Huge ECNL News coming 7/1/2024

[Anonymous]

Where is this so called “news”? Sounds like just another unfounded rumor

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC United Graduates 2024:

▪️Pendleton - UCLA University

▫️Papez - Princeton University

▪️Zhang - Princeton University

▫️Jones - UVA University

▪️Bisong - UVA University

▫️Ray - The College of Charleston

▪️Snaith - Brown University

▫️Diaz - Longwood University

▪️Aggrey - Canisius University

▫️Melly - Cornell University

▪️Burri - Old Dominion University

Tourettes post? Glad you are a proud parent of a DCU kid, but that has nothing to do with this thread. Congrats to those kids and best of luck.

It was the response to the PP claiming college coaches avoid dmv recruiting

So it seems that makes your toxic post the tourettes post

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Anonymous wrote:So you’re a college coach and you attend a showcase. It would be nice to know that all players are going to college in a year rather than have to sit there and scan rosters and birthdates while trying to analyze a game.

As simple as this statement is.....this poster hits it on the head. I won't go too much into my background, but you can read between the lines. For every club, a scout has to watch 2 age groups. The U17s and U19s, a portion of the U17s are too early to recruit and a portion of the U19s have already been recruited. This tells me that ENCL is laser focused on making the college coach's life easier and the results are that he/she can see more recruitable players across more clubs.

How is that easier and a better option for college recruiting than MLS Next tournaments and showcases?

Just because they are the mighty MLS doesn't mean that their U17 players magically all graduate in a single year. they don't. MLS has the exact same issue as ECNL. No doubt they will follow suit now that USYS and ECNL has streamlined and gotten rid of the trapped player mishap. However. MLS is less focussed on college recruiting, more on pro where graduating year doesn't matter. But MLS next...

When did college coaches/recruiters not know the graduation of the players they're interested in?
Are you inventing a non existent problem to fit your narrative?

Look you clearly don't understand the issue which coaches find annoying. When a coach goes to watch a game, the 22 players they are watching on the field are not all eligible for a single recruiting class that coach may be focussed on filling. From a pure logistics perspective, that is just overall a PIA for coaches as it means cross referencing roster or do unnecessary follow up work that wouldn't be necessary if every player on the field was eligible for the same recruiting class. It's been a problem in need of a solution for a while. Unnecessarily complex for leagues like ECNL where the focus is primarily on college recruiting vs. pro. This willl streamline.

Nonsense!
College coaches aren't showing up blind at a field and trying to find a player.

They show up already knowing who they're coming to watch.
If someone previously not on their radar stands out, they simply ask the team for information on the player.

And what a total waste of their time when they track down the brochure, or do a Google search or call the coach and find out said player is wrong recruiting year- You all may not like what’s happening for whatever personal reasons you have but if college coaches weren’t complaining, ECnL would not be doing this- after all that is their value prop/ college recruiting. It’s in their best interest to keep coaches happy and coming back to tournaments.
Smart business move by ECNL to cater to coaches and remove current annoyance.

Is this for girls or boys?
Girls I'll assume since ecnl isn't a recruiting priority for boys.

On the girls side, college coaches don't know who they're scouting before they get to a tournament?

No idea what this means? Plenty of ECNL boys players playing in college…Boys generally don’t get scholarships like girls resulting from Title 9 trade offs but they are absolutely being recruited. Of course Transfer portal and international recruiting firms may ultimately change and cause nobody from US to be able to be recruited from HS in favor of older players but for now plenty of ECNL boys playing collegiately. Collapse of the DA meant that many former boys DA clubs are now ECNL clubs…

[Anonymous]

Right now my son's school's roster is FILLED with 5-years and transfer students.

The men's rosters are getting older and older and it is become very difficult for Freshmen (and American Freshmen) to get spots.

An injury caused a miss of the all-important recruiting year so redshirt spots are where it's at if you don't want to take a full gap year.

The transfer portal is ruining college sports. Friends with kids in lacrosse are complaining about similar issues. There is no team loyalty--kids are constantly transferring for playing time or $$, etc.

Sh*t show.

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Anonymous wrote:So you’re a college coach and you attend a showcase. It would be nice to know that all players are going to college in a year rather than have to sit there and scan rosters and birthdates while trying to analyze a game.

As simple as this statement is.....this poster hits it on the head. I won't go too much into my background, but you can read between the lines. For every club, a scout has to watch 2 age groups. The U17s and U19s, a portion of the U17s are too early to recruit and a portion of the U19s have already been recruited. This tells me that ENCL is laser focused on making the college coach's life easier and the results are that he/she can see more recruitable players across more clubs.

How is that easier and a better option for college recruiting than MLS Next tournaments and showcases?

Just because they are the mighty MLS doesn't mean that their U17 players magically all graduate in a single year. they don't. MLS has the exact same issue as ECNL. No doubt they will follow suit now that USYS and ECNL has streamlined and gotten rid of the trapped player mishap. However. MLS is less focussed on college recruiting, more on pro where graduating year doesn't matter. But MLS next...

When did college coaches/recruiters not know the graduation of the players they're interested in?
Are you inventing a non existent problem to fit your narrative?

Look you clearly don't understand the issue which coaches find annoying. When a coach goes to watch a game, the 22 players they are watching on the field are not all eligible for a single recruiting class that coach may be focussed on filling. From a pure logistics perspective, that is just overall a PIA for coaches as it means cross referencing roster or do unnecessary follow up work that wouldn't be necessary if every player on the field was eligible for the same recruiting class. It's been a problem in need of a solution for a while. Unnecessarily complex for leagues like ECNL where the focus is primarily on college recruiting vs. pro. This willl streamline.

Nonsense!
College coaches aren't showing up blind at a field and trying to find a player.

They show up already knowing who they're coming to watch.
If someone previously not on their radar stands out, they simply ask the team for information on the player.

And what a total waste of their time when they track down the brochure, or do a Google search or call the coach and find out said player is wrong recruiting year- You all may not like what’s happening for whatever personal reasons you have but if college coaches weren’t complaining, ECnL would not be doing this- after all that is their value prop/ college recruiting. It’s in their best interest to keep coaches happy and coming back to tournaments.
Smart business move by ECNL to cater to coaches and remove current annoyance.

Is this for girls or boys?
Girls I'll assume since ecnl isn't a recruiting priority for boys.

On the girls side, college coaches don't know who they're scouting before they get to a tournament?

No idea what this means? Plenty of ECNL boys players playing in college…Boys generally don’t get scholarships like girls resulting from Title 9 trade offs but they are absolutely being recruited. Of course Transfer portal and international recruiting firms may ultimately change and cause nobody from US to be able to be recruited from HS in favor of older players but for now plenty of ECNL boys playing collegiately. Collapse of the DA meant that many former boys DA clubs are now ECNL clubs…

I thought DA was replaced by MLS Next?
But I don't know much about the boys side.

Though I keep seeing that International Players, MLS Academies and MLS Next players on the boys side are all ahead of ECNL in college recruiting.

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Anonymous wrote:So you’re a college coach and you attend a showcase. It would be nice to know that all players are going to college in a year rather than have to sit there and scan rosters and birthdates while trying to analyze a game.

As simple as this statement is.....this poster hits it on the head. I won't go too much into my background, but you can read between the lines. For every club, a scout has to watch 2 age groups. The U17s and U19s, a portion of the U17s are too early to recruit and a portion of the U19s have already been recruited. This tells me that ENCL is laser focused on making the college coach's life easier and the results are that he/she can see more recruitable players across more clubs.

How is that easier and a better option for college recruiting than MLS Next tournaments and showcases?

Just because they are the mighty MLS doesn't mean that their U17 players magically all graduate in a single year. they don't. MLS has the exact same issue as ECNL. No doubt they will follow suit now that USYS and ECNL has streamlined and gotten rid of the trapped player mishap. However. MLS is less focussed on college recruiting, more on pro where graduating year doesn't matter. But MLS next...

When did college coaches/recruiters not know the graduation of the players they're interested in?
Are you inventing a non existent problem to fit your narrative?

Look you clearly don't understand the issue which coaches find annoying. When a coach goes to watch a game, the 22 players they are watching on the field are not all eligible for a single recruiting class that coach may be focussed on filling. From a pure logistics perspective, that is just overall a PIA for coaches as it means cross referencing roster or do unnecessary follow up work that wouldn't be necessary if every player on the field was eligible for the same recruiting class. It's been a problem in need of a solution for a while. Unnecessarily complex for leagues like ECNL where the focus is primarily on college recruiting vs. pro. This willl streamline.

Nonsense!
College coaches aren't showing up blind at a field and trying to find a player.

They show up already knowing who they're coming to watch.
If someone previously not on their radar stands out, they simply ask the team for information on the player.

And what a total waste of their time when they track down the brochure, or do a Google search or call the coach and find out said player is wrong recruiting year- You all may not like what’s happening for whatever personal reasons you have but if college coaches weren’t complaining, ECnL would not be doing this- after all that is their value prop/ college recruiting. It’s in their best interest to keep coaches happy and coming back to tournaments.
Smart business move by ECNL to cater to coaches and remove current annoyance.

Is this for girls or boys?
Girls I'll assume since ecnl isn't a recruiting priority for boys.

On the girls side, college coaches don't know who they're scouting before they get to a tournament?

No idea what this means? Plenty of ECNL boys players playing in college…Boys generally don’t get scholarships like girls resulting from Title 9 trade offs but they are absolutely being recruited. Of course Transfer portal and international recruiting firms may ultimately change and cause nobody from US to be able to be recruited from HS in favor of older players but for now plenty of ECNL boys playing collegiately. Collapse of the DA meant that many former boys DA clubs are now ECNL clubs…

Which colleges are recruiting soccer players from HS?

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Anonymous wrote:So you’re a college coach and you attend a showcase. It would be nice to know that all players are going to college in a year rather than have to sit there and scan rosters and birthdates while trying to analyze a game.

As simple as this statement is.....this poster hits it on the head. I won't go too much into my background, but you can read between the lines. For every club, a scout has to watch 2 age groups. The U17s and U19s, a portion of the U17s are too early to recruit and a portion of the U19s have already been recruited. This tells me that ENCL is laser focused on making the college coach's life easier and the results are that he/she can see more recruitable players across more clubs.

How is that easier and a better option for college recruiting than MLS Next tournaments and showcases?

Just because they are the mighty MLS doesn't mean that their U17 players magically all graduate in a single year. they don't. MLS has the exact same issue as ECNL. No doubt they will follow suit now that USYS and ECNL has streamlined and gotten rid of the trapped player mishap. However. MLS is less focussed on college recruiting, more on pro where graduating year doesn't matter. But MLS next...

When did college coaches/recruiters not know the graduation of the players they're interested in?
Are you inventing a non existent problem to fit your narrative?

Look you clearly don't understand the issue which coaches find annoying. When a coach goes to watch a game, the 22 players they are watching on the field are not all eligible for a single recruiting class that coach may be focussed on filling. From a pure logistics perspective, that is just overall a PIA for coaches as it means cross referencing roster or do unnecessary follow up work that wouldn't be necessary if every player on the field was eligible for the same recruiting class. It's been a problem in need of a solution for a while. Unnecessarily complex for leagues like ECNL where the focus is primarily on college recruiting vs. pro. This willl streamline.

Nonsense!
College coaches aren't showing up blind at a field and trying to find a player.

They show up already knowing who they're coming to watch.
If someone previously not on their radar stands out, they simply ask the team for information on the player.

And what a total waste of their time when they track down the brochure, or do a Google search or call the coach and find out said player is wrong recruiting year- You all may not like what’s happening for whatever personal reasons you have but if college coaches weren’t complaining, ECnL would not be doing this- after all that is their value prop/ college recruiting. It’s in their best interest to keep coaches happy and coming back to tournaments.
Smart business move by ECNL to cater to coaches and remove current annoyance.

Is this for girls or boys?
Girls I'll assume since ecnl isn't a recruiting priority for boys.

On the girls side, college coaches don't know who they're scouting before they get to a tournament?

No idea what this means? Plenty of ECNL boys players playing in college…Boys generally don’t get scholarships like girls resulting from Title 9 trade offs but they are absolutely being recruited. Of course Transfer portal and international recruiting firms may ultimately change and cause nobody from US to be able to be recruited from HS in favor of older players but for now plenty of ECNL boys playing collegiately. Collapse of the DA meant that many former boys DA clubs are now ECNL clubs…

I thought DA was replaced by MLS Next?
But I don't know much about the boys side.

Though I keep seeing that International Players, MLS Academies and MLS Next players on the boys side are all ahead of ECNL in college recruiting.

Thats where most of the country's clubs went except for Virginia and NC where one club's director convinced the others to all go ECNL and then got a job with ECNL the next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where is this so called “news”? Sounds like just another unfounded rumor

ECNL was a fantastic league no less than 5 years ago. Now? It’s MLSNext. It has deeper pockets and far superior development.

Time to stick a fork in it.

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Anonymous wrote:So you’re a college coach and you attend a showcase. It would be nice to know that all players are going to college in a year rather than have to sit there and scan rosters and birthdates while trying to analyze a game.

As simple as this statement is.....this poster hits it on the head. I won't go too much into my background, but you can read between the lines. For every club, a scout has to watch 2 age groups. The U17s and U19s, a portion of the U17s are too early to recruit and a portion of the U19s have already been recruited. This tells me that ENCL is laser focused on making the college coach's life easier and the results are that he/she can see more recruitable players across more clubs.

How is that easier and a better option for college recruiting than MLS Next tournaments and showcases?

Just because they are the mighty MLS doesn't mean that their U17 players magically all graduate in a single year. they don't. MLS has the exact same issue as ECNL. No doubt they will follow suit now that USYS and ECNL has streamlined and gotten rid of the trapped player mishap. However. MLS is less focussed on college recruiting, more on pro where graduating year doesn't matter. But MLS next...

When did college coaches/recruiters not know the graduation of the players they're interested in?
Are you inventing a non existent problem to fit your narrative?

Look you clearly don't understand the issue which coaches find annoying. When a coach goes to watch a game, the 22 players they are watching on the field are not all eligible for a single recruiting class that coach may be focussed on filling. From a pure logistics perspective, that is just overall a PIA for coaches as it means cross referencing roster or do unnecessary follow up work that wouldn't be necessary if every player on the field was eligible for the same recruiting class. It's been a problem in need of a solution for a while. Unnecessarily complex for leagues like ECNL where the focus is primarily on college recruiting vs. pro. This willl streamline.

Nonsense!
College coaches aren't showing up blind at a field and trying to find a player.

They show up already knowing who they're coming to watch.
If someone previously not on their radar stands out, they simply ask the team for information on the player.

And what a total waste of their time when they track down the brochure, or do a Google search or call the coach and find out said player is wrong recruiting year- You all may not like what’s happening for whatever personal reasons you have but if college coaches weren’t complaining, ECnL would not be doing this- after all that is their value prop/ college recruiting. It’s in their best interest to keep coaches happy and coming back to tournaments.
Smart business move by ECNL to cater to coaches and remove current annoyance.

Is this for girls or boys?
Girls I'll assume since ecnl isn't a recruiting priority for boys.

On the girls side, college coaches don't know who they're scouting before they get to a tournament?

No idea what this means? Plenty of ECNL boys players playing in college…Boys generally don’t get scholarships like girls resulting from Title 9 trade offs but they are absolutely being recruited. Of course Transfer portal and international recruiting firms may ultimately change and cause nobody from US to be able to be recruited from HS in favor of older players but for now plenty of ECNL boys playing collegiately. Collapse of the DA meant that many former boys DA clubs are now ECNL clubs…

I thought DA was replaced by MLS Next?
But I don't know much about the boys side.

Though I keep seeing that International Players, MLS Academies and MLS Next players on the boys side are all ahead of ECNL in college recruiting.

Thats where most of the country's clubs went except for Virginia and NC where one club's director convinced the others to all go ECNL and then got a job with ECNL the next year.

Sad but funny

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Anonymous wrote:DC United Graduates 2024:

▪️Pendleton - UCLA University

▫️Papez - Princeton University

▪️Zhang - Princeton University

▫️Jones - UVA University

▪️Bisong - UVA University

▫️Ray - The College of Charleston

▪️Snaith - Brown University

▫️Diaz - Longwood University

▪️Aggrey - Canisius University

▫️Melly - Cornell University

▪️Burri - Old Dominion University

Tourettes post? Glad you are a proud parent of a DCU kid, but that has nothing to do with this thread. Congrats to those kids and best of luck.

It was the response to the PP claiming college coaches avoid dmv recruiting

So it seems that makes your toxic post the tourettes post

The 2024 DCU class is the one that took their U16 team to the championship - a really good class overall.

4 of those schools are non-scholarship. (Which calls into question the value of DCU Acadmey for the placement - like Potomac grad Papez)

2 are D1 in name only.

Only Virginia and UCLA are serious soccer schools. Believe it or not, but JMU would be more impressive from a footy perspective that the majority of the schools ok the list.

Kudos though to the kids that are using DCU Academy as an academic vehicle.

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Anonymous wrote:DC United Graduates 2024:

▪️Pendleton - UCLA University

▫️Papez - Princeton University

▪️Zhang - Princeton University

▫️Jones - UVA University

▪️Bisong - UVA University

▫️Ray - The College of Charleston

▪️Snaith - Brown University

▫️Diaz - Longwood University

▪️Aggrey - Canisius University

▫️Melly - Cornell University

▪️Burri - Old Dominion University

Tourettes post? Glad you are a proud parent of a DCU kid, but that has nothing to do with this thread. Congrats to those kids and best of luck.

It was the response to the PP claiming college coaches avoid dmv recruiting

So it seems that makes your toxic post the tourettes post

The 2024 DCU class is the one that took their U16 team to the championship - a really good class overall.

4 of those schools are non-scholarship. (Which calls into question the value of DCU Acadmey for the placement - like Potomac grad Papez)

2 are D1 in name only.

Only Virginia and UCLA are serious soccer schools. Believe it or not, but JMU would be more impressive from a footy perspective that the majority of the schools ok the list.

Kudos though to the kids that are using DCU Academy as an academic vehicle.

Your hate, envy and jealousy is transparent
No matter how you try to spin it

Did you point out how many/percentage are going to Ivy League schools?

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Anonymous wrote:So you’re a college coach and you attend a showcase. It would be nice to know that all players are going to college in a year rather than have to sit there and scan rosters and birthdates while trying to analyze a game.

As simple as this statement is.....this poster hits it on the head. I won't go too much into my background, but you can read between the lines. For every club, a scout has to watch 2 age groups. The U17s and U19s, a portion of the U17s are too early to recruit and a portion of the U19s have already been recruited. This tells me that ENCL is laser focused on making the college coach's life easier and the results are that he/she can see more recruitable players across more clubs.

How is that easier and a better option for college recruiting than MLS Next tournaments and showcases?

Just because they are the mighty MLS doesn't mean that their U17 players magically all graduate in a single year. they don't. MLS has the exact same issue as ECNL. No doubt they will follow suit now that USYS and ECNL has streamlined and gotten rid of the trapped player mishap. However. MLS is less focussed on college recruiting, more on pro where graduating year doesn't matter. But MLS next...

When did college coaches/recruiters not know the graduation of the players they're interested in?
Are you inventing a non existent problem to fit your narrative?

Look you clearly don't understand the issue which coaches find annoying. When a coach goes to watch a game, the 22 players they are watching on the field are not all eligible for a single recruiting class that coach may be focussed on filling. From a pure logistics perspective, that is just overall a PIA for coaches as it means cross referencing roster or do unnecessary follow up work that wouldn't be necessary if every player on the field was eligible for the same recruiting class. It's been a problem in need of a solution for a while. Unnecessarily complex for leagues like ECNL where the focus is primarily on college recruiting vs. pro. This willl streamline.

Nonsense!
College coaches aren't showing up blind at a field and trying to find a player.

They show up already knowing who they're coming to watch.
If someone previously not on their radar stands out, they simply ask the team for information on the player.

And what a total waste of their time when they track down the brochure, or do a Google search or call the coach and find out said player is wrong recruiting year- You all may not like what’s happening for whatever personal reasons you have but if college coaches weren’t complaining, ECnL would not be doing this- after all that is their value prop/ college recruiting. It’s in their best interest to keep coaches happy and coming back to tournaments.
Smart business move by ECNL to cater to coaches and remove current annoyance.

Is this for girls or boys?
Girls I'll assume since ecnl isn't a recruiting priority for boys.

On the girls side, college coaches don't know who they're scouting before they get to a tournament?

No idea what this means? Plenty of ECNL boys players playing in college…Boys generally don’t get scholarships like girls resulting from Title 9 trade offs but they are absolutely being recruited. Of course Transfer portal and international recruiting firms may ultimately change and cause nobody from US to be able to be recruited from HS in favor of older players but for now plenty of ECNL boys playing collegiately. Collapse of the DA meant that many former boys DA clubs are now ECNL clubs…

Which colleges are recruiting soccer players from HS?

Reading comprehension is important. The poster was talking about transfers "college kids" vs incoming freshmen "from high school"

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Anonymous wrote:DC United Graduates 2024:

▪️Pendleton - UCLA University

▫️Papez - Princeton University

▪️Zhang - Princeton University

▫️Jones - UVA University

▪️Bisong - UVA University

▫️Ray - The College of Charleston

▪️Snaith - Brown University

▫️Diaz - Longwood University

▪️Aggrey - Canisius University

▫️Melly - Cornell University

▪️Burri - Old Dominion University

Tourettes post? Glad you are a proud parent of a DCU kid, but that has nothing to do with this thread. Congrats to those kids and best of luck.

It was the response to the PP claiming college coaches avoid dmv recruiting

So it seems that makes your toxic post the tourettes post

The 2024 DCU class is the one that took their U16 team to the championship - a really good class overall.

4 of those schools are non-scholarship. (Which calls into question the value of DCU Acadmey for the placement - like Potomac grad Papez)

2 are D1 in name only.

Only Virginia and UCLA are serious soccer schools. Believe it or not, but JMU would be more impressive from a footy perspective that the majority of the schools ok the list.

Kudos though to the kids that are using DCU Academy as an academic vehicle.

You're criticizing and passing judgment on the colleges the kids and their parents choose?

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Anonymous wrote:DC United Graduates 2024:

▪️Pendleton - UCLA University

▫️Papez - Princeton University

▪️Zhang - Princeton University

▫️Jones - UVA University

▪️Bisong - UVA University

▫️Ray - The College of Charleston

▪️Snaith - Brown University

▫️Diaz - Longwood University

▪️Aggrey - Canisius University

▫️Melly - Cornell University

▪️Burri - Old Dominion University

Tourettes post? Glad you are a proud parent of a DCU kid, but that has nothing to do with this thread. Congrats to those kids and best of luck.

It was the response to the PP claiming college coaches avoid dmv recruiting

So it seems that makes your toxic post the tourettes post

The 2024 DCU class is the one that took their U16 team to the championship - a really good class overall.

4 of those schools are non-scholarship. (Which calls into question the value of DCU Acadmey for the placement - like Potomac grad Papez)

2 are D1 in name only.

Only Virginia and UCLA are serious soccer schools. Believe it or not, but JMU would be more impressive from a footy perspective that the majority of the schools ok the list.

Kudos though to the kids that are using DCU Academy as an academic vehicle.

Your hate, envy and jealousy is transparent
No matter how you try to spin it

Did you point out how many/percentage are going to Ivy League schools?

??? Hate, envy, jealousy? That’s a lot of assumptions for you and me who probably neither have a dog in that hunt.

If you read my post, I did point out how many are going the Ivy…it was the first comment I made, and the last comment I made.

Nothing I said took away from what those young men earned with their commitment and discipline. The thread on this topic was about the DC metro recruiting. And the idea that it is not an athletically competitive as it once was is true. It’s born out in the statistics nationally, and that is even with an increasing number of schools that have gone to D1 (Longwood moved to D1 in the mid 2000s, JMU in 2021/2022, etc.)

The fact there there are more competitive soccer programs than others in collegiate soccer isn’t a debate. Virginia and UCLA are fantastic soccer placements for DCU. Every academy and program has placement lists with a wide variety of ex-placements ranging from D3 to D1 to even professional teams.

Charging my response as (or even reading mine as) filled with jealousy, envy or hate really exposes you insecurities rather than any animosity on my part. I get that. The DMV requires a total commitment to justify its absurdity - regardless of income. It’s a place where even the POTUS can’t achieve his (or her) goals, everyone here falls short. The solace is we tell ourselves it’s all worth it if…and seeing a DCU kid go to Princeton sounds like just the type of achievement we can lock onto to tell ourselves how we’re doing the right thing for our kids, for our families, etc. And if your son or daughter goes to Princeton, maybe it IS all worth it.

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Anonymous wrote:DC United Graduates 2024:

▪️Pendleton - UCLA University

▫️Papez - Princeton University

▪️Zhang - Princeton University

▫️Jones - UVA University

▪️Bisong - UVA University

▫️Ray - The College of Charleston

▪️Snaith - Brown University

▫️Diaz - Longwood University

▪️Aggrey - Canisius University

▫️Melly - Cornell University

▪️Burri - Old Dominion University

Tourettes post? Glad you are a proud parent of a DCU kid, but that has nothing to do with this thread. Congrats to those kids and best of luck.

It was the response to the PP claiming college coaches avoid dmv recruiting

So it seems that makes your toxic post the tourettes post

The 2024 DCU class is the one that took their U16 team to the championship - a really good class overall.

4 of those schools are non-scholarship. (Which calls into question the value of DCU Acadmey for the placement - like Potomac grad Papez)

2 are D1 in name only.

Only Virginia and UCLA are serious soccer schools. Believe it or not, but JMU would be more impressive from a footy perspective that the majority of the schools ok the list.

Kudos though to the kids that are using DCU Academy as an academic vehicle.

Your hate, envy and jealousy is transparent
No matter how you try to spin it

Did you point out how many/percentage are going to Ivy League schools?

??? Hate, envy, jealousy? That’s a lot of assumptions for you and me who probably neither have a dog in that hunt.

If you read my post, I did point out how many are going the Ivy…it was the first comment I made, and the last comment I made.

Nothing I said took away from what those young men earned with their commitment and discipline. The thread on this topic was about the DC metro recruiting. And the idea that it is not an athletically competitive as it once was is true. It’s born out in the statistics nationally, and that is even with an increasing number of schools that have gone to D1 (Longwood moved to D1 in the mid 2000s, JMU in 2021/2022, etc.)

The fact there there are more competitive soccer programs than others in collegiate soccer isn’t a debate. Virginia and UCLA are fantastic soccer placements for DCU. Every academy and program has placement lists with a wide variety of ex-placements ranging from D3 to D1 to even professional teams.

Charging my response as (or even reading mine as) filled with jealousy, envy or hate really exposes you insecurities rather than any animosity on my part. I get that. The DMV requires a total commitment to justify its absurdity - regardless of income. It’s a place where even the POTUS can’t achieve his (or her) goals, everyone here falls short. The solace is we tell ourselves it’s all worth it if…and seeing a DCU kid go to Princeton sounds like just the type of achievement we can lock onto to tell ourselves how we’re doing the right thing for our kids, for our families, etc. And if your son or daughter goes to Princeton, maybe it IS all worth it.

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pseudo sanctimonious joker

Since you know everything the rest of us in the dmv are doing wrong, why don't you tell us which club we should all send our kids and which colleges meet with your approval