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Monday, June 22, 2009
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Hey, you seem to be using terms kind of loosely. When you quote the 3 in 50 statistic, I'm assuming that's ONLY for scholarships, right? Because if a team has only 10 scholarships, they're still going to need 8-10 other players to field a full team. In other words, maybe 1 in 10, get to play in college, but very few get money.
Playing sports in college, especially the NCAA Div I, even without a scholarship is a wonderful experience, even if there is no money associated with it...
No--the 3 out of 50 statistic is for playing varsity soccer at any NCAA college (there's also NAIA), not just scholarships and not just Div. 1.
In NCAA Div. 1 there are 198 schools with men's soccer. If each team has 25 players on its roster, that's roughly 5000 players, and of course they don't need that many each year since some are underclassmen. At most, they're looking for about 2000 new players each year, including foreign players. The available pool of high school and older club level players is huge; very few will make it, scholarship or not.
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2 comments:
Hey, you seem to be using terms kind of loosely. When you quote the 3 in 50 statistic, I'm assuming that's ONLY for scholarships, right? Because if a team has only 10 scholarships, they're still going to need 8-10 other players to field a full team. In other words, maybe 1 in 10, get to play in college, but very few get money.
Playing sports in college, especially the NCAA Div I, even without a scholarship is a wonderful experience, even if there is no money associated with it...
No--the 3 out of 50 statistic is for playing varsity soccer at any NCAA college (there's also NAIA), not just scholarships and not just Div. 1.
In NCAA Div. 1 there are 198 schools with men's soccer. If each team has 25 players on its roster, that's roughly 5000 players, and of course they don't need that many each year since some are underclassmen. At most, they're looking for about 2000 new players each year, including foreign players. The available pool of high school and older club level players is huge; very few will make it, scholarship or not.
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