Scholarship circus

Dibble. Thanks for sharing this article. It sounds so familiar. Great information and very true.

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Good article - thanks for sharing it.... I think there are a lot of similarities between s****r and baseball players when it comes to chasing the "playing in college" dream.

I don't know about other parts of the country, but from what I've seen here in SoCal, the relative role of HS sports versus club sports participation in getting college exposure varies widely by sport. For baseball, both HS and club give a lot of exposure ... if you're standout baseball player and playing in both these venues, you'll very likely get noticed. For football, it's predominantly the HS exposure that matters. For s-o-c-c-e-r, club exposure seems to be much, much more important and whether the club futbol team is moving up through the progression of bronze, silver, gold, and premier brackets each year or two so by the time a s-o-c-c-e-r player is a soph or junior, they're playing on a gold or premier level team. Club s-o-c-c-e-r is structured to have this natural 'funnel' effect as teams either advance to each successive level, or the better players move onto other teams that recruit them to the next level. The college coaches then can predominantly canvas the gold and premier level teams for the top players.

Very good article that everyone should read, because without a doubt so many parents are unaware of the pitfalls of using a recruiting service.

I'm probably going to be in trouble for saying this, but it needs to be said.

Most of the time recruiting services do nothing that you can't do for yourselves if you will just spend the time and make the effort to contact the coaches and the colleges yourselves.

All that these kids want is to be able to play the game for the love of the game.

There are dastardly people who are using that passion to make promises they have no intentions of keeping and we all know it.