High School Soccer is the new teen recreational soccer.

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Anonymous wrote:No one good plays private high school soccer. Except these three current pros.

https://marylandiaa.prestosports.com/Privett_-_Murrell

So McDonogh gave scholorships to a couple of promising MLSN players. They in turn played on the HS soccer team returning the favor.

They're playing at high level soccer because of MLSN not HS soccer.

McDonogh globbed onto some rising star in HS and now is trying to claim they developed them.

Read the whole thing, another was at Calvert hall. Plenty of soccer talent in private schools.

So you're saying that private high schools developed these players to the point where they were able to play professionally?

The answer is no.

They offered free tuition to MLSN players in exchange for playing on the HS soccer team.

But you’ve been arguing for literally days that extremely talented soccer players only play club. Clearly not true.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No one good plays private high school soccer. Except these three current pros.

https://marylandiaa.prestosports.com/Privett_-_Murrell

So McDonogh gave scholorships to a couple of promising MLSN players. They in turn played on the HS soccer team returning the favor.

They're playing at high level soccer because of MLSN not HS soccer.

McDonogh globbed onto some rising star in HS and now is trying to claim they developed them.

Read the whole thing, another was at Calvert hall. Plenty of soccer talent in private schools.

So you're saying that private high schools developed these players to the point where they were able to play professionally?

The answer is no.

They offered free tuition to MLSN players in exchange for playing on the HS soccer team.

But you’ve been arguing for literally days that extremely talented soccer players only play club. Clearly not true.

You've been trying to claim for days that high school soccer is high level.

It's not and it will never be.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No one good plays private high school soccer. Except these three current pros.

https://marylandiaa.prestosports.com/Privett_-_Murrell

So McDonogh gave scholorships to a couple of promising MLSN players. They in turn played on the HS soccer team returning the favor.

They're playing at high level soccer because of MLSN not HS soccer.

McDonogh globbed onto some rising star in HS and now is trying to claim they developed them.

Read the whole thing, another was at Calvert hall. Plenty of soccer talent in private schools.

So you're saying that private high schools developed these players to the point where they were able to play professionally?

The answer is no.

They offered free tuition to MLSN players in exchange for playing on the HS soccer team.

The topic of thread is quality of soccer played in high school. No one except you is talking about who developed players because it is irrelevant. Just admit that there is some high quality soccer being played at some private schools and we can call it a day. Or you can continue to ramble about completely irrelevant things.

There isn't , high school soccer is crap.

You have players playing down for wins against teams with players who's first time touching the ball was last week. Basically rec.

You want people to think you've achieved something. You have not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one good plays private high school soccer. Except these three current pros.

https://marylandiaa.prestosports.com/Privett_-_Murrell

So McDonogh gave scholorships to a couple of promising MLSN players. They in turn played on the HS soccer team returning the favor.

They're playing at high level soccer because of MLSN not HS soccer.

McDonogh globbed onto some rising star in HS and now is trying to claim they developed them.

Read the whole thing, another was at Calvert hall. Plenty of soccer talent in private schools.

So you're saying that private high schools developed these players to the point where they were able to play professionally?

The answer is no.

They offered free tuition to MLSN players in exchange for playing on the HS soccer team.

The topic of thread is quality of soccer played in high school. No one except you is talking about who developed players because it is irrelevant. Just admit that there is some high quality soccer being played at some private schools and we can call it a day. Or you can continue to ramble about completely irrelevant things.

There isn't , high school soccer is crap.

You have players playing down for wins against teams with players who's first time touching the ball was last week. Basically rec.

You want people to think you've achieved something. You have not.

What's difficult about this entire conversation is that I'm argueing about crap soccer with someone that has no idea what crap soccer looks like.

Sigh...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one good plays private high school soccer. Except these three current pros.

https://marylandiaa.prestosports.com/Privett_-_Murrell

So McDonogh gave scholorships to a couple of promising MLSN players. They in turn played on the HS soccer team returning the favor.

They're playing at high level soccer because of MLSN not HS soccer.

McDonogh globbed onto some rising star in HS and now is trying to claim they developed them.

Read the whole thing, another was at Calvert hall. Plenty of soccer talent in private schools.

So you're saying that private high schools developed these players to the point where they were able to play professionally?

The answer is no.

They offered free tuition to MLSN players in exchange for playing on the HS soccer team.

The topic of thread is quality of soccer played in high school. No one except you is talking about who developed players because it is irrelevant. Just admit that there is some high quality soccer being played at some private schools and we can call it a day. Or you can continue to ramble about completely irrelevant things.

There isn't , high school soccer is crap.

You have players playing down for wins against teams with players who's first time touching the ball was last week. Basically rec.

You want people to think you've achieved something. You have not.

What's difficult about this entire conversation is that I'm argueing about crap soccer with someone that has no idea what crap soccer looks like.

Sigh...

What’s difficult is you post and post and make zero sense.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one good plays private high school soccer. Except these three current pros.

https://marylandiaa.prestosports.com/Privett_-_Murrell

So McDonogh gave scholorships to a couple of promising MLSN players. They in turn played on the HS soccer team returning the favor.

They're playing at high level soccer because of MLSN not HS soccer.

McDonogh globbed onto some rising star in HS and now is trying to claim they developed them.

Read the whole thing, another was at Calvert hall. Plenty of soccer talent in private schools.

So you're saying that private high schools developed these players to the point where they were able to play professionally?

The answer is no.

They offered free tuition to MLSN players in exchange for playing on the HS soccer team.

The topic of thread is quality of soccer played in high school. No one except you is talking about who developed players because it is irrelevant. Just admit that there is some high quality soccer being played at some private schools and we can call it a day. Or you can continue to ramble about completely irrelevant things.

There isn't , high school soccer is crap.

You have players playing down for wins against teams with players who's first time touching the ball was last week. Basically rec.

You want people to think you've achieved something. You have not.

What's difficult about this entire conversation is that I'm argueing about crap soccer with someone that has no idea what crap soccer looks like.

Sigh...

What’s difficult is you post and post and make zero sense.

I don't make sense to you because you don't understand what high level elite soccer involves.

This is why you think high school soccer is competitive. This is also why recruiters and club soccer ignores high school soccer..

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Anonymous wrote:Colleges do not care about high school soccer. But again that's not the point of playing soccer for your high school.

They care if they know there are mls next or ecnl players. Having a higschool team ranked nationally also is gonna bring interest.

Gonzaga is number 1 in the area right? For sure D1 scouts are there.

So what you're saying is that recruiters only care about MLSN or ECNL.

You even said it yourself. So stubborn and dumb.

No D1 coach is traveling to watch Gonzaga or any "Number 1" team in the area. As coaches have expressed to me and I'm sure is well known, you can't gauge the level of a player who is playing against other HS team. They need to watch players play against other ECNL or MLS Next level kids. It makes sense! That's why college coaches focus on showcases and BIG tournaments so they can sit and watch top kids play against top kids over and over. Now who knows, there may be a local D1 coach that has something going on nearby and may pop in for a "big HS game", but I bet that is rare! With that said...I love HS soccer and every kid I know loves HS soccer and, for the record, I don't know of one kid that has made a local HS roster or at least has gotten any playing time and plays rec soccer. They are mostly ECNL, ECNL-R, EDP-D1 or D2, and NCSL D1 kids at the very least. You have to be a year round soccer player to make any HS team that I know of.

What about low end D3 schools? I know it’s bottom of the barrel but just asking for a friend.

D3 is the rec soccer of college world. No one cares.

Some of the best Starbucks baristas played D3 college soccer.

Our DC’s coach played D3 and he’s not very good. I’d prefer a high school coach.

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Anonymous wrote:This topic is turning into whether or not D1 college coaches care or not about high school soccer. They care about individuals and if the opportunity presents itself they will scout who they feel is a top player in whatever format is available at their convenience.

Can we mostly agree that it appears the ridiculous rec argument has been soundly disproven due to the fact that a team like Whitman has only top club players participating.

I think people don’t realize what rec level is lol. That’s for a guy named Jimmy who used to play MSI when he was younger and who wants to try out for his local high school team. That’s rec level

You appear to be the only one that doesn't realize what rec level is.

How many people need to tell you that you're wrong before you listen to them?

If you watch a Whitman v Churchill game and think it looks like rec, I'd love to see the rec teams you're talking about!

It doesn't matter what HIgh School you refer to it's all High School soccer and nobody cares. Get it through your thick skull.

You're kid is not special. If they were they'd be playing on a high level club or academy team.

So you’re saying you aren’t familiar with the high schools that are actually good. How many of those top 10 WaPo hs games have you been to, as in one vs the other?

Also, you sound lovely.

You sound like the same private school mom that tried to have the same discussion on TS earlier this week.

It ended the same way as this thread with people telling you that HS doesn't matter.

My soccer playing teen goes to public school.
I don’t know what TS is.
Absolutely no aspirations to play in college.

I don’t understand the vitriol. Is it that if you don’t aspire to play D1 you’re not serious? Does it come from competition between your kid and posters’ kids? I assure you, you’re not competing with mine for college. Maybe on the field you are though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This topic is turning into whether or not D1 college coaches care or not about high school soccer. They care about individuals and if the opportunity presents itself they will scout who they feel is a top player in whatever format is available at their convenience.

Can we mostly agree that it appears the ridiculous rec argument has been soundly disproven due to the fact that a team like Whitman has only top club players participating.

I think people don’t realize what rec level is lol. That’s for a guy named Jimmy who used to play MSI when he was younger and who wants to try out for his local high school team. That’s rec level

You appear to be the only one that doesn't realize what rec level is.

How many people need to tell you that you're wrong before you listen to them?

If you watch a Whitman v Churchill game and think it looks like rec, I'd love to see the rec teams you're talking about!

It doesn't matter what HIgh School you refer to it's all High School soccer and nobody cares. Get it through your thick skull.

Your kid is not special. If they were they'd be playing on a high level club or academy team.

You realize not everyone wants to play in college or travel to PA every weekend. Right? For many, playing good soccer at HS and a 2nd club team is a great quality of life. And it’s possible. Not everywhere, but definitely a real thing. Not everyone is gunning for the athletics scholarship or the “privilege” of compromising their real career launch to spend 40 hours a week playing sportsball in college. Some kids just want to play in hs and play occasionally with other good kids in college while they, you know, focus on college stuff.

And that's fine.

But don't get confused that Club Soccer and High School soccer are very different things.

No one is confused about that but who are the posters who don’t understand that many kids play both. Maybe not at Wheaton or South Lakes or Walls or whatever. But at plenty of schools, they do.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one good plays private high school soccer. Except these three current pros.

https://marylandiaa.prestosports.com/Privett_-_Murrell

So McDonogh gave scholorships to a couple of promising MLSN players. They in turn played on the HS soccer team returning the favor.

They're playing at high level soccer because of MLSN not HS soccer.

McDonogh globbed onto some rising star in HS and now is trying to claim they developed them.

Read the whole thing, another was at Calvert hall. Plenty of soccer talent in private schools.

So you're saying that private high schools developed these players to the point where they were able to play professionally?

The answer is no.

They offered free tuition to MLSN players in exchange for playing on the HS soccer team.

The topic of thread is quality of soccer played in high school. No one except you is talking about who developed players because it is irrelevant. Just admit that there is some high quality soccer being played at some private schools and we can call it a day. Or you can continue to ramble about completely irrelevant things.

There isn't , high school soccer is crap.

You have players playing down for wins against teams with players who's first time touching the ball was last week. Basically rec.

You want people to think you've achieved something. You have not.

You clearly don’t live in the fancier parts of MoCo!

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Anonymous wrote:No one good plays private high school soccer. Except these three current pros.

https://marylandiaa.prestosports.com/Privett_-_Murrell

Thank you

End of discussion

If people still argue they are simply trolls

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one good plays private high school soccer. Except these three current pros.

https://marylandiaa.prestosports.com/Privett_-_Murrell

So McDonogh gave scholorships to a couple of promising MLSN players. They in turn played on the HS soccer team returning the favor.

They're playing at high level soccer because of MLSN not HS soccer.

McDonogh globbed onto some rising star in HS and now is trying to claim they developed them.

Read the whole thing, another was at Calvert hall. Plenty of soccer talent in private schools.

So you're saying that private high schools developed these players to the point where they were able to play professionally?

The answer is no.

They offered free tuition to MLSN players in exchange for playing on the HS soccer team.

But you’ve been arguing for literally days that extremely talented soccer players only play club. Clearly not true.

You've been trying to claim for days that high school soccer is high level.

It's not and it will never be.

Go watch a game a game featuring the top high school programs in the area so you can stop using Flint Hill high school soccer as your example of why high school soccer sucks

[Anonymous]

Tyler Adams played one year in high school - 8th grade on varsity. Then off to Red Bull academy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Colleges do not care about high school soccer. But again that's not the point of playing soccer for your high school.

They care if they know there are mls next or ecnl players. Having a higschool team ranked nationally also is gonna bring interest.

Gonzaga is number 1 in the area right? For sure D1 scouts are there.

So what you're saying is that recruiters only care about MLSN or ECNL.

You even said it yourself. So stubborn and dumb.

No D1 coach is traveling to watch Gonzaga or any "Number 1" team in the area. As coaches have expressed to me and I'm sure is well known, you can't gauge the level of a player who is playing against other HS team. They need to watch players play against other ECNL or MLS Next level kids. It makes sense! That's why college coaches focus on showcases and BIG tournaments so they can sit and watch top kids play against top kids over and over. Now who knows, there may be a local D1 coach that has something going on nearby and may pop in for a "big HS game", but I bet that is rare! With that said...I love HS soccer and every kid I know loves HS soccer and, for the record, I don't know of one kid that has made a local HS roster or at least has gotten any playing time and plays rec soccer. They are mostly ECNL, ECNL-R, EDP-D1 or D2, and NCSL D1 kids at the very least. You have to be a year round soccer player to make any HS team that I know of.

What about low end D3 schools? I know it’s bottom of the barrel but just asking for a friend.

D3 is the rec soccer of college world. No one cares.

Some of the best Starbucks baristas played D3 college soccer.

I would agree with you if you had said D1. UAA and NESCAC kids are in med and law school.

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Anonymous wrote:Colleges do not care about high school soccer. But again that's not the point of playing soccer for your high school.

They care if they know there are mls next or ecnl players. Having a higschool team ranked nationally also is gonna bring interest.

Gonzaga is number 1 in the area right? For sure D1 scouts are there.

So what you're saying is that recruiters only care about MLSN or ECNL.

You even said it yourself. So stubborn and dumb.

D1 cares about MLS N and ECNL club players and they will go to ATTEND a high school game featuring those players and watch them.

Ha! FFS no they won’t. They don’t even want game take from non-Mlsnext/Ecnl level games. They can’t judge a kid playing sh@t competition. They do not come to those games. Lmaof