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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Most top athletes do not end up selecting lower tiered schools.[/b]  Either they play at Ivys, or Hopkins, Chicago, military academies, or they play at Duke, Wake, W&M, UVA, Michigan etc. 
Most top athletes are committing to top tier schools.

If the athlete is a nonstarter at club.. that's when this decision level comes in.  [/quote]

This is moronically false.  Truly top athletes will select schools with usually the best athletic teams and they don't care much about the academic quality of the school.

The UVA baseball coach left to coach at Mississippi State and the bulk of the UVA team transferred with him (because the new coach from Duke brought all his Duke players with him to UVA).

The top Ivy athletes in football and basketball are increasingly transferring to Power 4 schools where they can earn serious NIL $$$s.  New flash...it's not Duke or Stanford but places like LSU or Ole Miss.[/quote]

But families that value education over academics don’t have kids that do this.  My kid could have played (was recruited at several D1 soccer schools)- but went to the Ivy, we are talking Fairleigh Dickinson, st Mary, Randolph Macon or Radford….vs the Ivies he was admitted to on academics. [/quote]

Your example isn't relevant at all...you are talking about attending both a 4th tier academic school and a 4th tier athletic school (BTW, Randolph Macon is D3).

I am sure the STA pitcher attending Alabama could have gone to Harvard if he wanted (and I really mean this...he would have spent considerable time convincing the Harvard coach he really wanted to attend, but admission would have been guaranteed)...but nobody who has designs on an MLB career would ever make that choice.
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Men's soccer is different. The demographic is also different- wealthier.  There is no potential big payout post-college (those kids left for Europe instead of college). Most club parents aren't letting a kid that got accepted on their academics to an Ivy attend Radford or Fairleigh Dickinson instead to play soccer.

Where it works well are with kids like my older sibling--very elite soccer player and very poor student. He did get a full ride and it was the reason he even wanted to go to college--but it was academically below the level of our state schools (out of state). When you have a good/solid player, but elite academics--that's the conundrum. The kid will often want to go to the much lesser school because he wants to keep playing or put 'commit' on the school instagram and he's caught up in that world...which if he waited a year would so nobody really cares about it anymore and now he's sitting on the bench at a school far beneath his level...and he's still paying for the majority of it himself.[/quote]

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