Anonymous
Post 09/19/2025 11:40     Subject: DCU academy kid is banned for 12 games after playing for high school team
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:These club exclusive rules should be illegal. Education is the priority for kids, school sports are a part of that education. parents enabling this by agreeing to these ridiculous rules are enabling abuse of your children. Your kid is not going to play pro soccer. Get a grip. Give your kids a normal childhood. We have child labor laws for a reason. Don’t pimp your kid out to a soccer mill.


What's a normal childhood?
At the very least, one where parents acts an actual parents and not like an agent to the stars helicoptering towards goals for their kids that never existed. Mileage may vary.


Is this manual and rules for being an actual parent available on Amazon?
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2025 11:28     Subject: DCU academy kid is banned for 12 games after playing for high school team
Anonymous wrote:It's just sports. No one cares.


Did you accidentally fall into the sports thread?
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2025 11:26     Subject: DCU academy kid is banned for 12 games after playing for high school team
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Why is there a waiver? What is the point of having a rule and then a waiver?


Some kids are on athletic scholarships to private schools and will not have access to that education if they don’t play for the school. MLS will typically waive the restriction and allow that kid to play.

I know alot of people in this area play for Arlington and ECNL specifically because their kid wants to play high school. This is the right approach.

DCU should be looking for kids willing to sacrifice to go pro and pour their resources into them starting from age 14. They are picking who “appears” the best at age 14 but if Mommy and Daddy feel it is more realistic to go to Princeton and choose those AP classes over additional football sessions, you end with the 💩 show that it the DCU academy. Nobody has it all. Successful business people know that you have to sacrifice something.

No decision is wrong for any family. People have to simply make choices about what they want. DCU needs to understand development is 75% mindset and most of these kids who have guaranteed 4-year college ahead of them are not hungry enough to go pro.


The free life advice from experts are flying in left and right on this one

Can someone explain how so many Pros have parents that were well paid Pros if a requirement to go professional is economic struggle?
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2025 10:58     Subject: DCU academy kid is banned for 12 games after playing for high school team
Anonymous wrote:Why is there a waiver? What is the point of having a rule and then a waiver?


Some kids are on athletic scholarships to private schools and will not have access to that education if they don’t play for the school. MLS will typically waive the restriction and allow that kid to play.

I know alot of people in this area play for Arlington and ECNL specifically because their kid wants to play high school. This is the right approach.

DCU should be looking for kids willing to sacrifice to go pro and pour their resources into them starting from age 14. They are picking who “appears” the best at age 14 but if Mommy and Daddy feel it is more realistic to go to Princeton and choose those AP classes over additional football sessions, you end with the 💩 show that it the DCU academy. Nobody has it all. Successful business people know that you have to sacrifice something.

No decision is wrong for any family. People have to simply make choices about what they want. DCU needs to understand development is 75% mindset and most of these kids who have guaranteed 4-year college ahead of them are not hungry enough to go pro.
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2025 10:51     Subject: DCU academy kid is banned for 12 games after playing for high school team
Anonymous wrote:These club exclusive rules should be illegal. Education is the priority for kids, school sports are a part of that education. parents enabling this by agreeing to these ridiculous rules are enabling abuse of your children. Your kid is not going to play pro soccer. Get a grip. Give your kids a normal childhood. We have child labor laws for a reason. Don’t pimp your kid out to a soccer mill.


If no kid will ever play professional soccer, are all the US Men's national team players created as adults in a laboratory?
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2025 10:50     Subject: DCU academy kid is banned for 12 games after playing for high school team
It's just sports. No one cares.
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2025 10:48     Subject: DCU academy kid is banned for 12 games after playing for high school team
Anonymous wrote:Why post this like this? Suspended by who? I assume it was 12 MLSN games? Why would DCU get fined for this?


Why post anything on this forum? Why have this forum?

Because soccer parents are nuts.

Anonymous
Post 09/19/2025 10:45     Subject: DCU academy kid is banned for 12 games after playing for high school team
Anonymous wrote:Why is there a waiver? What is the point of having a rule and then a waiver?


Dumb question
Waivers exist for many things

Waivers apply to specific circumstances
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2025 10:37     Subject: DCU academy kid is banned for 12 games after playing for high school team
Why is there a waiver? What is the point of having a rule and then a waiver?
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2025 10:35     Subject: DCU academy kid is banned for 12 games after playing for high school team
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:These club exclusive rules should be illegal. Education is the priority for kids, school sports are a part of that education. parents enabling this by agreeing to these ridiculous rules are enabling abuse of your children. Your kid is not going to play pro soccer. Get a grip. Give your kids a normal childhood. We have child labor laws for a reason. Don’t pimp your kid out to a soccer mill.


What's a normal childhood?
At the very least, one where parents acts an actual parents and not like an agent to the stars helicoptering towards goals for their kids that never existed. Mileage may vary.
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2025 10:32     Subject: DCU academy kid is banned for 12 games after playing for high school team
Anonymous wrote:Totally sucks for the kid because end of day he is just trying to have fun and play the sport he loves in the environments that he wants to be in.

For DCU, it is just more of the same. They are irrelevant. Shows you how little respect the players have for the program. And I don't blame them.


Why does it suck to get punished for breaking rules?
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2025 10:26     Subject: DCU academy kid is banned for 12 games after playing for high school team
Anonymous wrote:These club exclusive rules should be illegal. Education is the priority for kids, school sports are a part of that education. parents enabling this by agreeing to these ridiculous rules are enabling abuse of your children. Your kid is not going to play pro soccer. Get a grip. Give your kids a normal childhood. We have child labor laws for a reason. Don’t pimp your kid out to a soccer mill.


What's a normal childhood?
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2025 10:17     Subject: DCU academy kid is banned for 12 games after playing for high school team
Anonymous wrote:These club exclusive rules should be illegal. Education is the priority for kids, school sports are a part of that education. parents enabling this by agreeing to these ridiculous rules are enabling abuse of your children. Your kid is not going to play pro soccer. Get a grip. Give your kids a normal childhood. We have child labor laws for a reason. Don’t pimp your kid out to a soccer mill.


I don't think much of your parenting advice. I'm sure you're great at it, though.
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2025 09:16     Subject: DCU academy kid is banned for 12 games after playing for high school team
These club exclusive rules should be illegal. Education is the priority for kids, school sports are a part of that education. parents enabling this by agreeing to these ridiculous rules are enabling abuse of your children. Your kid is not going to play pro soccer. Get a grip. Give your kids a normal childhood. We have child labor laws for a reason. Don’t pimp your kid out to a soccer mill.
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2025 09:00     Subject: DCU academy kid is banned for 12 games after playing for high school team
Sounds like parents here are advocating for cheating.I guess there are some cheaters here. Presumably you knew the rules when you signed your kid up? You just don’t think they should apply to you?

For all the complaining people do about high school soccer being inferior why cheat in order to have your kid play?