A second look at Rec soccer?

With college signings right behind us I started thinking how great it is that many girls/parents will see some $ return for all the years of select soccer. With so much idle time on my hands I started to wonder how much $ NTX spends on select soccer to get these few (100?) kids a shot at college soccer.

Here is some beginning math:

At U11 there are 68 teams between LH,PPL, & APL, lets figure 16 players per team = 1088 players minimum.

3 yrs academy at $1500? yr = 3x$1500 =4500 for academy per player 3 yrs
8 yrs club at 4500 yr? (includes gas/travel/equipment) 8x4500=36,000 for 8yrs
= 40,500 per player for 11 yrs of 'club soccer'.

so.. each year of academy we spend 1,632,000 as a group
and each year of club we spend 4,896,000 as a group

Total for all of us for all 11 yrs = $44,064,000

Maybe instead we should form a rec league (so the girls can still compete/make friends, learn all those valuable lessons), put all the money into a pot (instead of buying bmws for club coaches and owners) and at the end of each year award 40 million $ worth of scholarships to the U18 girls.

Maybe have a big party at the end of U18 for all the remaining players and have a lottery with every kids name in it and pass out 400 $100,000 scholarships?

Great numbers!! My next question to you - Who's going to train them.

** Assuming majority if not most want to play soccer in college **

There's a rumor going round that some kids like playing competitive soccer and understand they're not going to be the next Messi. A similar rumor surrounds some parents who understand the chance of playing college soccer with any type of financial assistance isn't great but like watching their kids play and be happy.

Any truth to the above obviously false rumors?

the7wolf wrote:There's a rumor going round that some kids like playing competitive soccer and understand they're not going to be the next Messi. A similar rumor surrounds some parents who understand the chance of playing college soccer with any type of financial assistance isn't great but like watching their kids play and be happy.

Any truth to the above obviously false rumors?

None whatsoever. You can't put a pricetag on elitism.

Wolf you sound like a professional ntx coach? Put many kids into d1 schools on scholarship, or would you consider it just a way to pay the bills? btw a 'rec' team can play in PPL or LH, it doesn't mean they aren't competitive, it just means they realize they aren't the next messi and just want to watch their kids play and be happy.

My Daughers team has the best of both worlds. We are a rec team but play academy tournaments. This saves the parents a little money but we still get the competitive playing time. We have 2 more years to enjoy it before we go Select.

i have always thought that the clubs have diluted the term "select soccer" to the point that it is meaningless.

silentparent wrote:i have always thought that the clubs have diluted the term "select soccer" to the point that it is meaningless.

The clubs haven't diluted anything.  The clubs provide a service for parents that have and will continue to dilute select soccer.

1more_dd_dad wrote:

silentparent wrote:i have always thought that the clubs have diluted the term "select soccer" to the point that it is meaningless.

The clubs haven't diluted anything.  The clubs provide a service for parents that have and will continue to dilute select soccer.

you would make a good drug dealer with that attitude....

silentparent wrote:i have always thought that the clubs have diluted the term "select soccer" to the point that it is meaningless.

Quit being an idiot, you totally misinterpret the word "select". They "select" their teams from those parents willing to pay for coaching.