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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Breath papa bear, remember its the ride not the destination that ultimately matters for you and your DC.

To answer the last question, D3 soccer opportunities at an academic schoool you might not have gotten in without the soccer hook is ultimately all that ECNL can really deliver on. This is good enough for most sheep in ECNL. Let them eat their grass and be fleeced 2-3 times a year to be "showcased" totally worth it if you alreay have the cash to pay for the hamster wheel[/quote]

That's definitely the game, isn't it?

Take a look at the D3 Directors' Cup standings for all sports. The top 10 is Johns Hopkins, Williams, Emory, Tufts, NYU, Middlebury, MIT, Washington U, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, and Wisconsin-Whitewater. Not far behind: U. Chicago and Carnegie Mellon.

Those are some legit academic powerhouses that are not at all easy to get into. If I knew my DC would get into one of those schools by being a bench player at an ECNL team, that'd be a pretty strong incentive.

It is, of course, the journey and not the destination. One of the saddest things in youth sports is seeing kids who feel like playing U17 is a job because they're really only in it for the prestige and the college admission. [/quote]

You can’t get into those D3 schools by being a bench player.  All the schools above recruit starters who likely had D1 offers or at least serious interest.  [/quote]

In ECNL there are different kinds of bench players: those who spend most of game on the bench but generally play at least some minutes, those who rarely come off the bench, and those who are on the roster but generally don’t even get invited to sit on the bench of an ECNL game.

I agree with the previous poster that it is getting increasingly hard to get recruited for college soccer. There is a lot of competition from the transfer portal.

It is not easy to get a spot on a top D3 roster and very few get actual offers to play at top D1s.

They will all invite you to their camps but that doesn’t mean they will make you an offer.[/quote]

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