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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Alexandria [/quote]

Really? I don't know much about the other clubs, but[b] I don't often see updates about Alexandria kids playing in college. [/b]If they do its to some really small school that I've never heard of. [/quote]

Same as SYC, you hear very little of kids playing in college. Honestly, many don't make the grades or have the money for College.

For College path, I would suggest ECNL many of those kids do make it in College. Both girls and boys. [/quote]

Really? SYC’s mlsnext Instagram is filled with college commits and kids playing on National teams w/ dual citizenship.

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Look at the volume of kids and quality of schools they are committing to vs. that of Bethesda, which is sending dozens of kids to the ACC and Ivy League. No comparison. Part of it is you don't play college soccer without the grades. This isn't football or basketball where 2.0 is good enough.[/quote]

As another poster noted, you can't really compare the college commits for the MLS Next programs as of now.  Both Alexandria and SYC are new to the highest level of soccer on the boys side.  Bethesda is a long established program that competed in the DA before it was dissolved.  I also agree with another poster that Alexandria's MLS Next program has a renewed commitment to the top boys sides.  I'm familiar with the MLS Next coaches from U13 through U16 and think all three are excellent, and demanding in a positive manner.  To the poster that recommended ECNL as superior if you're looking at colleges, I can say without reservation that the bottom portion of ECNL Boys Mid-Atlantic would not be competitive in MLS Next.  The bottom tier MLS Next squads, including Alexandria in some age groups, would slot into the top half of the corresponding ECNL division.  [/quote]

This is true.  But more importantly college coaches do not think very highly of ECNL in general.  I know this from direct conversations with several coaches over the last year.  They view MLS Next as having significantly better players.  That's not to say that they ignore ECNL entirely - they don't - but they spend much more time looking at MLS Next teams and kids.  And the fact that the mid atlantic area from DC down to the Carolinas has a strong ECNL division is a detail that many college coaches are unaware of - they just lump all of ECNL into one category.[/quote]

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