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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=RantingSoccerDad][quote=Anonymous]RSD, I think you make a lot of good points, especially the one about how coaches may perceive you dropping back as a lack of seriousness on the athlete's part.

I also kind of wonder if there isn't a bit of truth to that. Some players do take the "I have arrived approach" and get a little lazy their senior year.

Also, in terms of sending to the pros, I have heard that the top D1 programs are very sensitive to that and to what their athletes do beyond college. Some colleges are even talking about coming up with full year programming and reducing the train to game ratio. [/quote]

That's an interesting question. The "I have arrived" approach has been an issue at several levels. MLS clubs got sick of dealing with kids who had been through the U17 residency in Bradenton and thought they were God's gift to a soccer field.

College soccer has always had *some* sort of full-year programming -- the spring games are just scrimmages that aren't taken too seriously. But the experiment last spring with no re-entry and so forth could very well be the start of some serious reform.

(As for the rest of this thread -- yeesh, folks. Calm down. Get some perspective. Go for a walk. Meditate. Get therapy. Anything to keep you from firing away at other people anonymously. It's like 4chan without the user names.)[/quote]

It’s funny you say that about the long lost residency.  I see parents and kids act like that just because of NTC attendance, as if their kid is practically national team.  But something in the American soccer system seems to lend itself to a lot of players and parents over-estimating where they are really at, both in the scheme of even the US itself and also where they are compared to world wide talent.

I do tend to think some needed reform is coming to college soccer.  The existence of pro teams probably has college coaches asking themselves better questions about their own programs.  This may seem less obvious but I also wonder if the loss of relevancy of high school soccer has colleges - some at least - wondering if that could spread upward to them.[/quote]

College coaches of schools with good men's soccer programs are already well aware that some of their top recruits may never make it to campus.  UCLA often loses a majority of its recruiting class, and Maryland, Indiana, Duke, UNC, and lots of other schools lose kids too.  Bigsoccer has a threads on college recruiting classes, and they are always speculating, then tracking, which kids will end up skipping college.  This has nothing to do with the relevancy of HS soccer, though.  Top prospects are recruited from DA or good club programs, and an ever-increasing number of them take the gamble on going pro whether it's overseas, via homegrown deals with MLS teams, or USL.

Many of the best college coaches advocate for NCAA rule changes that will permit a 10-month season in large part for this reason.  They want their kids to have the sort of training and competition structure that will permit them to go pro after their years of college play are done.  This is much more of an issue on the men's side given the paucity of decent pro options for women.[/quote]

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