Sarah Devine Fischbeck

Mostly Soccer and some politics and more soccer

[Sarah Devine Fischbeck @SDfromtheSD]

We have a problem. 14-16 year old girls whose parents think they need to be playing professional soccer. They’re too young.

[Sarah Devine Fischbeck @SDfromtheSD]

Genuinely want to know how these old coaches do it. You guys in your 50s and 60s still coaching at a high level. And coaching well.

I did summer soccer camp this week (at 36 yrs old) and I’m dying. Everything is sore. I’m mentally tired and grumpy.

[Stuart Gore @stu_gore]

Class of 2028 and beyond:

This is 80 things a D1 soccer player has to handle almost every day outside of actually kicking a ball.

If this list looks overwhelming, intimidating, or like “too much,” then college soccer probably isn’t for you.

College club soccer might be a better fit.

[Sarah Devine Fischbeck @SDfromtheSD]

When I share that I want to lose weight, it’s not so you can pretend to be shocked and tell me I don’t need to. It’s so I can be held accountable to my goals.

[Sarah Devine Fischbeck @SDfromtheSD]

There is nothing quite like hearing your daughter yell “mom” from her room at 6:30am. And when I respond, yeah? She excited says YES. Because mom is home. And mom makes her happy. And all she wants is that connection in the morning to get her started.

[Marsha Lycan @mlycan12]

Every year June 15 gets treated like some sort of recruiting judgment day. It's not.

It's simply the first day college coaches can start conversations with the Class of 2028.

If you don't get a call Monday, it may mean we don’t put you in our top group at the moment. But, it also may mean we haven't seen you enough. It may mean we don't know who you are yet. It may mean you slipped through the cracks of thousands of emails and evaluations.

It does NOT automatically mean you're not good enough. Every single year we end up with players in our recruiting classes who we did not even know on June 15.

The players who end up at their best fit schools won't be determined by what happens on June 15. They'll be determined by what happens from June 16 forward.

We are so excited to speak with many next week, and just as many more over the course of the next year!

#LetsGo2028s #CollegeSoccer #RecruitingJourney #EmbraceTheProcess @WMTribeWSOC @ShacksTribe16

[Sarah Devine Fischbeck @SDfromtheSD]

I’m going to put it in writing. I want the USA to win the World Cup. But if they live up to their criticism, I want Norway to win.

[Sarah Devine Fischbeck @SDfromtheSD]

ChatGPT said I would look best in straight leg jeans, white leather sneakers and an off white shirt.

Today I saw a homeless lady in straight leg jeans, white sneakers and an off white shirt.

[Sarah Devine Fischbeck @SDfromtheSD]

My phone just autocorrected “Irvine” to “I’m broke” and if that isn’t an appropriate fix, idk what is

[Sarah Devine Fischbeck @SDfromtheSD]

ONLY EXCEPTION is for obesity. That makes sense to get to a healthy weight that you can start doing the right things.

[Sarah Devine Fischbeck @SDfromtheSD]

I’d rather be chunky than take #peptides. There I said it. I don’t care what you say about them being “safe” “healthy” whatever. They aren’t. And your face looks like you’re shooting up. It just does.

[Sarah Devine Fischbeck @SDfromtheSD]

The weirdest thing about moving is when all your running routes change and now you don’t have an exact feeling for exactly how long you are going without looking at your watch

[Jason Collinsworth @IHateSoccerPod]

If you are born and raised in the United States. Yet you use the terms:

Football
A Match
A Pitch
Boots

You’re trying way too hard. Be comfortable in your own skin for once.

[Marsha Lycan @mlycan12]

Not sure who has been keeping up with the announcements that have rolled out, but the youth soccer landscape is about to be changing in a cataclysmic way. In a nutshell, US Soccer will be taking over US youth soccer and also bringing in US club under the umbrella. On paper, this consolidation could and should be what is logical. The old state associations from USYS days are going to be phased out, and there’s going to be a recommitment back to using ODP as a Pipeline, which will be easier having the ECNL under US Soccer. There is a lot more to it in terms of consolidation of other leagues, and I think on the boys side it is a little more complicated with MLS next. It will be interesting to see how this all unfolds in the coming months/years and is being called the “Pathways Strategy“

[Sarah Devine Fischbeck @SDfromtheSD]

@IHateSoccerPod HBK is the A team and Slammers is the B team. The club got a connection/sponsorship with the real HBK in Sweden (I think?) so they use the affiliation to create two ECNL teams and two ECRL teams.

[Sarah Devine Fischbeck @SDfromtheSD]

@mlycan12 @fitsoccerqueen @JulieFoudy @AbbyWambach As a preteen my parents always planned a family week in summer- told the coach BEFORE season started. If it was a free weekend, good. If it landed on a tourney, tough luck. They didn’t live their life for sports - that said , I missed 0 days of school or practice outside of that.

[Sarah Devine Fischbeck @SDfromtheSD]

Being a mom is putting on clothes and then 15 minutes later having to change because you’ve got oatmeal from one kid snot from another kid and some remnants of your own breakfast as well.

[Travis @McCorkleTravis]

@ImCollegeSoccer If kids didn’t average playing around 30 minutes per game-they shouldn’t enter Portal unless they are willing to move “down” a level. This is also a fact. Most active coaches won’t say this.

[Andre Luciano @LVHoosierGK]

I usually tell any GK’s I work with that are trying to get on D1 rosters “if you want to play go the NJCAA route. Get your games in, get experience, pay less and then go fight to be a #2 or #1 as a junior or senior.
It’s what I did.”
So many GK’s entering the transfer portal because of lack of playing time or just not ready to perform at that level…

[Sarah Devine Fischbeck @SDfromtheSD]

Mommy, do bad guys brush their teeth?

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A 13-year-old Canadian kid uploaded R&B covers to YouTube in 2008 from his bedroom. A talent manager named Scooter Braun stumbled on the videos and signed him.

For the next 15 years, Braun controlled everything. Tours, branding, business deals, public image. The kid became the biggest pop star on the planet, sold 150 million records, racked up 32 billion Spotify streams, and had three Diamond-certified singles before turning 25.

Then in 2022, he got hit with Ramsay Hunt syndrome. Partial facial paralysis. Cancelled the world tour. Disappeared from public life entirely.

Here's where it gets interesting.

In January 2023, he sold his entire 290-song catalog to Hipgnosis for $200 million. Every song he'd ever released. "Baby." "Sorry." "Love Yourself." All of it. Gone. At 28 years old, he cashed out his past.

Then he dropped Scooter Braun. After 15 years. No manager. No agent. For the first time in his career, nobody was making decisions for him.

Fast forward to this weekend. Coachella calls. He picks up the phone himself. Rolling Stone confirmed he negotiated his own headlining deal directly with Goldenvoice. No agent commission. No manager cut. $10 million for two weekends, and he kept all of it.

Then he walked onto the biggest stage in music, sat down behind a MacBook, and pulled up YouTube.

He played "Baby" from 2010. He played his bedroom covers from 2008. He harmonized with his 13-year-old self in front of 100,000 people. Katy Perry joked about whether he had YouTube Premium.

Half the internet called it lazy. The other half called it genius.

They're both wrong. It was a receipt.

He sold his catalog for $200 million. He fired the man who discovered him. He negotiated his own deal. And then he went back to the exact platform where it all started and said: I built this from a laptop. I'm headlining Coachella from a laptop. And for the first time in my life, every dollar is mine.

The kid from YouTube just closed the loop.