Who gives a crap about girls soccer, besides parents and few roommates

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Women's soccer is viable and growing professional sport
http://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt...e27053368.html]

Really, where? In some destitute state where the alternative is work as a cashier at Walmart or ...?

Let's see. You go to college, play DI, finish college with a degree. Do you

A) get a job in a profession that is supported by your degree?
or
B) play professional women's soccer?

Hmmmm. Tough choice.

I guess if you play professional women's soccer, you might earn as much as $50,000 per year and have a career of 5 or 6 years. Brilliant. That's clearly the viable part of the profession. I'd buy that for a dollar.

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Really, where? In some destitute state where the alternative is work as a cashier at Walmart or ...?

Let's see. You go to college, play DI, finish college with a degree. Do you

A) get a job in a profession that is supported by your degree?
or
B) play professional women's soccer?

Hmmmm. Tough choice.

I guess if you play professional women's soccer, you might earn as much as $50,000 per year and have a career of 5 or 6 years. Brilliant. That's clearly the viable part of the profession. I'd buy that for a dollar.

Clearly you loath soccer but you should at least try to be a little creative with your criticism with have some semblance of lucid thinking behind them. How many kids are going to balk at making $50K while in their 20's? I've had two kids graduate from college and are within their first 5-6 years of their careers. Mine are doing much better than many of their college classmates and that income number right around where they are. Many of their classmates however are unemployed or under employed and all I keep hearing about their friends mak9ing is salaries in the 30's. The idea of playing soccer in a foreign country and making $50k while doing it sounds pretty darn good to me.

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Clearly you loath soccer but you should at least try to be a little creative with your criticism with have some semblance of lucid thinking behind them. How many kids are going to balk at making $50K while in their 20's? I've had two kids graduate from college and are within their first 5-6 years of their careers. Mine are doing much better than many of their college classmates and that income number right around where they are. Many of their classmates however are unemployed or under employed and all I keep hearing about their friends mak9ing is salaries in the 30's. The idea of playing soccer in a foreign country and making $50k while doing it sounds pretty darn good to me.

Why so determined to defend and rationalize your choices....ummm, diminishing options? What law schools are you targeting?

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Why so determined to defend and rationalize your choices....ummm, diminishing options? What law schools are you targeting?

Turn this around ... why are you so determined to attack and exaggerate? Certainly seems that you spend an awful lot of your time here belittling anyone who has a kid that is actually good enough at soccer to get their educations paid for and parlay that into a career. Could the root of your bitterness be that you have nothing better to do with your life than spend all day trolling an insignificant website pretending to be other people and starting ridiculous threads like this one?

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Turn this around ... why are you so determined to attack and exaggerate? Certainly seems that you spend an awful lot of your time here belittling anyone who has a kid that is actually good enough at soccer to get their educations paid for and parlay that into a career. Could the root of your bitterness be that you have nothing better to do with your life than spend all day trolling an insignificant website pretending to be other people and starting ridiculous threads like this one?

Nailed it

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Turn this around ... why are you so determined to attack and exaggerate? Certainly seems that you spend an awful lot of your time here belittling anyone who has a kid that is actually good enough at soccer to get their educations paid for and parlay that into a career. Could the root of your bitterness be that you have nothing better to do with your life than spend all day trolling an insignificant website pretending to be other people and starting ridiculous threads like this one?

That is hilarious, BTNT. Did you type all that with a straight face? Is it a complete lack of insight or just total deceit, or both?

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BTNT, did you mean pretending to be other people, like the new "SoCal" guy with the tragic job transfer who has three D1 full rides at ages 13, 11 and 9 OR more something like your handiwork below?

Since we left the club a number of parents have asked me why we didn't leave earlier. Truthfully I have asked myself that same question many times. After pondering it for a while I think it basically comes down to how they build the culture in the club. You end up feeling like there really is no other option. This feeling also explains a lot of the pro Stars rhetoric you read here. People literally are scared to death that they would end up with another club. There is that much paranoia built into the culture.*

When you get right down to it, the way the Stars are run is not all that dissimilar to what you read about in cults. They work real hard at isolating the families from the influences of other coaches and clubs. Their posture on ODP is a perfect example. They instill a Stars against the world mindset and there is always a villain that is conspiring to hurt the club for the families to rally against. When we first started with the club, the villain was MPS. All you ever heard from the coaches was how much a joke MPS was and when they criticized players one of the worst insults they would throw at them was the snide remark about going to play for MPS. When players did leave for another club their name was constantly brought up in practice and ridiculed. You ended up feeling all of the other clubs were not even close to the Stars and that if you left them you were basically giving up on soccer.*

When I look back now I am actually rather disgusted with myself and husband for how long we stayed with the club. We were both athletes and knew that what we were seeing wasn't having a healthy impact on our daughter. She withdrew into shell and lost all confidence as a player. We also saw an impact socially and in school but had convinced ourselves that it was the price that she needed to pay to be a soccer player. We even used to have discussions with her about being tougher and rising to the challenge. All that did was take the joy out playing a game and turned it into a job. The sad thing is all of us were so afraid that if we left the Stars everything she had put up with would be wasted and her soccer career would be over. We quite literally had family fights over it. In the end my daughter simply wore out. She left the club a shadow of her former self and I distinctly remember feeling shame at leaving. I am quite embarrassed to now admit that. I will tell you that there is life other than the Stars. It took time and a completely different coaching style but soccer became fun again and my daughter has actually thrived beyond our expectations.*

This sort of brings into focus your comments about meaningless websites and gratuitous bitterness, don't ya think, lol??? No matter how many times I read this, I till love the "rather disgusted with myself 'and husband'" line and how embarrassed you were to be "admitting" the above on this meaningless website.

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and the nut job is off and running.

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and the nut job is off and running.

happens every few weeks, like the full moon. Maybe there's a correlation with the lunar cycle?

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happens every few weeks, like the full moon. Maybe there's a correlation with the lunar cycle?

Which one? There are a lot on this site.

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Typical BTNT. Completely outrageous. Ridiculous "SoCal" threads, absurd denials and deflections, etc, etc and then claims someone else has a problem. The dude is just so sick and impaired. Sad.