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    #91
    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
    This. How many here have actually talked to college coaches? They don't care about the letter designation by your players name. If you are a good player, and you contact them they will come to watch you. It doesn't matter that you ecnl/DA team loses or wins.

    Yes, the players on the winning team will get noticed first or discovered. Realistically though, the players/parents contact the coaches to have them watch games as you travel to events or cities they will be at. If they like what they see, they invite you to a ID camp for the school.

    Alternatively, you can just go to the ID camp for the school on your own by registering. If you are at the should ID camp, you can ask any amount of questions you want.

    DA is great if you want to be ID'd at 14 years old. The majority of players don't finalize their college choice until they are 17/18, especially for the academic D3 schools.

    Basically, if your daughter is on an A team, ECNL, or DA you have nothing to worry about. Colleges will be interested.
    Truth is there are ECNL champion teams out there with girls that aren't going to be playing soccer in college. Just like there are future D1 players on teams that aren't winning many games. Like you say, college coaches don't care about the teams the kids play on, they recruit the player - and a good player will be easily noticed even if she's on a bad team.

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      #92
      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
      This. How many here have actually talked to college coaches? They don't care about the letter designation by your players name. If you are a good player, and you contact them they will come to watch you. It doesn't matter that you ecnl/DA team loses or wins.

      Yes, the players on the winning team will get noticed first or discovered. Realistically though, the players/parents contact the coaches to have them watch games as you travel to events or cities they will be at. If they like what they see, they invite you to a ID camp for the school.

      Alternatively, you can just go to the ID camp for the school on your own by registering. If you are at the should ID camp, you can ask any amount of questions you want.

      DA is great if you want to be ID'd at 14 years old. The majority of players don't finalize their college choice until they are 17/18, especially for the academic D3 schools.

      Basically, if your daughter is on an A team, ECNL, or DA you have nothing to worry about. Colleges will be interested.
      ^^^^ this. Keep in mind that DA cannot fill all the roster spots that are vacant each year, not even close (just as ECNL can't now). If DA becomes #1 you will have a better shot there if top D1 is your goal (but still not an absolute necessity if you're just that good). If you're shooting for lower D1 a or academic D3s you can chose either. Don't get caught up in the stories of 8th graders committing. More importantly if you player isn't ready to make a decision, don't push it

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        #93
        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
        Exactly. They are matched up with clubs that wouldn't do very well in OYSA. And 2 single game trips to Utah - sweet.
        Most of those teams would do ok in OYSA Premier but still the best clubs didn't put A team in GDA.

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          #94
          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
          Most of those teams would do ok in OYSA Premier but still the best clubs didn't put A team in GDA.
          So what? Thorns Academy should win all their GDA league games and will get seen by a multitude of college coaches. They will be fine. In fact, elite players are already on USYNT radar by u15 so all the Thorns GDA players are in that loop now. Many of them are on their 2nd & 3rd year of Academy so there must be many top D1 verbals. Ecnl has been very good at getting girls into college as well. Nice Oregon has even more elite options now.

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            #95
            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
            So what? Thorns Academy should win all their GDA league games and will get seen by a multitude of college coaches. They will be fine. In fact, elite players are already on USYNT radar by u15 so all the Thorns GDA players are in that loop now. Many of them are on their 2nd & 3rd year of Academy so there must be many top D1 verbals. Ecnl has been very good at getting girls into college as well. Nice Oregon has even more elite options now.
            Thorns haven't gotten any kids into college soccer over the past three years have they?

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              #96
              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
              So what? Thorns Academy should win all their GDA league games and will get seen by a multitude of college coaches. They will be fine. In fact, elite players are already on USYNT radar by u15 so all the Thorns GDA players are in that loop now. Many of them are on their 2nd & 3rd year of Academy so there must be many top D1 verbals. Ecnl has been very good at getting girls into college as well. Nice Oregon has even more elite options now.
              Everything you just wrote about the DA is bs. You literally just made all of it up.

              Perhaps before you lie, you should actually know something instead of wishful bs

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                #97
                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                So what? Thorns Academy should win all their GDA league games and will get seen by a multitude of college coaches. They will be fine. In fact, elite players are already on USYNT radar by u15 so all the Thorns GDA players are in that loop now. Many of them are on their 2nd & 3rd year of Academy so there must be many top D1 verbals. Ecnl has been very good at getting girls into college as well. Nice Oregon has even more elite options now.
                There are NO players in Thornz Asylum that are on the USYNT radar. Couple of them got a chance to play in the Regional ODP tournament a couple years back but mainly rode the pine and didn't impress anybody. Now they play bootball thugball with the Thornz.

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                  #98
                  Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                  Thorns haven't gotten any kids into college soccer over the past three years have they?
                  Big fat ZERO. Any kids with talent that try the Thornz Asylum leave almost immediately.

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                    #99
                    Thorns 01/02 team is very good. I would put them #1 in state and they could do well regionally. The competing clubs with crossfire Oregon and fc Portland have decent teams but they don't have complete teams with creative players up top. Thorns have the best from multiple clubs. Cu and fc top players haven't changed much and kept many players from thriving. Thorns took some of the best players from each teams. They may never play each other and quite frankly it won't matter. It isn't hard for college coaches to be aware of another team in the state of Oregon. If you notice the college placements they are from a group of 6 clubs. Some more then others but the level of colleges is spread out. Top players from each decent teams are all going to play in college.

                    Back in the day the top teams would all play each other in league and finish it with the state cup. Oregon had relatively the same top players and teams that there is now and the development as a whole was better for the player. The teams that are competing in national leagues nearly showing poorly and the 1-2 successful ones aren't anything the state hasn't seen previously. The teams would pick tournaments that was right for the teams rather then told for them which isn't always good.

                    You still have top teams coming out of the state and it would be great to see them all play against each other.

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                      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                      Thorns 01/02 team is very good. I would put them #1 in state and they could do well regionally. The competing clubs with crossfire Oregon and fc Portland have decent teams but they don't have complete teams with creative players up top. Thorns have the best from multiple clubs. Cu and fc top players haven't changed much and kept many players from thriving. Thorns took some of the best players from each teams. They may never play each other and quite frankly it won't matter. It isn't hard for college coaches to be aware of another team in the state of Oregon. If you notice the college placements they are from a group of 6 clubs. Some more then others but the level of colleges is spread out. Top players from each decent teams are all going to play in college.

                      Back in the day the top teams would all play each other in league and finish it with the state cup. Oregon had relatively the same top players and teams that there is now and the development as a whole was better for the player. The teams that are competing in national leagues nearly showing poorly and the 1-2 successful ones aren't anything the state hasn't seen previously. The teams would pick tournaments that was right for the teams rather then told for them which isn't always good.

                      You still have top teams coming out of the state and it would be great to see them all play against each other.
                      Thanks for your unbiased opinion dad (eye roll). As far as seeing the two teams play each other, simple solution. Have Thorns enter surf cup instead of Beaverton. They might get to play CU's 01 or 02 team. Of course to be fair and a true head to head matchup, thorns would have to split into two teams as well.

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                        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                        Thorns 01/02 team is very good. I would put them #1 in state and they could do well regionally. The competing clubs with crossfire Oregon and fc Portland have decent teams but they don't have complete teams with creative players up top. Thorns have the best from multiple clubs. Cu and fc top players haven't changed much and kept many players from thriving. Thorns took some of the best players from each teams. They may never play each other and quite frankly it won't matter. It isn't hard for college coaches to be aware of another team in the state of Oregon. If you notice the college placements they are from a group of 6 clubs. Some more then others but the level of colleges is spread out. Top players from each decent teams are all going to play in college.

                        Back in the day the top teams would all play each other in league and finish it with the state cup. Oregon had relatively the same top players and teams that there is now and the development as a whole was better for the player. The teams that are competing in national leagues nearly showing poorly and the 1-2 successful ones aren't anything the state hasn't seen previously. The teams would pick tournaments that was right for the teams rather then told for them which isn't always good.

                        You still have top teams coming out of the state and it would be great to see them all play against each other.
                        Very good at what? Thugball bootball? They've never beaten any good teams, ever.

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                          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                          Thanks for your unbiased opinion dad (eye roll). As far as seeing the two teams play each other, simple solution. Have Thorns enter surf cup instead of Beaverton. They might get to play CU's 01 or 02 team. Of course to be fair and a true head to head matchup, thorns would have to split into two teams as well.
                          Wouldn't matter, Thorns 01/02 just isn't very good. Sure they have some "beef" and they can hit the ball long over everyone's heads, but they have no other skills to speak of.

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                            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                            Wouldn't matter, Thorns 01/02 just isn't very good. Sure they have some "beef" and they can hit the ball long over everyone's heads, but they have no other skills to speak of.
                            Thorns 01/02 does have most of the thugs but is a good Oregon team. CU & FC are good too and would be better if could combine the best from 2 age groups. We will never know how teams stack up since Thorns Academy won't ever play any other Oregon teams again. All the players will get the same level of individual college offers they would have regardless of league. Be happy there are many soccer choices & respect all the players & different Oregon teams. ECNL & GDA aren't enemies. Same with GPS. They have (maybe had) a great 2003 team. Instead of being happy for them and proud that an Oregon team did so well, everyone jumped on the hate wagon. Sad.

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                              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                              Thorns 01/02 does have most of the thugs but is a good Oregon team. CU & FC are good too and would be better if could combine the best from 2 age groups. We will never know how teams stack up since Thorns Academy won't ever play any other Oregon teams again. All the players will get the same level of individual college offers they would have regardless of league. Be happy there are many soccer choices & respect all the players & different Oregon teams. ECNL & GDA aren't enemies. Same with GPS. They have (maybe had) a great 2003 team. Instead of being happy for them and proud that an Oregon team did so well, everyone jumped on the hate wagon. Sad.
                              YES, THIS. I do not understand why parents (let's be honest, it's mostly parents) get some sense of amusement or accomplishment by criticizing people and their choices in this forum. When the posts are obviously false/self-serving or emotional, I always shudder and hope I don't know these people in real life.

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                                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                                YES, THIS. I do not understand why parents (let's be honest, it's mostly parents) get some sense of amusement or accomplishment by criticizing people and their choices in this forum. When the posts are obviously false/self-serving or emotional, I always shudder and hope I don't know these people in real life.
                                You ARE one of these people.

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