Anonymous
Post 10/04/2023 11:23     Subject: Re:High School - MLS NEXT again
My son’s MLSNext team often had college coaches come out to their practices to scout. Not something that ever happened with my other kid at high school practices or games. College coaches told him they do not care about high school.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2023 09:49     Subject: High School - MLS NEXT again
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
westsidesoccer wrote:
Size5Balls wrote:The only people I would see caring about this are either MLS Next coaches who don't want their players getting two-footed buy some rec kid or parents whose kids are on the bubble of making varsity. Having some MLS Next kids on the HS team would probably help the overall aesthetic of the game. They might actually try to play soccer instead of the usual kick and run garbage that 95% of HS games devolve into.


That’s just stupid. A third group might be ECNL kids who felt like they made a sacrifice by playing in a lesser league so they could play for their school. Your imagination and probably a lot of other qualities are limited.


People really would choose a lesser league so they can play poor quality HS soccer?
Someone made the Bethesda MLS Next team but chose to play ECNL instead because of HS?


We have a kid at our HS telling everyone he was selected for DC United academy, but turned it down to play HS😃🤣. Completely full of sh@t.


We have a couple on my sons team that lied about being mlsnext players to secure a spot freshmen year and rude that out. They are on a second team and ride the bench at their club, but the HS thinks they play that level so they set their spot even when they lose the ball 9 out of 10 touches.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2023 09:44     Subject: High School - MLS NEXT again
Anonymous wrote:I'm the outlier here who have a son who could play MLS Next but really wanted to play for his high school so did ECNL -- it was such a great experience for him (and us!) -- sense of pride playing for your school, got to know kids from other grades, played in front of classmates and teachers, etc... For us it was the best of both worlds to do that and ECNL but he was at a private school with a great program/coach so there's that.


Our private plays rec and third team players over ECNL players since they just want bully kickball. It’s not fun if you are used to playing decent soccer.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2023 08:43     Subject: High School - MLS NEXT again
I'm the outlier here who have a son who could play MLS Next but really wanted to play for his high school so did ECNL -- it was such a great experience for him (and us!) -- sense of pride playing for your school, got to know kids from other grades, played in front of classmates and teachers, etc... For us it was the best of both worlds to do that and ECNL but he was at a private school with a great program/coach so there's that.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2023 08:29     Subject: High School - MLS NEXT again
Anonymous wrote:
westsidesoccer wrote:
Size5Balls wrote:The only people I would see caring about this are either MLS Next coaches who don't want their players getting two-footed buy some rec kid or parents whose kids are on the bubble of making varsity. Having some MLS Next kids on the HS team would probably help the overall aesthetic of the game. They might actually try to play soccer instead of the usual kick and run garbage that 95% of HS games devolve into.


That’s just stupid. A third group might be ECNL kids who felt like they made a sacrifice by playing in a lesser league so they could play for their school. Your imagination and probably a lot of other qualities are limited.


People really would choose a lesser league so they can play poor quality HS soccer?
Someone made the Bethesda MLS Next team but chose to play ECNL instead because of HS?


We have a kid at our HS telling everyone he was selected for DC United academy, but turned it down to play HS😃🤣. Completely full of sh@t.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2023 08:20     Subject: High School - MLS NEXT again
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t really matter one way or the other. Few of them will get D1 college offers either from MLS Next or ECNL.


But for those who have gotten D1 offers, did they play MLSNext or ECNL or some other league or exclusively high school?


In our HS, they did not play HS soccer. They were either ECNL or MLSNext.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2023 08:18     Subject: High School - MLS NEXT again
Anonymous wrote:
westsidesoccer wrote:
Size5Balls wrote:The only people I would see caring about this are either MLS Next coaches who don't want their players getting two-footed buy some rec kid or parents whose kids are on the bubble of making varsity. Having some MLS Next kids on the HS team would probably help the overall aesthetic of the game. They might actually try to play soccer instead of the usual kick and run garbage that 95% of HS games devolve into.


That’s just stupid. A third group might be ECNL kids who felt like they made a sacrifice by playing in a lesser league so they could play for their school. Your imagination and probably a lot of other qualities are limited.


If the ECNL kids are good enough to play MLS next, they will have no problem making the varsity team and will likely be glad of playing alongside other players of similar ability. The only ECNL kids who would get upset are the ones who won't make the varsity team as a result - and in that case they weren't good enough to play MLS Next in the first place so they aren't making a sacrifice.


Whatever. The best players in our high school all quit the HS team before senior year. Some never played for the HS team. The college commits from our HS aren’t coming from the HS program.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2023 08:16     Subject: High School - MLS NEXT again
Anonymous wrote:
westsidesoccer wrote:
Size5Balls wrote:The only people I would see caring about this are either MLS Next coaches who don't want their players getting two-footed buy some rec kid or parents whose kids are on the bubble of making varsity. Having some MLS Next kids on the HS team would probably help the overall aesthetic of the game. They might actually try to play soccer instead of the usual kick and run garbage that 95% of HS games devolve into.


That’s just stupid. A third group might be ECNL kids who felt like they made a sacrifice by playing in a lesser league so they could play for their school. Your imagination and probably a lot of other qualities are limited.


People really would choose a lesser league so they can play poor quality HS soccer?
Someone made the Bethesda MLS Next team but chose to play ECNL instead because of HS?


Not Bethesda, but my kid did that. But now he’s finding HS is a joke full of nepotism and those connected with the coach get a pass and still play mlsnext.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2023 08:15     Subject: Re:High School - MLS NEXT again
Anonymous wrote:My son passed up an MLS Next offer because he didn’t want to give up HS soccer.


My son quit high school before senior year to play mlsnext because he wants to play in college and out high school coaches are awful people are well as awful coaches. HS was an utter waste of time. Complete time suck for nothing.
Anonymous
Post 10/03/2023 23:43     Subject: High School - MLS NEXT again
westsidesoccer wrote:
Size5Balls wrote:The only people I would see caring about this are either MLS Next coaches who don't want their players getting two-footed buy some rec kid or parents whose kids are on the bubble of making varsity. Having some MLS Next kids on the HS team would probably help the overall aesthetic of the game. They might actually try to play soccer instead of the usual kick and run garbage that 95% of HS games devolve into.


That’s just stupid. A third group might be ECNL kids who felt like they made a sacrifice by playing in a lesser league so they could play for their school. Your imagination and probably a lot of other qualities are limited.


People really would choose a lesser league so they can play poor quality HS soccer?
Someone made the Bethesda MLS Next team but chose to play ECNL instead because of HS?
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2023 10:32     Subject: High School - MLS NEXT again
ECNLDD wrote:
AnonymousNOT wrote:
akindc wrote:You posted the same exact thing last year, which you clrealy know becasue of your subject line.
High school coaches are allowing it becasue they want the best teams possible, and there's no rule, from the high school side, against it.
If an MLS Next program is letting their kids play at public high schools, that's somethng to bring up with the program.
And as for why, clearly kids want to both play on the highest level club team they can, and play high school as well.


Clearly I said again. Kind of creepy you are looking what've posted before but ok.

Last year, HS coaches took a few a MLS Next players for our JV and V teams, however, once season started a few had to drop out HS because their Club found out. Yet, here we are again. HS Coaches don't care but I'm surprise they didn't take note from last year. They could have given those spots to players who want and are wiling/able to be committed to play High School soccer.


No dog in this fight, but if it is a big enough issue for you and not saying it should not be; report it to the MLSNext club or coach of MLS team. Not sure what the penalties are, but once reported officially, I highly doubt MLSNext coach would allow it.


Anybody who reports a kid playing for their high school team to his club is a Class 1 *****.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2023 10:31     Subject: High School - MLS NEXT again
westsidesoccer wrote:
Size5Balls wrote:The only people I would see caring about this are either MLS Next coaches who don't want their players getting two-footed buy some rec kid or parents whose kids are on the bubble of making varsity. Having some MLS Next kids on the HS team would probably help the overall aesthetic of the game. They might actually try to play soccer instead of the usual kick and run garbage that 95% of HS games devolve into.


That’s just stupid. A third group might be ECNL kids who felt like they made a sacrifice by playing in a lesser league so they could play for their school. Your imagination and probably a lot of other qualities are limited.


If the ECNL kids are good enough to play MLS next, they will have no problem making the varsity team and will likely be glad of playing alongside other players of similar ability. The only ECNL kids who would get upset are the ones who won't make the varsity team as a result - and in that case they weren't good enough to play MLS Next in the first place so they aren't making a sacrifice.
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2023 10:53     Subject: High School - MLS NEXT again
Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t really matter one way or the other. Few of them will get D1 college offers either from MLS Next or ECNL.


But for those who have gotten D1 offers, did they play MLSNext or ECNL or some other league or exclusively high school?
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2023 10:17     Subject: High School - MLS NEXT again
It doesn’t really matter one way or the other. Few of them will get D1 college offers either from MLS Next or ECNL.
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2023 09:59     Subject: Re:High School - MLS NEXT again
My son passed up an MLS Next offer because he didn’t want to give up HS soccer.