The article I read(a few months ago) said she chose Missouri over ND and some others. So maybe ND did not offer, or maybe a scholarship opened up. Either way this is another example of why I think girls should not commit to a college before they even start their junior years of high school. No wonder there are so many transfers in women's college soccer.
Well, with 300+ D1 programs out there, chances are there are plenty of open slots at some fine institutions.
Apparently she does. In the context of NCAA Div I soccer recruiting, "commitment" means you sign a National Letter of Intent in February of your senior year. That's why the NCAA set a date before which colleges can't sign recruits. If they were they had every right to do so. And they wouldn't be the only coaches to do so. Verbals aren't binding and unless a recruit says "No" coaches have every right to contact recruits until they sign elsewhere. And yes I realise that as a practical matter coaches have to start relying on a recruit's verbal commitment, but not before their senior year.
are you a parent? it is late in the recruiting game but there are always slots...are we talking top tier or 3rd or 4th tier, money or not, and why d1 as opposed to d2 at this point. players transfer, change their minds. there is a service..not a recruiting service but more college counselling....www.soccerscholarshipcoach.com . cheap and specializes in finding the right fit-- even naia.
This just in, Ohai to UNC..Can you imagine Jessica MCDonald and Kealia Ohai on the attack. The speed will be blinding..
You could be right. UNC gets most of the top recruits but I am not sure where you are getting your info on Kealia. It seems like it was a USC vs Portland battle for her. I have no inside info but based on her latest interview with topdrawersoccer she seemed to favor those two single if you read between the lines. I would be somewhat suprised if she ended up at UNC.
One thing that bugs me is the difference between women's college soccer and college football when it comes to reporting NLI's. Let's just compare a few top womens soccer programs with their football counterparts: Notre Dame: Football date reported = 2/4, Women's soccer date reported = ? UCLA: Football date reported = 2/4, Women's soccer date reported = ? North Carolina: Football date reported = 2/4, Women's soccer date reported = ? Stanford: Football date reported = 2/4, Women's soccer date reported = ? On several of the above college football sites, you can get internet video of signing day announcements. None of the women's soccer sites mention that today is signing day.
I think one of the reasons football posts at the first possible time is that college football like it or not has a much bigger fan/base interest than women's soccer. So the women's programs wait until the hoopla over the football signings are subsiding so as not get lost in the shuffle.
I see Georgia reported its signings...... http://www.georgiadogs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=8800&ATCLID=3659559 Anybody else?
Texas A&M- http://www.aggieathletics.com/sports/w-soccer/spec-rel/020409aab.html As much as it pains me to say something good about the Aggies, their website consistently does an excellent job putting out info.
Mary Schmidt, D, from Slammers FC has signed with Texas A&M. Great pickup as she was the leader of the defense for one of the best club teams in California. That was a surprise signee this morning.
I think that many soccer programs just market themselves poorly. About half the SEC has information on soccer signings and LSU which won national titles in football and has one of the top 3 recruiting classes in football this year, made a big deal out of their soccer signings and had live programs and updates. Some soccer websites have not updated their sites since their last game and do a poor job even during the season. They work hard on recruiting and one major mode of communication that today’s players use is the internet and some barely use it. I hear recruits talk all the time about various college websites and it sends a message to them about how serious the school is committed to marketing the program. I have seen better rec soccer websites than some of the colleges. The job that LSU and A & M did along with several others could make a difference when a player is undecided
Five more Big 12 schools... with A&M that makes 6 of the 11 that have released the new class by now. http://www.cubuffs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=3937&SPID=259&DB_OEM_ID=600&ATCLID=3656582 http://www.okstate.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=1508&SPID=147&DB_OEM_ID=200&ATCLID=3662458 http://kuathletics.cstv.com/sports/w-soccer/spec-rel/020409aaa.html http://mutigers.cstv.com/sports/w-soccer/spec-rel/020409aab.html http://baylorbears.cstv.com/sports/w-soccer/spec-rel/020409aaa.html
While I agree that many schools have a bare minimum of communication on their website, you cannot automatically blame the soccer program for it, typically it's more a function of the Sports Information Department and its willingness to put in the extra work required to post information to the site. I've heard a good number of coaches discuss their frustration with the lack of quality and content on their websites but have little control over it because the SID will not (or claims they cannot because of limited resources) do a lot of extras for the soccer program and that attitude is backed up--whether implicitly or explicitly--by the administration. I think if you're a fan, patron or booster of a particular program and you would like to see more you should contact the SID and SWA of that school and let them know that you would like to see more coverage.
That is exactly right. It is not the soccer programs that are at fault. It is 100% the administration's and SID office who control what does and doesn't get done....and how timely it will get done. Not every school has the staff to get it done asap. Believe me, every coach wants there release done as soon as it can. The other aspect is the compliance part. You can't release on a player until the signed paperwork is in and approved. So you are also potentially waiting on kids and parents to get it back in. And a coach wants to put out one release and not 3 separate ones as they come in, if they can avoid it.
Perhaps, but I know Illinois makes a conscious decision to wait until the football signing noise dies down. There aren't too many places where the women's soccer signing announcements will get widespread notice if they're released at the same time as football. It simply gets buried, despite the efforts of those like me who cover women's soccer in a college football/basketball town. When they wait a few days...or even a week, there's a much better chance of getting the news out to the general public. As to how much difference this makes to recruits, I think it's minimal. I think Illinois does a pretty good job in general with the soccer portion of its website. People can look for themselves and make up their own minds. http://fightingillini.cstv.com/sports/w-soccer/ill-w-soccer-body.html
It's my understanding that UNC waits until they have in hand all of the commitments they are expecting and the girls have all paid their deposits to the university indicating their intentions to enroll. If one is late or held up by an admission technicality, or a variety of other reasons, the wait can be pretty long (as it was last year). So. it's not always just a matter of updating a Web site.
UP does pretty much the same thing, although I don't think it's so much driven by money as by the letters of intent being signed, and they do wait until at least the regular season is over for basketball. It does seem in Portland's case that all the recruits signed their letters yesterday, and UP fans know who they are, so it's really timed to get the best media attention in the local market. There is an NCAA rule that a school can only have one press conference and/or official function on campus to announce players, so that's part of what drives it. If they announced on a website, for instance, there would be no reason for the press conference.