28 Rosters Spots/28 Scholarships for NCAA Women's Soccer

[Anonymous]

How will ECNL respond? They need to shrink - cut teams and make it even more competitive, because the college opportunities won’t be there. But they won’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How will ECNL respond? They need to shrink - cut teams and make it even more competitive, because the college opportunities won’t be there. But they won’t.

Nope. Because it’s all about money. Ask for transparency. How many D1 commits from Club? How many players start at RL and move up? How many players from RL commit to play in college?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How will ECNL respond? They need to shrink - cut teams and make it even more competitive, because the college opportunities won’t be there. But they won’t.

Nope. Because it’s all about money. Ask for transparency. How many D1 commits from Club? How many players start at RL and move up? How many players from RL commit to play in college?

Tons, my kids being one of them.

This isn't an ECNL/GA/MLSnext or bust situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How will ECNL respond? They need to shrink - cut teams and make it even more competitive, because the college opportunities won’t be there. But they won’t.

Nope. Because it’s all about money. Ask for transparency. How many D1 commits from Club? How many players start at RL and move up? How many players from RL commit to play in college?

Tons, my kids being one of them.

This isn't an ECNL/GA/MLSnext or bust situation.

"Tons" might be a bit of an overstatement.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Seven per year plus or minus one is solid frankly. Dumb teams like UNC take tons of girls knowing full well they won't play and they can leave in the portal. Girls are too blind to realize this and think playing for a tier 1 school is better... then they get their first life lesson that it's defiantly not

NCAA is considering giving all D1 athletes 5 years of eligibility.

Just saw that.

Even more bad news for high school players.

My kid's college team currently has 5 5 years and 6 Seniors. They only took 2 Freshmen (who ride the bench).

The men's players are getting older and older and more and more are using the transfer portal for new players--not rising Freshmen.

This just will make it even tougher for recruitment. STUDY HARD FELLAS. Soccer isn't your ticket.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seven per year plus or minus one is solid frankly. Dumb teams like UNC take tons of girls knowing full well they won't play and they can leave in the portal. Girls are too blind to realize this and think playing for a tier 1 school is better... then they get their first life lesson that it's defiantly not

NCAA is considering giving all D1 athletes 5 years of eligibility.

Just saw that.

Even more bad news for high school players.

My kid's college team currently has 5 5 years and 6 Seniors. They only took 2 Freshmen (who ride the bench).

The men's players are getting older and older and more and more are using the transfer portal for new players--not rising Freshmen.

This just will make it even tougher for recruitment. STUDY HARD FELLAS. Soccer isn't your ticket.

I will never understand the motivation of students constantly using the transfer portal for sports with next to no NIL, limited scholarships, and no real chance of going pro. What is the point in attending 4 colleges over 6 years and hoping that credits transfer in a way to enable you to graduate? The portal makes sense for football and mens BB where players are offered hundreds of thousands and millions in a couple of cases to transfer, but what is the point in soccer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How will ECNL respond? They need to shrink - cut teams and make it even more competitive, because the college opportunities won’t be there. But they won’t.

Nope. Because it’s all about money. Ask for transparency. How many D1 commits from Club? How many players start at RL and move up? How many players from RL commit to play in college?

Tons, my kids being one of them.

This isn't an ECNL/GA/MLSnext or bust situation.

Will colleges, with fewer spots, continue to recruit from clubs that aren’t ECNL/GA/MLSnext and let’s not forget players from overseas. Like the English national team players who played at UNC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seven per year plus or minus one is solid frankly. Dumb teams like UNC take tons of girls knowing full well they won't play and they can leave in the portal. Girls are too blind to realize this and think playing for a tier 1 school is better... then they get their first life lesson that it's defiantly not

NCAA is considering giving all D1 athletes 5 years of eligibility.

Just saw that.

Even more bad news for high school players.

My kid's college team currently has 5 5 years and 6 Seniors. They only took 2 Freshmen (who ride the bench).

The men's players are getting older and older and more and more are using the transfer portal for new players--not rising Freshmen.

This just will make it even tougher for recruitment. STUDY HARD FELLAS. Soccer isn't your ticket.

I will never understand the motivation of students constantly using the transfer portal for sports with next to no NIL, limited scholarships, and no real chance of going pro. What is the point in attending 4 colleges over 6 years and hoping that credits transfer in a way to enable you to graduate? The portal makes sense for football and mens BB where players are offered hundreds of thousands and millions in a couple of cases to transfer, but what is the point in soccer?

Happens with baseball too. It’s kind of sad but also really hard for those kids to let go of the dream. It is nice when they can get a masters degree out of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seven per year plus or minus one is solid frankly. Dumb teams like UNC take tons of girls knowing full well they won't play and they can leave in the portal. Girls are too blind to realize this and think playing for a tier 1 school is better... then they get their first life lesson that it's defiantly not

NCAA is considering giving all D1 athletes 5 years of eligibility.

Just saw that.

Even more bad news for high school players.

My kid's college team currently has 5 5 years and 6 Seniors. They only took 2 Freshmen (who ride the bench).

The men's players are getting older and older and more and more are using the transfer portal for new players--not rising Freshmen.

This just will make it even tougher for recruitment. STUDY HARD FELLAS. Soccer isn't your ticket.

I will never understand the motivation of students constantly using the transfer portal for sports with next to no NIL, limited scholarships, and no real chance of going pro. What is the point in attending 4 colleges over 6 years and hoping that credits transfer in a way to enable you to graduate? The portal makes sense for football and mens BB where players are offered hundreds of thousands and millions in a couple of cases to transfer, but what is the point in soccer?

Yep. My son is very high academic. We told him we aren't letting him chase soccer. He is playing semi-pro as a Freshmen and plans to go to graduate school. If he gets on the team later on--he can extend his eligibility. But, we aren't going to attend a T10, T15 school focused on transferring just to play soccer elsewhere. Going to experience everything school has to offer and get involved. Not to mention, kids get injured. Sometimes team chemistry or coaching is not a fit, etc. Go for the education and let other things fall where they may.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There should be caps. Imagine going to a school and not playing. Stupid. 22 rostered is more than enough.

Lots of players in every college sport will never play. Football carries 85 (some teams have even more players not officially on the team)- lots will never see the field

Yes college takes way too many players. It waters down the sport. Maybe 1% of NCAA players will make a professional team and stay in the roster for over 2 years. College soccer takes 90% of the girl ECNL.

90% of girl ECNL play in college? Source?

[Anonymous]

Bethesda lists out where all the boys (MLSNext)and girls (ECNL) are committed each year. That’s good transparency.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seven per year plus or minus one is solid frankly. Dumb teams like UNC take tons of girls knowing full well they won't play and they can leave in the portal. Girls are too blind to realize this and think playing for a tier 1 school is better... then they get their first life lesson that it's defiantly not

NCAA is considering giving all D1 athletes 5 years of eligibility.

Just saw that.

Even more bad news for high school players.

My kid's college team currently has 5 5 years and 6 Seniors. They only took 2 Freshmen (who ride the bench).

The men's players are getting older and older and more and more are using the transfer portal for new players--not rising Freshmen.

This just will make it even tougher for recruitment. STUDY HARD FELLAS. Soccer isn't your ticket.

I will never understand the motivation of students constantly using the transfer portal for sports with next to no NIL, limited scholarships, and no real chance of going pro. What is the point in attending 4 colleges over 6 years and hoping that credits transfer in a way to enable you to graduate? The portal makes sense for football and mens BB where players are offered hundreds of thousands and millions in a couple of cases to transfer, but what is the point in soccer?

Yep. My son is very high academic. We told him we aren't letting him chase soccer. He is playing semi-pro as a Freshmen and plans to go to graduate school. If he gets on the team later on--he can extend his eligibility. But, we aren't going to attend a T10, T15 school focused on transferring just to play soccer elsewhere. Going to experience everything school has to offer and get involved. Not to mention, kids get injured. Sometimes team chemistry or coaching is not a fit, etc. Go for the education and let other things fall where they may.

This is actually a great idea. Most male Freshmen we know don't see a minute of game time...and they miss so much school at these D1 universities. If a kid can stay at top level and keep playing games--they benefit from joining older.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bethesda lists out where all the boys (MLSNext)and girls (ECNL) are committed each year. That’s good transparency.

Bethesda does NOT list the team. So I have no idea if any ECNL-RL or other girls committed to a school. It’s only ECNL from what I have seen. Correct me if I’m wrong!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bethesda lists out where all the boys (MLSNext)and girls (ECNL) are committed each year. That’s good transparency.

Bethesda does NOT list the team. So I have no idea if any ECNL-RL or other girls committed to a school. It’s only ECNL from what I have seen. Correct me if I’m wrong!

Interesting. The girls on that list from our HS and rival High schools are ECNL. Not sure about all the girls though. Some may be from RL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bethesda lists out where all the boys (MLSNext)and girls (ECNL) are committed each year. That’s good transparency.

Bethesda does NOT list the team. So I have no idea if any ECNL-RL or other girls committed to a school. It’s only ECNL from what I have seen. Correct me if I’m wrong!

The one boy from our HS was MLS Next and most certainly did not play on the HS team. Very nice university i might add!!!

Interesting. The girls on that list from our HS and rival High schools are ECNL. Not sure about all the girls though. Some may be from RL.