ECNL PDP List for New England

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Hope that you realize that top level players start getting offers in their freshman year and most are now substantially done by the end of the first semester sophomore year. Your timing seems off by about a year. A lot of things can and do impact individual timelines but as a general rule of thumb the only ones still getting recruited by a top level program at this point in a junior year are projected to be low impact players that are being offered deals heavily laden with merit money if anything at all.

Thanks BTNT. We will figure it all out somehow.

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Hope that you realize that top level players start getting offers in their freshman year and most are now substantially done by the end of the first semester sophomore year. Your timing seems off by about a year. A lot of things can and do impact individual timelines but as a general rule of thumb the only ones still getting recruited by a top level program at this point in a junior year are projected to be low impact players that are being offered deals heavily laden with merit money if anything at all.

Yes, and you have written this about 1,000 times over the past 4 years. I think it's safe to assume that all of the players on the list, if uncommitted yet are being pretty heavily recruited.

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I'm picking up the distinct scent of a boy's parent who doesn't understand that girls go through puberty earlier than boys. The typical age for the onset of puberty in a girl is between 8 and 12 with the average being 10 1/2. So if a 12 year old girl would be considered a very "late bloomer", a 15 year old girl would be considered a statistical anomaly.

Puberty between 8 and 12? 10.5 the average? Sure, OK. Why not just say 6, LOL?

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Puberty is usually about 2 years in length. When it starts is not as useful to this discussion as when it ends: and there before you is the adult form. At 14, for girls, (u14-u15 years) there is a 2 year deviation in normal physiology. Hence a normal 14 year old can be physiologically 16 and pretty much the finished product or physiologically 12 with 5 inches and 30 pounds left to grow. At 15 the deviation begins to narrow, but there is still significant variation in "normal". For boys the variation at 15 remains very wide and this is why the recruitment process is delayed in boys.

However, the college coaches know this variation exists and, after wasting time and money on early bloomers, are beginning to identify talent rather than selecting talent. This talent identification is what European Academy scouts have been doing for years. The scouts who are good at talent identification can generate significant income by seeing through the present into the future. Of course these boys are all considered potentially salable commodities and hence a business has been developed around the indentification of quality "stock" (s).

Identifying talent is an art that looks for the ceiling in a player's development. Selecting talent is relatively simple and involves the choosing of players who are the "best" at any given point in time. The US national scouts seem to be more talent selectors as Jill Ellis has recently been quoted as saying, "I want to win at every level". Not necessarily a problem, if you coninue to reevaluate the stock as time goes on with the intent of replacing underperformers, but that doesnt really happen. I also dont think that the "development" at national camps can't be replicated within the home clubs and so no player who was not chosen initially is destined to lose ground over those that have been selected. In fact from what I know of national training it might be best for a late bloomer trequartista to stay out of the system that promotes one and two touch passing as the holy grail. Read Tony DiCicco's 2008 post U20 paper to learn more about that.

The college coaches recruiting U15 players are increasingly becoming talent identifyers as their mistakes have been haunting them. So if you have a late blooming 14-15 year old who looks 12 or 13 dont worry too much, if she /hecan play she/he might ultimately be the most sought after player on her/his team.
Let the parents of the early bloomers who are fearfully seeing the domination diminish attack...

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Hope that you realize that top level players start getting offers in their freshman year and most are now substantially done by the end of the first semester sophomore year. Your timing seems off by about a year. A lot of things can and do impact individual timelines but as a general rule of thumb the only ones still getting recruited by a top level program at this point in a junior year are projected to be low impact players that are being offered deals heavily laden with merit money if anything at all.

Dad, you need to understand the difference between being "scouted" or "recruited" and receiving a polite reply from a coach when you go up to him and ask "So, coach, what did you think of Mia? Pretty good, huh?"

Somebody else, maybe you, said that puberty is now 10????? Where re you, San Pedro???? You better check the water supply in your town or you are going to have a high school full of midgets. Talk about detachment from reality. I guess stars in the eyes does that. My guess is that the poster has a daughter who hit puberty at 11 and wants to believe everyone else has too. Like they are not going to charge past her at 100 mph as they hit their development prime. Fast starts are tough on kids - apparently they are absolutely brutal on their parents.

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Here is a decent article written by a physician on the subject

http://www.dukemedicine.org/blog/when-puberty-too-early

--BTDT

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Here is a decent article written by a physician on the subject

http://www.dukemedicine.org/blog/when-puberty-too-early

--BTDT

What value is this article to the discussion? All I can tell is that you are trying to legitimize your awful 10 1/2 year old puberty claim. Careful reading shows this is malarkey.

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Here is a decent article written by a physician on the subject

http://www.dukemedicine.org/blog/when-puberty-too-early

--BTDT

Ironically, you seem to be way over your 2 posts a day proclamation that you ironically made just today, and that's just the ones you've initialized.

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Hikfyth is better than dap

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Does anyone know when the invitations for the National PDP event in July are announced?

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Does anyone know when the invitations for the National PDP event in July are announced?

As soon as JD has the time to put it together

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Is JD running the event? I thought he only ran the Northeast event.

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Whoever ran the event will have all of their girls moving on to the national event: Stars, Penn Fusion, Richmond. Just watch. It's guaranteed.

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Any update on when the National invites are announced?