Thorns Academy Year 2

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Believe it.

Go Portland State. $50,000 of traveling around the country to give Tom paid for vacations just to play at Portland State.

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Go Portland State. $50,000 of traveling around the country to give Tom paid for vacations just to play at Portland State.

Easy to see those that don't have kids being recruited at any level. Anyone who has a child who is going through or completed the process would never post this crap. The work put in outside of soccer and school in order to get recruited is immense. The amount of time spent calling coaches and researching schools by 15-17 year old kids in order to play at the next level is amazing. Great job by all these kids no matter what level is in their future. To bad not everyone knows the process or the work involved and post such jealous crap.

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Easy to see those that don't have kids being recruited at any level. Anyone who has a child who is going through or completed the process would never post this crap. The work put in outside of soccer and school in order to get recruited is immense. The amount of time spent calling coaches and researching schools by 15-17 year old kids in order to play at the next level is amazing. Great job by all these kids no matter what level is in their future. To bad not everyone knows the process or the work involved and post such jealous crap.

To hear his minions talk, Tom is the one who does all this magic to get the kids recruited. So which is it, the kids or Tom? People seem to be talking out of both sides of their mouths.

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To hear his minions talk, Tom is the one who does all this magic to get the kids recruited. So which is it, the kids or Tom? People seem to be talking out of both sides of their mouths.

no dog in this fight but think if folks are going to use the word minion they should include gifs

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that is all,

signed king bob

edit - holy crap that image is gigante

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To hear his minions talk, Tom is the one who does all this magic to get the kids recruited. So which is it, the kids or Tom? People seem to be talking out of both sides of their mouths.

Tom provides the opportunity to be recruited to the girls who work and sacrifice a lot to play on one of his teams. Verbally committing to play college soccer is all up to the girls' - they do the work, calling, emailing, playing their best when the coaches are on the sidelines, visiting schools, following up….Great experience!

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Let's not forget that this thread is about Thorns Academy.


"Rosters" are published - really just lists of offers - many didn't accept...

Very few returnees from last year's '97 team - 10 total...

No U17/U16 ECNL players moved TO Thorns Academy this year...

'99 roster includes 01's and 02's - had to take every girl that tried out...

Tina has so little faith in the program that she didn't move even one of her Nemesis players to it...

And the best part - it's $5K to play in OYSA!!!

I will go verify this, but if it's true, ouch.