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Watched (skipped through) SC blues v solar Chelsea today. Not sure what to make of that game. The ball was in the air a whole lot. Former team played v SC blues in CRL (they hung 10 on us) I know they can pass the ball around like a pro team, but that game today was tough to watch. Anyway. I will always cheer for a SoCal team in national competition.
 
I just read US Soccer is re-activating the boys residency program. I guess after a decade of Boys DA and still no super star, maybe Pulisic....then again he had to move to Dortmund at 16 years of age.

IMO, a US Soccer residency program is the BEST way to develop future national team players and potential pro soccer players. They are taking only the ELITE players who want to play professionally. They need to keep the players they want in the program, until they decide to cut the player for someone better. This way, the players get a compounding development effect.

They need to start a program for the girls too! Then all the leagues are just that club soccer leagues!
 
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Watched (skipped through) SC blues v solar Chelsea today. Not sure what to make of that game. The ball was in the air a whole lot. Former team played v SC blues in CRL (they hung 10 on us) I know they can pass the ball around like a pro team, but that game today was tough to watch. Anyway. I will always cheer for a SoCal team in national competition.

Normally, I like SoCal teams as winners, but Blues Baker played kick ball for most of this game. I mean, I can count the number of 3-pass connected sequences on just 1 hand. And what's with the double cartwheels after Blues' first goal? Very glad to see the Chelsea team come back to beat Blues for the U13 Championship.
 
Normally, I like SoCal teams as winners, but Blues Baker played kick ball for most of this game. I mean, I can count the number of 3-pass connected sequences on just 1 hand. And what's with the double cartwheels after Blues' first goal? Very glad to see the Chelsea team come back to beat Blues for the U13 Championship.

So awesome to see the Masters of the kickball go down.......Cartwheel? really coach?
 
US News and World Report Top 26 Universities
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Southern California Girls Recruits 2016-2019 Graduation Years

1. Princeton: LA Premier 1, Surf 1, Real So Cal 1, Slammers 1
2. Harvard: WC 1, Blues 1
3. Yale: Blues 1
4. Columbia: Real So Cal 1, Eagles 1
5. Stanford: Strikers 2, Slammers 2, Eagles 1, Blues 3, WC 1, Real So Cal 3
6. University of Chicago: 0
7. M.I.T.: N/A
8. Duke: Surf 1, Slammers 1, Real So Cal 2
9. University of Pennsylvania : 0
10. California Institute of Technology: N/A
11. Johns Hopkins University: 0
12. Dartmouth: WC 1
13: Northwestern: Legends 1, Beach 1
14. Brown: Real So Cal 1, Beach 1
15: Cornell: 0
16. Vanderbilt: Slammers 1
17. Washington University in St. Louis: NA
18. Rice: WC 1
19. Notre Dame: Real So Cal 2, Blues 2, Slammers 1
20. Cal: Blues 1, Surf 2, Beach 1, Legends 2
21. Emory: 0
22. Georgetown: Surf 2
23. Carnegie Mellon: FRAM 1
24: UCLA: Surf 3, Blues 6, WC 3, Slammers 1
25. USC: Carlsbad United 1, Surf 2, Eagles 1, Slammers 1, Real So Cal 2, Beach 2, Blues 2
26. Virginia: 0

That's the scoreboard. Keep it in mind as you comment on clubs and coaches and players in So Cal. Carry on.
 
Can you do a pivot table and show commitments by club? I guess there is an app for that, but thought you might post.

Also look how USNews ranks. Use Forbes.
USNews uses
Money spent/student = more expensive building adds to rank, as well as matching their ratios of race.

Forbes uses - Will they learn, will the succeed, will they make the money.

USNews excludes the Service Academies. West Point, Navy, USAFA (and the other two) - not there. Although those grads have a higher mid career pay than Princeton.
What makes that more interesting is the Princeton/Stanford - group go in with higher grades and test scores. 15 years later the average they achieve is less pay, let alone the other parts. And US News excludes them.
 
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US News and World Report Top 26 Universities
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Southern California Girls Recruits 2016-2019 Graduation Years

1. Princeton: LA Premier 1, Surf 1, Real So Cal 1, Slammers 1
2. Harvard: WC 1, Blues 1
3. Yale: Blues 1
4. Columbia: Real So Cal 1, Eagles 1
5. Stanford: Strikers 2, Slammers 2, Eagles 1, Blues 3, WC 1, Real So Cal 3
6. University of Chicago: 0
7. M.I.T.: N/A
8. Duke: Surf 1, Slammers 1, Real So Cal 2
9. University of Pennsylvania : 0
10. California Institute of Technology: N/A
11. Johns Hopkins University: 0
12. Dartmouth: WC 1
13: Northwestern: Legends 1, Beach 1
14. Brown: Real So Cal 1, Beach 1
15: Cornell: 0
16. Vanderbilt: Slammers 1
17. Washington University in St. Louis: NA
18. Rice: WC 1
19. Notre Dame: Real So Cal 2, Blues 2, Slammers 1
20. Cal: Blues 1, Surf 2, Beach 1, Legends 2
21. Emory: 0
22. Georgetown: Surf 2
23. Carnegie Mellon: FRAM 1
24: UCLA: Surf 3, Blues 6, WC 3, Slammers 1
25. USC: Carlsbad United 1, Surf 2, Eagles 1, Slammers 1, Real So Cal 2, Beach 2, Blues 2
26. Virginia: 0

That's the scoreboard. Keep it in mind as you comment on clubs and coaches and players in So Cal. Carry on.

Of the current DA clubs on this list ....seeing patterns of productivity. Gettin the feelin like WC & RSC got the shaft.
 
US News and World Report Top 26 Universities
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Southern California Girls Recruits 2016-2019 Graduation Years

1. Princeton: LA Premier 1, Surf 1, Real So Cal 1, Slammers 1
2. Harvard: WC 1, Blues 1
3. Yale: Blues 1
4. Columbia: Real So Cal 1, Eagles 1
5. Stanford: Strikers 2, Slammers 2, Eagles 1, Blues 3, WC 1, Real So Cal 3
6. University of Chicago: 0
7. M.I.T.: N/A
8. Duke: Surf 1, Slammers 1, Real So Cal 2
9. University of Pennsylvania : 0
10. California Institute of Technology: N/A
11. Johns Hopkins University: 0
12. Dartmouth: WC 1
13: Northwestern: Legends 1, Beach 1
14. Brown: Real So Cal 1, Beach 1
15: Cornell: 0
16. Vanderbilt: Slammers 1
17. Washington University in St. Louis: NA
18. Rice: WC 1
19. Notre Dame: Real So Cal 2, Blues 2, Slammers 1
20. Cal: Blues 1, Surf 2, Beach 1, Legends 2
21. Emory: 0
22. Georgetown: Surf 2
23. Carnegie Mellon: FRAM 1
24: UCLA: Surf 3, Blues 6, WC 3, Slammers 1
25. USC: Carlsbad United 1, Surf 2, Eagles 1, Slammers 1, Real So Cal 2, Beach 2, Blues 2
26. Virginia: 0

That's the scoreboard. Keep it in mind as you comment on clubs and coaches and players in So Cal. Carry on.

Beach had a Stanford and Blues had a University of Chicago in that time frame also (2016 grads) just to add to your list.-- I agree with your sentiment.
 
Of the current DA clubs on this list ....seeing patterns of productivity. Gettin the feelin like WC & RSC got the shaft.
While I understand your point, these are top educational schools. I bet USSF only cares about the top soccer schools. That list might be the same, though. I don't know.
 
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While I understand your point, these are top educational schools. I bet USSF only cares about the top soccer schools. That list might be the same, though. I don't know.
It is surprising how well they correlate. The soccer school ranking do change 10-20 spots each year or two, but in general they are the same.
Who am I missing that are in both besides?
Duke, ND, Stanford, UNC, Virginia

This group I think need to make final four a few more times to be "both"
UCLA and USC
 
It is surprising how well they correlate. The soccer school ranking do change 10-20 spots each year or two, but in general they are the same.
Who am I missing that are in both besides?
Duke, ND, Stanford, UNC, Virginia

This group I think need to make final four a few more times to be "both"
UCLA and USC
UNC on the academic side is suspect....
 
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