Class of 2009 Recruiting

I am willing to bet the game will be on ACC Select.

 

So what has happened to Soccer Buzz? And doesn't Top Drawer Soccer usually put out a recruiting class ranking?

I always loved the discussion and back and forth in regards to them all.

 

Yeah -- SoccerBuzz always did a nice job with the analysis. Seems they've dropped off the planet. No updates in ages. I think TopDrawer is doing it, but will issue them in stages. You'd think there'd be manpower issues with that project -- all those teams and all those conferences.

 

Topdrawer does a college ranking. They seem to be the only site that is expanding. This week they did live coverage from the club regionals.

 

Having just started following the club stuff a little more closely it seems as though the "top" clubs didn't do so well or should I say as well as they usually at regionals. In Region 4 Slammers didn't get a team to the final in Region 2 and 3 Eclipse and Texans didn't do their usual run of the region. PDA looked to only have 2 or possibly 3 teams going to regionals.

Are the other clubs catching them?

PDA, Slammers, Eclipse and Texans have had the most talent what happened this year?

 

I would bet that is not correct. There is another league that gives teams automatic bids to Nationals.Some of the top teams don't play in regionals because they have already secured their spot in nationals.

 

In Region I there is a "wildcard" into Regionals through the Region's "premier league" but for only that league's champion (or runner up) and there's usually only 1 or 2 spots at each age so it really can't be relied upon. The region did this to encourage the better clubs to participate in the league as it represents a back-door in case you choke in your State's Cup. I think most, if not all, Region I clubs would use the wildcard as a safety net and get to regionals via their State Cup. This is for USYSA Region I regionals, Not nationals. I would be very surprised if there was another way to USYSA Nationals other than being a regional champion.
This is on the girls side btw, not boys. The "academy" has diluted all of this for the boys and its coming on the girls side too. In fact, youth soccer in the US is getting less organized, not more, as Adidas and Nike fight over youth soccer money and get the clubs to buy into "National leagues" and such.......

Bottom line - in the next few years it will become harder and harder for college coaches to find the best players through their traditional recruiting pipe-lines and the best players will find themselves making tougher and tougher decisions about where and when to play club soccer- and be paying a lot more for it.......the influence of money and labels ultimately works against these players not for them - imho.....

 

Bravo -- and dead-on. Although you'll hear a lot of talk about injecting more creativity into the youth game, and making it more inclusive, all this academy stuff and national leagues is just making it more exclusive and less diverse. And with all that requisite travel, who's got time for the pick-up match where the creativity is fostered? IMHO, the labels and their dollars are leading USYSA down the wrong path. What a shame.

Okay, now back to the thread's original programming...

 

Twitter is now in the womens college soccer ranks. Here is Coach Burleighs of UF. This stuff is pretty neat.

http://twitter.com/UFGatorSoccer

 

You can play in Nationals by winning the National League not Red Bull (or whatever it is called now) see link: http://www.usyouthsoccer.org/national_league/index.asp

 

could the class of 2009 be returned to the spreadsheet? I know I use it as reference alot and when the college games begin, I will want to look players up again. Or give me a chance to copy to my computer ....

thanks

oops found it under Archives!

 

You still doing this spreadsheet. It seems to have gone away over the weekend. I visit it often and would love to see it back.

Thanks.

 

Hi,
When I try to open your recruit list I get an error message in Google that says:

" We're sorry. The publishing options given are not valid. Please check the options and try again. Find out more at the Google Docs Help Center."

Please updae your link so we can access your recruit list.


Thanks kindly.

 

Enjoyed the top twenty-five team rankings for the 2009 recruiting class. Was this posted somewhere else or personal option?

 

For the past month, I have been unable to access the spreadsheet for the Class of 2009 - any help would be appreciated. This is the Google message I receive:

The publishing options given are not valid. Please check the options and try again.

 

Here's the link -

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=poknaL_RaORDOMcyz_riBDA&output=html

Go to the archive for the 2009s

 

what happened to the best thread ever?

 

nobody is recruiting 2009 kids. they should be in College by now. In 3 years they will have graduated.