Juggling a league and HS sports is not easy, especially if you're also focusing on academic achievement. Something has gotta give. |
Oh, another thread crying about SYC. Cool. |
Oh, another user paying homage to Ted Lasso. Cool. |
Yes because usernames matter on this important anonymous public forum lol. |
What’s the deal with high school play? Are kids doing this and MLSNext? |
m Kids lie about this in private HS. They aren’t giving scholarships out for soccer. And most of the kid playing are not getting financial aid with the $ to pay for the private school and elite pay-to-play. |
Unless you play basketball or football you ain’t getting a scholarship at our HS. If you want to call financial aid a scholarship - possibly. But I know fairly wealthy kids doing this at some around the DMV. |
Yes. It's not everyone but every year we know of a few kids who do this in public. |
It's not unfair to anyone except the MLSNext league - the party with whom the player made the agreement not to play HS soccer. The MLS Next league is free to take the matter up with the kid if they wish. Or overlook it, if they wish. Anyone else sticking their nose in is just trying to exclude a presumably better kid from competition with their own kid to give themselves an advantage. Such busybodies are also willing to hurt the HS team's chances of success to benefit their own kid too. That's the individual with the truly messed up value system if you ask me. FWIW my own son played MLS Next and did not play HS soccer, although he would have liked to. |
Yeah, sure. Lol |
They are hurting their MLS team when they make high school their priority for a season. And then when they get injured for overuse.
I think adults that teach kids to lie and schools that are part of the cover up aren’t teaching values. Plenty of HONEST kids that want to play HS chose to forgo MLSNext for ECNL. So it’s really not fair for other kids to be cheating. It comes down to a person’s character. |
Where do you draw the line when you actively choose to break a league’s rules? Are you willing to lie about a player’s age? To do a roster switch undercover at a showcase/tournament? When you gave the attitude that rules don’t apply to you because you are so special, they only apply for everyone else, you have poor character. |
This. |
Not sure why you’re mocking this poster. Nothing they’ve written is inaccurate, though I think both the families who ignore the MLSNext rules to play HS soccer and the families who make a fuss about it have skewed value systems. I bet almost all the honest kids who follow the MLSNext league rules are a bit sad they won’t have the chance to play for their HS teams. I do think the no-HS rule is a good one for serious players. It leads to better individual development, higher quality team training and competition environment, and helps them avoid injury. And the fact that it allows kids at the bottom of the HS rosters to make the team is a nice side-benefit—the more people playing the better. |
Is the MLS Next training schedule substantially more rigorous than the ECNL training schedule for high school boys, such that it would justify the rule against MLS Next players playing HS soccer? |