MLS next ruining high school soccer

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Reading this makes me feel depressed for my son. Here you all are talking about how many MLS next players are on the high school teams, and how that is still somehow low level soccer. Meanwhile, my son would love to make the high school team, but probably won’t make MLS next or ECNL which means forget about making the high school team. I hope your kids realize how many others wish they could be in that spot. Wish we had known all this before my kid fell in love with soccer.

dont you worry folks will report them. My mid chose to play HS so he dropped to a AD team. He already told his coach he will ID any HG kids playing.

The origin story for a male "Karen" boss.

[Anonymous]

VHSL says high school student athletes must prioritize their high school sport.

How can they possibly let one coach change the schedule for the entire district for the purpose of making sure his MLS players can go to their private club practice? That's insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:VHSL says high school student athletes must prioritize their high school sport.

How can they possibly let one coach change the schedule for the entire district for the purpose of making sure his MLS players can go to their private club practice? That's insane.

riverside about to be on the local news and not exactly for their sportsmanship. How embarrassing for that dude who calls himself a “coach”. Wasn’t he also glazing himself on a podcast last year when he gloated about his squad yet he couldn’t reach far in the post-season? LULZ

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reading this makes me feel depressed for my son. Here you all are talking about how many MLS next players are on the high school teams, and how that is still somehow low level soccer. Meanwhile, my son would love to make the high school team, but probably won’t make MLS next or ECNL which means forget about making the high school team. I hope your kids realize how many others wish they could be in that spot. Wish we had known all this before my kid fell in love with soccer.

dont you worry folks will report them. My mid chose to play HS so he dropped to a AD team. He already told his coach he will ID any HG kids playing.

how will he know if the player has a waiver or not?

[Anonymous]

Because there aren't waivers for public schools, nitwit. The only waivers are for private schools (and their season was the fall)>

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:VHSL says high school student athletes must prioritize their high school sport.

How can they possibly let one coach change the schedule for the entire district for the purpose of making sure his MLS players can go to their private club practice? That's insane.

riverside about to be on the local news and not exactly for their sportsmanship. How embarrassing for that dude who calls himself a “coach”. Wasn’t he also glazing himself on a podcast last year when he gloated about his squad yet he couldn’t reach far in the post-season? LULZ

what happened?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:VHSL says high school student athletes must prioritize their high school sport.

How can they possibly let one coach change the schedule for the entire district for the purpose of making sure his MLS players can go to their private club practice? That's insane.

He obviously cares about his players

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because there aren't waivers for public schools, nitwit. The only waivers are for private schools (and their season was the fall)>

Where does it say private schools on the waiver?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because there aren't waivers for public schools, nitwit. The only waivers are for private schools (and their season was the fall)>

Where does it say private schools on the waiver?

here's the link to the waiver to help answer: https://images.mlssoccer.com/image/upload/v1754861191/assets/mls-next-resources/MLS_NEXT_HD_High_School_Waiver_2025-2026_final_v2_jejqwg.pdf

[Anonymous]

Moron. The waiver is for kids who supposedly got scholarships to private school to play soccer (everyone lies). Since there are no scholarships to public school, the waiver cannot be used for public school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:VHSL says high school student athletes must prioritize their high school sport.

How can they possibly let one coach change the schedule for the entire district for the purpose of making sure his MLS players can go to their private club practice? That's insane.

He obviously cares about his players

Only the handful on MLS Next teams.
What about the kids who were cut from the team so MLS next kids would have spots? They would be happy to be playing at any time of night.

[Anonymous]

He obviously cares about his players

Not really since doing two-a-days vs older kids would likely result in injury and overuse.

[Anonymous]

The restrictions will start to backfire on clubs. Players will drop out to play HS and appreciate the social and memories that come with HS sports. Players are or will realize the sacrifices and at time the abuse from coach and club is not worth it anymore. Players will switch to ECNL to play HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:VHSL says high school student athletes must prioritize their high school sport.

How can they possibly let one coach change the schedule for the entire district for the purpose of making sure his MLS players can go to their private club practice? That's insane.

He obviously cares about his players

Only the handful on MLS Next teams.
What about the kids who were cut from the team so MLS next kids would have spots? They would be happy to be playing at any time of night.

The coach is making sure the kids who are serious players with real chances to play in college or possibly go pro or semi don't lose out
That's what it sounds like to me

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Moron. The waiver is for kids who supposedly got scholarships to private school to play soccer (everyone lies). Since there are no scholarships to public school, the waiver cannot be used for public school.

Actually you are the moron. All public school districts allow students to transfer between schools within the district and they have specific enrollment rules allowing them to do so. For example, if a student transfers from one school to another, they are usually ineligible for a period of time before they are allowed to play in VHSL. So if a freshman transfers from school A to school B only soccer they get the waiver signed so they can play junior year.