MLS Next Schedules - 23/24
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
Most families on non-MLS based teams are not looking for scholarships, just the admissions boost. Though some are lucky enough to get both. Almost all can easily afford the fees, which are no more expensive than EDP and probably cheaper than most ECNL teams. While there are a lot of international players in the men’s college game, many coaches prefer to recruit primarily from domestic ranks. It is not at all true in my experience that coaches at top academic schools prefer MLS Club academy players. A lot of those players are hoping to go pro and most are not nearly as focused on academics, and hence not as recruitable, as the average MLSNext player on a team not affiliated with an MLS club. |
Anonymous
Anyone has the rules re biobanding? I find it fascinating and wonder what other criteria is considered besides size? Is it bdays as well? For example, would younger kids, those born in Nov and Dec, be considered for biobanding regardless of size? Is that what BSC has done if these kids are indeed of average size? |
Anonymous
The MLS Next players live in the same neighborhoods, go to the same schools, have the same socio-economic and family academic backgrounds as ECNL, NAL, EDP counterparts. Google the top 20 NCAA D1 college soccer teams and look at the roster bios. Facts and truth outweighs opinions and narratives. |
Anonymous
The MLS Next rule is for "Late Developers." It is not the late birthday rule. The idea is that some kids may be physically behind and benefit from playing with kids of similar size. The idea is to NOT base it on age/birthday. If they're allowing it for bigger kids with late birthdays, it defeats the purpose. |
Anonymous
It’s easier to look at DC United’s lists of college recruitment outcomes vs those of the other MLSNext teams in the area, though that doesn’t support your point. |
Anonymous
The published rule (below) is vague. The league does not describe the factors. Late Developers (L): Three (3) Late Developers per team - Late Developers can only be Primary Players All age groups are eligible Must complete Late Developer forms and receive approval from MLS NEXT |
Anonymous
How does just looking at DC United Academy players tell anyone about national college soccer recruitment trends? Doesn't the roster of the colleges tell you who they're targeting and recruiting most? |
Anonymous
2. Both starters last year. The club is a joke but it’s not the kids or the coaches fault. It’s in the directors to do what they do and they do it wrong. |
Anonymous
The fact that they were starters last year is irrelevant as to whether they should bioband at U15 (or perhaps should have biobanded last year). I don't understand your objection. |
Anonymous
It's not completely irrelevant in the sense that the purpose of bio-banding is to avoid smaller kids from being squeezed out of the game. If they were able to compete and actually start (and neither are really small - one is actually above average size for 2009), then they are doing others and themselves a disservice by playing an age down. It's gaming the system and not adhering to the purpose of the waiver. |
Anonymous
|
Yeah, it doesn’t make sense to use it for kids who were already starters on their age group team. Are the parents and kids ok with this?
I’m really surprised that BSC biobands for what seems to be for wins. I assumed that it’s such a big club that draws soooo many kids to it that their rosters would be pretty deep. Is that not the case? |
Anonymous
Again, I don't understand this. There are a lot of kids who make a U14 team in the spring of U13 season. Some are still 13 and some have not begun puberty. The question for U15 is not whether they started at U14 (who knows what the team looked like or whether they were starting in the correct positiion for their development?) but whether they have grown or are likely to grow to develop successfully at U15. |
Anonymous
That's not the purpose of bio-banding. It is to encourage gifted players who are slow growers to continue playing creatively and aggressively. It is the same reason why it is sometimes imprudent to play really gifted but smaller players up when younger. |
Anonymous
We are saying the same thing. The kids being discussed are not small at all. Yes, the purpose is to allow late growth developers the ability to play at high levels. Unfortunately, coaches are still going to default to size. So unless the kid is one of the bigger ones in the younger age group, they won't benefit much. In this case, they were already decent sized kids in their own age group, which is just a ridiculous abuse of the rule. |
Anonymous
We weren't at Bethesda--but my kid had two players on his team playing an age group down with the MLSNext team. I could never understand it because my kid was the same size ---actually skinnier and shorter than those two kids. I think it's a way to ease the demotion from MLSNext team in their age group- by letting them play down. |