Shouldn't have too much of an impact. The 2016 kids are enamored with Merlin. Go ahead and read the stories on them. All they talk about is Merlin. Secondly, as a 2016 kid, you have to know that staffs get a face lift every couple years.
Yeah, I'm sure that's high up there on my 9th grader's brain. Get real. They know the current guys and that is it at that age. Very few 14-year-olds are planners or big picture thinkers.