My dd gets emails from coaches directly and then they set up a time to talk. I have never had a conversation with any of the coaches. She had a coach call her cell yesterday at 12. They talked for about 20 minutes.
How much ECNL roster movement on your kid’s team?
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jpeter
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Give it up you have no idea what your talking about. If you want to dissect people's post get another hobby. No body back tracked anything and coaches can text anybody they want after June 15 after sophomore year or September 1 of their junior year of high school and guess what there minors.
Are you always a fool or do you just play one on messages boards?
Esta buen jpeter. No te agüites. Carry on with your falsehoods.
Surf Zombie
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Having a hard time following this discussion, but this one point caught my eye. My oldest is a 2007. Going into 8th grade. She has club coaches and various trainers follow her instagram and comment on her soccer posts. It’s all a recruiting tool. If a coach wants a player they will seek the kid out, either through the parent or directly to the player.
Having a hard time following this discussion, but this one point caught my eye. My oldest is a 2007. Going into 8th grade. She has club coaches and various trainers follow her instagram and comment on her soccer posts. It’s all a recruiting tool. If a coach wants a player they will seek the kid out, either through the parent or directly to the player.
My daughters ecnl team has 20 rostered but two are regional players who will only play if a couple of the 18 cannot play because of high school stuff or injuries.
True dat. When my dd was in 8th grade, we were asked on numerous occasions to send emails so coaches could call her but we said no. Fast forward to June 15th this year. My dd is not the greatest of all time like I thought.....lol! I wasn;t expecting ((dreaming? Hell yes!! )) the coaches to hunt down my cell number to get permission from papa to speak to the Rocket.
With Surf Cup coming up soon, she plans to send her emails after Independence Day and encourage them to watch her play or if they cant make it, she can send them the whole game videos. The best thing about me not letting my goat send emails as 8th grader was this. She only wanted to play by the beach in Cali and wanted to go to big time football games. Today, she is open to going to college anywhere in the Union and that makes her choices open up a lot more. Maybe send 20 emails and then later narrow it down to three. Go on official visits and then make a decision when the timing is right. I'm hearing some really good news with interest for the 2022s. I know this age has gone through a lot. Go 2022s!!!!
The Outlaw *BANNED*
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Are you comfortable with that? I'd say it's borderline inappropriate.
Surf Zombie
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My kid is far from a super star. Probably in the 4-6 range on her own ECNL team. I know it gets even worse with the top players.
Mine posts videos she makes juggling, shooting, stuff like that, along with some game footage. Most of her teammates do it as well. I’m fine with the “nice job” posts, stuff like that. On the few occasions there has been direct contact about joining a training session (either electronically or in person after a game) she brings that straight to me and I communicate with the coach/trainer.
The Outlaw *BANNED*
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I'm sure you're on top of all that... good to hear. Maybe I'm just over protective. I just wonder how coaches have time to monitor social media accounts of prospective players. We all keep hearing how busy they are, you know?
Surf Zombie
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Right? These Zoom sessions were so time consuming.
Both my 2007 daughter & 2009 son (at different clubs) have been back to practice for about 3 weeks now. So far, so good. Both really excited to be back out there, even in the heat.
jpeter
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Coaches what to know about perspective players beyond soccer what their characters are, outside activities, school, reputation,etc so how do they do that nowadays? well they look at all your social media that's for sure. There are privacy settings that can be used to minimize the risk. Beyond that they will also talk to other coaches not your own only about you as a player or person.
This is first hand experience we found out during the process, some do better at social media or representing themselfs or interacting when they get the opportunity for more direct contact. No one size fits all but social media is being actively looked at by coaching staffs.
They have staff members who monitor/maintain the Social Media of their program and monitor prospects.
I know of a player who had their offer rescinded for a particular post that “was not inline with the standards of....”.
You think?
100% right. Scary having freaking adults follower minors around and what they post. Plus, the old Docs had snitches on teams and use that against a 13 year old so watch out for all that stuff too. Look, a kid needs to be a kid. Social media is insane. I had a friend lose his job a year ago because of this and that and post he wrote. He sued and settled. I also heard this scary story. I perfect Karen showed up to college campus and the true Karen came with her. Well, Karen quit and partied instead after summer workouts as Fr. She did get into her dream school and all is good. Many ways to play the "perfect Karen" roll. I say be your self and find a coach that is comfortable with the real you because the real you will be there all alone without mommy or daddy to run across the field wondering why dd didnt play. Yikes!!!!
Moral of the story......Keep your personal account private, Don’t post stupid stuff or pictures of you drunk with friends at a party. ESPECIALLY if you’re following and being followed by Athletic programs.
Surf Zombie
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Even more so in the real world. No employer wants to see political tirades or worse all over a prospective employee’s social media accounts. Can’t for the life of me figure out why people can’t grasp that.
The Outlaw *BANNED*
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I understand all of that but his kid is an '07. She's 5 years away. That's ridiculous.
The Outlaw *BANNED*
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Hey, dummy, your kid isn't 12... his is.
jpeter
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Might be for middle schoolers but ECNL has a big focus regarding college so that's how things are.
The Outlaw *BANNED*
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Yes but that's not my point. I understand monitoring a kid's social media... when they're 15 or 16... not 12.
jpeter
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Of course but colleges check when they have interest in sophomores and beyond.
12 nah they don't have the time or much interest until you get into high school, not so much of monitoring but more of a social media review only if there interested in a certain player.