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[quote=Anonymous]My God, it's still amazes me how you can spend so much time hanging out on soccer boards and still not have a clue about high-level youth soccer.

In very few regions of the country is HS soccer in any comparable to high-level youth soccer (and to be clear, the VYS and FPYC soccer you seem to spend so much time watching is not high level).  It's the not same level of players as they is a much bigger range from top to bottom, and even from 1st to 5th best.  It's not the same in the level of coaching because there's little time to teach and generally HS draws  less-experienced coaches.  And the risk of injury is much higher as low-level players tend to be more physical and less in control, and; you play a lot more - 2 to 3 games a week, with practices on all the other weekdays.  But hey, you think those risks are outweighed because hearing a crowd cheer will better prepare them for the college experience.

So given the lack of any real soccer benefit, the typical college coach is being imminently reasonable in discouraging their commits from playing HS ball.

Now if you're in one of those few regions where HS is comparable, there's an argument for leaving the club to play HS for one year, but then it's more likely that the college coach would not object in that situation.

And again, like the prior poster asked, can you support your statement that "Plenty of kids committed to top 10 D1 college soccer programs quit DA to play HS their senior year"  Please feel free to define Top 10 however you want.   Or is this one more of your gross exaggerations because you heard about that one kid doing it (in this case, Lucas Mendes)[/quote]

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