Someday soon I’m going to corner Doyle and make him show me how to plot a scattergraph (or is it scattergram?) on his brother’s programmable calculator.

I would love to see the trends spelled out as to where soccer players go to play college soccer. If you kick out the obvious, like community colleges tend to draw in-state students,  and regional factors (how many Alabamans survive more than one season in Massachusetts?), I wonder if certain coaches have bias for and/or against local kids.

If I could bottle this knowledge I’d make a fortune selling it to parents of 11-graders. (“No, Junior, I will NOT drive you to look at the University of Nine-States-Away.  You KNOW that coach never recruits from our region.”)

I could market my knowledge thusly: “Save on Hotels and Gas! Learn which college trips are a waste of your time!”

The women’s soccer coach at Colorado University made headlines because his incoming class is composed of — gasp!— all Colorado players!

C’mon, Doyle, get Mom that calculator before the X-Box self-destructs!