National Letter of Intent Day

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't assume all of the girls commitments come with athletic scholarships. D1 girls only have 14 scholarships available per team (an that is if fully funded, less if not). Getting an offer on a D1 team is still a big deal and an accomplishment to be congratulated for sure but many/most of these commitments are either with no athletic money or only a small percentage (still nice to get some)! On the boys side they only have 9.9 scholarships per team (again, less if not fully funded). On the boys side (and similarly on the girls side) much of the money goes to foreign players or super elite players and the rest get very small amounts or nothing. I know of multiple ECNL stars that went to schools like VCU, W&M, etc. (not even the top tier college programs) and received no athletic money as it all went to their foreign recruits and super elite players (national level talent). Just input, not trying to take away the great accomplishment of landing a spot on a D1 team - again that is still a big deal and should be congratulated.

I know kids that agreed to go to school with inferior academics just because the school is in a D1 conference. And not even for much money. Makes no sense to me but they seem happy so whatever.

Inferior academics? Bahaaaaaaaaaa. Your understanding of college is off base.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not with any of these top clubs but based on what I’ve seen on social media, FCV placed girls in more top tier schools. They get a lot hate but they definitely are doing something right regardless of what league they play in.

One person's "top tier" is another's "no thank you".

Just me happy got any kid that is satisfied with her choice and excited for the next chapter. Good luck to them all.

One kid walks on at VT and pays 100,000 for their education
Another kid gets full ride to VCU

During the press release, you are more impressed with the Power 5 VT commitment.

Not me

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not with any of these top clubs but based on what I’ve seen on social media, FCV placed girls in more top tier schools. They get a lot hate but they definitely are doing something right regardless of what league they play in.

One person's "top tier" is another's "no thank you".

Just me happy got any kid that is satisfied with her choice and excited for the next chapter. Good luck to them all.

One kid walks on at VT and pays 100,000 for their education
Another kid gets full ride to VCU

During the press release, you are more impressed with the Power 5 VT commitment.

Not me

Academically, VT>>VCU. It boils down to if parents have money or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not with any of these top clubs but based on what I’ve seen on social media, FCV placed girls in more top tier schools. They get a lot hate but they definitely are doing something right regardless of what league they play in.

One person's "top tier" is another's "no thank you".

Just me happy got any kid that is satisfied with her choice and excited for the next chapter. Good luck to them all.

One kid walks on at VT and pays 100,000 for their education
Another kid gets full ride to VCU

During the press release, you are more impressed with the Power 5 VT commitment.

Not me

Academically, VT>>VCU. It boils down to if parents have money or not.

Generally VT > VCU but it does depend on the major. However, if you factor in costs (if given a scholarship to VCU) VCU starts to look better. Clearly if your kid wants an engineering, architecture, computer/data science, or animal science degree then VT is the way to go. Urban studies, broadcast journalism, liberal arts, etc then VCU.

[Anonymous]

Someone asked for Loudoun’s. Here the public website.

https://www.loudounsoccer.com/Default.aspx?tabid=2666305

[Anonymous]

Someone asked for McLean/Union’s. Here’s the site but listings for class of ‘22 not published yet. Note: 21 girls from class of ‘21

https://mcleansoccer.org/college-commitments/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Take note parents of boys. See how many girl commits come in vs boy. It's a completely different ballgame.

Why is this?

There are 208 Men’s Division I soccer programs, versus 342 women’s. For the power 5 conferences, there are 29 schools that play Division I Men’s soccer, versus 64 women’s. That should make it clear as to which is actually the greater achievement, without even factoring in the significantly higher number of intl men’s players in Division I vs women’s.

Yes. And don’t ignore football and basketball. That’s where the $ goes for boys.

It's basically a numbers game. There are a lot more spots for women than men.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not with any of these top clubs but based on what I’ve seen on social media, FCV placed girls in more top tier schools. They get a lot hate but they definitely are doing something right regardless of what league they play in.

FCV has several players committed to Virginia Tech.

[Anonymous]

Someone asked about Arlington. Their site apparently doesn’t post the girls that signed to play college (but does show the boys) and still shows that Arlington plays in the GA. Clearly Arlington is more focused on the males, at least the web site admin is. It always amazes me that a consumer-focused business lets its website be so poor. Once a month take 30 minutes to review the content and update the outdated crap. Sheesh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's the list for VA Revolution:

Ha! Great post😂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Take note parents of boys. See how many girl commits come in vs boy. It's a completely different ballgame.

Why is this?

There are 208 Men’s Division I soccer programs, versus 342 women’s. For the power 5 conferences, there are 29 schools that play Division I Men’s soccer, versus 64 women’s. That should make it clear as to which is actually the greater achievement, without even factoring in the significantly higher number of intl men’s players in Division I vs women’s.

Yes. And don’t ignore football and basketball. That’s where the $ goes for boys.

It's basically a numbers game. There are a lot more spots for women than men.

Not just spots, $$$ too

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Remember signing a letter of intent is not a scholarship. Its simply saying you are intending to play there. No mention of athletic scholarship unless announced at the same time.

This is incorrect. You do not sign a letter of intent unless you are receiving an athletic scholarship. It is a legally binding contract providing that the athlete is committing to play their sport at the college for at least one year in return for an athletic scholarship. It is true that the scholarship agreement documents are separate, and those are what show the scholarship amount. You can commit to a school without receiving money, and some kids D1 or D2 committed kids who are receiving no scholarships, as well as some D3 athletes, participate in commitment ceremonies made to look like the real D1 National letter of intent signing ceremony.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't assume all of the girls commitments come with athletic scholarships. D1 girls only have 14 scholarships available per team (an that is if fully funded, less if not). Getting an offer on a D1 team is still a big deal and an accomplishment to be congratulated for sure but many/most of these commitments are either with no athletic money or only a small percentage (still nice to get some)! On the boys side they only have 9.9 scholarships per team (again, less if not fully funded). On the boys side (and similarly on the girls side) much of the money goes to foreign players or super elite players and the rest get very small amounts or nothing. I know of multiple ECNL stars that went to schools like VCU, W&M, etc. (not even the top tier college programs) and received no athletic money as it all went to their foreign recruits and super elite players (national level talent). Just input, not trying to take away the great accomplishment of landing a spot on a D1 team - again that is still a big deal and should be congratulated.

I know kids that agreed to go to school with inferior academics just because the school is in a D1 conference. And not even for much money. Makes no sense to me but they seem happy so whatever.

Inferior academics? Bahaaaaaaaaaa. Your understanding of college is off base.

I appreciate that you don't think there is any advantage to one college over another academically. You are the one that is not appreciating the students with a different point of view.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Take note parents of boys. See how many girl commits come in vs boy. It's a completely different ballgame.

Why is this?

There are 208 Men’s Division I soccer programs, versus 342 women’s. For the power 5 conferences, there are 29 schools that play Division I Men’s soccer, versus 64 women’s. That should make it clear as to which is actually the greater achievement, without even factoring in the significantly higher number of intl men’s players in Division I vs women’s.

Yes. And don’t ignore football and basketball. That’s where the $ goes for boys.

It's basically a numbers game. There are a lot more spots for women than men.

Not just spots, $$$ too

Well to be more accurate, title ix requirements mean that there are essentially equivalent opportunities for male and female athletes when averaged across all sports. Men's scholarship opportunities are more widely distributed because of football primarily, resulting in fewer soccer scholarships.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone asked about Arlington. Their site apparently doesn’t post the girls that signed to play college (but does show the boys) and still shows that Arlington plays in the GA. Clearly Arlington is more focused on the males, at least the web site admin is. It always amazes me that a consumer-focused business lets its website be so poor. Once a month take 30 minutes to review the content and update the outdated crap. Sheesh.

NP here. If anyone does know about Arlington I would love to know. A neighbor's daughter plays for them, she's so good, and I know they were hoping she would sign with a school, but I am too chicken to ask in case it didn't work out. If it did work out I would love to send them flowers and maybe some school swag. She's such a good kid.