Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Listen- this is a dumb thread. No serious (elite club level) is playing HS soccer to develop or for the competition. They are playing for the fun of it, to play with friends, to ride the bus to away games, to get cheered on by classmates. And there is lliterally nothing wrong with that.

And hey- if they are good, they may even earn Gatorade player of the year (for which you MUST play HS not club-- and which can help with college). But that is not why they play. They play because its a differnet experience entirely than club.

So much vitrol and hate. Why don't we just cancel all HS sports because it's not going to lead to further development and college recruitment. Dumb. Let these kids live a little and have fun playing with friends for a few months of the year.

And, yes, there are teams in the DMV whose play is pretty high level. Go watch Gonzaga, St. Albans or Episcopal...big chunk of those players are top club players at mls or ecnl....

Nope HS soccer sucks.

Anonymous wrote:Listen- this is a dumb thread. No serious (elite club level) is playing HS soccer to develop or for the competition. They are playing for the fun of it, to play with friends, to ride the bus to away games, to get cheered on by classmates. And there is lliterally nothing wrong with that.

And hey- if they are good, they may even earn Gatorade player of the year (for which you MUST play HS not club-- and which can help with college). But that is not why they play. They play because its a differnet experience entirely than club.

So much vitrol and hate. Why don't we just cancel all HS sports because it's not going to lead to further development and college recruitment. Dumb. Let these kids live a little and have fun playing with friends for a few months of the year.

And, yes, there are teams in the DMV whose play is pretty high level. Go watch Gonzaga, St. Albans or Episcopal...big chunk of those players are top club players at mls or ecnl....

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dmv area hs soccer is a joke. Compared to Bmore it’s a complete joke. From the players’ mindsets, to the quality of the leagues. It’s all a big joke yet the players and parents and alumni all walk around pounding their chests when things are going well like it’s the greatest, while most of the higher quality players aren’t even supposed to be playing HS but somehow majestically these kids end up playing in the playoffs. It’s a complete and utter joke and it completely brings down the quality of club league play. If I’m a senior and I can dribble through the entire team most games because it’s a bunch of kids 1,2,3 years younger than me, how is that helping me develop? All while these programs are posting IG posts like it’s some professional program.

Did I mention it’s one big huge joke?

OMG. 100%%%%%% Same 1 or 2 schools dominate every year and just blow through because there is no competition---schools are apples and oranges. For the amount of time spent --which could be on academics or actually getting better by making all 4 club practices a week---it's just not worth it. If you are on a top MLSnext team--you really don't have time for both and it's idiotic to lose 4 Fall seasons of training at the highest level to play HS that is only making you worst.

Nobody on my kids' club teams played HS---no special waivers or any of that BS. They had to be at practice 4 nights a week and be ready for 2 games almost every weekend. If you were missing for HS, you would not see the field and would be riding pine on game day (or not even taken along/rostered).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HS soccer = Fun
Rec soccer = Fun
Therefore HS Soccer = Rec Soccer

Did you ever play rec soccer. It's so bad, it's not fun.

Anonymous wrote:Dmv area hs soccer is a joke. Compared to Bmore it’s a complete joke. From the players’ mindsets, to the quality of the leagues. It’s all a big joke yet the players and parents and alumni all walk around pounding their chests when things are going well like it’s the greatest, while most of the higher quality players aren’t even supposed to be playing HS but somehow majestically these kids end up playing in the playoffs. It’s a complete and utter joke and it completely brings down the quality of club league play. If I’m a senior and I can dribble through the entire team most games because it’s a bunch of kids 1,2,3 years younger than me, how is that helping me develop? All while these programs are posting IG posts like it’s some professional program.

Did I mention it’s one big huge joke?

Anonymous wrote:Dmv area hs soccer is a joke. Compared to Bmore it’s a complete joke. From the players’ mindsets, to the quality of the leagues. It’s all a big joke yet the players and parents and alumni all walk around pounding their chests when things are going well like it’s the greatest, while most of the higher quality players aren’t even supposed to be playing HS but somehow majestically these kids end up playing in the playoffs. It’s a complete and utter joke and it completely brings down the quality of club league play. If I’m a senior and I can dribble through the entire team most games because it’s a bunch of kids 1,2,3 years younger than me, how is that helping me develop? All while these programs are posting IG posts like it’s some professional program.

Did I mention it’s one big huge joke?

Anonymous wrote:Dmv area hs soccer is a joke. Compared to Bmore it’s a complete joke. From the players’ mindsets, to the quality of the leagues. It’s all a big joke yet the players and parents and alumni all walk around pounding their chests when things are going well like it’s the greatest, while most of the higher quality players aren’t even supposed to be playing HS but somehow majestically these kids end up playing in the playoffs. It’s a complete and utter joke and it completely brings down the quality of club league play. If I’m a senior and I can dribble through the entire team most games because it’s a bunch of kids 1,2,3 years younger than me, how is that helping me develop? All while these programs are posting IG posts like it’s some professional program.

Did I mention it’s one big huge joke?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HS soccer = Fun
Rec soccer = Fun
Therefore HS Soccer = Rec Soccer

Did you ever play rec soccer. It's so bad, it's not fun.