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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do you care?

Not that you have really seen these signings and you went well out of your way to find schools as obscure as you could but the very notion of crapping in any kids choice of school is simply petty and vile.

Worry about your own kid and let other people live in peace without your judgement. [/quote]

I didn’t bring it up. Someone else brought up and linked to this “commitment list,” which includes some of those specific schools, implying it was a big deal. The fact is these recruiting services make a ton of money off well-meaning parents and the fallacy that there is all this athletic scholarship money out there.

I worked in college athletics for 20 years. I have seen ill-informed parents every year but it has gotten worse.

I am not critical or judgmental of any student’s school choice. I am critical of the perception that these schools are handing out all these big scholarship awards for soccer or tennis or whatever, when that just isn’t true in almost every case.

To be honest, I also wonder why schools don’t have signing ceremonies for the kids who get big academic scholarships. [/quote]

You changed the context to your following statement:

[quote]I think a lot of parents equate 'commitment' with 'full scholarship'.... How much scholarship money do you think a kid is getting to go to Upper Iowa? Or Cal State-San Marcos? Or Monmouth? I bet the cost of one year on their club team &gt; whatever soccer-related aid they are getting. (Need-based, work-study aid, etc. is different).

I am not discounting the value of playing sports, learning time management, being athletic and healthy, making friends. But the fact is there is way, way more money out there for academics than for sports, and when [b]I see &quot;signing ceremonies&quot; for a kid who is &quot;committed&quot; to Upper Iowa or Southeastern Oklahoma or Goucher it cracks me up.[/b] [/quote]

You cherry picked obscure colleges from a large list of commitments overall. The point the PP was making was in regards to making a case about soccer hotbeads and getting a feel for the level of colleges kids from NoVA are committing to in general.

https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/search/?query=&divisionId=&genderId=m&graduationYear=2019&positionId=0&playerRating=&stateId=All&pageNo=0&area=commitments

[quote]This database is by no means complete as there are tons of kids who don't bother to report their commitments, and most of those who do are playing D1, [b]but you can still get a sense of the DMV slice of the entire pie.[/b] Of the 893 2019 boys who will play in college, 46 are from MD and 40 are from VA. Together, they make up close to 10% of the national number. [/quote]

You decided to strip the post of its context entirely just so you could crap on kids. [/quote]

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