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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know it’s not a popular opinion, but college coaches want to see the players at the younger grade levels challenged at the higher age groups so playing U16 as a junior is not a sign of confidence.
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It has nothing to do with popular opinion.  It is nonsense.
Players normally play in their age group as determined by their age on January 1.  Sure, there are clubs that have a u16 player "play up" on u19 occasionally or regularly, but it isn't because of recruiting opportunities.

For high level D1, the "looks" are happening sophomore year and earlier when the players are u16, and committing sometime in the summer, early fall as they are rising juniors. That is for fewer than 150 players across all D1 programs as of the end of the fall high school season (again as juniors).  All the other D1 commitments happen after that.  A typical class has around 350 commits from US high schools (the rest are from overseas).  Junior year, half of the class is u16 in the fall, and they are all (usually) u19 in the winter and beyond.

A D1 program in the ACC or B1G is done recruiting juniors by the time September, October rolls around. (and the vast majority of those players are already on the junior national teams or have been seen at NEXUS championships, etc. - they aren't normally being "found" at a tournament when they are already juniors). Most of the Ivys are done too. There are a handful of more academic programs (Patriot, select A10 schools) that take a bit longer since they often want at least 1st semester junior grades or test scores.

How many parents of players who are high level D1 prospects are reading this thread? I’m guessing not many.  I know we parents think our DDs are the best, but realistically most of them probably will play D3 sometimes at a good academic school and that is the goal. Some players just want to play in college and will play lower D3 just to keep playing. Obviously those are good options for the majority of players around here.

Following MAX IG, and a lot of the strong academic D1 schools have not posted many commits yet.  Why is that?
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