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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's the likelihood of playing D1 soccer if you do not participate on ECNL or MLS Next team?[/quote]

For boys? It’s slim to none if you are playing ECNL, MLS Next (non MLS academy) or elsewhere. Some MLS Next Academy players will, but realize that with intl players and the loosened transfer rules, there is extremely low demand for unproven (at the college level) 18 year olds. [/quote]

That is wrong. The majority of players on my son's ECNL team who wanted to play D1 in college got spots on D1 teams. Same for friends whose kids play MLS Next.[/quote]

Everyone keeps claiming this, but show me a list of 2024s that are committed to D1 schools. Based on what has been posted by the clubs in the DMV and other sites, I see:

VDA - 1 Ivy, 1 East Tenn
Arlington - 1 Ivy, 1 Binghamton
BRAVE, NVA, Union - No D1

Alexandria - 1 Ivy, 1 ODU
SYC - 1 AU, 1 BC
Bethesda - 3 Ivy, 1 Mich, 1 UNCW

That’s 4 ECNL players from 5 clubs, and 13 total across 8 MLS Next clubs. Only 2 are “High D1” in a soccer sense (Mich, BC). Half are Ivy - which is great for those kids that can pull that off - but most kids don’t have the academic profile to go to an Ivy League school.

If there is better info out there, please post it…but it seems like, even from a year or two ago, the numbers are dwindling.
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Seems many folks are trying to desperately outrun the reality of the avalanche by clinging to a comfortable narrative. [/quote]

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