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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is in no way what OP is talking about, but[b] I do know or know of soccer players who had Ivy offers but opted for programs with a strong history of sending players to the pros[/b], like Maryland, Wake, UVA, Akron, etc.  Sometimes the decision is guided by athletic money as well. They sometimes “quit” or leave early to go pro. The same obviously happens in other sports with pro potential. [/quote]

I'm now deeply skeptical of this claim because I have seen three supposedly "verbal offered" Ivy League kids in 9th and 10th grade... but then they ended up at tailgate states. Doesn't make any logical sense, especially since the kids are all from elite k-12 private netorks. I think the parents and kid boast about "Ivy League offers" that aren't actually genuine offers.[/quote]

Ok, but you are talking about kids you happen to know from your kid’s school and extrapolating from that, right?  Are any of them starters on Maryland, Wake Forest, or other great soccer schools? Were any of them DA stars or star players for a soccer powerhouse private (in our area this typically means Baltimore). Any of them have youth national team call ups?  In the DC area and other areas where soccer is huge, like the NY/NJ metro areas and Southern California, there are going to be a fair number of boys who are deciding whether to roll the dice on a pro career after HS, vs. picking the best soccer school vs. picking an Ivy or similar top academic school that will almost certainly mean the end of a kid’s pro dreams. These are the type of kids I’m talking about in the post above. [/quote]

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