It's the top league!
If you want to play against the TOP competition you must play DA!!
If you want your kid to play D1 soccer he has to play DA!!!
All the college coaches scout DA!!!!
High school soccer ruins development!!!!!
NPL is terrible soccer!!!!!!
What a complete load of crap.
Take a look at the 2018 Boys Soccer Verbal Commitments thread:
http://talking-soccer.com/TS4/showth...150790&page=64
There are 48 kids committed to D1(5 on the Revs aren't listed there but I added them in for full disclosure).
There are 10 from the Bolts DA, 8 from the Revs and 2 from Seacoast.
The Development Academy accounts for 20 total Massachusetts kids going D1, which is roughly 42%
Roughly 70% of those DA kids are headed to college in New England.
There are 116 total kids listed in the commits thread.
That means 83% of the kids headed to play college soccer didn't play DA.
Why do DA kids need to travel to NJ for a game, or Florida for a tournament, or California for the playoffs? They're all basically going to school locally.
Why play DA at all?
Why give up high school soccer when the vast majority of players in MA that go on to play college soccer ALSO play high school soccer?
Don't accept playing less than 50% of the games to say you play DA. No one, including college coaches, seem to care.
Find the best team you can that is close to home. Stop driving all over the place. The numbers don't lie. You don't need DA to play college soccer.
There isn't enough money in men's soccer to make all the DA crap worth anyone's time.
If you pay for DA you are nuts. If you play for free you're just misguided.
Save time, money and mileage and move on from DA.
If you want to play against the TOP competition you must play DA!!
If you want your kid to play D1 soccer he has to play DA!!!
All the college coaches scout DA!!!!
High school soccer ruins development!!!!!
NPL is terrible soccer!!!!!!
What a complete load of crap.
Take a look at the 2018 Boys Soccer Verbal Commitments thread:
http://talking-soccer.com/TS4/showth...150790&page=64
There are 48 kids committed to D1(5 on the Revs aren't listed there but I added them in for full disclosure).
There are 10 from the Bolts DA, 8 from the Revs and 2 from Seacoast.
The Development Academy accounts for 20 total Massachusetts kids going D1, which is roughly 42%
Roughly 70% of those DA kids are headed to college in New England.
There are 116 total kids listed in the commits thread.
That means 83% of the kids headed to play college soccer didn't play DA.
Why do DA kids need to travel to NJ for a game, or Florida for a tournament, or California for the playoffs? They're all basically going to school locally.
Why play DA at all?
Why give up high school soccer when the vast majority of players in MA that go on to play college soccer ALSO play high school soccer?
Don't accept playing less than 50% of the games to say you play DA. No one, including college coaches, seem to care.
Find the best team you can that is close to home. Stop driving all over the place. The numbers don't lie. You don't need DA to play college soccer.
There isn't enough money in men's soccer to make all the DA crap worth anyone's time.
If you pay for DA you are nuts. If you play for free you're just misguided.
Save time, money and mileage and move on from DA.
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