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Agreed. "Serious" soccer players - i.e. those for whom soccer is their #1 priority should choose DAP. That does not mean that almost as serious soccer players (e.g., those for whom academics is their #1 priority, with soccer #2) must forego college soccer. Those that have the talent can certainly play Prep/HS and High-level club and still play college soccer. The commit threads demonstrate this (and no, not all are RTD).

Soccer should not be the #1 priority for anyone.

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If a player gets released from DAP (or leaves of their own choice), then dominates HS, and goes on to play college soccer. Wouldn't that indicate that playing DAP is not the only path to college soccer?

No one says that DAP is the ONLY path to D1, but is IS the express lane.

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An African group that sends African student athletes to prep schools the United States. These kids are not really footballers, just poor athletic boys. The prep schools are lining up to fill their International acceptance quotas with them.

Given the small number of RTD players, they constitute a disproportionately high percentage of prep players going D1. The next RTD superstar to emerge is the Canterbury player who scored 12 goals for Oakwood in just 4 games last spring (he's headed to Michigan to join fellow RTDer FA).

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Agreed. "Serious" soccer players - i.e. those for whom soccer is their #1 priority should choose DAP. That does not mean that almost as serious soccer players (e.g., those for whom academics is their #1 priority, with soccer #2) must forego college soccer. Those that have the talent can certainly play Prep/HS and High-level club and still play college soccer. The commit threads demonstrate this (and no, not all are RTD).

Right to dream

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An African group that sends African student athletes to prep schools the United States. These kids are not really footballers, just poor athletic boys. The prep schools are lining up to fill their International acceptance quotas with them.

Yet they're landing plenty of college rosters spots, so it seems there's more to it than just being good athletes.

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Yet they're landing plenty of college rosters spots, so it seems there's more to it than just being good athletes.

All you have to do is look at KEI and see what the US wants now in soccer. Technical skills are no longer needed.

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All you have to do is look at KEI and see what the US wants now in soccer. Technical skills are no longer needed.

The old athletic-technical debate. If you watch any high level professional games, you will see a combination, and you will also see that the athletic are not without technical and the technical are not without athletic. Comments like the one above sound so jealous.

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The old athletic-technical debate. If you watch any high level professional games, you will see a combination, and you will also see that the athletic are not without technical and the technical are not without athletic. Comments like the one above sound so jealous.

Yeah ok. How's this model working out for the Revs?

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Yeah ok. How's this model working out for the Revs?

I said, high level.

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I said, high level.

Well we are talking about US soccer right?

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All you have to do is look at KEI and see what the US wants now in soccer. Technical skills are no longer needed.

KEI? A player?

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The old athletic-technical debate. If you watch any high level professional games, you will see a combination, and you will also see that the athletic are not without technical and the technical are not without athletic. Comments like the one above sound so jealous.

Someone posted TS rules, and the first one seems to describe this guy's gripe: People who post about the virtues of skilled players think they have one.

Jealousy is not limited to this thread or even site.

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If a player gets released from DAP (or leaves of their own choice), then dominates HS, and goes on to play college soccer. Wouldn't that indicate that playing DAP is not the only path to college soccer?

The top 150 soccer players listed here (Class of 2017 commits), are all Development Academy players . I would venture to say you can add another 150 after that(or more) and they would also all be from DAP. Don't see anyone from public/prep schools.

http://collegesoccernews.com/index.p...school-seniors

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The top 150 soccer players listed here (Class of 2017 commits), are all Development Academy players . I would venture to say you can add another 150 after that(or more) and they would also all be from DAP. Don't see anyone from public/prep schools.

http://collegesoccernews.com/index.p...school-seniors

This is a fluid listing. Verbals shown, when NLI's are completed, they'll be more D1 signings.

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This is a fluid listing. Verbals shown, when NLI's are completed, they'll be more D1 signings.

That's probably true but the direction as mandated by USS is toward DAP. Previously NEFC boys could stay with the club and play college, possibly at BC. Parents of younger NEFC players have moved them DAP and they are smart to have done so. If your son is young, taking a snapshot now of 2016 signings and guiding your decision based on that is not very forward looking.