Anonymous
02/19/2025 15:52
Subject: Anyone want to talk about the transfer portal and impact on high school recruiting?
Anonymous wrote:most players who enter the portal don't get picked up by another team
depends on the sport and player.
Anonymous
02/19/2025 15:49
Subject: Anyone want to talk about the transfer portal and impact on high school recruiting?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The portal doesn't change how many soccer players there are in college. It just means there is more movement by those players across teams.
It changes the recruiting. Coaches are taking proven kids. It has changed a lot in the last 3 years.
+1
It has substantially changed HS recruiting for D1 and D2. Maybe not as much for D3.
Anonymous
02/19/2025 15:12
Subject: Anyone want to talk about the transfer portal and impact on high school recruiting?
Anonymous wrote:The portal doesn't change how many soccer players there are in college. It just means there is more movement by those players across teams.
It changes the recruiting. Coaches are taking proven kids. It has changed a lot in the last 3 years.
Anonymous
02/19/2025 15:11
Subject: Anyone want to talk about the transfer portal and impact on high school recruiting?
Time to play Flag.
Anonymous
02/19/2025 15:09
Subject: Re:Anyone want to talk about the transfer portal and impact on high school recruiting?
Anonymous wrote:NP. I know almost no male players getting recruited out of high school for D1 unless they are a development admission or the absolute top of their MLSNext team. The head coaches aren’t even going to showcases and games any more. And my guess is that the development admissions will stop as soon as roster limits are implemented.
I’m in California and here, a lot of kids are going to very good community college programs and getting picked up that way. They can get recruited out of the transfer portal so it’s a much smarter way to get to a D1 team now. But, it’s a risk because you might not get picked up at all. I’m not sure how common that is elsewhere; I get the sense the California community college system is more heavily used than in other places.
For D2 it’s a mixed bag. The CSU D2 conference is very good, probably one of the best D2 conferences in the country, but they tend to recruit entirely in California so there are HS kids getting picked up there. However, California is huge with a very deep soccer culture, so I’m not sure how that applies elsewhere.
D3 is a different matter. Plenty of recruiting of HS kids at that level.
Yes I was catching up with a friend who’s kid was a high QB recruit in California. He ended up at a JuCo to get “starter” tape to enter the portal. Now he just wants to get to a good d1 school for the education value. He said the top recruits are getting NIL money really early in the process. Everything is changing fast. It is out of the NCAA hands and is now an arms race between agents and coaches. I imagine the same thing will happen will all the sports.
Anonymous
02/19/2025 15:04
Subject: Anyone want to talk about the transfer portal and impact on high school recruiting?
The portal doesn't change how many soccer players there are in college. It just means there is more movement by those players across teams.
Anonymous
02/19/2025 15:02
Subject: Anyone want to talk about the transfer portal and impact on high school recruiting?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:most players who enter the portal don't get picked up by another team
on the girls side they can usually get picked up by a less talented program, but the 28 rosters spots will make it more difficult.
It is not really that competitive in terms of talent. I know that may seem shocking but there are a lot of college soccer players. It is not like the professional games. Look at how many ECNL players end up in college.
Anonymous
02/19/2025 15:01
Subject: Re:Anyone want to talk about the transfer portal and impact on high school recruiting?
NP. I know almost no male players getting recruited out of high school for D1 unless they are a development admission or the absolute top of their MLSNext team. The head coaches aren’t even going to showcases and games any more. And my guess is that the development admissions will stop as soon as roster limits are implemented.
I’m in California and here, a lot of kids are going to very good community college programs and getting picked up that way. They can get recruited out of the transfer portal so it’s a much smarter way to get to a D1 team now. But, it’s a risk because you might not get picked up at all. I’m not sure how common that is elsewhere; I get the sense the California community college system is more heavily used than in other places.
For D2 it’s a mixed bag. The CSU D2 conference is very good, probably one of the best D2 conferences in the country, but they tend to recruit entirely in California so there are HS kids getting picked up there. However, California is huge with a very deep soccer culture, so I’m not sure how that applies elsewhere.
D3 is a different matter. Plenty of recruiting of HS kids at that level.
I’m in California and here, a lot of kids are going to very good community college programs and getting picked up that way. They can get recruited out of the transfer portal so it’s a much smarter way to get to a D1 team now. But, it’s a risk because you might not get picked up at all. I’m not sure how common that is elsewhere; I get the sense the California community college system is more heavily used than in other places.
For D2 it’s a mixed bag. The CSU D2 conference is very good, probably one of the best D2 conferences in the country, but they tend to recruit entirely in California so there are HS kids getting picked up there. However, California is huge with a very deep soccer culture, so I’m not sure how that applies elsewhere.
D3 is a different matter. Plenty of recruiting of HS kids at that level.
Anonymous
02/19/2025 14:58
Subject: Anyone want to talk about the transfer portal and impact on high school recruiting?
Anonymous wrote:most players who enter the portal don't get picked up by another team
Yes but if you enter the portal you are done at your school.
Anonymous
02/19/2025 14:44
Subject: Anyone want to talk about the transfer portal and impact on high school recruiting?
Anonymous wrote:most players who enter the portal don't get picked up by another team
on the girls side they can usually get picked up by a less talented program, but the 28 rosters spots will make it more difficult.
Anonymous
02/19/2025 13:49
Subject: Anyone want to talk about the transfer portal and impact on high school recruiting?
Anonymous wrote:Just throwing it out there. The landscape is changing fast. Coaches are more interested in adding experience proven players vs freshmen. It has already blown up the money sports. Add in the NIL deals(for the select few) and things are changing fast.
For boy's soccer, unless you are the best player on an MLS next team, you're not getting recruited.
Anonymous
02/19/2025 13:34
Subject: Anyone want to talk about the transfer portal and impact on high school recruiting?
most players who enter the portal don't get picked up by another team
Anonymous
02/19/2025 13:33
Subject: Anyone want to talk about the transfer portal and impact on high school recruiting?
Yeah, it sucks.
Anonymous
02/19/2025 13:10
Subject: Anyone want to talk about the transfer portal and impact on high school recruiting?
Anonymous wrote:Just throwing it out there. The landscape is changing fast. Coaches are more interested in adding experience proven players vs freshmen. It has already blown up the money sports. Add in the NIL deals(for the select few) and things are changing fast.
You'll see the impacts within the next few graduating classes. It's a numbers game, before certain schools carried an insane amount of players for their programs. These next few years with players losing their spots and entering the portal will reduce numbers, less spots overall, internationals, so on and so forth.
Anonymous
02/19/2025 13:00
Subject: Anyone want to talk about the transfer portal and impact on high school recruiting?
Just throwing it out there. The landscape is changing fast. Coaches are more interested in adding experience proven players vs freshmen. It has already blown up the money sports. Add in the NIL deals(for the select few) and things are changing fast.