YNT-eligible college players -- 2017 thread

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  1. Sandon Mibut

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    Feb 13, 2001
    #201 Sandon Mibut, Feb 8, 2018
    And Wake adds another YNT in Koby Carr.

     
  2. Sandon Mibut

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    #202 Sandon Mibut, Feb 8, 2018
  3. Sandon Mibut

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    #203 Sandon Mibut, Feb 8, 2018
  4. Baysider

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    Santa Monica
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    #204 Baysider, Feb 8, 2018
  5. Sandon Mibut

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    Feb 13, 2001
    #205 Sandon Mibut, Feb 8, 2018
    I'm gonna make an exception to my (not written in stone) policy of only posting official LOI announcements from schools and post this here:

    Ben Huynh is a 00 from the Sounders academy who was in a couple of camps last cycle. He's going to the Naval Academy, as announced below on his twitter account and, yesterday, by the Sounders.

    DOD regs prevent announcing incoming cadets/midshipman till the summer so you can't get an official announcement from the school, hence the exception.

    942501414194073600 is not a valid tweet id
     
  6. Sandon Mibut

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    #206 Sandon Mibut, Feb 8, 2018
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  7. ussoccer97531

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  8. Sandon Mibut

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    #208 Sandon Mibut, Feb 8, 2018
    AJ Seals, a 00 from Orlando's academy who was in the mega-camp last month has signed with NC State.

     
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  9. Sandon Mibut

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    #209 Sandon Mibut, Feb 8, 2018
    By my count, I have 19 99/00s who have been with the YNTs since 2016 who are HS seniors this fall who have verbally committed to a program but it hasn't been announced yet. So we can expect more signings to come.
     
  10. Sandon Mibut

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    #210 Sandon Mibut, Feb 8, 2018
  11. Sandon Mibut

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  12. Dave Marino-Nachison

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    #212 Dave Marino-Nachison, Feb 8, 2018
    Guessing money and minutes. They had eight seniors and two pretty small classes behind them. At least two of those seniors were probably on full rides. And it wouldn't be shocking if Michel and Ortiz aren't back in the fall.
     
  13. Sandon Mibut

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    #213 Sandon Mibut, Feb 9, 2018
    Jean-Julian Foe Nuphaus, a 00 D from the Earthquakes academy who was in the U19 YNT camp last month, is going to Cal. (I know the Quakes are really high on him so I don't know how long he'll be in Berkeley.

     
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    #214 Sandon Mibut, Feb 12, 2018
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  15. Sandon Mibut

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    #215 Sandon Mibut, Feb 12, 2018
    Akron, which has produced a few pro players of late, announces 00 YNT defender Carlo Ritaccio.

     
  16. Balerion

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    Aug 5, 2006
    Roslindale, MA
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    #216 Balerion, Feb 12, 2018
    Cal's incoming class looks particularly interesting. I won't be surprised if some guys never make it to campus or are one-and-done. Though of course, sometimes players stick around for 1-2 years longer than they might otherwise at prestige academic institutions.

    They even have a kid named Christian Gomez! That made me check in on what happened to the tail end of the Argentine Christian Gomez's career and, believe it or not, he's still playing in the Argentine second tier at age 43(!)
     
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  17. Sandon Mibut

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    #217 Sandon Mibut, Feb 12, 2018
    Here's one that will be of interest to @Dave Marino-Nachison and other followers of YNTs abroad.

    Cody Sundqvist, a 99 who has been with Firoentina's academy in Italy and got some U18 call-ups last cycle, has signed with UCLA.

     
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  18. Sandon Mibut

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    #218 Sandon Mibut, Feb 12, 2018
    Sam Fowler, a 00 GK from the Sounders' academy who was in the mega-camp last month stays in Seattle and signs with Washington.

     
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  19. Dave Marino-Nachison

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    #219 Dave Marino-Nachison, Feb 12, 2018
    He announced it himself on Twitter last month -- I guess this makes it about as official as it gets...
     
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  20. Sandon Mibut

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    #220 Sandon Mibut, Feb 12, 2018
    I was silly to think I would be telling you something about YA you didn't already know!
     
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  21. Dave Marino-Nachison

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    #221 Dave Marino-Nachison, Feb 12, 2018
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  22. Clint Eastwood

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    Dec 23, 2003
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    FC Dallas
    #222 Clint Eastwood, Feb 16, 2018
    One thing FCD does that I really like is that they've turned college signing night into a big deal. It has a sponsor. They even live-streamed part of this event last night with players and their families. 80 kids signed their Letters of Intent. What's always surprising to me is the number of boys not in the DA program that get NCAA scholarships. They're in the Premier and Select Teams.

    [Also, we only focus on the boys' teams here. The FCD women's academy is starting to really fire on all cyclinders as well. They just destroy people down in Texas.]


     
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  23. Brotheryoungbuck

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    #223 Brotheryoungbuck, Feb 21, 2018
    https://instagram.com/p/BfPlDJSl73w/

    So Chris Richards of FCD who, may or may not have been on trial with Schalke, signed an NLI with UNC. Of course plenty of kids sign and never go to college. But that tweet with Cory Gibbs, Weston McKinnie, and Zyen Jones made me think Cory was also his agent.



    He can’t have an agent and sign a NLI. I wonder if he just was networking with Gibbs. I don’t really have questions I just think the whole scenario is intriguing.
     
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  24. Sandon Mibut

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    #224 Sandon Mibut, Feb 21, 2018
    It's not an unreasonable question to ask.

    Players can have "advisers" who are agents they haven't signed with, as long as they don't take anything from said agent. (Technically they can't even have verbal agreements but that's tough to govern.)

    The question with Gibbs and Richards is who footed the bill for Richards' trip to Germany? If it was Gibbs/Wasserman or a German club, then all bets are off in terms of the NCAA.

    But if Richards and his family paid for the trip and Gibbs just happened to be there as an adviser, then he an still play college soccer.

    I doubt the NCAA goes out of its way to investigate this as it's college soccer and we know they don't give a shit about it. But after all the issues UNC has had of late with the NCAA, I imagine their compliance department will take a look into this just to be safe.
     
  25. Sandon Mibut

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