Men's Soccer

fallenchemist
Wed, 07 Oct 2015 20:14:35 +0000

Since there are no scholarships involved, I am not sure there is any red-shirting involved. I suppose there could be in that there might still be eligibility issues to play after 4 years involved, but it doesn’t sound like that here.

Is he going to be a professional soccer player?? If not, why waste A LOT of time on soccer in college?

Because the discipline, teamwork and other life lessons involved are very hard to get elsewhere, at least as efficiently as they are presented in sports. It has been extensively documented that NCAA athletes from non-revenue sports have more success in the workplace later, and most of them attribute their experience in working with others, responding to authority, discipline to a task, and especially the attitude of winning for the team as being the major contributors to that success.

And contrary to your other assertion, the lesson apparently hasn’t been learned, because part of the lesson is learning to deal with bosses like that. That means sticking with it, not turning tail and quitting. Besides, despite appearances, those bosses are not always wrong, but it takes time to see that sometimes. In any case, it sounds like what you are advocating is just quitting anything you are not going to do professionally. That seems absurd to me. If your argument instead is that this takes a disproportionate amount of time given he won’t be a professional, then my answer is that A) The OP has already stipulated he enjoys soccer a lot and is likely to get much more playing time in the future; and B) as I already said these experiences, both positive and negative, inevitably contribute strongly to future behavior and success. As far as A, once he becomes a regular on the team, and maybe even a team leader, he can be in a position to advocate for change, if he still thinks he is right. But after 2 months in school you think he has learned all he can from being on the team? Not even close.