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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hmm. I admit that it has been a couple years since I followed the HS age groups in the local scene closely, but I am under the impression that BSC, Baltimore Armour, and DC United still have MLSNext teams for U17 and U19. No?  I’m not trying to sell anyone on anything. I just don’t want parents who don’t have friends at their club to feel like playing in college for boys is a hopeless goal because of cynical people like you. Do you not know a lot of male players at D1 and D3 schools? If you don’t, why are you posting here?[/quote]

[quote]You listed 2 Clubs in Maryland and an actual MLS Academy.  Not the 101+ travel clubs across just NoVA selling false college dreams for males.  I think the point is that: no. the Clubs have this data and there are very little academically worthy or even 'name recgonition' schools for commits, and even those are a complete scarcity.

It's not a scare tactic.  It's realism. It is a dose of reality to those that have no idea what they are chasing and what is actually available (vs what they are told at U11//12/13/14/15, etc.).  It can save some male players a lot of heartache and start to plan alternatives (keeping up those GPAs!!) if they realized this.[/quote]
I’m really not convinced that there are significant numbers of coaches in this are telling U11 or U12 players they are likely to be able to play in college, or significant numbers of parents who think you can project where kids will end when they are in elementary school. They are too young to evaluate at that age. I have no problem with a coach telling a U15 year old that he or she has the talent to play in college if they keep working hard. Coaches told my son that starting around u14, and every single one of them told him he needed to keep his grades up as well as putting in the soccer work   Some of his friends were slower to develop and these talks with coaches happened later in HS.

Parents and kids need to be realistic and do their due diligence. They need to understand that a club’s claims that they can help kids play in college mean only that they have had at least some success in getting one or more kids get recruited. If your kid is never promoted to the top team, you can assume that the club’s message is not directed at you, and the same may be true if the top team is not competitive or you are always on the bench.  Questions like the OPs are helpful because the club’s commitment list shows that some clubs actually do place a decent number of kids on their top team or two in college, while others it’s more like a kid or two every few years. And as I said earlier in the thread, parents who think their kid may have what it takes need to talk to other parents who have been through the process and not blindly trust messages from clubs or coaches. But in any case I don’t know of any families delusional enough to think it’s fine for their son to put all his eggs in the soccer scholarship basket and stop focusing on academics and grades. You can do very well in school and soccer at the same time as long as you don’t party or goof off too much, and focusing on academics is always the top priority if you want good college options. Which person likely to be reading DCUM doesn’t understand this?[/quote]

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