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tudirk said:
This year's tryouts with the impending birth date change (not official but official) is going to be wild. I wasn't around in 2017ish when it went to birth year. Try outs will be crazy...... What will clubs let kids do? It's all the talk at practices, texts, etc.......
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The following is the policy of a certain Dallas based club.

U16 and above will have the option of staying with current team

My daughter is an August 2010 birthday but is a freshman. For players with August birthdays who are in the older grade they will have the option to play for with the older team or play correct age grouping. So she can play with either the 2009-2010 or 2010-2011 group.

The have always been players who play up. My understanding is the change won’t affect this option for players.
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Missouri S&T Exhibition

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chito_and_leon said:
I think that was AvsRick's point, which you objected to. I believe he was saying that we should treat every game as a "real" game, given our instability and disappointing results in recent years.
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What? That was not even what the question was about. The team we are playing literally has this game marked as an exhibition on their schedule and yet it will count for us. Aston wanted to know how that is possible. How can one team not count a game and another could. To which I said I dont know that is weird. To which no one has yet to explain that either. and what exactly did I object to??
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Youth soccer club

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TulsaRulzOSUdrools said:
What would be the extent of a a "competitive" division there?
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An academy/competitive set of teams like you would find at TSC and Blitz and competing in OPL. BASC has used the BA Express as a natural lure to keep kids from leaving their rec programs to go to the other clubs in town once those players felt they outgrew the rec level. My entire U9 team in BA left to move to different competitive clubs after that season. With Express, BA can now say stay here, play at those same competitive levels as those other clubs and pay a fraction of the cost in addition to playing at the best complex in OK. (It's still the best complex in the state although I suspect Scheel's will be on par or pass it in the next couple of years with the rapid improvements they are making). Both BASC and MTSC sort of were feeder programs into TSC prior to that and Barry somehow undid those relationships.

BA Express has been growing there base as well. And they've got a couple of pretty good teams. They aren't on the level to be playing ECNL, ECNL-RL, or even NPL yet but they aren't completely overmatched in their OPL games any more. Simba was trying to create the same thing at MTSC but they could never convince enough of the good players at Metro to make that extra monetary and time commitment for that level and they couldn't convince enough kids from other programs to come over either. I do know some TSc kids who did go over...but the problem eventually was having combined age group teams to make a team. I think my son's group there was combined 06/05/04 the first year so you have 16 year olds playing against U18/19 teams because you have 1 or 2 04s. Don't get me wrong, Simba is a great coach and soccer mind. He was just tasked with something that was unsustainable without a significant investment by MTSC into pushing or forcing certain teams and kids into that level.
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Missouri S&T Exhibition

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TUcandoit said:
That teaches the coach nothing of his team. He went out and did that the first exhibition and won by what?? 40 24 . This one was to find weaknesses. Winning doesnt tell you where you are weak. Would you rather see a rough exhibition that he can go in and fix and not count against us? Or see something bad happen week 2 and we lose because we didnt find anything out in our exhibition and it could have been addressed weeks before?
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