Girls' Academy has also been approved to become a U.S. Soccer member!

[Anonymous]

Are you starting to understand why scholarships and college soccer are a shell game?

You only hear about the full ride for 4 years players. However there's an entire spectrum of different scholarship level players.

There's even scholarship players that end up in student loan debt even after playing for 4 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Soccer doesn't generate revenue for colleges. Football and basketball do, and it's not like that for every college. Some make way more than others. If/when the NIL/NCAA lawsuits get settled, sports in college will change. Title IX won't be the saving grace either.

Not really. NCAA will simply institute a salary cap of sorts which is essentially what the agreed upon number of scholarships per sport amounts to currently.

Salary caps are illegal restrains of trade. For it to be legal either congress has to pass a law granting them anti-trust exemption (good luck getting congress to pass anything) or it has to be negotiated as part of a CBA (again, good luck unionizing when it's illegal for state employees in several large states to be unionized). Scholarship limits are on the long lists of NCAA practices that will be challenged. Currently, the ivy league prohibition on athletic scholarships is the subject of a lawsuit. If that goes in favor of the plaintiffs, expect scholarship caps in general to be the next suit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you starting to understand why scholarships and college soccer are a shell game?

You only hear about the full ride for 4 years players. However there's an entire spectrum of different scholarship level players.

There's even scholarship players that end up in student loan debt even after playing for 4 years.

The ideal college athlete is on financial aid so that the team doesn't have to use a scholarship on them. That's the real shell game.

[Anonymous]

My DD is going to a power 5 school. Her scholarship is 50% year 1 & year 2, 100% year 3 and year 4.

This seems like a good way to keep your player from using the transfer portal, and opening up money for other players her freshman and sophomore year. As a parent, I am fine with this type of scholarship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD is going to a power 5 school. Her scholarship is 50% year 1 & year 2, 100% year 3 and year 4.

This seems like a good way to keep your player from using the transfer portal, and opening up money for other players her freshman and sophomore year. As a parent, I am fine with this type of scholarship.

If she outperforms as a freshman, she can ask for 100% or enter the portal to find it elsewhere. If she underperforms, she's never seeing the 100% as a junior or senior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD is going to a power 5 school. Her scholarship is 50% year 1 & year 2, 100% year 3 and year 4.

This seems like a good way to keep your player from using the transfer portal, and opening up money for other players her freshman and sophomore year. As a parent, I am fine with this type of scholarship.

If she outperforms as a freshman, she can ask for 100% or enter the portal to find it elsewhere. If she underperforms, she's never seeing the 100% as a junior or senior.

What if she outperforms all the freshman then asks for 100% and the coach says no? Also just to be retaliatory the coach benches her for asking for 100%?

This is how it's more likely to play out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD is going to a power 5 school. Her scholarship is 50% year 1 & year 2, 100% year 3 and year 4.

This seems like a good way to keep your player from using the transfer portal, and opening up money for other players her freshman and sophomore year. As a parent, I am fine with this type of scholarship.

If she outperforms as a freshman, she can ask for 100% or enter the portal to find it elsewhere. If she underperforms, she's never seeing the 100% as a junior or senior.

What if she outperforms all the freshman then asks for 100% and the coach says no? Also just to be retaliatory the coach benches her for asking for 100%?

This is how it's more likely to play out.

And also the coach is shopping on the transfer portal for top junior and senior players willing to accept 25% scholarships.

How's that 100% scholarship for jr/sr year looking now?

What happens if your coach gets canned and the new coach chooses to not honor what the previous coach agreed to?

Starting to see why college soccer is a scam yet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Soccer doesn't generate revenue for colleges. Football and basketball do, and it's not like that for every college. Some make way more than others. If/when the NIL/NCAA lawsuits get settled, sports in college will change. Title IX won't be the saving grace either.

Not really. NCAA will simply institute a salary cap of sorts which is essentially what the agreed upon number of scholarships per sport amounts to currently.

Salary caps are illegal restrains of trade. For it to be legal either congress has to pass a law granting them anti-trust exemption (good luck getting congress to pass anything) or it has to be negotiated as part of a CBA (again, good luck unionizing when it's illegal for state employees in several large states to be unionized). Scholarship limits are on the long lists of NCAA practices that will be challenged. Currently, the ivy league prohibition on athletic scholarships is the subject of a lawsuit. If that goes in favor of the plaintiffs, expect scholarship caps in general to be the next suit.

Keep it up and if we’re lucky all college sports will die. Who needs them?

And then perhaps we can finally kill off HS sports and club sports too. They are a waste of HS budgets and time.

The only reason kids should even consider playing sports is for the pursuit of professionalism. In order to accomplish that all of the professional leagues should provide academies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD is going to a power 5 school. Her scholarship is 50% year 1 & year 2, 100% year 3 and year 4.

This seems like a good way to keep your player from using the transfer portal, and opening up money for other players her freshman and sophomore year. As a parent, I am fine with this type of scholarship.

If she outperforms as a freshman, she can ask for 100% or enter the portal to find it elsewhere. If she underperforms, she's never seeing the 100% as a junior or senior.

What if she outperforms all the freshman then asks for 100% and the coach says no? Also just to be retaliatory the coach benches her for asking for 100%?

This is how it's more likely to play out.

And also the coach is shopping on the transfer portal for top junior and senior players willing to accept 25% scholarships.

How's that 100% scholarship for jr/sr year looking now?

What happens if your coach gets canned and the new coach chooses to not honor what the previous coach agreed to?

Starting to see why college soccer is a scam yet?

I feel sorry for you. Did you have a bad college soccer experience or were you not a good enough player and now you’re bitter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD is going to a power 5 school. Her scholarship is 50% year 1 & year 2, 100% year 3 and year 4.

This seems like a good way to keep your player from using the transfer portal, and opening up money for other players her freshman and sophomore year. As a parent, I am fine with this type of scholarship.

If she outperforms as a freshman, she can ask for 100% or enter the portal to find it elsewhere. If she underperforms, she's never seeing the 100% as a junior or senior.

What if she outperforms all the freshman then asks for 100% and the coach says no? Also just to be retaliatory the coach benches her for asking for 100%?

This is how it's more likely to play out.

And also the coach is shopping on the transfer portal for top junior and senior players willing to accept 25% scholarships.

How's that 100% scholarship for jr/sr year looking now?

What happens if your coach gets canned and the new coach chooses to not honor what the previous coach agreed to?

Starting to see why college soccer is a scam yet?

I feel sorry for you. Did you have a bad college soccer experience or were you not a good enough player and now you’re bitter?

This moron thinks academies are some kind of inclusive utopia where only dreams are realized.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD is going to a power 5 school. Her scholarship is 50% year 1 & year 2, 100% year 3 and year 4.

This seems like a good way to keep your player from using the transfer portal, and opening up money for other players her freshman and sophomore year. As a parent, I am fine with this type of scholarship.

If she outperforms as a freshman, she can ask for 100% or enter the portal to find it elsewhere. If she underperforms, she's never seeing the 100% as a junior or senior.

What if she outperforms all the freshman then asks for 100% and the coach says no? Also just to be retaliatory the coach benches her for asking for 100%?

This is how it's more likely to play out.

And also the coach is shopping on the transfer portal for top junior and senior players willing to accept 25% scholarships.

How's that 100% scholarship for jr/sr year looking now?

What happens if your coach gets canned and the new coach chooses to not honor what the previous coach agreed to?

Starting to see why college soccer is a scam yet?

Exactly, in a professional academy system players are only treated with dignity and respect. Coaches never get fired, players are only developed, never cut on a whim. Academies are the ultimate teaching model and is not at all cut throat. Any kid would be stupid to give up a quality secondary education in order to attend online homeschool classes so that they can indulge their dreams in a professional academy system because things never end poorly there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD is going to a power 5 school. Her scholarship is 50% year 1 & year 2, 100% year 3 and year 4.

This seems like a good way to keep your player from using the transfer portal, and opening up money for other players her freshman and sophomore year. As a parent, I am fine with this type of scholarship.

If she outperforms as a freshman, she can ask for 100% or enter the portal to find it elsewhere. If she underperforms, she's never seeing the 100% as a junior or senior.

What if she outperforms all the freshman then asks for 100% and the coach says no? Also just to be retaliatory the coach benches her for asking for 100%?

This is how it's more likely to play out.

And also the coach is shopping on the transfer portal for top junior and senior players willing to accept 25% scholarships.

How's that 100% scholarship for jr/sr year looking now?

What happens if your coach gets canned and the new coach chooses to not honor what the previous coach agreed to?

Starting to see why college soccer is a scam yet?

Exactly, in a professional academy system players are only treated with dignity and respect. Coaches never get fired, players are only developed, never cut on a whim. Academies are the ultimate teaching model and is not at all cut throat. Any kid would be stupid to give up a quality secondary education in order to attend online homeschool classes so that they can indulge their dreams in a professional academy system because things never end poorly there.

Academies are the perfect system! College sports is for chumps! College is a scam!

[Anonymous]

Acadamies at least are honest about the end goal. If you're good enough you play professionally and if you're not you don't. Traditionally while you're learning how to play Acadeny soccer is free.

College sports could be good but colleges are greedy. If every player received a guaranteed 4 year scholarship then it would completely make sense. If colleges paid players an actual hourly wage it would also make sense. The problem with college sports is often the value of being a student athlete isn't there. Also because the player college relationship is 99% in favor of the college coaches have too much power and it leads to abuse of players. (Coach's dropping players if the find something better, coach's sexually abusing players by dangling their scholarship, and these are just a couple off the top of my head)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD is going to a power 5 school. Her scholarship is 50% year 1 & year 2, 100% year 3 and year 4.

This seems like a good way to keep your player from using the transfer portal, and opening up money for other players her freshman and sophomore year. As a parent, I am fine with this type of scholarship.

If she outperforms as a freshman, she can ask for 100% or enter the portal to find it elsewhere. If she underperforms, she's never seeing the 100% as a junior or senior.

What if she outperforms all the freshman then asks for 100% and the coach says no? Also just to be retaliatory the coach benches her for asking for 100%?

This is how it's more likely to play out.

Scholarships at P5 schools are guaranteed. That guarantee is limited to the amount paid the prior year, so the 100% could easily become 50%. Players do not enter the portal seeking 100% unless they know (i.e. they've been recruited) that the offer will be there. Soccer isn't football where entering the portal to squeeze out more NIL money in exchange for staying is common.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Acadamies at least are honest about the end goal. If you're good enough you play professionally and if you're not you don't. Traditionally while you're learning how to play Acadeny soccer is free.

College sports could be good but colleges are greedy. If every player received a guaranteed 4 year scholarship then it would completely make sense. If colleges paid players an actual hourly wage it would also make sense. The problem with college sports is often the value of being a student athlete isn't there. Also because the player college relationship is 99% in favor of the college coaches have too much power and it leads to abuse of players. (Coach's dropping players if the find something better, coach's sexually abusing players by dangling their scholarship, and these are just a couple off the top of my head)

This is exactly why the Dartmouth basketball players voted to Unionize. They enjoy playing basketball in college but they feel taken advantage of. It they're allowed to unionize colleges and coaches won't be able to treat players like free labor.