A recruiting advisor tells high school soccer players to stop listing only Division I schools and build realistic tiered lists including Division II and III. Club coaches won't pitch you to colleges unless you've already generated genuine interest yourself.
Everybody gather around, gather around, gather around. You guys are sophomores and juniors, so it's time to start thinking about the recruiting process. Raise your hand, how many of you have a list of which schools you want to go to? So one or two of you have kind of a list put together. How many of you on your list are just Division I schools? Okay, so those of you who have a list, most of you are only Division I schools. How come you're not thinking about Division I and Division II? Well, Division III sucks and I would never play Division III and I'm freaking amazing and Division I is like where I want to play. I want to play UCLA, Stanford, Notre Dame, etc. Okay, I love your goals, but I'll be honest with you, you're not playing in any of those schools, so you need to have some other schools list. You can't say that to me. My parents pay for this club team, and you can't tell me— you can't tell me that. You know, you can't be that honest. Well, I care about you, and I have to be that honest because you're out of your freaking mind. Well, I'm gonna tell my parents and the director and gonna get you fired. Believe it or not, this is something I have seen done before, which is why you have to be really careful about when you talk to your club coaches if they're really going to help you play college soccer, which I hope they do. They're really important to have in your references. They're really important to have when you start calling coaches, but they will not call the coaches for you. They will do so once you have genuine interest already. They're willing to stick their neck out for you and potentially be told by a college coach that they're wrong, but not if they just— you expect them to do and they cannot do it for all every player on your team. So you must get the genuine interest first, then tell your club coach, hey coach, I've got an interest from this Division 1 school, Division 2, Division 3 school. It's one of my favorites. Would you mind leaving a message? If you want more help, give me a call. Thanks, bye-bye.
