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Message: [QUOTE="MilfordHusky, post: 2169300, member: 366"] A couple of family-related thoughts on recruiting. My younger son went to Rice University. It had and may still have the smallest student body of a school fielding a Division I football team. The undergraduate enrollment is now up to 3,800, but was only 2,600 or so back in 2001. As a result, the incoming class of 650 needed to include the right number of students for each academic major and meet the needs of the various coaches, whether it was a catcher on the baseball team or tight end on the football team. That sounded like an incredible challenge to me. The second point is that my 5'0" and 100 lb. badass of a granddaughter apparently will be recruited for college soccer. She has a few mid-to-low level college teams interested in her. Some of you may recall that she played on the Philippines U-16 team in a tourney in China last year. She had a big game last weekend with 2 goals and an assist, so she has been asked to play on some elite team in another state. I think offers can be made on September 1 of her junior year. When she was a freshman, 6 seniors on her public high school team got Division I scholarships, including to top teams such as Auburn and Rutgers. [/QUOTE]