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    #16
    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
    ???? I'm not a big fan of GPS, but they have over 170 college coaches already signed up to attend. Doesn't seem bad for a tournament over Thanksgiving weekend.
    They have some of the same coaches listed that are on the NEWSS tournament website. I have coached at both tournaments and their seems to be a lot more coaches attending the NEWSS tournament seems GPS seems to keep using the same names year after year.

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      #17
      Originally posted by fattydaddy View Post
      Referring to me? my daughter's in her Jr. Year-U17; both of my daughter's knew they weren't D1 material and D3 is fine with them, they just want to play and know they're not going pro. As I said she has an intended major and should have an idea of a major being a Jr. in HS. We started for both when they were in their Sophomore years.
      No offense, but you are the type of parent that totally screws up people's understanding of how D1 recruiting works. You are here harping on the education aspect and what you are really doing almost comes off as face saving. Make no mistake, the education part of recruiting is important but it is not really the defining piece when it comes to D1 recruiting.

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        #18
        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
        They have some of the same coaches listed that are on the NEWSS tournament website. I have coached at both tournaments and their seems to be a lot more coaches attending the NEWSS tournament seems GPS seems to keep using the same names year after year.
        Don't get overly invested in counting the number of coaches signed up for a tournament. They sign up to get the recruiting packet that each tournament promoter generates not necessarily to actually go to the games. A lot do go but not all of them and not necessarily the specific coach listed. You also need to factor in that CASL happened last weekend and the inter regionals are happening this week so there is some degree of saturation that will impact the coaching ranks at the local events.

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          #19
          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
          No offense, but you are the type of parent that totally screws up people's understanding of how D1 recruiting works. You are here harping on the education aspect and what you are really doing almost comes off as face saving. Make no mistake, the education part of recruiting is important but it is not really the defining piece when it comes to D1 recruiting.
          Thanks for the insult, BTDT.

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            #20
            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
            Can someone with any type of insight help me out. The GPS Thanksgiving Showcase is coming up. I looked at the schedule and there are 4 divisions in each of the older age groups(one even has 5 divisions).

            Each age has a "Super Group," which is really super for those people. I'm sure scouts will be watching these games.

            What are the chances that a college scout will wander the field of a 2nd, 3rd or 4th division of any age group? Is it wishful thinking on the part of these lesser teams, or is this just another chance to get some games in?

            A lot of coaches from U14-U16 like to tell the parents they'll get their kids exposure in these college showcases. Something tells me that the 8 a.m. game, in the 4th division, on the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend may have no parents on the sideline, let alone a college scout.
            Hey kids, look what Daddy is going to do again first thing Monday morning! New week, new thread, new fiction. Daddy always tells a good story.

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              #21
              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
              Thanks for the insult, BTDT.
              You have to love when D3 parents try to give advice about recruiting. Most haven't the first clue what is going on and end up giving advice that really ends up to be incorrect if you have a child on a D1 trajectory.

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                #22
                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                You have to love when D3 parents try to give advice about recruiting. Most haven't the first clue what is going on and end up giving advice that really ends up to be incorrect if you have a child on a D1 trajectory.
                Actually, you have to love when parents who failed their kid miserably in the D1 recruiting game try to rationalize their failure by endlessly pontificating about how complicated the recruiting process is.

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                  #23
                  Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                  Actually, you have to love when parents who failed their kid miserably in the D1 recruiting game try to rationalize their failure by endlessly pontificating about how complicated the recruiting process is.
                  There is nothing terribly complicated about doing your homework and targeting schools where your child is likely to get money and play. Some of the D3 crowd though want to over simplify things and always net things down to just school reputation. At the D1 level you are looking for a job as well as an education so there is just more to process than those D3 parents seem aware of.

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                    #24
                    D3 recruiting is nothing like D1 recruiting. On the girls side players usually get to a D3 school after testing out the D1 waters and finding that there wasn't a lot of interest. There is a lot of waste in doing that. If fattydaddy was smart enough to figure out his kids were not D1 level players and went straight to looking at D3 schools good for him. He was in fact very smart and probably saved himself a small fortune at the club level. I would suggest he is more the exception than the rule though.

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                      #25
                      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                      You have to love when D3 parents try to give advice about recruiting. Most haven't the first clue what is going on and end up giving advice that really ends up to be incorrect if you have a child on a D1 trajectory.
                      Maybe, but didn't see any of them giving anyone any advice, and they certainly aren't starting fake threads every day like you do.

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                        #26
                        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                        There is nothing terribly complicated about doing your homework and targeting schools where your child is likely to get money and play. Some of the D3 crowd though want to over simplify things and always net things down to just school reputation. At the D1 level you are looking for a job as well as an education so there is just more to process than those D3 parents seem aware of.
                        Oh, OK BTDT. Hopefully it won't be too complex for you to figure out for yourself. Everyone else will find a way to manage. Thanks for your interest and concern, though.

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                          #27
                          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                          D3 recruiting is nothing like D1 recruiting. On the girls side players usually get to a D3 school after testing out the D1 waters and finding that there wasn't a lot of interest. There is a lot of waste in doing that. If fattydaddy was smart enough to figure out his kids were not D1 level players and went straight to looking at D3 schools good for him. He was in fact very smart and probably saved himself a small fortune at the club level. I would suggest he is more the exception than the rule though.
                          Nope, most do figure out things just fine. And most would be playing for their clubs regardless of any ambitions for any type of college soccer. Thank you again, though.

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                            #28
                            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                            Maybe, but didn't see any of them giving anyone any advice, and they certainly aren't starting fake threads every day like you do.
                            What exactly are you doing? You continually argue that the academic decision is the only part of equation that matters and yet you don't know the first thing about recruiting because you never actually went through it with a child. How much of a fraud does that make you?

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                              #29
                              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                              There is nothing terribly complicated about doing your homework and targeting schools where your child is likely to get money and play. Some of the D3 crowd though want to over simplify things and always net things down to just school reputation. At the D1 level you are looking for a job as well as an education so there is just more to process than those D3 parents seem aware of.
                              Then you have nut jobs like Perspective who have monstrous chips on their shoulders because they feel that people look down upon D3 soccer so they who have to elevate everything to do with the D3 level to a unrealistic point so that it appears to be right there on a par with a D1 choice. Rather pathetic actually. This includes recruiting but recruiting at the D3 level doesn't actually happen like it does at the D1 at all so all their efforts to equalize the appearance of things really do is confuse people.

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                                #30
                                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                                No offense, but you are the type of parent that totally screws up people's understanding of how D1 recruiting works. You are here harping on the education aspect and what you are really doing almost comes off as face saving. Make no mistake, the education part of recruiting is important but it is not really the defining piece when it comes to D1 recruiting.
                                With D1 soccer, the ability to play soccer is what dictates whether a player will end up at Stanford or Holy Cross, not their grades or SAT scores. Since both of those schools will end up following a different recruiting time line, that ability then also dictates when a child starts the recruiting process. That is a fairly significant difference between the D1 and D3 levels since the D3 schools all basically are on the same time line and grades/SAT scores dictate where a player will end up.

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