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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Girls. The U14 ECNL is a Champions league. At this age it doesn’t matter. Just trying to out a snapshot up there to see how our sister clubs do. [/quote]

Yes, all girls. All of the nut job parents only have girls apparently. [/quote]

I've wondered about this.  I think it's because everything is inherently more competitive and a longshot for boys.  Parents of boys tend to be very humbled by the time their boys are HS age.

They start out thinking they have a little superstar and the younger ages get a lot of trash talk on this board, but 99% of those little stars don't pan out.   Once you leave the mini-boy bubble and see the larger landscape across the US (California teams just crush us in general), they tend to let go.  College scholarships worth any decent $ are also fairly non-existent for boys given the big sports they are competing with $ for (football, basketball,).

So-- the parents of girls see this as a ticket and for many a college scholarship is very real.  For any given boy, not so much.[/quote]

Right, and I think most understand that as good as your boy might be, it's just not measuring up to the environment that exists in Europe and South America...And, as for the US college/pro options for boys, the little scholarship $ that there is on the boys side is often times getting doled out to international players.  So unless your son is a Top 5 player in their age group in the DCU Academy, the long term prospects are very minimal. [/quote]

Boys' chances of playing in college and getting decent scholarship money is not so bleak as all that.  There are more players going pro each year at levels ranging from the Bundesliga to USL. This frees up more room for the next tier of DA players (or the top ones who are too risk averse to skip college completely) to get good spots at the schools of their choice.  There are around 200 men's D1 programs, and most offer the full 9.9 equivalent scholarship amounts, and not all coaches recruit from overseas.  I know a lot of DA starters who ended up on 50%-75% scholarships, and others who went Ivy League either because of the prestige or extremely generous financial aid. And playing DA for boys is significantly less expensive than DA or ECNL for girls.

At a minimum, virtually all boys in DA get a huge admissions boost during the college application process; as anyone who follows the College or Private School threads on DCUM can attest, parents around here are absolutely obsessed with college admissions. Given all this, I'm mystified as to why there seem to be so many more crazed girl parents than boy parents on this forum. [/quote]

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