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The 01’s will combine with the remaining 00’s at tryouts. The teams will be shaken up with or without a merge of three clubs.

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The 01’s will combine with the remaining 00’s at tryouts. The teams will be shaken up with or without a merge of three clubs.

This will actually have a big impact across leagues and around the State. For a lot of girls in this age group it will really boil down to how you want to spent your last season of youth soccer. Especially if your kid has/or is about to commit to play in college. Now that mine has committed, she looks at everything differently. She really wants to enjoy the remainder of her youth soccer but she is already focused on using her time to be the best she can be when she steps on campus in Fall, 2019.

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This will actually have a big impact across leagues and around the State. For a lot of girls in this age group it will really boil down to how you want to spent your last season of youth soccer. Especially if your kid has/or is about to commit to play in college. Now that mine has committed, she looks at everything differently. She really wants to enjoy the remainder of her youth soccer but she is already focused on using her time to be the best she can be when she steps on campus in Fall, 2019.

Many 2001’s are sophomores and have two years left of youth soccer.

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Many 2001’s are sophomores and have two years left of youth soccer.

True, and some of those are committed/committing and the thought process is the same.

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This will actually have a big impact across leagues and around the State. For a lot of girls in this age group it will really boil down to how you want to spent your last season of youth soccer. Especially if your kid has/or is about to commit to play in college. Now that mine has committed, she looks at everything differently. She really wants to enjoy the remainder of her youth soccer but she is already focused on using her time to be the best she can be when she steps on campus in Fall, 2019.

This is an interesting take on the last season. Seems like some committed girls want to "pack it all in": win a state Championship in H.S., play great at all the showcases, get invited to extra things (camps, ODP, ID2, etc. etc.). And then others want to scale back and do less things to avoid injuries, overuse, etc. while training very hard to be ready for the college game.

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This is an interesting take on the last season. Seems like some committed girls want to "pack it all in": win a state Championship in H.S., play great at all the showcases, get invited to extra things (camps, ODP, ID2, etc. etc.). And then others want to scale back and do less things to avoid injuries, overuse, etc. while training very hard to be ready for the college game.

For now. As more and more come up through the "system" from the beginning, they will not have done ODP or non affiliated USSF events so they won't know any better. Missing something when you never had the choice makes the choice irrelevant. This year and the next will be a challenge but after that, not so much I think.

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https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/club...omen/u17/5/893

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Many 2001’s are sophomores and have two years left of youth soccer.

IMO, unless you are offered a spot on your dream team, the one that you had always prayed and dreamed about playing for, I wouldn't encourage a sophomore to commit to a college. So much can happen between the sophomore and junior year. Good and bad. To ask a 15-16 year old girl to commit is just too much to me.

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IMO, unless you are offered a spot on your dream team, the one that you had always prayed and dreamed about playing for, I wouldn't encourage a sophomore to commit to a college. So much can happen between the sophomore and junior year. Good and bad. To ask a 15-16 year old girl to commit is just too much to me.

You have some of the top players in age groups commuting as freshman. 8th graders are being recruited indirectly through coaches by some big time soccer programs. It's an arms race

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You have some of the top players in age groups commuting as freshman. 8th graders are being recruited indirectly through coaches by some big time soccer programs. It's an arms race

It's ridiculous! And a verbal commitment means squat. So why toy with players if the commitment isn't signed and sealed? Just as a coach can take away a verbal, a player can do the same. Saw a few kids who had verbal commitments to their ideal schools, only to be told they were no longer needed. It's rough on the player and rough on the parents. 8th, 9th, definitely too young with girls. They are not yet set in their minds as to what they truly want. Most of them haven't been bitten by the FOMO or boy craziness yet! 10th may be a bit better, but by 11th, the maturity is there more and they've gotten through phases. They are looking more realistically into the future. JMHO with my experience with teenage girls/athletes.

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It's ridiculous! And a verbal commitment means squat. So why toy with players if the commitment isn't signed and sealed? Just as a coach can take away a verbal, a player can do the same. Saw a few kids who had verbal commitments to their ideal schools, only to be told they were no longer needed. It's rough on the player and rough on the parents. 8th, 9th, definitely too young with girls. They are not yet set in their minds as to what they truly want. Most of them haven't been bitten by the FOMO or boy craziness yet! 10th may be a bit better, but by 11th, the maturity is there more and they've gotten through phases. They are looking more realistically into the future. JMHO with my experience with teenage girls/athletes.

Makes sense. In other sports (football, baseball, basketball....men's) athletes are still recruited post verbal. Often times more so, once they commit, especially if they were a low profile under the radar type. Often times players commit as a "place holder" type situation...typically you will have a player more often then not move on from a school rather than vice versa. Usually, a school will NOT accept a commitment from a younger player unless they are a "sure thing."

Is this the same with girls soccer, or do you see other schools back off once girls are committed.

Thanks

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It's ridiculous! And a verbal commitment means squat. So why toy with players if the commitment isn't signed and sealed? Just as a coach can take away a verbal, a player can do the same. Saw a few kids who had verbal commitments to their ideal schools, only to be told they were no longer needed. It's rough on the player and rough on the parents. 8th, 9th, definitely too young with girls. They are not yet set in their minds as to what they truly want. Most of them haven't been bitten by the FOMO or boy craziness yet! 10th may be a bit better, but by 11th, the maturity is there more and they've gotten through phases. They are looking more realistically into the future. JMHO with my experience with teenage girls/athletes.

Agree. That and kids develop at different times though there is credence that you are what you will be at 16 if you are girl because the tend to develop faster. Still....would prefer no commits until the end of the sophomore year at the earliest.

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Makes sense. In other sports (football, baseball, basketball....men's) athletes are still recruited post verbal. Often times more so, once they commit, especially if they were a low profile under the radar type. Often times players commit as a "place holder" type situation...typically you will have a player more often then not move on from a school rather than vice versa. Usually, a school will NOT accept a commitment from a younger player unless they are a "sure thing."

Is this the same with girls soccer, or do you see other schools back off once girls are committed.

Thanks

Men's sports are just different in many ways. On the men's side Verbal mean very, very little on both sides - the schools and the families . Verbals are broken all the time - some times as a surprise on Signing Day. The new wave men's sports is the dramatic increase in transfers. Was listening to an interview with a D1 college basketball coach yesterday and he was complaining that 800 young men transferred in D1 basketball last year and his point was that we're teaching them the wrong lesson - "when the going get's tough - transfer!"

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The majority of 2001's are entering the last semester of Junior year. They are taking college trips. The reality is setting in that they will soon be a Senior and begin filling out their college applications.

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Men's sports are just different in many ways. On the men's side Verbal mean very, very little on both sides - the schools and the families . Verbals are broken all the time - some times as a surprise on Signing Day. The new wave men's sports is the dramatic increase in transfers. Was listening to an interview with a D1 college basketball coach yesterday and he was complaining that 800 young men transferred in D1 basketball last year and his point was that we're teaching them the wrong lesson - "when the going get's tough - transfer!"

Sounds like Florida youth soccer