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Thanks for the kind words. Perhaps the mix of Women and Men’s posts led to some confusion. My post to which you are referring was exclusive to Women and Girls soccer based on a DiMaria follow up. Others inquired/posted about her specifically. It would help alleviate some confusion by moving some of the Women’s posts to the Women’s thread. ……………… Girls: U15 Gallagher, U16 STLDA, U17 LFA are teams that advanced to national finals. SLU Women recruit from ECNL, GA, and even USYS. ……………….. I can also post about Boys MLS Next, ECNL, other for boys teams too. Usually my posts are related to SLU here. 2 of DiMaria’’s family members played/will play for SLU and she is a top SLU Women’s target. …………. Since we are here: In recent MLS Next Cup U17 Gallagher (SLSG) Academy team had a great run to the national quarterfinals, in MLS next Boys this Summer for example before losing to Weston FC. It turned heads because Gallagher often loses players to City Academy, as do all if the other local club teams. Prior to losing to Weston FC, they defeated Bayside snd FC Dallas among others to get there. U15 STL City Academy almost won the entire thing before losing 1-1 (4-5) PK’s to Philly in the semis. …………. In ECNL Boys: the U17 Gallagher ECNL team was the only SLSG team that made the Final 8 in Richmond. This would be your grandson’s team. Congrats to him and good luck to him as they play Concorde Fire Platinum (Atlanta) in the National Quarterfinals July 17th. The difference between MLS Next and ECNL on the boys side is MLS Next is full time academy ball, and possibly even playing for an academy in another city as a teen. ECNL ball has the local high school playing option along with ECNL in Spring/Fall. Many do both. While schools like SLU often recruit MLS Next, they also recruit ECNL players and elsewhere too. The Anderson brothers were ECNL. An incoming Freshman from Seattle, etc.. …………. in recent years, SLSG girls won back to back ECNL national championships at U16 and U17 with the same team. Their first ever. Many of those players were 2024, and a few 2025. One was a 2026. ………… In GA, 2 different Lou Fusz girls teams won back to back U16 national titles. These would mostly be 2025 and 2026 players. ………….

Sorry for your loss. Unfortunately, your information is not exactly correct. My grandson is the keeper for the U-17 boys, who qualified for Richmond. I’m pretty sure they are the only SLSG team to advance past the round of 16. It was awesome for us. He saved the last try to help send them on. Makes all the time, travel and money worth it!!

never when all u can eating. good appetite depressor though

You’re welcome. Any time. And thanks for the kind words.

Thanks for clarifying @courtside, that is good news for the program. I am sorry to hear about your news though, hang in there.

While I’m here I meant to post that in the end DiMaria (ECNL) ended up playing with her regular 08 team instead of the older group. (SLU commits Marsh and Bartholet on that team). They won their group but lost to NV Courage Academy in the Round of 16 in San Diego. One more win would have been Final 8 in Virginia. The U19 team lost to Solar in Round of 16, but they didn’t lose again and they won their consolation bracket. U16 didn’t make it out of group. (Current 2027 targets mostly) (maybe half a dozen targets at most in this group) U15 was only Scott Gallagher team to make the National Final 8. ………… In Girls Academy, 08 Lou Fusz made the Finals event as did STLDA 09. Handful of targets combined. ………… Someone can move some of the Women’s posts to Women’s Soccer. Some of the DiMaria questions and comments originated here. …………..

Nice haul today…Pat Clohisy’s first professional card and a cool 8x10 of him with the Braves in Spring Training.

I just asked. Jeremi will play another year at this time. That wasn’t the initial plan or expectation. He left to try to work something out professionally. That was his first choice. He has eligibility because he played smaller division before SLU. It was going to be Mason Hart, pushed by younger/new guys. But the opportunity to have Jeremi combined with Mason transferring, changed that. Roster limits also changed a few things too. This is recently updated and accurate. SLU Men’s Soccer didn’t update their website until recently. One incoming SLU keeper is taking a gap year in part because of the situation. https://slubillikens.com/sports/mens-soccer/roster I have a lot going on at the moment as some may know. We had an unexpected death in the fam. Someone very close to us. So I am scrambling with a lot of other things. But the short break distractions here and there like this are good. This should be correct now and I will let you know if it changes. If people want to know where people end up, I have all of those going back many years. i just don’t post outgoing, only incoming. Where is Cole,(Fairfield) or Jack (Akron) (Mads went to Brown before last year etc…or whomever? Just send me a message as well if I don’t post it.

My apologies for the confusion, I was referring to the Embry Riddle transfer. Thanks for the clarification. He is on the www.slubillikens.com roster when other May graduates have been removed, but I understand that those can be a work in progress. Do you have any early insight on the GK position @courtside?

2 things: 1) Jeremi has moved on to professional soccer. But yes he moved up divisions (or program levels) as happens way more often with International players. 2) Fabian Hilpert spent the Spring on SLU’s team from Embry Riddle in Florida. He then transferred to South Florida after Spring semester. 3) International players often don’t know and don’t care about divisions, conferences, leagues etc until they arrive in the states. Then they transfer to higher divisions and programs. There are some finds. Programs such as Missouri State take 2 big ling International Recruiting trips a year. in addition to video and recommendations on players. The heavy International teams plan and budget for those trips. South Florida and Portland have strong recruiting classes. SLU is 9 for 2025. That may improve because it doesn’t include 3 new May players. @WUH

No I mean he transferred from SLU…unless I’m slipping

Abonnel is one of those rare NAIA transfers. I say rare, but I really have no idea how many guys make the transition from NAIA to Division I.

For those who do not understand how the government works. This is just the initial step in turning tax free corporations and businesses into fully taxable status. It starts slowly and with clear guidelines targeting the revenue of a few tax free companies with large endowments and active investments in the private sector. In time the tax free companies become very limited in number as the number of prior tax free companies decreases. This is the way income taxes were first applied, they were limited only to the extremely wealthy and strictly limited to them. That status did not remain the case for long. After a number of years income taxes were extended to cover most of the population.

Abonnel transferred?

The roster lists Jeremi Abonnel. I thought he had exhausted his eligibility, but I guess not. If I had transferred to St. Louis in January, I might want to move back to Florida too.

Thanks for the answers - OG and LE

There are also public universities with large endowments that own or partially own some startups who are exempt from this tax.

@cheeseman I think the primary target of this tax on private school endowment revenue are the schools with very large endowments that own many startup companies and profit heavily from their startups. I am talking about Harvard, Duke, and the like. Small schools with very small endowment revenue are exempt from paying this endowment revenue if they are below certain levels. This tax is not intended to bankrupt smaller schools with small endowment revenue, not yet anyways.

The 8% is a top rate that only applies if the endowment exceeds $2 million per enrolled student. Harvard’s endowment, per an article I found in the Harvard Crimson, is about $2.9 million per enrolled student. It is on the revenue apparently, it will cost Harvard about $200 million per year. If it were on the whole thing, 8% of $53 Billion is about $4.25 billion. As to why, it was politically targeted. The universities looking at the highest tax rate are Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and MIT. I guess taxing public schools would been politically impossible to pass. The tax is 4% for between $750,000 and $2 Mil per student, 1.4% for $500,000 to $750,000, and nothing if the endowment doesn’t exceed $500,000 pers enrolled student. For those wondering, SLU with $1.7 Billion in endowment and about 15,200 students works out to approximately $112,000 pers student enrolled, so we are well under the threshold. Davidson, at $1.3 Billion in endowment and only about 1800 students is at $722,000 per student, so they are now in some trouble. Article from The Harvard Crimson https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/7/5/big-beautiful-bill-endowment-tax/ Edit: Turns out there is a provision that an institution must have an enrollment of 3000, or the tax does not apply. Davidson is off the hook at only 1800 enrollment. There are a couple of other things in here that will affect all universities. The Federal Grad Plus loan program is gone, Parent PLUS loans are now capped at $65,000 (these two will affect grad students most). It consolidates loan repayments and eliminates some borrower protections, including deferment for economic hardship and unemployment. So lose your job and you still have to make payments on your student loan. Also, programs whose graduates earn less than the median income of a high school graduate risk all further Federal loans.

Related questions - this Big Ugly Bill will tax private universities endowment up from 1.4% to 8% - correct, is this only on the revenue or the entire endowment? Next, why not tax the revenue of public universities endowments?

Are you sure you didn't just drop acid?

Maybe about St Bonaventure, but they have an endowment of only $92.3 Mil, very little room for error, so they had best be on top of things. If D1 sports gets too expensive for them, they must be proactive about doing something quickly. Davidson has over 13 times the endowment fund, so much more room for error. Both Fordham and Loyola-Chicago have over 16K students enrolled and around 1 Billion in endowment funds each. You would think that would give them all the revenue they would need, but this back of the envelope stuff does not include their debt payments, or how well they are managing their expenses. It is possible to screw things up if they are not on top of their expenses. Even public schools are not immune from the issue of declining enrollment. If fewer students in a state are going to school, it’s going to be hard to get politicians to give out more money to schools, and one condition I could see added to that money is no funding for sports, only academics. Time will tell how this plays out over the coming years. But schools deciding to give up D1 sports is not irrational depending on their circumstances.

Bonaventure is not in any financial danger and is in fact one of the better managed schools fiscally in the A10. Their small enrollment has been an advantage to them. Davidson is in a similar situation. LaSalle, Fordham, & Loyola are the most in trouble financially. LaSalle is by far the worst, but Fordham is catching up. Loyola's current struggles appear to be manageable. it is a dream scenario but getting LaSalle and Fordham to drop D-1 athletics isn't that far off. I don't think LaSalle makes it to 2030 & Fordham could cut out at any time.

Another A10 university who may have financial problems is St Bonaventure. The Bonnie’s have only a 92.3 Mil endowment fund, and only 2381 total students, so much less operating revenue coming in, harder to keep funding D1 sports. LaSalle, with 5191 students, gets a lot more revenue coming in on a yearly basis. No one else seems in immediate financial danger, next lowest endowments are URI and GMU at 203 Mil and 222 Mil respectively, but not only do they have 16k and 35k enrollments, they are both public schools, so as long as they get money from their state governments, they are good. Beyond that is St Joe’s, 7568 enrollment and 378 Mil endowment fund, doesn’t really seem to be in immediate trouble. While Davidson only has an enrollment of about 1843, they are sitting on a 1.3 Billion endowment fund. As a wildcard, any university may decide to kill sports or go down to D3 because it makes financial sense to them at any time. Not sure I see that in the immediate future, but if there’s no way to control costs, they may decide they have to.

It appears to me that however LaSalle manages to maintain its accreditation, they will have to let go D1 level sports and NILs. In other words I cannot see how LaSalle can maintain its membership in A10 and maintain its accreditation. There may be another opening for other schools in A10, coming soon.