.. Many deserving teams have lost their hard earned points and rankings are all screwed up! Some good teams are not being accepted to top flight tournaments due to this issue.

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            #6
            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
            It's only as if everything is fine because people are doing the only thing they can do now... deal with it. That doesn't change the fact it was an unnecessary move that has created turmoil. Teams have broken up, kids have left clubs they were happy with fearing not having a team, and you have teams in the boat we're in. We have a blended team that includes 8th graders to sophomores, playing U16. Far from ideal.
            Agreed most people had no choice but to deal with it. Our team which had been together multiple years had to disband because the kids split different birth years. We were in a small club and most people moved to a big club because we did not have the numbers with the change. A couple of kids also decided to no longer play because of the change.

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              #7
              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
              Agreed most people had no choice but to deal with it. Our team which had been together multiple years had to disband because the kids split different birth years. We were in a small club and most people moved to a big club because we did not have the numbers with the change. A couple of kids also decided to no longer play because of the change.
              Exactly. Some clubs and teams feel it more than others. The final u19 , u18 , u17 years are going to remain a chaotic time for players as some graduate and teams have to regroup.

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                #8
                The nightmare came true, so you just deal with it.
                My daughter has had to leave a team she's played with for years, leave friends she's had for years, to go to a much less talented team because that's her age group now. She loves soccer so she'll keep playing, but I can tell she's not as excited as she has been. We'll miss the parents on the other team as well, we were like a big family.
                It was an idiotic idea put in place by submoronic cretins. Anyone with two brain cells to rub together would have worked the birth year age groupings in gradually, starting at the younger ages and working their way up. But that would have made too much sense.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                  Do you remember when the switch to Birth Year age groups was announced? Seems like forever ago, but there was a massive outcry and people turning over cars and burning them in the streets. Now, the new season is upon us, practices are starting up and everything seems to be OK. If you're old enough to remember, it feels like New Years Eve-1999 with the Y2K debacle. When the clock struck 12:01 AM on 1/1/2000 - and nothing happened! No planes fell from the sky, etc.
                  Still the stupidest idea I have seen to date. Makes no sense and only hurts fall born kids...and let's not start "but my kid was disadvantage and no one cared before."

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                    Agreed most people had no choice but to deal with it. Our team which had been together multiple years had to disband because the kids split different birth years. We were in a small club and most people moved to a big club because we did not have the numbers with the change. A couple of kids also decided to no longer play because of the change.
                    I know some clubs are allowing teams to stay together by allowing players to play up. Why are some clubs sticking strictly to the rule to the point of hurting themselves and others are business as usual. As someone that is new to the world of soccer I really would love to know the answer.

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                      #11
                      Birth year hysteria

                      So all the people complaining about birth year because of fall birthdays,what about he rules before we're all the the birthdays over the summer got screwed.Is it not correct that ODP has been going by birthyear?Its funny al the parents of fall birthdays complain about this new birthyear change when with the old rule kids who had birthdays in June,July never played a game in a fall or spring that was the states age they were suppose to be playing in.

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                        So all the people complaining about birth year because of fall birthdays,what about he rules before we're all the the birthdays over the summer got screwed.Is it not correct that ODP has been going by birthyear?Its funny al the parents of fall birthdays complain about this new birthyear change when with the old rule kids who had birthdays in June,July never played a game in a fall or spring that was the states age they were suppose to be playing in.

                        Yes! Thank you! I'm actually glad that it has changed to birth year, as my child has a mid July birthday. She was always on a team where many of her teammates where almost a complete year older. And yes, she always started and got plenty of playing time but until last season she was one of the smaller players. She was however, the only player on her old team, that made the State ODP Team the last two years

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                          #13
                          Wait until the high school break and the 8th graders playing on the u15 team do not have a team because the 9th graders are playing high school. And then wait until next year when half of the u18 team graduates and the other half that are juniors this year will need to find a new team. This will repeat every year.

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                            Yes! Thank you! I'm actually glad that it has changed to birth year, as my child has a mid July birthday. She was always on a team where many of her teammates where almost a complete year older. And yes, she always started and got plenty of playing time but until last season she was one of the smaller players. She was however, the only player on her old team, that made the State ODP Team the last two years
                            If you are an exception player then you are. The new birth year change though is hard on teams in their final year. In the past, most of the team would graduate together. Now about 1/3 do not graduate and then are left without their teammates for their final year. Players can always play up and some clubs kept their elite teams together and did not change to birth year while other teams were split and lost players to other clubs because they did not keep their teams together. The smaller clubs were impacted much more by the change.

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                              #15
                              Our club split it at the U14 age. Everyone U14 and below must play on age.

                              The older kids will mostly stay together, with any new players play on age only.

                              It makes the kids happy, but from a competition point of view, I would have preferred to just switch everybody to on age only. It would have made my kid's team stronger having the older kids play that are born the same year. Of course, this would have killed the older kids (98) teams since half of the 98s left for college...

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