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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I'm the poster who posted the commitment list, but not the PP you are responding to here. If you actually read the post, you'd see my purpose was not to say the commitment list was a "big deal," but to support my point that the NCAA stats, because they are national averages, do not give parents a true picture of the odds that a HS player in MD or VA can play in college.  [b]I doubt there are more than a handful of parents who actually believe their kid is getting a full ride to college based in soccer[/b], but the NCAA document is helpful in that regard since it includes a column for average scholarship awarded.

I certainly agree with the other PP that you are cherry picking the schools to make your point. [/quote]

NP. I have been an athletic trainer at some of these showcase tournaments and I can tell you without question that statement is not true. Maybe not with your club, but I hear it All.The.Time. soccer, baseball, lax.

And PP is right that these recruiting services in general are making money hand over fist on a premise that is shaky at best. They can be very misleading. 
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