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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids play soccer, but pp what you described is not limited to baseball.

Soccer is not known for being a big HS sport.  If you are on a DA team you aren't even allowed to play HS soccer.  BUT--everything you wrote mirrors what happens in travel soccer.  Parents and kids chasing a dream. A dream sold to them by people that only care about youth sports as a business.

My sibling and I played D1 soccer. He was recruited by just about every school in the Nation (top 10 prospect).  This was back in the day the college coaches came to our house.  He did play professional soccer--in the US.  He's the first one to tell me all of this is a complete waste of time for my kids.

It has gotten so much worse since we were kids.  Youth sports has become a lucrative and legitimate business.  Watch some of the Real Sports HBO documentaries on it.  It's sickening. What parents and kids give up for something that is never going to materialize.

And, soccer in the US isn't even a lucrative sport.  The scholarships are next to nothing with the exception of the top 10 players in the Country. Often they are to crappy schools the kid would have been better off just going on academics and be a walk-on soccer player or play University Club soccer.

I see friends that have kids in soccer that don't know what a pipe dream it is for their son to get a full-ride.  They listen to their coaches and continue to fly up and down the East Coast for games and empty their pockets.  The kids and family are giving up so much every single weekend.  The kid becomes burned out before he even gets to college.

I agree what SJC did was sickening.  It is a story playing out all around the US.  SPORTS NEED TO BE GIVEN BACK TO THE KIDS.  They are no longer teaching value and fun in sports---all the reason anyone should play sports in the first place.[/quote]

If you are playing HS soccer (boys), you are not playing in USSF Development Academy, where almost all US D1 recruiting takes place.  A lot of D1 soccer recruiting also takes place in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.   So a HS player has very, very limited opportunity for any kind of D1 athletic scholarship, and the few I know of that did were in HS/Club by choice and could have been in DA.  Also, DA will make some exceptions for scholarship players to play in  HS.

What is realistic for a HS + Club player is D3, but those scholarships are tied to either academic achievement or financial need, or both.  A strong club player who is URM and has solid academics can expect a very nice merit/financial package from a private D3 school.

[b]Of course, no coach will ever tell you this.[/b]

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Thank you.  You explained it much better than I did.[/quote]

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