College Roster Caps

Carlsbad7 said:
Under the current system teams are limited to 14 scholorships. If there's 38 players and you figure 5 are full scholorship, 6 are half scholorship, and everyone else 27 players are quarter or no scholorship I guess the numbers work.

I'm not sure if I'd want to send my kid to a meat grinder situation like that.

The college game needs some serious cleaning up.
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Maybe teens and the parents (and their club coaches who push for P4 or bust) need to make better choices as well. Why choose a P4 that will never see you play more than 25% of the time when you could grab a mid major D1 scholarship. Lower D1 schools still play good colleges.
 
Scrag75 said:
Its just their MO on how they operate. They bring in about 10 recruits and purge a good portion of their roster every year. They are not interested in developing just bring in talent and see who floats to the top. Unfortunately they are not the only program that does this....Look at Mich St., Kentucky, and Arkansas. This new roster cap is going to destroy this method and they will now have to rely on development and coaching. We'll see how well they do moving forward.
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This is a good point. Will be interesting to see what happens when they don’t have the flexibility for huge turnover and rebuild every year. There are certain colleges like those you mentioned that are notorious for over recruiting and dumping players. Roster size (prior to the change), number of transfers historically, long term program success/coaching stability, and picking a school you actually WANT to go to academically/location were huge factors in the schools my kids decided to take visits on and ultimately commit to. Hard to not be wooed by sales pitches from coaches or go with the very best ranked soccer program at the moment, but if the research doesn’t align with what they are saying and the school isn’t really a fit if soccer wasn’t in the mix, it isn’t worth the time and risk just to say you are playing at a particular school.
 
Slobodan said:
My daughter desperately wanted to play for Arizona State. I told her, "good luck hun... you're American."
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International players are much more widespread on the men’s side. Lots of Canadian players on the women’s side, but still a fairly small percentage of total international players (about 6% of the D1 recruitment class for the 2025s). Definitely may start growing, though. I think it’s just the poor timing of a max exodus at Pitt in the transfer portal and immediately turning around and signing 4 International players. Yeah, roster limits BUT that in no way explains 14 leaving and then signing 4 more right away.
 
socalkdg said:
Maybe teens and the parents (and their club coaches who push for P4 or bust) need to make better choices as well. Why choose a P4 that will never see you play more than 25% of the time when you could grab a mid major D1 scholarship. Lower D1 schools still play good colleges.
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Why? Egos.
 
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