thumbs up based on what? Coaching style? Winning record? Honesty? Niceness? It's all so subjective. If you really want an insight into how your player will fare at these programs, you need far more information than this. How many new players each year - and how many of those see playing time? How many players drop out over the years? Which types of players do these coaches like - big, crafty, fast, smart? What style of play do they utilize and will it be one your player works well in? What formations do they use - 4, 4, 2 - 5, 3, 1? It matters if you are a forward ... and if you are a middy, or defender. And so much more.
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That's right: everyone who knows something about the NESCAC coaches steered clear of this one.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Because other than being a decent indivual, there is limited importance to the coaching. No job interview will ask how was your season and did you start 4 years? At these schools, academics are the only priority and if your player is good, they will see time.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
Far too much emphasis placed on this stupidity...it's the next phase of insanity upon graduating from the club scene.
4 years from now not 1 person will care.Comment
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You're talking about college soccer in general in this country, right, BTNT?Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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You have the comparative D1 vs. D3 experience to know better. Or maybe your view is that no one cares about low tier programs at any level.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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No, that actually was a swing and a miss. BTNT would never diss his own D1 journey.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Maybe you haven't been paying attention. No one cares about NEC schools of little academic or athletic distinction--regardless of how "he" might spin it. Actually, that helps to explain his obsession with defending an absolute difference between any D1 and any D3.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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You are on the money about that....except I was referring to his second journey. Either way, it is defend what I do to the max and then with pure, unadulterated duplicity bash the crap out of everyone else.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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What does a D3 coach get paid? What does a D1 coach get paid?Comment
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What they don't get paid the same? How can that be? Why would a D3 coach accept that?Comment
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This is an interesting read.What Is It Like Playing DIII Sports? A DIII School President Weighs In
What criteria should you use to decide whether it’s worth playing DIII sports, or pursuing a roster opening at DI, DII or NAIA schools?
Even as we encourage you to cast your net wide, we’ve spoken before about how important it is to be realistic in your expectations about your college recruiting. To see what a day in the life of an athlete at college is like. To remember that there are opportunities outside of DI in your recruiting.
So it was interesting to see this piece by Ohio Wesleyan University’s president, Rock Jones, celebrating what student-athletes in Division III schools can accomplish.
"About 40 percent of all intercollegiate NCAA athletes come from Division III programs, which award no athletic scholarships. For these scholar-athletes, there is no pressure to place performance on the field above performance in the classroom, and not one member of any of those teams is using athletic skills as a way to pay for college.
One out of three Ohio Wesleyan students participates on a varsity team, and that’s not unusual for a liberal arts college. At big Division I universities, only a small percentage of students can play a varsity sport, while others are spectators. That paradigm is flipped at a D-III college, where athletics is all about participating, not just watching."
You can find the rest of Dr. Jones’s comments here. http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/ind..._enrich_t.html
So: What’ll it be?
There are thousands of colleges out there in all the divisions of play. We definitely don’t want to skip over Division II schools like UC San Diego, which ranked first in DII in the 2014 NCSA Power Rankings (Ohio Wesleyan ranked 48th among its peers). http://www.ncsasports.org/athletic-s...power-rankings
Tracking the overall academic and athletic strength of a program through our Power Rankings is one way to rank schools. But there are so many other variables to consider: your major, how far you want to go, what kind of school you want to go to, how much playing time you want.Comment
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Excellent. And coming from the President of a school with one of the top 3-4 men's college D3 programs in history and the winningest college soccer coach in history (all divisions).Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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I am lucky enough to be able to pick JM's brain a few times, and he sees the world differently than most. You can find his editor articles he did for the NSCAA Soccer Journal, for years, on line. Always been impressed with how he manages his teams. Not bad for a Hingham boy!Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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