Anonymous wrote:College sports to the highest bidder. Most people have no clue.

What does that mean? Higgest bidder for what? How?

Anonymous wrote:College sports to the highest bidder. Most people have no clue.

Oh they know and exploit it.

College sports to the highest bidder. Most people have no clue.

The whole college sports landscape is blowing up and IMO, it's not necessarily for the better.

There are no guardrails, limits, etc in place for any of the NIL funds and the "settlement" with the implementation of roster limits is just throwing things sideways.

Louisville in men's hoops this year pumped in $7.5M into transfers, etc and went just to the top of the ACC. Good for them, I guess?

Heck, you have more limits with newly drafted professional NFL players than you do with college kids in terms of salary limits, time at a club, etc.

On top of that, now there is discussion of eliminating red-shirts, etc and implementing a 5 in 5 system (5 years of playing in 5 years of school) just further erodes incoming players securing spots - the non-unicorn 2026 girls in soccer are getting crushed between roster limits, the transfer portal, etc.

More and more players are dropping from D1 mid majors to D2 and D3. While that pulls those programs higher, it pushes those that would have played D2 and D3 out.

Now, all of that being said, my DD is a 2027 and is now actively involved now in all this stuff so it will be interesting to see what happens with her friends that are 2026s and what comes once her official window opens in June.

Good luck to all.

Anonymous wrote:There are well over 300 D1 women's soccer programs.....some with bleachers smaller than what you will find at local intermediate schools. So to say you played D1 soccer is very subjective. Know several 2005 girls who got onto D1 schools I never heard of from ECNL RL teams.

U Miami is a great example. D1 - ACC - soccer is a little less supported than your local HS.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know roughly what percentage of NOVA players actually get selected for a D1 soccer team? Does that percentage differ between boys and girls? Are ECNL girl players and MLSNext players nearly guaranteed a D1 spot?

I'm trying to understand the likelihood of this happening and why we're all killing ourselves driving to the ends of the earth and sinking so much time into this soccer thing. My child loves playing soccer, but they aren't much interested in attending D2 or D3 schools when they know they can get into a top D1 school based on academics and test scores.

Right - play soccer for soccer. If all you’re truly looking for is an admissions bump to a prestigious university, sign your kid up for fencing or crew.

This is a dumb comment. What would make soccer different from fencing or crew? No one goes into travel soccer at u-9 or whatever age for an admissions bump. But by the time of recruitment you know if your DD is good enough to play in college and likely where and you know if she is smart enough to go to a top school. If you have both -- you take advantage.

There are a lot of people who keep their kids on the merry go round of travel soccer because they are expecting it to ‘payoff’. You don’t know this?

About half of ECNL girls and a quarter of GA girls nationally will play D1 soccer. Keep in mind this includes all D1 colleges, including many that you might never consider without soccer. The D1 girls also tend to be disproportionately from a small number of well known clubs. The overwhelming majority of kids in ECNL and GA could play college soccer somewhere. However, especially in the DMV, many kids would rather play club soccer at a sweatshirt school than play NCAA soccer at a school that’s relatively unknown. ECNL and GA can give you a leg up on admissions to prestigious D3 schools, but don’t expect much money from them unless you qualify for financial aid.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know roughly what percentage of NOVA players actually get selected for a D1 soccer team? Does that percentage differ between boys and girls? Are ECNL girl players and MLSNext players nearly guaranteed a D1 spot?

I'm trying to understand the likelihood of this happening and why we're all killing ourselves driving to the ends of the earth and sinking so much time into this soccer thing. My child loves playing soccer, but they aren't much interested in attending D2 or D3 schools when they know they can get into a top D1 school based on academics and test scores.

Right - play soccer for soccer. If all you’re truly looking for is an admissions bump to a prestigious university, sign your kid up for fencing or crew.

This is a dumb comment. What would make soccer different from fencing or crew? No one goes into travel soccer at u-9 or whatever age for an admissions bump. But by the time of recruitment you know if your DD is good enough to play in college and likely where and you know if she is smart enough to go to a top school. If you have both -- you take advantage.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know roughly what percentage of NOVA players actually get selected for a D1 soccer team? Does that percentage differ between boys and girls? Are ECNL girl players and MLSNext players nearly guaranteed a D1 spot?

I'm trying to understand the likelihood of this happening and why we're all killing ourselves driving to the ends of the earth and sinking so much time into this soccer thing. My child loves playing soccer, but they aren't much interested in attending D2 or D3 schools when they know they can get into a top D1 school based on academics and test scores.

I’m doing it because spending time with my child is priority 1.

Do you play with them on the team?

There are well over 300 D1 women's soccer programs.....some with bleachers smaller than what you will find at local intermediate schools. So to say you played D1 soccer is very subjective. Know several 2005 girls who got onto D1 schools I never heard of from ECNL RL teams.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know roughly what percentage of NOVA players actually get selected for a D1 soccer team? Does that percentage differ between boys and girls? Are ECNL girl players and MLSNext players nearly guaranteed a D1 spot?

I'm trying to understand the likelihood of this happening and why we're all killing ourselves driving to the ends of the earth and sinking so much time into this soccer thing. My child loves playing soccer, but they aren't much interested in attending D2 or D3 schools when they know they can get into a top D1 school based on academics and test scores.

I’m doing it because spending time with my child is priority 1.

My teenager doesn’t want to spend time with me.

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know roughly what percentage of NOVA players actually get selected for a D1 soccer team? Does that percentage differ between boys and girls? Are ECNL girl players and MLSNext players nearly guaranteed a D1 spot?

I'm trying to understand the likelihood of this happening and why we're all killing ourselves driving to the ends of the earth and sinking so much time into this soccer thing. My child loves playing soccer, but they aren't much interested in attending D2 or D3 schools when they know they can get into a top D1 school based on academics and test scores.

I’m doing it because spending time with my child is priority 1.

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know roughly what percentage of NOVA players actually get selected for a D1 soccer team? Does that percentage differ between boys and girls? Are ECNL girl players and MLSNext players nearly guaranteed a D1 spot?

I'm trying to understand the likelihood of this happening and why we're all killing ourselves driving to the ends of the earth and sinking so much time into this soccer thing. My child loves playing soccer, but they aren't much interested in attending D2 or D3 schools when they know they can get into a top D1 school based on academics and test scores.

Right - play soccer for soccer. If all you’re truly looking for is an admissions bump to a prestigious university, sign your kid up for fencing or crew.

Anonymous wrote:If you're on ECNL/GA, its pretty likely you can play soccer in college somewhere. But that doesn't mean you always want to go to the school that recruits you. It has to be a match.

https://mcleansoccer.org/college-commitments/

I wonder why McLean go to too schools? Doe sit have to do which the club placing them or just the social status and academics there ?

Great point about the ultra elite D3. If you see a girl committing to WashU or Carnegie Mellon, that’s a kid who turned down D1 offers from no-name or low-academic schools.

McLean parents can afford the tuition, and they know the quality of education/future work connections will pay for itself.

WashU has one of the highest percentage of students. from top 1% families of any college. That’s the holy grail around these parts.