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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We were looking at the roster of a top college men's soccer team during a game that was recently on TV. A lot of the players, maybe even most, had played in the USL for a couple of years prior to joining the college team. I don't think redshirting is going to make much of a difference if the key to getting recruited is playing in a pro league first.[/quote]

That's what my kid did.[/quote]

+1 mine was accepted to the college, played USL and then joined the Varsity team a year later.  He was lucky there were a lot of UPSL and a USL team in the area so he could keep playing at a high level.

They miss to many kids the way recruiting process works.  And a lot of the junior year HS commits (which are getting more rare anyhow) turn out not to perform by the time they arrive at college 2 years later.  A lot happens in that time.

But, the pps are correct the male college soccer rosters are getting older and older.[/quote]

I think it will start decreasing in the next 4~5 years, the main challenge is the extra year of COVID eligibility paired with an extra year of redshirt eligibility - so that's why students are staying in college for 5~6 years right now .  You see it in other NCAA sports, so it's not just unique to soccer - heck there's a 26 y/o TE from Miami that's been enrolled in college for 8 years[/quote]

I believe with redshirt you are still allowed 4 years of play within 5 years of starting college. So there will still be 5th years and many stay while going the extra year in the many 5-year master programs colleges offer. [/quote]

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