The best 2022 player i know has not committed anywhere

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A similar argument can be made for the talent found in our top colleges and universities. There is a concentration of talent....not all...but a significant concentration. I mean suit yourselves, but I want the open heart surgery from the surgeon that trained at Harvard or the like if I can get it.

This is simply not how you go from promising to academically elite at undergrad or post-grad levels. Most people who are elite academically have 3-5 close friends of comparable talent, and you can find that group in small public schools in the heartland and absolutely any top 400 university of in the country. So I am going to continue assuming that your misguided judgments about academic elites are not based on personal experience.

You really see this in grad schools, when the middle of the class cannon fodder from Ivies shakes their heads in disbelief while they are lapped from kids from schools of which they never heard. You also see this on top study abroad programs. It would be eye opening for anybody who simply picks their surgeon based on what they see on a wall, which is itself preposterously stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A similar argument can be made for the talent found in our top colleges and universities. There is a concentration of talent....not all...but a significant concentration. I mean suit yourselves, but I want the open heart surgery from the surgeon that trained at Harvard or the like if I can get it.

This is simply not how you go from promising to academically elite at undergrad or post-grad levels. Most people who are elite academically have 3-5 close friends of comparable talent, and you can find that group in small public schools in the heartland and absolutely any top 400 university of in the country. So I am going to continue assuming that your misguided judgments about academic elites are not based on personal experience.

You really see this in grad schools, when the middle of the class cannon fodder from Ivies shakes their heads in disbelief while they are lapped from kids from schools of which they never heard. You also see this on top study abroad programs. It would be eye opening for anybody who simply picks their surgeon based on what they see on a wall, which is itself preposterously stupid.

And I am not saying these 3-5 people make one smart - only that anybody on campus beyond that is totally irrelevant to most people focused on intellectual pursuits at a high level.

[Anonymous]

Again, this is about kids who want to play elite soccer while pursuing elite academics. Stanford, Harvard, Princeton and Brown (Lesser Ivy) offers both. FSU offer just the soccer piece. Carnegie Mellon offers just academics. Univ of Delaware offers neither.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Again, this is about kids who want to play elite soccer while pursuing elite academics. Stanford, Harvard, Princeton and Brown (Lesser Ivy) offers both. FSU offer just the soccer piece. Carnegie Mellon offers just academics. Univ of Delaware offers neither.

Where is your kid being recruited?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Again, this is about kids who want to play elite soccer while pursuing elite academics. Stanford, Harvard, Princeton and Brown (Lesser Ivy) offers both. FSU offer just the soccer piece. Carnegie Mellon offers just academics. Univ of Delaware offers neither.

What are you yammerering about. Elite academics for mine. Figure out what academics will get you where you want to go. If you can find a soccer fit and get recruited...great...if not....play club soccer is college or hit the gym to stay in shape. If you really believe that every college and every soccer club and every this or that are the same than suit yourself but that is just not reality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Again, this is about kids who want to play elite soccer while pursuing elite academics. Stanford, Harvard, Princeton and Brown (Lesser Ivy) offers both. FSU offer just the soccer piece. Carnegie Mellon offers just academics. Univ of Delaware offers neither.

Where is your kid being recruited?

+1. Plus, that PP batted .500 on subject-verb agreement, yet feels qualified to run down the academics of FSU and Delaware and, to a ‘lesser’ extent, Brown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A similar argument can be made for the talent found in our top colleges and universities. There is a concentration of talent....not all...but a significant concentration. I mean suit yourselves, but I want the open heart surgery from the surgeon that trained at Harvard or the like if I can get it.

This is simply not how you go from promising to academically elite at undergrad or post-grad levels. Most people who are elite academically have 3-5 close friends of comparable talent, and you can find that group in small public schools in the heartland and absolutely any top 400 university of in the country. So I am going to continue assuming that your misguided judgments about academic elites are not based on personal experience.

You really see this in grad schools, when the middle of the class cannon fodder from Ivies shakes their heads in disbelief while they are lapped from kids from schools of which they never heard. You also see this on top study abroad programs. It would be eye opening for anybody who simply picks their surgeon based on what they see on a wall, which is itself preposterously stupid.

You can't say that the instruction and facilities and peer group and league strength matter to learn how to play soccer and but that non of that matters to learn calculus or economics or how to program a computer or how to excel in written communication and so on and so on.

I mean you can say that but it makes no sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A similar argument can be made for the talent found in our top colleges and universities. There is a concentration of talent....not all...but a significant concentration. I mean suit yourselves, but I want the open heart surgery from the surgeon that trained at Harvard or the like if I can get it.

This is simply not how you go from promising to academically elite at undergrad or post-grad levels. Most people who are elite academically have 3-5 close friends of comparable talent, and you can find that group in small public schools in the heartland and absolutely any top 400 university of in the country. So I am going to continue assuming that your misguided judgments about academic elites are not based on personal experience.

You really see this in grad schools, when the middle of the class cannon fodder from Ivies shakes their heads in disbelief while they are lapped from kids from schools of which they never heard. You also see this on top study abroad programs. It would be eye opening for anybody who simply picks their surgeon based on what they see on a wall, which is itself preposterously stupid.

You can't say that the instruction and facilities and peer group and league strength matter to learn how to play soccer and but that non of that matters to learn calculus or economics or how to program a computer or how to excel in written communication and so on and so on.

I mean you can say that but it makes no sense.

Soccer is real life application. Education is lectures.

Kind of like watching film but never playing. Waste

[Anonymous]

This is really just none of our business.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A similar argument can be made for the talent found in our top colleges and universities. There is a concentration of talent....not all...but a significant concentration. I mean suit yourselves, but I want the open heart surgery from the surgeon that trained at Harvard or the like if I can get it.

This is simply not how you go from promising to academically elite at undergrad or post-grad levels. Most people who are elite academically have 3-5 close friends of comparable talent, and you can find that group in small public schools in the heartland and absolutely any top 400 university of in the country. So I am going to continue assuming that your misguided judgments about academic elites are not based on personal experience.

You really see this in grad schools, when the middle of the class cannon fodder from Ivies shakes their heads in disbelief while they are lapped from kids from schools of which they never heard. You also see this on top study abroad programs. It would be eye opening for anybody who simply picks their surgeon based on what they see on a wall, which is itself preposterously stupid.

You can't say that the instruction and facilities and peer group and league strength matter to learn how to play soccer and but that non of that matters to learn calculus or economics or how to program a computer or how to excel in written communication and so on and so on.

I mean you can say that but it makes no sense.

Soccer is real life application. Education is lectures.

Kind of like watching film but never playing. Waste

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A similar argument can be made for the talent found in our top colleges and universities. There is a concentration of talent....not all...but a significant concentration. I mean suit yourselves, but I want the open heart surgery from the surgeon that trained at Harvard or the like if I can get it.

This is simply not how you go from promising to academically elite at undergrad or post-grad levels. Most people who are elite academically have 3-5 close friends of comparable talent, and you can find that group in small public schools in the heartland and absolutely any top 400 university of in the country. So I am going to continue assuming that your misguided judgments about academic elites are not based on personal experience.

You really see this in grad schools, when the middle of the class cannon fodder from Ivies shakes their heads in disbelief while they are lapped from kids from schools of which they never heard. You also see this on top study abroad programs. It would be eye opening for anybody who simply picks their surgeon based on what they see on a wall, which is itself preposterously stupid.

You can't say that the instruction and facilities and peer group and league strength matter to learn how to play soccer and but that non of that matters to learn calculus or economics or how to program a computer or how to excel in written communication and so on and so on.

I mean you can say that but it makes no sense.

Soccer is real life application. Education is lectures.

Kind of like watching film but never playing. Waste

Lol. When you find yourself more concerned with the quality of your kid's youth soccer club than quality of their university it college , I would suggest a reexamination of priorities but you do you.

[Anonymous]

Going in debit to drive a Ferrari doesn’t make you a race car driver.

[Anonymous]

Seriously mind your own business

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Going in debit to drive a Ferrari doesn’t make you a race car driver.

People make choices for economic reasons all the time. That is fine. I know lots of players that prioritized getting money to help with tuition.

I am talking about the players that are choosing the soccer program level over the academic level...not because of the money. And again....that is their choice to make.

My point was only that if you as a parent believe that the academic offerings are paramount and should be driving your player's college decisions....just be aware of the alternate culture out there. I was caught by surprise by it and had to really push back to give what I believe to be valuable guidance to my player.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seriously mind your own business

If you don't want to read about anyone's business, what are you doing on an anonymous soccer forum? The only point of a forum is to discuss different issues in this business. If that is not of interest to you, make better choices of what to do with your time.