National Letter of Intent Day

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Take note parents of boys. See how many girl commits come in vs boy. It's a completely different ballgame.

Boys will continue to be pay to play at the college level no huge athletic achievement.

Haven’t seen many boys commitments, is it a talent issue?

European players often take many of the boys side roster spots. It is happening more and more on the girls side moving forward though.

The NCAA should make sure 6.5 of the scholarships in men’s soccer go to homegrown players. Some rosters look like European all star teams.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am less interested in local scholarships and amounts than the averages for a given school. That sort of info is useful to gauge expectations and offers for prospective recruits. Scholarshipstats.com has a pretty comprehensive listing, but it is dated and the sources are somewhat dubious. The NCAA has this information, but it is not generally available.

What do you mean by “averages,” PP? Whether the school gives out the full 9.9 for men and 14 for women vs a percentage of the allowable total? That info is surprisingly hard to come by, but many of us can give you some answers based on our kids’ or their friends’ recent recruiting experiences. Or are you wondering if Coach X at school Y prefers to give 28 girls 50% scholarships vs 4 girls 100% and the remaining various lesser amounts? I don’t think there is any way to find that out unless your kid is being recruited or you are close to families with kids on the team.

People need to realize that there is significant academic grant $ being waved around out there. One of the schools that my DS has been in contact with has said they would provide athletic $ that would cover about 15%, but academic $ (based on GPA, test scores) that would cover 30 to 40%. He’s a pretty good student, but doesn’t have an exceptionally high GPA/SATs...so make sure your kid is hitting the books, because that may knock the price down far more than soccer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am less interested in local scholarships and amounts than the averages for a given school. That sort of info is useful to gauge expectations and offers for prospective recruits. Scholarshipstats.com has a pretty comprehensive listing, but it is dated and the sources are somewhat dubious. The NCAA has this information, but it is not generally available.

What do you mean by “averages,” PP? Whether the school gives out the full 9.9 for men and 14 for women vs a percentage of the allowable total? That info is surprisingly hard to come by, but many of us can give you some answers based on our kids’ or their friends’ recent recruiting experiences. Or are you wondering if Coach X at school Y prefers to give 28 girls 50% scholarships vs 4 girls 100% and the remaining various lesser amounts? I don’t think there is any way to find that out unless your kid is being recruited or you are close to families with kids on the team.

People need to realize that there is significant academic grant $ being waved around out there. One of the schools that my DS has been in contact with has said they would provide athletic $ that would cover about 15%, but academic $ (based on GPA, test scores) that would cover 30 to 40%. He’s a pretty good student, but doesn’t have an exceptionally high GPA/SATs...so make sure your kid is hitting the books, because that may knock the price down far more than soccer.

Also scholarships for minority students, do as much research as possible

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am less interested in local scholarships and amounts than the averages for a given school. That sort of info is useful to gauge expectations and offers for prospective recruits. Scholarshipstats.com has a pretty comprehensive listing, but it is dated and the sources are somewhat dubious. The NCAA has this information, but it is not generally available.

What do you mean by “averages,” PP? Whether the school gives out the full 9.9 for men and 14 for women vs a percentage of the allowable total? That info is surprisingly hard to come by, but many of us can give you some answers based on our kids’ or their friends’ recent recruiting experiences. Or are you wondering if Coach X at school Y prefers to give 28 girls 50% scholarships vs 4 girls 100% and the remaining various lesser amounts? I don’t think there is any way to find that out unless your kid is being recruited or you are close to families with kids on the team.

People need to realize that there is significant academic grant $ being waved around out there. One of the schools that my DS has been in contact with has said they would provide athletic $ that would cover about 15%, but academic $ (based on GPA, test scores) that would cover 30 to 40%. He’s a pretty good student, but doesn’t have an exceptionally high GPA/SATs...so make sure your kid is hitting the books, because that may knock the price down far more than soccer.

Also scholarships for minority students, do as much research as possible

Definitely - good point!

[Anonymous]

And the vibe has been killed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone asked for Loudoun’s. Here the public website.

https://www.loudounsoccer.com/Default.aspx?tabid=2666305

Lmao connections into the same schools… very little to be proud of. Applauses for the middle men doing the job to maintain the club’s status.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Someone asked for Loudoun’s. Here the public website.

https://www.loudounsoccer.com/Default.aspx?tabid=2666305

Lmao connections into the same schools… very little to be proud of. Applauses for the middle men doing the job to maintain the club’s status.

This is abysmal for an ECNL team. Your kid could have been recruited from HS for these schools - for a lot less money. Why pay the fees if these schools are your end game??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone asked for Loudoun’s. Here the public website.

https://www.loudounsoccer.com/Default.aspx?tabid=2666305

Lmao connections into the same schools… very little to be proud of. Applauses for the middle men doing the job to maintain the club’s status.

This is abysmal for an ECNL team. Your kid could have been recruited from HS for these schools - for a lot less money. Why pay the fees if these schools are your end game??

Like most posters on here, You haven’t a clue what you’re talking about.

[Anonymous]

Some private schools touting soccer NLI for guys who never played for the school. It's a top player's prerogative, but they never represented the school while some similarly situated guys did. See STA and Gonzaga.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some private schools touting soccer NLI for guys who never played for the school. It's a top player's prerogative, but they never represented the school while some similarly situated guys did. See STA and Gonzaga.

That's weird. What is the purpose of doing that?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Some private schools touting soccer NLI for guys who never played for the school. It's a top player's prerogative, but they never represented the school while some similarly situated guys did. See STA and Gonzaga.

That's weird. What is the purpose of doing that?

Perhaps the HS coach is the club coach…..either way…false advertisement

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some private schools touting soccer NLI for guys who never played for the school. It's a top player's prerogative, but they never represented the school while some similarly situated guys did. See STA and Gonzaga.

That's weird. What is the purpose of doing that?

Perhaps the HS coach is the club coach…..either way…false advertisement

They are touting the school; not the sports team. Not false -- bios always say played club soccer at _________. Nothing about school --pretty clear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone asked for Loudoun’s. Here the public website.

https://www.loudounsoccer.com/Default.aspx?tabid=2666305

Lmao connections into the same schools… very little to be proud of. Applauses for the middle men doing the job to maintain the club’s status.

This is abysmal for an ECNL team. Your kid could have been recruited from HS for these schools - for a lot less money. Why pay the fees if these schools are your end game??

This is far from abysmal. George Mason, VCU, NJIT, CNU are not taking run of the mill HS players. Their rosters have plenty of ECNL and other high quality players. I'm not sure what your comment is trying to get at. I'm not even a "need to be ECNL" voice but to say you can get recruited to these schools from just HS is an "abysmal" comment. Wow - It is clear by this comment that you need to go understand the soccer landscape a bit more.

[Anonymous]

People need to realize that there is significant academic grant $ being waved around out there. One of the schools that my DS has been in contact with has said they would provide athletic $ that would cover about 15%, but academic $ (based on GPA, test scores) that would cover 30 to 40%. He’s a pretty good student, but doesn’t have an exceptionally high GPA/SATs...so make sure your kid is hitting the books, because that may knock the price down far more than soccer.

Sometimes. And it's conditional on keeping grades up (not a bad thing). But some schools don't allow all kinds of stacking of these types of money. Nothing is guaranteed, and you can also be cut from a team at any time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am less interested in local scholarships and amounts than the averages for a given school. That sort of info is useful to gauge expectations and offers for prospective recruits. Scholarshipstats.com has a pretty comprehensive listing, but it is dated and the sources are somewhat dubious. The NCAA has this information, but it is not generally available.

What do you mean by “averages,” PP? Whether the school gives out the full 9.9 for men and 14 for women vs a percentage of the allowable total? That info is surprisingly hard to come by, but many of us can give you some answers based on our kids’ or their friends’ recent recruiting experiences. Or are you wondering if Coach X at school Y prefers to give 28 girls 50% scholarships vs 4 girls 100% and the remaining various lesser amounts? I don’t think there is any way to find that out unless your kid is being recruited or you are close to families with kids on the team.

People need to realize that there is significant academic grant $ being waved around out there. One of the schools that my DS has been in contact with has said they would provide athletic $ that would cover about 15%, but academic $ (based on GPA, test scores) that would cover 30 to 40%. He’s a pretty good student, but doesn’t have an exceptionally high GPA/SATs...so make sure your kid is hitting the books, because that may knock the price down far more than soccer.

+100

My kid is at a tough private HS with a 4.4gpa in all honors program and that has opened so many doors. It's also like a freebie for the top academic soccer schools because there are no strings to be pulled to get him in.