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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It wouldn't be different had they played for the HS, btw.[/quote]

+1. I don't understand the question.  In most NCAA sports, the club teams rule and playing for HS is irrelevant.  [/quote]

Often true, but some sports it would look very odd to not play in HS, especially if your HS is competitive in that sport.

Football is the one sport where HS really matters, as there really is not a travel circuit.  Basketball it technically does not matter, but it would look odd to attend Sidwell and play on an AAU team but not for the HS.  That would usually be a tell that you were not good enough to play for Sidwell (which is very strong in basketball).

Same, if you attend SJC and don't play on the baseball team but play travel baseball...the only exception would be if you are so good that you are playing on one of the crazy national travel teams where literally 1/2 the team sends kids to the MLB.  However, even those teams don't usually play during the main HS baseball season.  Also, if you are on one of those teams everyone knows who you are and you aren't playing D3 baseball.

Soccer is definitely different.  Kids play for academy teams that often won't allow you to play for the HS team.

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That’s non sensical. My son plays baseball for a school that would be creamed by SJC and he might not make the team at SJC. But he is being recruited now by D2 and D3 teams. Not being the best of the best doesn’t mean you can’t get a roster spot at a school that plays at your level.

Many D3s will happily take you onto the team at this point (assuming kid is a senior) whether still applying or already in. At my kids school his baseball teammates have decided to play baseball at their selected school after they made their selection much more often than going through a “recruitment process” because baseball just isn’t that important to most of them. They’ll play if it works out, but they aren’t going to shape their college choice around it.

My kid is an outlier - he desperately wants to play, so we’ll make sure he does the recruitment thing and the coach truly wants him.[/quote]

Your kid goes to a different school, so you are not really making the same point.  My argument is that it would look odd to attend SJC, play travel baseball but not play on the SJC team.  Certainly, kids that play on teams that SJC "creams" also get recruited because you can be a pretty good player, but your overall team stinks.

Considering SJC has many kids that don't get recruited by anyone, it also makes no sense that your recruited kid would not even make the SJC team.[/quote]

Some teams are so good prospective D3 athletes might not even make the team.

Thats happened with lax.[/quote]

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