Quote from: jknezek on April 11, 2025, 03:11:26 PM

Quote from: NEPAFAN on April 11, 2025, 02:31:54 PMForgive my ignorance but why is he looking for a job?

Singleton? He left Goucher women's team. Not sure of the circumstances but it was oddly timed.

I think during the season it went south.

As for Mike, don't know, but may be tough to commute from Balt. County where I think he lives (about 1.5 hours over mostly back roads), but if there is a will there is a way. Goucher is there and he mentioned that his wife's job is. Gettysburg is semi isolated. Would be an amazing option for him and Gettysburg. I hope he gets a shot. Any college would benefit with him as their coach.

Quote from: jknezek on April 10, 2025, 01:08:02 PM

Quote from: Kuiper on April 10, 2025, 12:31:22 PMCross posting from the Coaching Carousel thread

Mark Mettrick announces his retirement from Gettysburg

Anyone know if Mike Singleton is still looking for a job? That's less than 90 minutes from Towson, one of the areas he posted interest in.

Wow!!! My son thought Mettrick was a very good guy during recruiting. He had some deep ties to our Maryland area, but did not get many recruits from what I remember. Everybody around here liked him. As far as Cent. Conf, Gettysburg always played hard. Never easy at least for F&M.

As for Mike, don't know, but may be tough to commute from Balt. County where I think he lives (about 1.5 hours over mostly back roads), but if there is a will there is a way. Gettysburg is semi isolated. Would be an amazing option for him and I hope he gets a shot. Any college would benefit with him as their coach.

Quote from: Kuiper on February 14, 2025, 05:55:29 PM2.    Identify possible schools/conferences of interest

All great points! This is all my personal opinion and we as a family came really, really close to falling into this .

One thing I would like to add. Since your income/assets will most likely come into play for any school, you must sit down and determine how much you can pay as well as the loan amounts your kid will have to take out over 4 years. Some schools say that they are needs based/blind which sounds great, but really means what they believe your family can afford as opposed to what you actually can afford which could be polar opposite. What I recommend is work with your kid to find out what s/he might have in interest in, then do the online cost/tuition calculator. If the calculator (rough est.) is not even close to the number you have in mind, tell your kid that school is not an option.

While your kid might be a great soccer player with amazing grades, if he graduates with 100k or more (even 50k may not manageable) in debt and your family can't afford to send your other kids to college then IMO you've done a disservice to your kid as well as your family.

May be tough as all parents want to say that my son got into "X" super elite college and will be playing soccer. Don't make it about you. Sounds great, but could set him and your family up for some huge financial pain that could have been avoided if you looked at it objectively. FYI after our big mistakes, I went with the used care scenario - he needs to get somewhere, but question is how he is going to get from A to B. IMO cheaper may be the best way.

Son is now working as actuary for Cigna in Denver with a great living situation and salary. He started 3 years or so of D1/D3 soccer and graduated with 10-20k in debt which he probably has paid off. Two younger kids, one graduated with less than 10k in debt and the last is a sophomore will most likely grad with similar low debt situation.

Quote from: EnmoreCat on April 02, 2025, 02:05:37 AMProbably should be in the NESCAC section, but Amherst did something similar:


https://www.amherst.edu/news/news_releases/2025/april/breaking-news-from-amherst-college#:~:text=After%20careful%20consideration%20(and%20endless,the%20institution's%20name%20beginning%20today.

I got pulled up pretty quickly about the silent H when I first visited.

Would be great for merch sales!! Imagine the revenue especially for a college so, so concerned with using the appropriate language.

Hahahaha

Wowww. HOP is jumping to Ivy.

https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2025/04/hopkins-to-join-ivy-league-in-2026

Yeah, absolutely no big surprise as to Rosemont. Has been struggling as primarily a women's college for years. Sad

I think they've been to the NCAAs t least once in the last few years.

FYI, they have a bizarre turf. It is grayish with black lines.

Quote from: mngopher on February 27, 2025, 12:28:12 PMI'm curious how this would look in the colder regions of the US, especially at the D3 level. I'm in MN, and you generally can't play outdoor soccer from December-March here. Even April can be iffy some years. There are full-size domed fields available, but there are only a couple I know of (Augsburg and St. John's) that is owned and run by a D3 school. The rest of the schools in MN would have to find a way to rent space in a dome which is typically $300-$500/hr for a full field. Not to mention that many of these domes already have very high demand between youth club sports and community activities. The cost alone would be pretty prohibitive for a lot of these D3 schools that are already spreading their athletic budgets pretty thin.

Not sure that this would extend to D3, which I am pretty sure it won't. D1 has previously proposed for D1 was playing half a season in the fall with one game or so a week and then the rest of the season in the spring with d1 playoffs in the spring. This is old. https://povichcenter.umd.edu/sasho-cirovski-continues-to-look-towards-the-future/

Hopkins influence on the world! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUUT1SdA_dI

Definitely saw that very sad news.

Quote from: Kuiper on January 27, 2025, 01:36:14 PMI hesitate to give this a platform that suggests it may actually happen, but there are enough murmurs of it on social media that I think it is a worthy topic for discussion about it and its possible effects on the rest of the NCAA ecosystem, including DIII.

In late October, rumors started floating around that certain DI schools, frustrated in their attempt to have a fall-spring season, and seeing the coming issues for non-revenue sports under the NCAA going forward in a post-House settlement world where colleges have to pay players, were considering either leaving the NCAA for US Soccer or cooperating with US Soccer on a joint venture that was described as likely "semi-professional."

This weekend, the rumors started popping up again, with reports that the idea had progressed to the point that USL League One had reportedly offered to include these college teams in its league, with the ACC and Big 10 conference men's soccer teams potentially moving en masse, with other conferences/teams being invited to participate as well.

It seems serious enough that a screenshot was circulated of a pilot program, with different format depending upon how many teams joined

I tend to think the notion of college soccer teams joining and playing in a league under the US Soccer umbrella isn't crazy, especially if the alternative is cutting teams and being subject to some of the restrictions of the House settlement AND if they could generate some revenue of their own by being in USL League One (which doesn't make much money as it is).

If all of DI moved, I'm not sure what NCAA would do with men's soccer.  Maybe it would no longer be an NCAA sport or maybe it just wouldn't provide the NCAA tournament subsidies that it does now.  Either way, it's interesting to contemplate.

Great points. So just leave it alone? A compressed injury prone schedule filled with more and more int'l players. The int'l players will not be changed and will probably only get bigger which is fine. We've already discussed the injury aspect of play 18 plus games in 2.5 months or so. Lacrosse does not do this. Why soccer? If 2.5 months, maybe only 12 games or less?

Why not just get rid of college soccer along with all other sports other than football and basketball which are clear minor league sports? Make them club and intramural. Could reduce the cost of college especially colleges struggling financially (see Montclair State with lacrosse and other colleges cutting programs)?

I believe we are the only country in the world who put together education and sports (high school as well). NIL is making it much more sports than education, but not so much non revenue sports.   

I say give it a chance at D1 level. Might lead to better soccer with some players getting futures though 22 is old for starting a pro career. Who knows? Right now, imo, we don't know what we don't know.

Seems most colleges just want to treat non-rev sports as one big bundle and not even look or consider. Just sad.
Saying if they took mens/womens soccer seriously or looked at it with an open mind, they would consider this at the d1 level or the very least fall/spring seasons.

Seems most colleges just want to treat non-rev sports as one big bundle and not even look or consider. Just sad.
Saying if they took mens/womens soccer seriously or looked at it with an open mind, they would consider this at the d1 level or the very least fall/spring seasons.

Interesting article on Univ of Maryland's swing towards int'l players which obv mirrors other D1 programs. In the middle, check out the graph. Some of my son's club team played at UMD and had good careers there. Plus have two daughters there. The student who wrote this did a pretty good job.

https://dbknews.com/2024/12/08/maryland-mens-soccer-international-recruiting/