Reducing the academic load to play elite soccer.

[Anonymous]

Top one percent is not good enough. No one wants to pay good money to watch a one in one hundred player.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top one percent is not good enough. No one wants to pay good money to watch a one in one hundred player.

99.999% of soccer players don't care about professional soccer careers. Most of them just want to use that skill to leverage to get into a good college and a good job after graduation. Where I work, they give out internships to D1/D2/D3 athletes over non-athletes. These internship positions pay $35/hr. The head of HR played soccer at Clemson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Try again,


Boys:

1 in 5,355 high school players will be drafted to the MLS

1 in 447 college players will be drafted in the MLS

Girls:

1 in 10,316 high school players will be drafted to the NWSL

1 in 986 college players will be drafted in the NWSL


If you focus on school instead of soccer, you would be able to calculate those odds as being significantly lower than 1 in 100.

What do those stats have to do with anything? There are no high school players in the DA, and a significant majority of MLS players never went to college. It would be very interesting to know what percentage of US kids DA kids go on to various levels of a pro career from HS (the total number of pros is increasing steeply each of the last few years). It would also be interesting to have stats on the post-college career prospects for DA players who go to college. It seems that the DA is it’s own kind of network given how kids get to know each other by playing the same teams in league play and meeting new kids at the showcases.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top one percent is not good enough. No one wants to pay good money to watch a one in one hundred player.

99.999% of soccer players don't care about professional soccer careers. Most of them just want to use that skill to leverage to get into a good college and a good job after graduation. Where I work, they give out internships to D1/D2/D3 athletes over non-athletes. These internship positions pay $35/hr. The head of HR played soccer at Clemson.

Where I work no one cares if you played soccer. Produce results or the money will go to the other guy who does produce results. Soccer is not going to help you much. But different strokes for different folks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top one percent is not good enough. No one wants to pay good money to watch a one in one hundred player.

99.999% of soccer players don't care about professional soccer careers. Most of them just want to use that skill to leverage to get into a good college and a good job after graduation. Where I work, they give out internships to D1/D2/D3 athletes over non-athletes. These internship positions pay $35/hr. The head of HR played soccer at Clemson.

Where I work no one cares if you played soccer. Produce results or the money will go to the other guy who does produce results. Soccer is not going to help you much. But different strokes for different folks.

Did those AP classes make a difference where you work?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top one percent is not good enough. No one wants to pay good money to watch a one in one hundred player.

99.999% of soccer players don't care about professional soccer careers. Most of them just want to use that skill to leverage to get into a good college and a good job after graduation. Where I work, they give out internships to D1/D2/D3 athletes over non-athletes. These internship positions pay $35/hr. The head of HR played soccer at Clemson.

Where I work no one cares if you played soccer. Produce results or the money will go to the other guy who does produce results. Soccer is not going to help you much. But different strokes for different folks.

Did those AP classes make a difference where you work?

If you dont know what you are doing, the money will go to someone who does so you tell me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top one percent is not good enough. No one wants to pay good money to watch a one in one hundred player.

99.999% of soccer players don't care about professional soccer careers. Most of them just want to use that skill to leverage to get into a good college and a good job after graduation. Where I work, they give out internships to D1/D2/D3 athletes over non-athletes. These internship positions pay $35/hr. The head of HR played soccer at Clemson.

Where I work no one cares if you played soccer. Produce results or the money will go to the other guy who does produce results. Soccer is not going to help you much. But different strokes for different folks.

Did those AP classes make a difference where you work?

If you dont know what you are doing, the money will go to someone who does so you tell me.

And AP classes have a direct correlation?

[Anonymous]

Indirect correlation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Indirect correlation.

So a large amount of AP classes has a small affect on professional outcome.

Is the correlation of AP classes for college graduates significantly higher than college graduates without AP classes?

[Anonymous]

This a dumb discussion. Pursue and gain knowledge and experience that are of value and you can be paid for what you have mastered. If you want to go with the surgeon that skipped the AP or the IB or the Honors or whatever was the toughest class available, go for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This a dumb discussion. Pursue and gain knowledge and experience that are of value and you can be paid for what you have mastered. If you want to go with the surgeon that skipped the AP or the IB or the Honors or whatever was the toughest class available, go for it.

I will go with the surgeon that performed best professionally and best in Medical School. I've yet to see a doctors office lined with AP class certificates or high school transcripts to demonstrate what an accomplished Surgeon they are.

The world is far more what have you done for me lately and any college student can excel in their chosen field regardless of High School achievement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This a dumb discussion. Pursue and gain knowledge and experience that are of value and you can be paid for what you have mastered. If you want to go with the surgeon that skipped the AP or the IB or the Honors or whatever was the toughest class available, go for it.

Perhaps a level of Biology or Chem that was at a pace that allowed a student to grasp the material better and served as encouragement to pursue the subject matter later also matters? Learning is not a zero sum game and it also lacks a linear timeline. If a AP class that was more discouraging because of the volume and pace of the material drove kids away from the subject matter then what was accomplished? Learning should not be about attrition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This a dumb discussion. Pursue and gain knowledge and experience that are of value and you can be paid for what you have mastered. If you want to go with the surgeon that skipped the AP or the IB or the Honors or whatever was the toughest class available, go for it.

Perhaps a level of Biology or Chem that was at a pace that allowed a student to grasp the material better and served as encouragement to pursue the subject matter later also matters? Learning is not a zero sum game and it also lacks a linear timeline. If a AP class that was more discouraging because of the volume and pace of the material drove kids away from the subject matter then what was accomplished? Learning should not be about attrition.

We agree about that. There are different levels of academics and soccer as well to accommodate students of different abilities. Look - you know your kid better then some fool on a chat forum. Pay attention and help them make good decisions. The right decisions for one will not be the right decisions for others.