First D1 school with full international roster - depressing

[Anonymous]

Missouri State will be the first D1 school to have a full international roster, no American kids. If you thought the transfer portal and NIL were ruining college football and basketball, it is nothing compared to mens soccer.

https://www.nationalsoccernetwork.com/post/missouri-state-becomes-first-known-ncaa-program-built-entirely-on-international-talent?srsltid=AfmBOorH8JdnO6v2QYx4OwwcsspHkLoM4KllD4kmcGiWEWGd-lE9CbMh

[Anonymous]

Yeah that really really sucks. I liked having some int’l kids on the team, but the sport is dead in america if we keep doing this.

[Anonymous]

Oh well

[Anonymous]

This is killing D1 soccer. Either the NCAA should cap international roster spots, or public schools should enter a joint agreement on recruiting a minimum percentage of players developed in America. Missouri State is a public school. They should try to serve the people of their state.

[Anonymous]

We welcome immigrants in this country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is killing D1 soccer. Either the NCAA should cap international roster spots, or public schools should enter a joint agreement on recruiting a minimum percentage of players developed in America. Missouri State is a public school. They should try to serve the people of their state.

Yeah they need a DEI policy so that the people of their state get appropriate representation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is killing D1 soccer. Either the NCAA should cap international roster spots, or public schools should enter a joint agreement on recruiting a minimum percentage of players developed in America. Missouri State is a public school. They should try to serve the people of their state.

Maybe the players of Missouri need to work harder and pull themselves up by their own bootstraps

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is killing D1 soccer. Either the NCAA should cap international roster spots, or public schools should enter a joint agreement on recruiting a minimum percentage of players developed in America. Missouri State is a public school. They should try to serve the people of their state.

Yeah they need a DEI policy so that the people of their state get appropriate representation.

LMAO!! You and I would be friends. Lets see these conservative d--bags in VA unpack that

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We welcome immigrants in this country.

I love immigration but if you support Americans competing against the rest of the world - while Americans are restricted only to America - that is a recipe for all of our children to eventually lose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We welcome immigrants in this country.

I love immigration but if you support Americans competing against the rest of the world - while Americans are restricted only to America - that is a recipe for all of our children to eventually lose.

What are you talking about?

[Anonymous]

Please don’t turn this into a thread that should be in politics forum.

My kid is a sophomore in HS and looking to play in college and this absolutely sucks. If you think UVA, Va Tech, UMD, etc won’t do it too, you’re high. And consider that men’s soccer doesn’t really make schools money (it’s not football).

[Anonymous]

This isn't just in soccer, look at tennis rosters, these small non major programs are full of international kids.

The NCAA soccer champions from a few years had a key player in their run to the title replaced by an international player who has yet to produce at the same level of the other player who was forced out and transferred and excelled at the next school. Schools are trying to get lucky and win quickly with top foreign players.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please don’t turn this into a thread that should be in politics forum.

My kid is a sophomore in HS and looking to play in college and this absolutely sucks. If you think UVA, Va Tech, UMD, etc won’t do it too, you’re high. And consider that men’s soccer doesn’t really make schools money (it’s not football).

Professional sports should have farm teams and colleges and universities should have intramural and intermural teams without recruiting, scholarships or a special admissions process.

[Anonymous]

Is there a political divide on this issue? If the percentage of in-state undergrads at a public school kept decreasing every year, then the public and state representatives would surely do something about it. Why are non-revenue sports different?

Missouri State is not a professional team. What's the point of having their soccer team represented by zero players from Missouri?

And yes, this applies to every other state school. I would rather watch a UMD team that is mediocre but has 50% players from Bethesda, Celtic, Armour, Pipeline, etc.. than a Budesliga 4 team made up of players who didn't know Maryland existed before coming here.

[Anonymous]

Wash U won this year with pretty much all US kids and many from Washington which is good.

It's only going to continue unless it gets controlled. Coaches are relying on international services to find them players so they don't have to recruit. Missouri State has a guy on staff that used to do this. 20-21 year old that has experience versus a 17-18 year old out of HS, who do you choose?

As an aside, some of this same thing is happening in the college hockey ranks as well. Players are going to play a couple of years of junior and then enrolling in college. My cousin's kid did this and entered college as a 20 year old freshman.