Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
D1 coach from Elite University here. I attend one tournament a year and it's NLF. If a kid scores a goal at NLF: Scholarship! Makes a save: Scholarship! Now, not every kid at NLF plays a ton. But if an NLF coach "makes a call" for a player: Scholarship + NIL $$$. It's how the system works. Some coaches look for truly elite speed and athleticism. But real winners build teams based on who played NLF in 8th, 9th, 10th grade.

I love the direction this discussion is going. As somebody noted above, being on a well branded HS or club team in 10th-11th grade is important, but maybe the #4 or #5 biggest consideration. There are kids on NLF teams with 2.8 GPAs and 1100 on their SATs. They aren't headed to Yale, Cuse, UMD, UVA, Duke, etc. Elite college coaches don't want academic headaches and why should they tolerate them? "Oh you've had 11 conduct referrals in HS but you play on an NLF team? Come on in, here's your full scholarship and NIL bucks!" Please.


If you think the HS or Club team you play on is the 5th biggest consideration to getting to college than you know nothing.