2014 Boys Soccer Verbal Commitments

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Sometimes kids change their mind, sometimes coaches change mind, sometimes kids don't get into school, sometimes the kids do not meet minimum NCAA requirements...Coaches can push for exception of acceptance requirements but that is a bullet that can be used maybe once or twice a year, easy out for coach.

Moving from Northeastern to Penn is probably not an academic problem.

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OP here. I am a coach, so I have lots of "boys", and my reason for these threads is for me to learn how to advise future kids. I have learned in the last week that a number of the 40-50 MA kids going D1 in the past three years are slotted as depth players, do not play much, and are cut or leave the team. You can see about half fit into that category. It is not for me to make the final determination of what the kid does but to offer advice. About a dozen or two kids do very well.

If you are a coach, then you certainly aren't a very "in tune" coach who should be advising his players on anything if you don't know this stuff up close and personal and instead have to come to an anonymous forum to research it. The fact is what the stats basically say is that 99% of the players shouldn't even bother and if you didn't already know that and have a very good reason already prepared why they should you are nothing but a mindless robot feeding the conveyor belt we call club soccer.

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Does anyone find it strange that the Rev's 3 top recruits DM, DA & CS have only appeared in 1 match between all 3 of these players?

Why? Do you have any idea how much talent is on the roster of a nationally ranked program and how difficult it is to get on the field for one. This aint one step up from high school like D3.

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Why? Do you have any idea how much talent is on the roster of a nationally ranked program and how difficult it is to get on the field for one. This aint one step up from high school like D3.

Harvard is not nationally ranked... Syracuse and Georgetown are great programs, but national team and residency players should have at least gotten a sniff by now.

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Harvard is not nationally ranked... Syracuse and Georgetown are great programs, but national team and residency players should have at least gotten a sniff by now.

Not necessarily. Unless you know what the whole situation is you have no way of knowing what is going on. The higher up the ranking food chain you go the tougher it is to contribute early simply because the rosters are all pretty well stocked with similar caliber players that are older and more physically well conditioned because they have been there longer. It is not uncommon at all to go into a top ranked program knowing you probably won't see the field the first year. That is just how successful coaches plan out their rosters. Many look at the freshman year as an apprenticeship year.

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If you are a coach, then you certainly aren't a very "in tune" coach who should be advising his players on anything if you don't know this stuff up close and personal and instead have to come to an anonymous forum to research it. The fact is what the stats basically say is that 99% of the players shouldn't even bother and if you didn't already know that and have a very good reason already prepared why they should you are nothing but a mindless robot feeding the conveyor belt we call club soccer.

Did your kid or kids play club soccer?

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OP here. I researched this some more. I have noticed that 3 2014 players, including one MA player listed as Verbally committed to Northeastern are not rostered for this season. Additionally one of MA top 2012 players is suddenly not rostered with no apparent explanation. Also a top 2013 player transferred. A lot is going on there.

You will find other previously rostered players not on this year's, along with the 2014 committ that isn't rostered. All those kids are still at the school. Many others who are getting no playing time. Many things happening that NU wants to keep on the QT

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You will find other previously rostered players not on this year's, along with the 2014 committ that isn't rostered. All those kids are still at the school. Many others who are getting no playing time. Many things happening that NU wants to keep on the QT

So why don't you enlighten us as to what the "many thing happening" are?

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Not necessarily. Unless you know what the whole situation is you have no way of knowing what is going on. The higher up the ranking food chain you go the tougher it is to contribute early simply because the rosters are all pretty well stocked with similar caliber players that are older and more physically well conditioned because they have been there longer. It is not uncommon at all to go into a top ranked program knowing you probably won't see the field the first year. That is just how successful coaches plan out their rosters. Many look at the freshman year as an apprenticeship year.

Agreed and that could be the case why quite a few of the kids aren't playing much freshman, I think a better indication is going to be seeing the playing time for sophomore and possibly junior year.

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Agreed and that could be the case why quite a few of the kids aren't playing much freshman, I think a better indication is going to be seeing the playing time for sophomore and possibly junior year.

There was a 46% attrition rate from last year.

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Agreed and that could be the case why quite a few of the kids aren't playing much freshman, I think a better indication is going to be seeing the playing time for sophomore and possibly junior year.

For the most part, players decide the who, when and where on the pitch. A coach will ALWAYS pick the players whom he feels can help the team. That could be a freshman of a fifth year senior so it is really up to the player(s) to get it done in training so the coach either has no choice or it is a difficult one.

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There was a 46% attrition rate from last year.

What about of the ones that stayed on the roster? Did they see an increase in playing time? Obviously every player is going to have a different situation though.

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For the most part, players decide the who, when and where on the pitch. A coach will ALWAYS pick the players whom he feels can help the team. That could be a freshman of a fifth year senior so it is really up to the player(s) to get it done in training so the coach either has no choice or it is a difficult one.

That's true, but I'm sure there are situations where the coach will play favorites (which undoubtedly happen at some schools), the starter is playing good, the starter is a lock to start and things like that.

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That's true, but I'm sure there are situations where the coach will play favorites (which undoubtedly happen at some schools), the starter is playing good, the starter is a lock to start and things like that.

We are talking about national team quality players. This whole idea of playing favorites goes out the window with that caliber of player.

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We are talking about national team quality players. This whole idea of playing favorites goes out the window with that caliber of player.

In that case yes, but I was talking about every D1 kid from MA