High School Forfeits

[Carlsbad7]

The city league is almost all Lausd so scholarships don’t play a role there. That’s why it’s been more of a problem in city (all public) then southern (which is a mix including privates and where kids can get scholarship waivers). One issue is whether privates should be allowed to do what public’s can’t under the scholarship exception. The other has to do with kids using drop pick up (“quitting” their hg club and then going back after the high school season) and mls ad players called up to play with hg team as guests or for flex, reserve players who didn’t expect to play but get called due to absence of others, and futures players caught in between (neither fully hg or ad). The fix (aside from the scholarship exception) is pretty simple: if you play for an HG team at any time starting in the fall season and during that school year, you can't play high school.

I agree with you but what do you do when your best HG player gets a full ride scholorship to some private school on condition that they play soccer for them? Is MLS ready to blackball a player if they do HS soccer? This is the only way you can actually enforce a no play HS soccer rule. Which nobody will follow if it has no teeth.

If Private Schools wanted to work with MLS the way to do it would be to pay MLS and get the player on loan from the club they're under contract with for X amount of time (the HS season). But I dont want to give anyone any ideas ;-).