2011 Boys Soccer Verbal Commitments

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Shortsighted, "long"sighted? Life is what you make of it and making decisions is a life long series of lessons. I tell my guys to pursue your interests and passions to the fullest. The lessons learned there are a whole lot better than making decisions based on the alternatives and the lessons being laced with missed opportunities and regret.

Right. Passing up an opportunity to get an education at a top 50 school with decent aid is not as good as playing soccer for a D2 or D3 school that is in the top 150. Go get the pro career.

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Shortsighted, "long"sighted? Life is what you make of it and making decisions is a life long series of lessons. I tell my guys to pursue your interests and passions to the fullest. The lessons learned there are a whole lot better than making decisions based on the alternatives and the lessons being laced with missed opportunities and regret.

So you're saying that you should place major importance on where you choose to spend the next four years based on about 12-15 games a year?

Let's hope "your guys" tune you out when you speak. No advice is way better than bad advice.

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Shortsighted, "long"sighted? Life is what you make of it and making decisions is a life long series of lessons. I tell my guys to pursue your interests and passions to the fullest. The lessons learned there are a whole lot better than making decisions based on the alternatives and the lessons being laced with missed opportunities and regret.

Good luck on the professional soccer career for your boys--hope their dreams come true, however there are always many paths in life and for the overwhelming vast majority of people becoming a professional athlete or even a D1 athlete is not in the cards even if the desire and discipline is there which is why most college choices are not done with soccer being the #1 criteria even if the student is a tremendous soccer player, and no one is lamenting "missed opportunities and regret", in fact those players I know who have turned down those "opportunities" to bigger higher division soccer schools are some of the happier student athletes I know in college with absolutely no regret playing the game they love at a school which was the correct choice for them on a number of levels (size, location, majors, cost....and soccer).

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this is a mass forum on 2011 mass kids that are commited to D1-D3 schools so maybe just start another thread titled "2011 bolts players college commits." these two pc recruits are the last guys in a big pc recruiting class so they will only be practice players anyway.

how would you know where they are in the recruiting class? they both could see major playing time their first year. both players committed in their junior years

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Wait a minute..........................

How does this happen at the Bolts? I thought all these high powered college coaches at the Bolts were supposed to facilitate all the Bolts DAP kids into high level programs. Looks like the Bolts coaches are more interested in picking off a few players from the Bolts DAP for their own programs, given a look at the rosters of Northeastern, Providence, and Franklin Pierce.

Notto mention that only three kids you mention were DAP kids last year. So you want us all to believe that the kids who played on the Bolts DAP at U16, weren't good enough to make it into the DAP team last year, are now talking to D1 programs?

maybe the kids choose to go to their schools because they like them as coaches and who wouldnt want to play at those three schools??

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Just getting time to respond to this...

You have "repeatedly" noticed a "distinct sadness"? Really? And have you ever run into anyone who went a very good or perfectly good school over so-called more elite or higher ranked choices who feels very good about the decision and is very proud of his or her school?

The merit aid being offered at some schools, perhaps considered a peg down from more elite schools, is important. But more than that, the offers make some of us look at those schools more carefully and we discover that these are really, really good schools -- and schools where our kids actually may be happier, and as said before, amply challenged and well prepared for future graduate school endeavors.

One of the problems with the "go for the absolutely 'best" or 'most elite' school possible syndrome" -- and this follows your sentiments above -- is that you're doomed to live within a bubble where you look at everything along that sort of continuum. So if you go to the 6th ranked school you can feel superior and beat your chest except for when you are at cocktail parties where folks went to schools ranked #1-#5. Not to mention the kind of attitude you exude when you're around everyone else in the world who went to all the other, lesser schools. There is no inherent value in being on the very best team you can possibly make or going to the very best school you could possibly get in.....unless doing so is in the service of something....and by in the service of something, I mean something other than one's ego or need to fend off a lifetime of insecurities. The kind of people you reference have some other problems or need help. They have no reason to have "distinct sadness in their eyes," and I imagine these are the same types of folks who as parents treat their kids' college choices as trophies or signs of family failure. Now that is sad if you want to talk about sadness.

BTW, as an aside, check out the current MIT hopefuls thread on College Confidential.....and see posting after posting of kids REJECTED in the 2350-2400 SAT range, 800s on SAT subject tests, with all 5s on AP exams, who already have their own companies with major, well-known clients, who have won national awards in math and science, and who have great ECs and great recs, etc. Sobering.

I'm actually married to someone who went to MIT. They were rejected at Harvard. They loved MIT and it has opened all the doors that lead to a really fun, rewarding career. Somethings it isn't about ego at all. These schools are full of amazing people. Your life gets richer emotionally and intellectually from going to them. Everyone who really want to go to college can find one that they will love. My advice to kids is get to know these schools for what they are. Don't get over your head, and don't settle either. And try not to let your parents choose your college for you.

I've known many, many people who have gone to top colleges who are nothing like you describe. Quite the opposite. They are happy and smart and fun and very easy to be with.

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both players committed in their junior years

oh please...

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maybe the kids choose to go to their schools because they like them as coaches and who wouldnt want to play at those three schools??

Someone who didn't want a degree from those three schools.

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I'm actually married to someone who went to MIT. They were rejected at Harvard. They loved MIT and it has opened all the doors that lead to a really fun, rewarding career. Somethings it isn't about ego at all. These schools are full of amazing people. Your life gets richer emotionally and intellectually from going to them. Everyone who really want to go to college can find one that they will love. My advice to kids is get to know these schools for what they are. Don't get over your head, and don't settle either. And try not to let your parents choose your college for you.

I've known many, many people who have gone to top colleges who are nothing like you describe. Quite the opposite. They are happy and smart and fun and very easy to be with.

Congrats on bagging a MIT grad! Just kidding.

I think you partially misunderstood my post. Obviously there are tons of great and incredible people who go to MIT, Harvard, Stanford, etc and also Williams, Amherst, Middlebury, etc. There are plenty of folks who go to those places because they naturally fit and more than qualify....and there are many who more than qualify who don't get in. I'm talking about something different....families where they feel like they HAVE TO go to one of these schools and feel SOCIALLY or otherwise ENTITLED to go and will go to almost any means to make that happen. Like kids who are afforded elite club programs from age 8 or 9 and elite ISLs and then feel compelled to engage the additional maneuver of a PG year (after already having far more advantages than most). There are plenty of good schools like Northeastern, Syracuse, and UMass and good LACs, but no, they have to drive for a specific name to avert familial reputational disaster.

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Any new news on the college front for the Class of 2011?

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Any new news on the college front for the Class of 2011?

It's over for this year. Some of the 2011s and maybe a few of the remaining but very determined 2010s will take another crack next year as 2012s.

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It's over for this year. Some of the 2011s and maybe a few of the remaining but very determined 2010s will take another crack next year as 2012s.

any final word?

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Assumption D2 commit

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Alex Parisi - Methuen MA - Central Catholic - AC Milan - Assumption: 2011

Read in some threads that Assumption does not give scholarships. New coach, things must have changed. Not a wheelbarrow of cash but packaged with a good academic scholarship it got us to a umass cost.

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Alex Parisi - Methuen MA - Central Catholic - AC Milan - Assumption: 2011

Read in some threads that Assumption does not give scholarships. New coach, things must have changed. Not a wheelbarrow of cash but packaged with a good academic scholarship it got us to a umass cost.

Gee, same post in the 2010 thread. Is someone happy for the player????

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Gee, same post in the 2010 thread. Is someone happy for the player????

Don't know the player, but congratulations, well done and good luck!