It does not. I have had three kids in the club system for the last 7 years, and I am not snarky about it but have watched the rosters since these teams went to grade based. I have not spotted a single Crabs kid on a grade team roster who was a calendar year young for his grade. With pre-first done so frequently in Baltimore it would be scarce to find one and one other poster wrote and I trust there was just one in the recent 2 years since grade based teams.
Now I do remember a number of standout kids who played up when it was U-9, U-11, U-13 and U-15. Back when the teams were age based the status symbol was for a standout kid to play up.
I think you are pointing to that era, and not this grade based regime which is only 2 years old.
I really wish we could go back to the old way. How can we make this happen? From what I read on here, the majority support age brackets vs grad year. They are our kids and we are the club consumer. How is it that this faulty system perpetuates?
