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You are the biggest looser for always trying to bring btnt or perspective into every thread. Get a life

Glad some of you are starting to get what has been happening here. This guy loves to start threads and then blame other people for them. They are very crafty at it. There is no evidence that either btdt or perspective have been here at all except for this person pointing a finger at them. Happens all the time.

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Ask GPS for your money back and enjoy watching high school soccer.

If you only knew when you started with club soccer what you apparently know now, what changes would you have made?

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If you only knew when you started with club soccer what you apparently know now, what changes would you have made?

PLEASE, if you are going to complain about being exposed try not to be so obvious. This could not be any more transparent. Seriously, you must think everyone who comes here is really, really dumb.

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Just realized that our child doesnt have all the tools to play D1. Now what do we do?

Just say they chose academics over D1. And follow up with the elite D3 is equal to or better than D1. Yawn.

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PLEASE, if you are going to complain about being exposed try not to be so obvious. This could not be any more transparent. Seriously, you must think everyone who comes here is really, really dumb.

BTDT suffers from an extraordinarily acute case of Dunning-Kruger, in addition to his reactionary politics and bigotries. Why you even bother trying to engage him about anything unrelated to soccer is a real mystery.

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Just say they chose academics over D1. And follow up with the elite D3 is equal to or better than D1. Yawn.

Much better than D1 in certain cases. Best of both world's so why do you need guidance?

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Much better than D1 in certain cases. Best of both world's so why do you need guidance?

Two reasons. First how do you explain to your wife all the coin you needlessly dropped chasing the D1 dream? Second, how do you play it with the rest of the parents on your kid's team now that your have been telling them for years that your kid was "the best player on the team" :)

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BTDT suffers from an extraordinarily acute case of Dunning-Kruger, in addition to his reactionary politics and bigotries. Why you even bother trying to engage him about anything unrelated to soccer is a real mystery.

Dude, if you had half an ounce of sanity left you would recognize that you are getting your chain jerked in a major way. It never fails. Jump fishy.

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Two reasons. First how do you explain to your wife all the coin you needlessly dropped chasing the D1 dream? Second, how do you play it with the rest of the parents on your kid's team now that your have been telling them for years that your kid was "the best player on the team" :)

Well, let's see....... The amount we spend on youth sports is a rounding error in our budget and the other parents are quite well aware of our kid's relative place and role on the team. They seem to be at peace with it so I hope it isn't causing you too much agita.

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Just realized that our child doesnt have all the tools to play D1. Now what do we do?

This is an easy one.

1) Tell her how much she has disappointed you and that she has stained the family name. "We don't do D3 in this household, young lady!"

2) Inform her that her funding source for anything related to soccer is gone, and further, that you expect full reimbursement of all soccer expenditures on her up to the present from her with a family-friendly interest rate of 3.5% tacked on.

3) For all the costs and humiliation she has brought to you she will be cut loose and on her own altogether if she matriculates anywhere besides a regional state school.

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This is an easy one.

1) Tell her how much she has disappointed you and that she has stained the family name. "We don't do D3 in this household, young lady!"

2) Inform her that her funding source for anything related to soccer is gone, and further, that you expect full reimbursement of all soccer expenditures on her up to the present from her with a family-friendly interest rate of 3.5% tacked on.

3) For all the costs and humiliation she has brought to you she will be cut loose and on her own altogether if she matriculates anywhere besides a regional state school.

Who who would remotely consider such a thing, especially if the family could well afford a better college option for the kid?

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Well, let's see....... The amount we spend on youth sports is a rounding error in our budget and the other parents are quite well aware of our kid's relative place and role on the team. They seem to be at peace with it so I hope it isn't causing you too much agita.

That's why they all snicker at you. You're the one they all talk about being freaking clueless and only being there because your money is buying a spot on the roster.

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That's why they all snicker at you. You're the one they all talk about being freaking clueless and only being there because your money is buying a spot on the roster.

BTDT-type illogic and assumptions strike again.

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Much better than D1 in certain cases. Best of both world's so why do you need guidance?

Do you realize how many people laugh at idiots like you? Longest running joke in the youth soccer world.

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This is an easy one.

1) Tell her how much she has disappointed you and that she has stained the family name. "We don't do D3 in this household, young lady!"

2) Inform her that her funding source for anything related to soccer is gone, and further, that you expect full reimbursement of all soccer expenditures on her up to the present from her with a family-friendly interest rate of 3.5% tacked on.

3) For all the costs and humiliation she has brought to you she will be cut loose and on her own altogether if she matriculates anywhere besides a regional state school.

Actually what you tell them is ....

1) They have siblings and since money doesn't grow on trees so you will pay for an education at one of the state universities or colleges. If they want to go to a private school they will have to find a way to pay the difference between what it costs to go to a state school and the private school they choose themselves.
2) As long as you are paying anything for their college education you expect that they will show that they respect the financial commitment you are making to them by producing in the classroom. In practice what that means is they need to fairly consistently make the Dean's List.
3) Soccer at the college level is a huge time commitment that without a doubt will interfere with their ability to produce in the classroom as expected unless there are fairly strong academic supports in place to help them compensate.
4) That unfortunately those sort of academic supports are not typically found outside of the D1 level so it's time to focus on getting an education that prepares them for their life ahead and that means they need to put their big girl panties/big boy undies on and put an end to their soccer career. The can always get their soccer fix in college by playing intramurals or on a club team.
5) If they insist on playing soccer in college they had better find a way to pay the tuition themselves because you are not going to financially support that decision.
6) It is time to scale back the time, energy, and money the family is spending on their club soccer and put those resources either into something that will help them achieve their future academic success.