Today is National Letter of Intent day

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Couldn't get that D1 scholarship, I guess...

Read it again. Pay attention. Other offers mid majors. Academically not as good and money was less. See I admit what the path has been. The school she is going to has her major, a real good academic school, geographically where she wanted to go. Sometimes it is about the kid not about what you could brag about at work.

Funny I didn't see where your daughter was going? Right you wouldn't want to say it. As long as she is happy I am happy. It is about the whole package not your package. Very happy with the offer and the school. You wouldn't understand that because obviously you are here to stir things up and make yourself feel good about how your daughter didn't make you proud. If mine ended up at Div 3 and was happy guess what I would still be happy for her and encourage her. People make decisions on what is good for them and their financial situation. Let me guess Harvard, Yale, Brown etc are a let down in your soccer mind? Not every kid is going to the PAC 10 or ACC. Maybe evaluate your own kid and see the truth. We have and it has been a great journey. A lot of girls are better but she is still my child. I am a father not a drill Sgt.

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Read it again. Pay attention. Other offers mid majors. Academically not as good and money was less. See I admit what the path has been. The school she is going to has her major, a real good academic school, geographically where she wanted to go. Sometimes it is about the kid not about what you could brag about at work.

Funny I didn't see where your daughter was going? Right you wouldn't want to say it. As long as she is happy I am happy. It is about the whole package not your package. Very happy with the offer and the school. You wouldn't understand that because obviously you are here to stir things up and make yourself feel good about how your daughter didn't make you proud. If mine ended up at Div 3 and was happy guess what I would still be happy for her and encourage her. People make decisions on what is good for them and their financial situation. Let me guess Harvard, Yale, Brown etc are a let down in your soccer mind? Not every kid is going to the PAC 10 or ACC. Maybe evaluate your own kid and see the truth. We have and it has been a great journey. A lot of girls are better but she is still my child. I am a father not a drill Sgt.

Try to be proud of her anyway. No doubt she is picking up your vibe of embarrassment. Relax dad. You took home a silver. It is what it is.

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Slow down and gather yourself. That post is unreadable unless you did that intentionally. BTDT has been blasting those clubs and predicting/wishing their demise for several years. Just tonight he has been saying the commitments for those clubs aren't as good as in years past. He was silent for a while yesterday because he no doubt was stunned and had no immediate comeback. He also couldn't just post a NEFC list because he has said posting lists is a sin, so that would be too blatant of a contradiction. As for saying I presumed NEFC would fare well, I posted that 4-5 times. I don't need to find those those posts for you. And nobody EVER contested BTDT's "different paths theory."

The is no evidence that shows that BTDT ever actually "blasted" any clubs, that is just an urban legend created by one particular poster (perhaps YOU). What MANY PEOPLE have done (including probably BTDT) is refuted the outrageously biased and often incorrect spin about the ECNL, those clubs and their results that someone like YOU has erroneously given him sole credit for authoring. There has never been any evidence, other than the biased accusations of people like YOU make that in any way proves that he is responsible for any posts here other than the ones he himself takes credit for. The fact that there are hundreds of admissions by other posters acknowledging that their posts were misidentified gets continually glossed over pretty much shows that posts like this one above are actually part of a rather sick agenda to attack NEFC by throwing mud on their most visible players and their parents.

Lets not forget gems like this post from 2012 that show just how long that sick agenda has been going on and how focused it is.

Harvard, Yale, UCLA, Georgetown, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, UNC, Maryland, Colgate, UConn, UMass, Williams, Johns Hopkins, Amherst, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Tufts, Lehigh, BC, BC, BC, BC, BC, BU, Notre Dame, Elon, Villanova...

Still waiting on the NEFC "elite" costs....

Still waiting to hear if NEFC "elite" teams have any turnover from U11 to U14 and U15 to U18...

UCLA vs MCLA....you make the call.

http://talking-soccer.com/TS4/showth...ale#post802019

If you read through that thread you can't help but notice the same immature taunting and outrageous claims about the ECNL and the two ECNL clubs that you read today some three years later. The fact is NEFC has been getting bashed for years now challenging their ability to promote the interests of their players, well the proof is in the pudding as they say. Just because NEFC doesn't pimp their players out to sell roster spots don't be foolish and assume that they are not doing an outstanding job for their families.

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What I find funny is how all of you argue about NPL / ECNL and yet you are so caught up in what other kids and families are doing and where they are going. What makes me laugh is not ONE of you have posted about what your kid is doing. To me that is the humor.

Question is did your kid fail at their goal so you feel the need to brag about someone else on your team?

Did your kid not get a scholarship so you have to post about a teammate?

Are you mad you spent all that money and got a preferred walk on?

If my kid was offered to go to Williams, Amherst etc I would think that is a total win because education is the key. News for you YOUR KID WILL NOT BE PLAYING ON THE NATIONAL TEAM. Just think your kid made a Division 1 or 2 (congrats if they did) and when it is all said and done they will be working for that other kid that their parents made fun of for going to those division 3 schools.

The goal for a serious soccer player is to get MONEY from a college or university to continue to play and get a discounted education. Where they chose to play is THEIR choice (academics, majors, geographic location, etc. ) Who are you to judge a 18 year old and their parents what school they choose.

To me you are a bunch of immature losers trying to make up for some shortcomings in your own life. I am happy that my kid committed to a Division 2 school that is great academically, geographically perfect, has her major, and gave more money academically and athletically than the three Division 1 mid majors. To our family this was a win win. We didn't go the Division 1 route just for the sake of bragging. She made an educated decision that works best for her and her future. Guess this is the first step in being an adult. You should try it!

You seem to be making a very common mistake here on TS, combining multiple authors in your mind and thinking their posts represent one particular pov. You are actually objecting to the opinions of several different people here.

The scholarship piece your seem to be referring to is a response to one particular poster who has a strong view that education and specifically college academic rankings should dictate college decisions over everything, including scholarship money.

The other piece you are responding to about the perceived "value" of a commitment is actually a different poster who likes to use the soccer rankings to prove that their club is superior to other clubs.

These are both long time posters who are both very active posting here of TS for a long time and suffice to say that neither of them are exactly fans of NEFC. Don't confuse responses to their immature posts as an attack on your child's results. Most of us here congratulate your daughter for her achievement and you for successfully shepherding her through the maze to this point.

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Too, too many funny RE: 108 and 109.

Good morning, BTDT. You authored both of those, 100%.

The first one is hilarious because you devoted almost all your energy to denials, spouting off like a lawyer at a murder trial. TS isn't a court of law where that kind of proof is needed. Ever seen any cases where everyone in the country knows "who did it" but evidence in terms of a jury works differently? But what is really humorous in that post is that after all the denial you then did something ONLY YOU COULD DO, pulling out a 2012 post that obviously stung you and re-posting it, and which ends with a shot at UCLA vs MCLA. Pretty obvious stuff, BTDT. And what that quoted post doesn't show is why someone got so frustrated with you after your continuous assaults that he or she finally had had enough and responded in kind. In this instance, you pulled up evidence against yourself....one of reasons people are advised not to represent themselves.

And could #109 be any more paternalistic and condescending....and wrong?

Gonna get some more coffee and see what other damage you've already done this morning.

Don't you get it, BTDT. There may be other posters who occasionally are upset about something like you for one incident and for a moment, but there are NONE who harbor the exact same issues and agendas and narcissistic injuries over a period of YEARS with your consistency, and who are at the ready to pull up injuries from 2012.

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Will the sickness ever stop?

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Quick question, does anyone know how many players signed a NLI to play soccer at a D3 school?

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Quick question, does anyone know how many players signed a NLI to play soccer at a D3 school?

Quick question, or trick question?

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Will the sickness ever stop?

Yes, when the lying and assaults stop.

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Quick question, does anyone know how many players signed a NLI to play soccer at a D3 school?

What came first? The chicken of the egg?

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Yes, when the lying and assaults stop.

LOL. This clown will still be here years from now after all of the current players and their parents have aged out of club soccer spouting the same nonsense. It won't make anything they write then any more correct or believable then than it is now or it was 7-8 years ago.

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LOL. This clown will still be here years from now after all of the current players and their parents have aged out of club soccer spouting the same nonsense. It won't make anything they write then any more correct or believable then than it is now or it was 7-8 years ago.

Except that, unfortunately for you BTNT, everything he wrote in #110 was absolutely true.

Another morning and here you are. You would think that with how hard you work you would want some credit for your massive efforts.

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Quick question, or trick question?

Well we do seem to be spending a lot of time over the last couple of days debating commitment lists with plenty of D3's on them. Just thought I would confirm what I thought that I knew that there is no such thing as a D3 commitment. The NLI is a legal document that obligates the player to the school and there is no such obligation at the D3 level. Up until the point at which that document is signed everything else that anyone calls a "commitment" is nothing more than a verbal acknowledgment of an agreement in principal that carries no actual weight. If you scaled back all of these "commitment" lists to just those who signed an actual NLI all of them would be significantly smaller.

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Well we do seem to be spending a lot of time over the last couple of days debating commitment lists with plenty of D3's on them. Just thought I would confirm what I thought that I knew that there is no such thing as a D3 commitment. The NLI is a legal document that obligates the player to the school and there is no such obligation at the D3 level. Up until the point at which that document is signed everything else that anyone calls a "commitment" is nothing more than a verbal acknowledgment of an agreement in principal that carries no actual weight. If you scaled back all of these "commitment" lists to just those who signed an actual NLI all of them would be significantly smaller.

So, in other words, YES BTNT, it was a trick question so you could come in and offer the above, and of course stay consistent with your theme of further denigrating the results of rival clubs. We surely wouldn't expect you to just offer congrats to ALL THREE clubs without a catch and without add-ons that are the real points of your posts. And they just needed town and high school soccer too, right?

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So, in other words, YES BTNT, it was a trick question so you could come in and offer the above, and of course stay consistent with your theme of further denigrating the results of rival clubs. We surely wouldn't expect you to just offer congrats to ALL THREE clubs without a catch and without add-ons that are the real points of your posts. And they just needed town and high school soccer too, right?

Hey dumbass. If your club gets caught lying then it should be called out. A D3 commitment is not the same as a NLI signing. Any club that is promoting itself by publishing a list of "commitments" on the NLI signing day that includes a bunch of players attending D3 school is at best stretching the truth. People like you put that stuff out there and then complain when the accuracy of the implied message is challenged like whiney little puppies.