Anonymous
02/09/2020 08:50
Subject: College official visits
As always: it is important to find a good fit - soccerwise, academically, and socially. Because of the time requirements of being on a team it is important that there is a good fit. You and your kid needs to be very realistic. College is very different than club. Older teammates are doing their own stuff and competition for playing time is intense. We always teased that the classic joke line proved true: there’s no I in “team” but there are two in “playing time”.
Coaches are great in the recruiting process. They may be great afterwords, but they may also be very different. Take a look at the current team roster and count the seniors. Now go back four years and look at that roster (it’s on the website). How many freshman were on the team 4 years ago. If the team still has 50% of the kids as seniors they are about average.
Spend the time making sure the school is a good fit without soccer. Transferring as a junior if things don’t work out is not impossible but also not easy. And, there is always a good chance soccer will not work out. It is too time intensive a commitment to stick around if your not playing.
Coaches are great in the recruiting process. They may be great afterwords, but they may also be very different. Take a look at the current team roster and count the seniors. Now go back four years and look at that roster (it’s on the website). How many freshman were on the team 4 years ago. If the team still has 50% of the kids as seniors they are about average.
Spend the time making sure the school is a good fit without soccer. Transferring as a junior if things don’t work out is not impossible but also not easy. And, there is always a good chance soccer will not work out. It is too time intensive a commitment to stick around if your not playing.
Anonymous
02/09/2020 08:44
Subject: College official visits
It varies by school. http://scholarshipstats.com/average-per-athlete.html
Anonymous
02/09/2020 08:44
Subject: College official visits
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Full ride. How much is four years of tuition at a major state school? $100k. Sounds like pay to play to me.
A full ride out of state can be 200k
But, not many full rides in soccer. Hell, $200k may be the entire team’s budget. If the kid can get paid significantly to go pro then skip school and do it, then get education while playing and earning money or go back to school when career is over. Else, go the college route first and get what scholarship money you can.
Not at a Power 5 school. Those conferences require teams be fully funded in all sports.
Are you saying that all the players at a Power 5 school receive full rides?
No. They have 14 scholarships on girls side. A few may get full rides, most don’t. But their player budget is in the millions, not $200K.
It varies by school. http://scholarshipstats.com/average-per-athlete.html
I thought $200K was the value of the scholarship of an out of state player.
Anonymous
02/09/2020 08:33
Subject: College official visits
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Full ride. How much is four years of tuition at a major state school? $100k. Sounds like pay to play to me.
A full ride out of state can be 200k
But, not many full rides in soccer. Hell, $200k may be the entire team’s budget. If the kid can get paid significantly to go pro then skip school and do it, then get education while playing and earning money or go back to school when career is over. Else, go the college route first and get what scholarship money you can.
Not at a Power 5 school. Those conferences require teams be fully funded in all sports.
Are you saying that all the players at a Power 5 school receive full rides?
No. They have 14 scholarships on girls side. A few may get full rides, most don’t. But their player budget is in the millions, not $200K.
I thought $200K was the value of the scholarship of an out of state player.
Anonymous
02/09/2020 08:32
Subject: College official visits
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Full ride. How much is four years of tuition at a major state school? $100k. Sounds like pay to play to me.
A full ride out of state can be 200k
But, not many full rides in soccer. Hell, $200k may be the entire team’s budget. If the kid can get paid significantly to go pro then skip school and do it, then get education while playing and earning money or go back to school when career is over. Else, go the college route first and get what scholarship money you can.
I thought $200K was the value of the scholarship of an out of state player.
Not at a Power 5 school. Those conferences require teams be fully funded in all sports.
Are you saying that all the players at a Power 5 school receive full rides?
No. They have 14 scholarships on girls side. A few may get full rides, most don’t. But their player budget is in the millions, not $200K.
Anonymous
02/09/2020 08:20
Subject: College official visits
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Full ride. How much is four years of tuition at a major state school? $100k. Sounds like pay to play to me.
A full ride out of state can be 200k
But, not many full rides in soccer. Hell, $200k may be the entire team’s budget. If the kid can get paid significantly to go pro then skip school and do it, then get education while playing and earning money or go back to school when career is over. Else, go the college route first and get what scholarship money you can.
Not at a Power 5 school. Those conferences require teams be fully funded in all sports.
Are you saying that all the players at a Power 5 school receive full rides?
No. They have 14 scholarships on girls side. A few may get full rides, most don’t. But their player budget is in the millions, not $200K.
Anonymous
02/09/2020 08:05
Subject: College official visits
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Full ride. How much is four years of tuition at a major state school? $100k. Sounds like pay to play to me.
A full ride out of state can be 200k
But, not many full rides in soccer. Hell, $200k may be the entire team’s budget. If the kid can get paid significantly to go pro then skip school and do it, then get education while playing and earning money or go back to school when career is over. Else, go the college route first and get what scholarship money you can.
Not at a Power 5 school. Those conferences require teams be fully funded in all sports.
Are you saying that all the players at a Power 5 school receive full rides?
Anonymous
02/09/2020 07:57
Subject: College official visits
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Full ride. How much is four years of tuition at a major state school? $100k. Sounds like pay to play to me.
A full ride out of state can be 200k
But, not many full rides in soccer. Hell, $200k may be the entire team’s budget. If the kid can get paid significantly to go pro then skip school and do it, then get education while playing and earning money or go back to school when career is over. Else, go the college route first and get what scholarship money you can.
Not at a Power 5 school. Those conferences require teams be fully funded in all sports.
Anonymous
02/09/2020 07:01
Subject: Re:College official visits
Parent of 2022 here, so she will be a junior in the fall. It’s a tough thing to figure out, because none of the advice about how the process worked before applies anymore after the NCAA rule change and no one yet knows how the new system will settle out. I’m seeing some 2022 commitments pop up on top drawer soccer and it makes me wonder how those are happening with the new NCAA rules in place that prohibit contact (other than “come to our ID camp”) even through club coaches. There are 2022 girls who verbally committed before the rule change last May, but it’s the ones whose verbal commitments are being publicized now that make me wonder. I guess we’ll all see what happens after June 15. In the meantime, my DD is going to ID camps at colleges where she’s interested to get on coaches’ radar but until June 15 there’s very little meaningful feedback.
Anonymous
02/08/2020 11:09
Subject: College official visits
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Full ride. How much is four years of tuition at a major state school? $100k. Sounds like pay to play to me.
A full ride out of state can be 200k
Okay you go work for the university and get paid in non transferable scholarships.
Anonymous
02/08/2020 09:55
Subject: College official visits
What about that 13 yo girl who signed with Nike and got into UNC at 13 or 14? How the heck did that happen?!
Anonymous
02/08/2020 08:20
Subject: College official visits
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Full ride. How much is four years of tuition at a major state school? $100k. Sounds like pay to play to me.
A full ride out of state can be 200k
But, not many full rides in soccer. Hell, $200k may be the entire team’s budget. If the kid can get paid significantly to go pro then skip school and do it, then get education while playing and earning money or go back to school when career is over. Else, go the college route first and get what scholarship money you can.
Anonymous
02/07/2020 18:50
Subject: College official visits
Anonymous wrote:Full ride. How much is four years of tuition at a major state school? $100k. Sounds like pay to play to me.
A full ride out of state can be 200k
Anonymous
02/07/2020 18:48
Subject: College official visits
Full ride. How much is four years of tuition at a major state school? $100k. Sounds like pay to play to me.
Anonymous
02/07/2020 18:44
Subject: Re:College official visits
Anonymous wrote:Getting a scholarship is a kind of being paid to play.
Not really