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(04-14-2020 11:14 AM)bearcatmill Wrote:  The winner in this is Egg-savier soccer. I see a partnership with FCC coming. This will help them since Eggs under funds all programs, except b-ball. Soccer has been growing in popularity in the tri-state. Once again, UC did absolutely nothing to capitalize on this popularity. Congrats UC. Always a day late and a dollar short.

MLS soccer and College Soccer don't have as many shared interest as you'd think. And as American soccer develops, they'll have even less.

The Youth soccer system in America is backwards relative to the rest of the world and it's one of the main things we need to fix as the USMNT is rebuilt. Our leadership is garbage right now, but in an ideal world, MLS youth academies would completely siphon the talent from the NCAA.

This transition has already begun but there are still a good deal of players that end up in college ball from the academies. While that may seem like a sustainable strategy for the NCAA--to simply take the best of the rest--it doesn't coincide with US Soccer goals. If our academies develop to the same level as European clubs, we would be bringing in enough talent to essentially make NCAA soccer a club sport anyways.



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