The trick to not having kids fall into the left politics of college is to tell them they need to have a job while attending classes.
My Unicorn term comes from MAPs. He used to be on here and he helped me interstand the going on with this youth soccer stuff back in 2018. I was confused parent back then because my dd was kicked out of the old GDA league because she went to public school and was told no girls who want to be Unicorns can play HS Soccer anymore. MAPs said a Unicorn is someone who is a baller at soccer, high GPA, like 4.5 and SAT over 1400. Plus, he said you have to give your time to the community and help others. My little girl was stuck in the middle because she wanted to do both and. Nope, it's "either or" says the lying Docs. My child followed the rules and just like many Elites do, they changed the rules so their private school kids good do both and. Anyway, the world watching and let's see what happens. College campuses are becoming shooting galleries and that is not a joke. When was the last time someone shot up a professional soccer academy?
Get a job plus play soccer at Big U? Damn bro, that's asking a lot for a young 18 year old girl. Get excellent grades, study all day, be nice to the professor and agree with the professor always and never debate in class, work hard at practice and then go work. Oh joy, what a way to play soccer.
Not the kitchen.
Not necessarily. Niche shows Stanford to have a 1510-1580 average SAT range. A recruit I know was told they just needed to break 1200 to get in. They just beat that by a few points and were accepted. Good luck not being an athlete and getting in with a 1200 SAT.
Im talking about in general.
This right here is the problem. Your going to see these top elite girls the 2-3 on each ECNL team have to decide on going to a regular school and high school or going to one of these soccer schools. I just don't see the current setup being sustainable for the top girls. Some of these top soccer girls are even choosing the academically harder schools and even putting more stress on themselves as there is for sure a difference out there academically at these high schools. Now the question is and its going to take girls to challenge this, is will the top D1 programs accept the girls that go to the soccer school or will they be shunned because these colleges know that they are doing is nothing compared to the athlete that's still maintaining her quality of play but also getting the 4.0+ at a top high school. These soccer schools are still relatively new so I don't think that question has ben answered yet. If it is and lets say the UCLA's, Stanford's, NC's if they start taking girls that went to soccer school for high school then the popularity of those soccer schools will sky rocket. Honestly in thinking about it while I'm typing this unless the college gives them some type of academic pass as well I don't see how the kid would come close to keeping up in regular college after going to a soccer school for lets say 7 years and then straight into a top college program. The only way to prepare for what's in store for you at a top D1 school is to get used to it now. Its definitely a very tricky road to try and be navigating right now. Good luck to all those that are on the road right now.
For the record, I am not a fan for soccer schools for girls. Boys maybe when their 16+.
Well, the most of the top D1s have some players who did online school - this could be close to the education some might get at a "soccer school".
Not all SW defense is going backwards, HBK,breakers- they seem to be doing just fine.
I'm really confused on the rise of Breakers. Don't really understand the rankings app and how they jumped so quickly. They did poorly (Didn't win a game) in playoffs (Lost to #47, #3 and #21) and played only 2 top 20 teams since. They won one by one goal Mustangs #15 in a Tournament and tied one Slammers #18. Now they are ranked #6 in the nation. Make that make sense please because it makes absolutely zero sense to me.
yeah, just shows how whack the rankings app is.
How so? I don't know anything about this team so this question is related the comment about the app and rankings itself.
because they jumped from like wherever they were to 6 and only played 2 teams in the top 20 and none from the top 10 so how do you get to 6? Normally for southwest the predictor is pretty close but a jump like that makes me question the actual rankings. It is called the Rankings App.
Yup, I know the app. The expected results I listed were directly from the app and are based on Breakers rankings today, which is 3 in CA, 6 in country. Their actual league results seem in line with the expected results of the #3 in CA/#6 in US team. In other words, the current rankings seem fair. Unfortunately, we can't go back in time to look at predicted results based on old rankings.
Where I thought you were going, and what I think is interesting, is how did this team improve? Was it an influx of talent? Or did the team gel and get coached up? If it's the latter, that's awesome, kudos to Breakers, and what we'd hope to see happen in youth soccer.
