About Roadmap to College Soccer : Temple Athlete Advisory Group
Talking the soccer recruiting landscape with Erik Temple. Temple a current college soccer coach will lead conversations with fellow college coaches, club coaches and current players to talk everything regarding the recruitment process!
Roadmap To College Soccer Episode 029 - Gap Years in College Soccer: The Truth Nobody Tells You
The Five-for-Five eligibility rule changed the landscape. And now more families than ever are asking the same question — should my athlete take a gap year?
In Episode 29 Grant and Erik give you the most honest take on gap years you are going to hear anywhere. Not the version the prep school program sells you. Not the version the club coach suggests when they want to keep your kid on the roster for another year. The actual version.
They cover what is actually driving this conversation right now, what the Five-for-Five eligibility clock means for families considering a gap year and why getting this wrong can cost your athlete eligibility rather than preserve it, the specific circumstances where a gap year genuinely makes sense versus where it is almost always a reactive emotional decision, what coaches actually think when a recruit tells them they are taking a gap year, the bridges that get burned in that moment and how hard they are to rebuild, and the pro and con framework every family should run through before making this call.
They also announce a new school directory inside the Roadmap to College Soccer community with all college coach contacts and a best fit filter built in.
New episodes every Friday.
25 Sept 2026
Roadmap To College Soccer Episode 028 - Inside October: What Coaches Are Really Doing
Five weeks left in the college soccer season. In episode 28 Grant and Erik pull back the curtain on what is actually happening inside programs right now and what it means for families navigating the recruiting process this fall.
They get into how the schedule works and why it matters for recruiting, what coaches are evaluating about their rosters as the season winds down, how the decision to bring someone back for a fifth year gets made and when those conversations actually happen, and why the Five-for-Five eligibility rule has created genuine chaos for coaches who are trying to build their classes without knowing the rules that will govern them.
They also share a real client story about resetting not restarting when a commitment falls through and what that actually looks like in practice.
And they close with the most actionable advice of the season for families who still have time to move the needle before November.
New episodes every Friday.
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18 Sept 2026
Roadmap To College Soccer Episode 027 - The Mental Side Nobody Talks About
In Episode 27 Grant and Erik sit down with Lauren Ruhl, Licensed Professional Counselor and Sport Psychology Clinician at Greenepsych in Haverford Pennsylvania. Lauren is the Director of the Injury Recovery Program and has worked with athletes from middle school through professional levels on the mental and emotional side of sport, injury, and performance.
She has also lived it. Three ACL tears of her own. A college career at Lebanon Valley College interrupted by injury. A career path that changed entirely because of what she experienced and what she saw was missing for athletes going through the same thing.
This episode covers everything the physical side of recruiting does not. What prolonged uncertainty and pressure actually do to a young athlete's mental state. What mind chatter is and how it shows up in the worst possible moments. The difference between real confidence and performed confidence. What happens to an athlete's identity when a serious injury hits during the recruiting process. How fear of reinjury actually shows up when an athlete returns to play. And what parents do that helps versus what they do that makes it worse even when it comes from a place of love.
One of the most important episodes we have recorded.
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