REALITY CHECK: Letter of Intent does not mean full ride

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Really short sighted

My opinion of a decent offer is if you do not have to pay more than $7.5K out of pocket for school per year.

If you have to pay much more than $7.5K, I would go play intramural, get a part time job, focus on your studies, and enjoy college life.

I would say that is short sighted, depends on the school. If you are paying $7.5K a year for a state school, yep that is a decent offer, but 15-20K out of pocket a year for a top nationally ranked school that would cost $60K+ could also be considered an amazing offer. Especially if the kid also can get some academic aid and the family was planning on paying the in state cost of attendance ($25k a year in Oregon).

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Starting next year, the top 5 conferences (Big12, Big10, PAC12, SEC, SCC), have 4 year multi-year scholarship contracts for all sports. They cannot lose their scholarships unless they become ineligible. The PAC12 also has a fund available to kids after their eligibility is over to finish their degrees at their same scholarship percentage of aid. The smaller conferences cannot afford to do this, but some schools also offer help to student-athletes. It is not just a little amount for everyone, but it is for some. Many of the soccer choices kids make are based on a combo of being able to get an athletic and academic package. There are many factors in choosing a school and many opportunities out there for some of the players. To think it is a guarantee is crazy, but it does happen. Why do we need to have this negative talk on NLI day? Every kid who is having this opportunity is super excited and very blessed. Any help at all that they get for school is amazing. The people saying that there is ALWAYS little money for athletics just hasn't had the experience, there are a handful of girls out of Oregon every year that will pay nothing for school. Don't shame someone for trying to work hard towards that goal, and when it doesn't happen, whatever opportunities they do get would not of happened if they had not been trying to go for the big dream. For all the girls getting the opportunity to live out their dreams and play college soccer at any level from Oregon that signed NLI's today CONGRATULATIONS!!!

The sad fact is that women who continue to excel in soccer during their college years will have a very hard time of making a career of it after college, compared to men.

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The sad fact is that women who continue to excel in soccer during their college years will have a very hard time of making a career of it after college, compared to men.

Who said anything about making a career of it. This conversation is about playing in college. Seems like no shortage of negative around here...

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The sad fact is that women who continue to excel in soccer during their college years will have a very hard time of making a career of it after college, compared to men.

Wow you really like to point out the sad facts. Thanks for the very obvious information.

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Who said anything about making a career of it. This conversation is about playing in college. Seems like no shortage of negative around here...

Go Mt. Hood Soccer!

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The sad fact is that women who continue to excel in soccer during their college years will have a very hard time of making a career of it after college, compared to men.

No way!? Having my dd live at home and make 6K a year playing for the thorns would be the bestest!

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The sad fact is that women who continue to excel in soccer during their college years will have a very hard time of making a career of it after college, compared to men.

Actually that's not really accurate. It's basically comparing zero women's jobs to just slightly more than zero for mens jobs as players. There are more soccer jobs coaching youth soccer than playing professionally and those are more equally divided. Of all the men who graduated this year about 10-15 are actually going to make a career out of it as a professional player. The rest who actually play professionally will have a year or two and they'll be done. There won't be many of them either.

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Starting next year, the top 5 conferences (Big12, Big10, PAC12, SEC, SCC), have 4 year multi-year scholarship contracts for all sports. They cannot lose their scholarships unless they become ineligible. The PAC12 also has a fund available to kids after their eligibility is over to finish their degrees at their same scholarship percentage of aid. The smaller conferences cannot afford to do this, but some schools also offer help to student-athletes. It is not just a little amount for everyone, but it is for some. Many of the soccer choices kids make are based on a combo of being able to get an athletic and academic package. There are many factors in choosing a school and many opportunities out there for some of the players. To think it is a guarantee is crazy, but it does happen. Why do we need to have this negative talk on NLI day? Every kid who is having this opportunity is super excited and very blessed. Any help at all that they get for school is amazing. The people saying that there is ALWAYS little money for athletics just hasn't had the experience, there are a handful of girls out of Oregon every year that will pay nothing for school. Don't shame someone for trying to work hard towards that goal, and when it doesn't happen, whatever opportunities they do get would not of happened if they had not been trying to go for the big dream. For all the girls getting the opportunity to live out their dreams and play college soccer at any level from Oregon that signed NLI's today CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sentence breaks are your friend.

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The sad fact is that women who continue to excel in soccer during their college years will have a very hard time of making a career of it after college, compared to men.

Yeah because there are so few girls club teams in the US.

And of those few, mostly men can coach them.


Oh wait? Women can coach girls. In club. In hs. In college. And be skills coaches. Gee. What an idiot you are. Yes. What a sad fact as you say.

So according to you we should tell our daughters to up on aprons.

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No way!? Having my dd live at home and make 6K a year playing for the thorns would be the bestest!

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And Angry ECNL poster makes an appearance.

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Yeah because there are so few girls club teams in the US.

And of those few, mostly men can coach them.


Oh wait? Women can coach girls. In club. In hs. In college. And be skills coaches. Gee. What an idiot you are. Yes. What a sad fact as you say.

So according to you we should tell our daughters to up on aprons.

Sure..... Similar conversation happening over at talking-basketball.com. At talking-softball.com too.

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No way!? Having my dd live at home and make 6K a year playing for the thorns would be the bestest!

Angry Poster, hit the nail on the head.

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No way!? Having my dd live at home and make 6K a year playing for the thorns would be the bestest!

Your daughter can't even start on the woeful local ECNL teams, the Thorns and other local pro teams have WNT players on them. Maybe she could be a manager or something. And many of the WNT players do quite well financially from endorsements, just for what it's worth. Of course this doesn't mean your dd won't still live at home, she just will be making $1,000 a year plus what ever she makes working at Stars Cabaret.

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Angry Poster, hit the nail on the head.

Angry Poster hit himself on the head trying to hit the nail.

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Your daughter can't even start on the woeful local ECNL teams, the Thorns and other local pro teams have WNT players on them. Maybe she could be a manager or something. And many of the WNT players do quite well financially from endorsements, just for what it's worth. Of course this doesn't mean your dd won't still live at home, she just will be making $1,000 a year plus what ever she makes working at Stars Cabaret.

Thorns are a "pro" team? Really? So the players make enough money to live off without any other jobs or endorsements? And the Timbers pay them? (Hint: the Timbers don't pay the WNT players, you do through your OYSA card).

Or is it really an amateur team thrown together at the lowest cost possible to provide a place for WNT players to play in between national team games?