don't forget our own Eric Brunner was drafted by NY with their first pick that year and chose to play in Miami, because they were paying more at the time than the MLS rookie minimum.
Somebody PLEASE change the title of this thread! My "Supporter's Eyes" can't stand looking at "The" MLS.
Some of A and some of B Then mix in C which is another NY team that will have all the overseas players telling Garber that if they come play in MLS, it's only going to be for LA or either NY club. Parity my ass !!!
My thoughts EXACTLY !! A Division 1 program in town with a competitive schedule. That and I'm a bit biased !!
Its a tough recruitment. The average all in cost at HBU is 41k. The average scholarship there only 13k for men's soccer. You have to rock some good grades or come from money to consider HBU.
It's simple grammar. THE Major League Soccer is just wrong. Nothing else to say about it, except it's wrong.
www.TheMajorLeagueSoccerSoccerLeague.net? And then put a soccer ball in the logo, so everyone knows what sport soccer is.
Actually, last report I saw was 36k but I get your point and you're also right about how many scholarships are available at the D1 level. Usually having to carve 'em up as I believe they only get what? 8.5 full rides or something like that? They can often times find some other academic or need based aid as well to help out. At any rate, being one of the only D1 programs in the soccer rich state of Texas, I'd like to see them keep growing and give players from the state an option beside SMU (also a costly school with good grades needed). I also think that they could put a pretty good team together from just Greater Houston area talent alone (assuming that a lot of that talent goes out of state).
41 included room and Board. Soccer is tough, it is 9.9 men's scholarships for about 26 kids. While you are right you can get help in other ways, at a private school you still need the classroom work. Tough sell to a parent that has to fork over an additional 18k versus a public school where the exposure may be 4k per year.
Are parents paying for their adult children's education like that? Wow, my son has it rough. I paid one semester, and told him that if he wants it he has to go get it. Maybe I'm out of line, but he is 19 years old. There are loans, grants, and scholarships.
Even with the popularity and big money made3 from baseball - the college baseball sholar athlete isn't much better than his soccer counterpart in college. Universities only have like 24 baseball scholarships so consequently the only offer 1/4 or 1/2 scholarships to kids. There is no gaurantee from year to year either. If a kid doesn't produce or look like he is gonna be any good by the end of the first year they run them off and replace thm with a new recruit. No guarantee of 4 year scholarship anymore. Kids are playing many sports in college with little financial help because they just love the sport. College football athletes get a better deal beacuse the are the money makers that carry the rest of teh athletic department as well as the fact that football programs have to offer more money and better treatment to be more attractive to the best recruits. When I was in my first year at LSU, the baseball coach let two dorm mates try to walk on the baseball team as freshman. One guy who wasa shortstop got cut after a month or so, the other guy who was a picther got cut the week before the season started that spring. They just were using his arm for batting practice and really had no intention of keeping him on the team. Love is a crazy thing that will make you suffer at times.