The numbers don't lie. In our TeamRank⢠section on TopDrawerSoccer.com we rate approximately 2,500 teams. There are many more "travel" or "select" teams than this, but this gives us the most successful and serious Boys and Girls teams from age groups U13 to U18 across the country. If we conservatively list 15 players for each of these teams, we are talking about 37,500 players in club soccer at a time.
Now in DI college soccer, there are just more than 500 teams for Men and Women combined. If we count 20 players per DI roster that's 10,000 players at a time in top-tier college soccer. Now our TeamRank⢠covers six age groups so if you cut that by a third it's still 24-25,000 players. But then again, there's only enough full scholarship money available for half of the 10,000 players we mentioned (at the most optimistic estimate). Even adding scholarships available at DII, basically more than half of the players in the top of club soccer WILL NOT have scholarship money waiting for them when they get to the college years.
Now how many of the 37,500 are thinking at some point that they WILL be getting scholarship money? If you said most of them I think that is the correct answer.
http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/componen ... /nid,7505/
Now in DI college soccer, there are just more than 500 teams for Men and Women combined. If we count 20 players per DI roster that's 10,000 players at a time in top-tier college soccer. Now our TeamRank⢠covers six age groups so if you cut that by a third it's still 24-25,000 players. But then again, there's only enough full scholarship money available for half of the 10,000 players we mentioned (at the most optimistic estimate). Even adding scholarships available at DII, basically more than half of the players in the top of club soccer WILL NOT have scholarship money waiting for them when they get to the college years.
Now how many of the 37,500 are thinking at some point that they WILL be getting scholarship money? If you said most of them I think that is the correct answer.
http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/componen ... /nid,7505/
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