Last time when there was this much upheaval?
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Anonymous
Is this before or after the new $240 million media deal? https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/nwsl-espn-cbs-amazon-scripps-tv-deal/#:~:text=The%20National%20Women's%20Soccer%20League,across%20linear%20and%20digital%20platforms. |
Anonymous
But I thought NCAA is going away from a the current lawsuits and unionization talk. |
Anonymous
they are over represented everywhere |
Anonymous
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In an area with this much money on the line no one should be shocked. There are 100s of teams for clubs all claiming to be the best... none of them are. We regularly get stomped in ecnl games that are on the region.
Our kids are only kids for 18 years. Find a coach and team your kid likes and just go with that. If your kid wants to play in college play the collegiate game in high school. However, anybody being bothered with whatever clubs are doing is just stupid and toxic. No club is better than another when it comes to recruitment. Make sure your athlete is having fun and actually growing over all the toxic political bs. |
Anonymous
| Ignorance is bliss |
Anonymous
I would hope they can invest in the youth system with that kind of money. It’s not hard to understand how youth academies work in Europe and make that happen here. Kids are already investing a lot of time, but poorly trained coaches are wasting it. |
Anonymous
] There's more to academies than coaching. One of the biggest differences is teams and players aren't bound by age. If you're good you play up, maybe 1, 2,, 3 years up. Conversely if you're just learning you play down (within reason). You can see what this means for a club. You don't end up with a team for each age group. You do end up with players that are MUCH better at skills and IQ when/if they get a chance to play in a game. All the parent nonsense gets thrown out the window because if you play is all dependent on how much you learn and apply in practice. |
Anonymous
This is what my kids Futsal coach does. He groups both the boys and girls into 3 different sessions. Primarily the groups are age bound littles, youngers, olders but he also puts newer players with the younger age group until they get better and earn their way up to the better age group. If you've never seen skills based training vs age based training it seems weird when an older is playing with youngers. However if you watch the practices after a while you can see what's going on. The older playing with youngers (and vice versa) is either being able to learn skills at an appropriate rate or they're being challenged and able to play at a much higher level than normally they'd be allowed. |
Anonymous
2nd this! |
Anonymous
| There is always drama and upheaval somewhere. You may just be noticing because it affects you more directly. |
Anonymous
Is that what you chose when you played soccer as a youth? Didn't play you say? You want to use soccer to lower the price of college so you dont have to pay as much for your kid to attend. Seems like it's all about you. |
Anonymous
| The amount you invest for years at the elite youth level may or may not lower the college bill, but in the long run I’m not convinced you save money. If your kid wants college soccer that’s wonderful but there are a lot of kids who decide they want a normal college experience or have their heart set on a school where they won’t make the team. |
Anonymous
Ditto! |
Anonymous
Maybe they should sell League to the Saudis |
Anonymous
Yes it is crazy but a fairly typical year. |