Craziest soccer parent(s)

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What an idiot like you never seems to get is those situations are not nearly as rare as you seem to think. You have two local girls from this year’s recruiting class going to Duke and if memory serves correct they both committed in their Freshman year. Think that just happened over night? You clearly have absolutely no understanding whatsoever about what is going on in club soccer on the girls side these days. What you see as crazy are actually the sane ones who played the recruiting game and won whereas the true nuts like you are the ones who completely failed at the same game and then make all sorts of excuses for it. Before you start with your typical gibberish, no one forced them to play the game but if you are associated with a “C” level team or higher these days into the high school years they are in fact playing it. Time for you to roll forward about a generation. You are completely out of touch.

Those players are still the exception, not the rule. The vast majority of kids will not go to Duke or get recruited freshman year. We don't turn out that many top D1 players, reality.
You are part of the problem, perpetuating the myth.

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Those players are still the exception, not the rule. The vast majority of kids will not go to Duke or get recruited freshman year. We don't turn out that many top D1 players, reality.
You are part of the problem, perpetuating the myth.

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You are making one of the historical points on this site. Why are parents worrying about things like the DA or ECNL if they know so clearly that their kids aren't destined to be recruited in their freshman year and end up at a place like Duke? Never made much sense to chase the dream that way but I digress. The truth of the matter though is there are far more players earning scholarships on the girls side than you and others are willing to accept and a fair number of them are even landing at top programs so it's not nearly the myth that you claim it is. Where I think many make the mistake is assuming that parents aren't looking at the unicorns and mentally downgrading their situation to apply it to their kid. They actually know their kids aren't unicorns but plenty of them will pick a school like BU,NU,PC or some equivalent thinking it is a more realistic fit when they are completely clueless what it takes to get there and oblivious of their kid's talent level. Those are the ones who end up to be the nuts. The problem people like you create is you lump that faction in with the parents who legitimately have kids who can and will play at a school like BU,NU,PC, St John's etc and that creates a huge disconnect. There are families that ARE winning the recruiting game and they most definitely are not crazy.

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You are making one of the historical points on this site. Why are parents worrying about things like the DA or ECNL if they know so clearly that their kids aren't destined to be recruited in their freshman year and end up at a place like Duke? Never made much sense to chase the dream that way but I digress. The truth of the matter though is there are far more players earning scholarships on the girls side than you and others are willing to accept and a fair number of them are even landing at top programs so it's not nearly the myth that you claim it is. Where I think many make the mistake is assuming that parents aren't looking at the unicorns and mentally downgrading their situation to apply it to their kid. They actually know their kids aren't unicorns but plenty of them will pick a school like BU,NU,PC or some equivalent thinking it is a more realistic fit when they are completely clueless what it takes to get there and oblivious of their kid's talent level. Those are the ones who end up to be the nuts. The problem people like you create is you lump that faction in with the parents who legitimately have kids who can and will play at a school like BU,NU,PC, St John's etc and that creates a huge disconnect. There are families that ARE winning the recruiting game and they most definitely are not crazy.

Complains about someone lumping people in, then lumps people in...

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What an idiot like you never seems to get is those situations are not nearly as rare as you seem to think. You have two local girls from this year’s recruiting class going to Duke and if memory serves correct they both committed in their Freshman year. Think that just happened over night? You clearly have absolutely no understanding whatsoever about what is going on in club soccer on the girls side these days. What you see as crazy are actually the sane ones who played the recruiting game and won whereas the true nuts like you are the ones who completely failed at the same game and then make all sorts of excuses for it. Before you start with your typical gibberish, no one forced them to play the game but if you are associated with a “C” level team or higher these days into the high school years they are in fact playing it. Time for you to roll forward about a generation. You are completely out of touch.

Having insulted and denigrated large numbers of people, do you feel better now? Your post says everything about you and your psychological dysfunction and very little about other parents. I wish you would go away.

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Having insulted and denigrated large numbers of people, do you feel better now? Your post says everything about you and your psychological dysfunction and very little about other parents. I wish you would go away.

Don't flatter yourself. Most here wish you would cease to breath. So we are even.

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Committing to state schools, d1 is really a fantastic accomplishment especially with a 75 percent acceptance rate. Wait, your daughter is a stud and you received some money from the athletic department, while the school boasts that 80 % of their students are receiving aid. Some will be be skeptical but my d just finished her second year and she "receives" more "aid" then the studs from 2 ecnl PA schools, 1 who quit because she played the equivalent of 2 full games.
Oh the death gurgle of girls soccer is beginning with ECNL/DA/US SOCCER all eating each other up to get a piece of the 25 million dollar a year business known as club soccer. Heck, mass youth soccer is ready to implode and have all sorts of irs agents sniffing around.

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Committing to state schools, d1 is really a fantastic accomplishment especially with a 75 percent acceptance rate. Wait, your daughter is a stud and you received some money from the athletic department, while the school boasts that 80 % of their students are receiving aid. Some will be be skeptical but my d just finished her second year and she "receives" more "aid" then the studs from 2 ecnl PA schools, 1 who quit because she played the equivalent of 2 full games.
Oh the death gurgle of girls soccer is beginning with ECNL/DA/US SOCCER all eating each other up to get a piece of the 25 million dollar a year business known as club soccer. Heck, mass youth soccer is ready to implode and have all sorts of irs agents sniffing around.

You madam go to the very top of the list.

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You madam go to the very top of the list.

Has to be posted 133 from letter of intent thread. Glad her daughter got $50k in merit. Mine would is happy to get 30 and play some D1 ball and have a blast doing it. But I do like the IRS ag t sniffing around the mass clubs - about time some of the excess profit was taken out of being non-profit.

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The direction that this post took only proves my point that parents of youth girl soccer players are the craziest.

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1. NEFC parents by far the worst parents.

2. Recruitment is different than offer. Very rarely does a 14 year old soccer player get an official offer from a college. Does it happen yes. But exception. A player is a D1 prospect when he or she has a D1 offer. Interest /recruitment letters are a nice validation of the hard work the child puts in. But official offers is what really counts.

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1. NEFC parents by far the worst parents.

2. Recruitment is different than offer. Very rarely does a 14 year old soccer player get an official offer from a college. Does it happen yes. But exception. A player is a D1 prospect when he or she has a D1 offer. Interest /recruitment letters are a nice validation of the hard work the child puts in. But official offers is what really counts.

He’s the rub. NEFC has actually had quite a few girls of late that have committed quite young. The real issue is not all the girls commit that young and the ones that don’t usually end up shocked and writing posts like the one above. The simple truth is if your kid is destined to commit young you know it by the U11-12 years because everyone is already talking about them. Getting a kid from that point through an actual commitment and onto a college playing field is a whole other thread. Suffice to say that there is an awful lot of room for error. The amazing thing about club soccer these days is the shear number of parents who will put their kids on teams with kids like those early committees seemingly assuming that something will rub off on their kid then get pissed off when that doesn’t happen. A smart parent literally see whether what is going to happen and make rationale choices that will lead their kid to an appropriate fit. Way way too many parents think they absolutely have to do the DA or the ECNL in order for their kid to end up with a soccer scholarship because that is what they THINK worked for the early committees. The sad truth is at this point in time neither will have impact for those level players simply because those kids are committing before those programs really get rolling. Its all a farce actually but the actual issue is a complete lack of objectivity.

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He’s the rub. NEFC has actually had quite a few girls of late that have committed quite young. The real issue is not all the girls commit that young and the ones that don’t usually end up shocked and writing posts like the one above. The simple truth is if your kid is destined to commit young you know it by the U11-12 years because everyone is already talking about them. Getting a kid from that point through an actual commitment and onto a college playing field is a whole other thread. Suffice to say that there is an awful lot of room for error. The amazing thing about club soccer these days is the shear number of parents who will put their kids on teams with kids like those early committees seemingly assuming that something will rub off on their kid then get pissed off when that doesn’t happen. A smart parent literally see whether what is going to happen and make rationale choices that will lead their kid to an appropriate fit. Way way too many parents think they absolutely have to do the DA or the ECNL in order for their kid to end up with a soccer scholarship because that is what they THINK worked for the early committees. The sad truth is at this point in time neither will have impact for those level players simply because those kids are committing before those programs really get rolling. Its all a farce actually but the actual issue is a complete lack of objectivity.

Saying that you will know if your kid is destined to commit by U11-U12 just shows the shear stupidity of people who post on here.

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Saying that you will know if your kid is destined to commit by U11-U12 just shows the shear stupidity of people who post on here.

As an experienced and multi-age group coach, there is more truth to that statement than you think.
Commit is the wrong word, but you can definitely see the potential for higher level play at that age.
I am not a huge believer in the late bloomer theory, but it does happen.

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Saying that you will know if your kid is destined to commit by U11-U12 just shows the shear stupidity of people who post on here.

There a two buckets. They are labeled “has a shot” and “doesn’t have a shot” and kids get slotted into them real early, especially in soccer. The sad part is way too many parents with kids in the “has no shot” bucket seem to fall in love with the little engine that could stories that delusional hacks like you often spread. Those end up to be the nuts who fill the club cash registers while the coaches grin em to death. People like you are to blame for them because you set false expectations. Bitch about the 1% that club soccer caters to all you like, the reality is that bucket is quite small and parents ought recognize that if their kid is not in it that club soccer is not going to do much for either of them except drain their wallet. The sooner they figure that out the better off they will be.

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There a two buckets. They are labeled “has a shot” and “doesn’t have a shot” and kids get slotted into them real early, especially in soccer. The sad part is way too many parents with kids in the “has no shot” bucket seem to fall in love with the little engine that could stories that delusional hacks like you often spread. Those end up to be the nuts who fill the club cash registers while the coaches grin em to death. People like you are to blame for them because you set false expectations. Bitch about the 1% that club soccer caters to all you like, the reality is that bucket is quite small and parents ought recognize that if their kid is not in it that club soccer is not going to do much for either of them except drain their wallet. The sooner they figure that out the better off they will be.

You must be an expert in child/adolescent development.