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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostI would love to see the soccer landscape change as it is surely broken. However.. I highly doubt that anything will change.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostWoah!! "Far flung locales...boat loads of money...travel to the ends of the Earth"....???? Drama much??
Brevard County might be as far as you've ever been, but for most, Greer, SC is not the end of the Earth.
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Soccer scholarship. Maybe not
I had discuss with parents in the last weeks the soccer scholarships, that will be drastically changing for the rising sophomore but more so the kids entering their junior year. All have come to a halt in that aspect until who knows when. There is parents that are trying to find new ways in the face of the uncertainty we are facing. We pushed so much for those long training hours, traveling to showcases, paying whatever for our kid to train in what we believed was "the better club" around. We allowed them to neglect academics and life learning in general. Now what...
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostMore than you would had ever think! Those insane days filled with school and soccer are over for the time being, some kids are learning the everyday stuff helping mom with house chores or dad fixing and finishing (abandoned) projects around the house, because who had time with Soccer. My kid is staying in shape, running about every day, longer than she ever thought and is enjoying this new passion. She's reading a few books that grandpa got her and had discover the joy of writing. She misses soccer, she's been playing almost all her life but in just a few weeks realized that there is more, much more than learning exclusively academics and how to kick ball. The clubs are going to need an adjustment to deal with this group of kids (an parents) that had open their eyes to see that soccer may not be it. Some will move on.
Our daughter had to come home prematurely from her freshmen year attending college and playing soccer on a D1 scholarship. She was on a Zoom call today with 4 other girls from here college team, telling the current High School Seniors what to expect when they report to Training Camp in August, 2020. Now, the whole world could be different 5 months from now but in the mean time a lot of soccer families are driving on based on what they have believed for the past 10-12 years. The sky is not falling but if your kid that used to grind playing soccer all the sudden wants to read books from Grandpa, you should probably follow that. In our house, we made time for high level soccer, eating dinner together, taking care of the lawn, walks together, board games, etc. Life will return to semi-normal and then normal.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostI wouldn't over-react to the current conditions. You make it seem like players and families were in a strange hypnotic trance and when they were forced to snap out of it, everything will be different.
Our daughter had to come home prematurely from her freshmen year attending college and playing soccer on a D1 scholarship. She was on a Zoom call today with 4 other girls from here college team, telling the current High School Seniors what to expect when they report to Training Camp in August, 2020. Now, the whole world could be different 5 months from now but in the mean time a lot of soccer families are driving on based on what they have believed for the past 10-12 years. The sky is not falling but if your kid that used to grind playing soccer all the sudden wants to read books from Grandpa, you should probably follow that. In our house, we made time for high level soccer, eating dinner together, taking care of the lawn, walks together, board games, etc. Life will return to semi-normal and then normal.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostI wouldn't over-react to the current conditions. You make it seem like players and families were in a strange hypnotic trance and when they were forced to snap out of it, everything will be different.
Our daughter had to come home prematurely from her freshmen year attending college and playing soccer on a D1 scholarship. She was on a Zoom call today with 4 other girls from here college team, telling the current High School Seniors what to expect when they report to Training Camp in August, 2020. Now, the whole world could be different 5 months from now but in the mean time a lot of soccer families are driving on based on what they have believed for the past 10-12 years. The sky is not falling but if your kid that used to grind playing soccer all the sudden wants to read books from Grandpa, you should probably follow that. In our house, we made time for high level soccer, eating dinner together, taking care of the lawn, walks together, board games, etc. Life will return to semi-normal and then normal.
If you really did that, it was a big mistake. The families that we are close to stressed keeping the grades and test scores up. Only the lazy kids/families we know focused on sports and not sports + academics.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View Post"We pushed so much for those long training hours, traveling to showcases, paying whatever for our kid to train in what we believed was "the better club" around. We allowed them to neglect academics and life learning in general. Now what..."
If you really did that, it was a big mistake. The families that we are close to stressed keeping the grades and test scores up. Only the lazy kids/families we know focused on sports and not sports + academics.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostI had discuss with parents in the last weeks the soccer scholarships, that will be drastically changing for the rising sophomore but more so the kids entering their junior year. All have come to a halt in that aspect until who knows when. There is parents that are trying to find new ways in the face of the uncertainty we are facing. We pushed so much for those long training hours, traveling to showcases, paying whatever for our kid to train in what we believed was "the better club" around. We allowed them to neglect academics and life learning in general. Now what...
A good player with good grades will have many more options than one with only ok grades. Athletic scholarships aren't as plentiful as people think, but merit money and financial aid is there if you qualify and sticks all 4 years.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostAnd that's fine, my kid is training as well but getting better rounded as an individual, kicking ball was never it and it will never be. Relying exclusively on soccer for a college scholarship is gambling and you'll be a fool thinking otherwise. Not everyone graduated from college, my wife and I did and if you did as well then agree that takes much more than "high level soccer" to succeed. My kid has been contacted already by a couple of schools and may land a scholarship for soccer, if not what he has for sure is a solid academic background. Best of luck to your talented player
Making the adjustment to college classes, dealing with being a 17 year old on a team with girls up to 23 years old (5th year Seniors), adjusting to life in the Dorms with a room mate, the shift from "coach as mentor" to "coach as Boss", brutal competition for playing time, and living in a city 1,200 miles away and not being allowed to come home for the first 4 months of the school year (beginning of training camp through the end of the season). All of these turned out to be much harder than demonstrating soccer knowledge, technical abilities and fitness.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View Post"Not everyone graduated from college, my wife and I did and if you did as well then agree that takes much more than "high level soccer" to succeed." This is a great point and now that our daughter is completing her first year playing D1 soccer it is amazing how many more things were critical to her success than soccer knowledge, technical abilities and fitness.
Making the adjustment to college classes, dealing with being a 17 year old on a team with girls up to 23 years old (5th year Seniors), adjusting to life in the Dorms with a room mate, the shift from "coach as mentor" to "coach as Boss", brutal competition for playing time, and living in a city 1,200 miles away and not being allowed to come home for the first 4 months of the school year (beginning of training camp through the end of the season). All of these turned out to be much harder than demonstrating soccer knowledge, technical abilities and fitness.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostSophomores still have time to pull up their grades and still get recruited, if that's what they still want. Juniors who haven't locked in a spot are the ones really panicked, with good reason. Showcases may not happen and possibly summer ID events, yet they have to apply ED or EA in the fall.
A good player with good grades will have many more options than one with only ok grades. Athletic scholarships aren't as plentiful as people think, but merit money and financial aid is there if you qualify and sticks all 4 years.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View Post"Not everyone graduated from college, my wife and I did and if you did as well then agree that takes much more than "high level soccer" to succeed." This is a great point and now that our daughter is completing her first year playing D1 soccer it is amazing how many more things were critical to her success than soccer knowledge, technical abilities and fitness.
Making the adjustment to college classes, dealing with being a 17 year old on a team with girls up to 23 years old (5th year Seniors), adjusting to life in the Dorms with a room mate, the shift from "coach as mentor" to "coach as Boss", brutal competition for playing time, and living in a city 1,200 miles away and not being allowed to come home for the first 4 months of the school year (beginning of training camp through the end of the season). All of these turned out to be much harder than demonstrating soccer knowledge, technical abilities and fitness.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThat is why so many kids with the “soccer dream” quit after first college season. To the disappointment of mom and dad bragging about playing D1. And if grades and studying habits are so so, kid is back home. Prioritize
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThat is why so many kids with the “soccer dream” quit after first college season. To the disappointment of mom and dad bragging about playing D1. And if grades and studying habits are so so, kid is back home. Prioritize
If all that is available to your kid you may want to reinforce grades and study habits but still amazing how many kids quit after first college season. It's a grind.
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