Realistically what can we as parents do to end the league split?

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There is only one way to fix youth soccer in Oregon

Only orphans can play

Or require all parents to read this before they pin their college scholarship hopes on a 12 year old's soccer "career" - http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5663401?utm_hp_ref=tw

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You can go to any of the clubs website and see who has committed where. Many of those institutions are $40K+ so even a 25% scholarship is $10,000 the first year. The more expensive schools typically come with about $10-15,000 of academic aid reserved for athletes so you could be looking at $20-25,000 the first year if your DD is looking at those schools.

You shouldn't take my word for it either call up those parents and ask if they will share their experience and the details of the offers. In my case the value of the scholarship over the 4 years is going to exceed $80,000 so yes it was worth every penny spent to 0become successful in the ECNL.

Awesome! She can put that college tuition money aside and use it to pay for the therapy she's going to need to recover from terrible parenting you did.

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Or require all parents to read this before they pin their college scholarship hopes on a 12 year old's soccer "career" - http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5663401?utm_hp_ref=tw

Good article.

There is only one way to fix youth soccer in Oregon

Only orphans can play

Parents didn't create the split; soccer and marketing experts did.

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Right on Cue

Awesome! She can put that college tuition money aside and use it to pay for the therapy she's going to need to recover from terrible parenting you did.

So when presented with a factual and thoughtful comment you ignore the premise and go for the personal insult. Priceless.

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stop being sheep

on second thought. Don't stop.