DC United Academy - aa strong academy or not

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Anonymous wrote:Let's discuss how horrible their new "residency" program is...

Not much to discuss. It's an absolute joke. No housing options available which makes calling it a residency program very questionable at best, at worst it is massively misleading to the footballing community in this country, barebones infrastructure with no real facilities, they don't even consistently feed the kids because they are so cheap, it is honestly a complete embarrassment.

The ONLY benefit of the program is the increased training workload and frequency. But, given that you're at DCU, the training is subpar and the methodology is weak in terms of development. So that isn't even a plus. You have to be in either their online school or an online school that allows for the player to train in the mornings which is a big decision for families. Many opt not to do that and you've seen this trend over the last year. Mainly because the ROI on DCU is just not that high for what your Iin up. Inis the same situation for this lt homegrown player. The ROI for him just isn't strong enough for the deal DCU gave him and it was lopsided. Same with the residency. DCU gives you a really bad residency program.but you're giving them your player rights AND trusting them with your kids schooling???? No way.

The schooling is SIA which is run by many academies and programs on the east coast. They can't screw that up, right?

So, they don't have a homestay program? That is what we were offered at another academy but we are not ready for our kid to leave the next yet. It would seem like an easy solution to provide.

I believe they are trying to set one up, not positive however. If your son was offered a homestay, they must have offered your son guest a play spot at the bigger events since you turned it down. I would just do that and stick with club soccer.

DCU calling it a residency program is laughable. The only thing they did was move training to the mornings and forced kids to do online schooling (10k!!!). There is no extra training, just the 1.5hr session in the morning and then they are completely hands off. Meaning your kid can stay and do his schoolwork (no physical instructor present) or go home and do whatever they want. Provides lunch only twice out of the week and not enough food for everyone to eat. Shuttle? Sure, it only costs a couple hundred a month. If the coaching was spectacular, maybe the other stuff could be forgiven. But it isn't.

Even worse. One training a day. Most credible residency programs train two or more times a day because they have so much time with the kids. Morning training, school/independent study, evening training/individual session. This is how a normal program runs. Training only in the mornings for DCU is a ridiculously low standard and also because no one is demanding that they train their kids more like other academies do they get away with it. They just do whatever DCU throws them. Like scraps. DCU kids can't keep up with true residency programs just on touch rate and rigor of training regimen alone. It is honestly an embarrassment and the fact that parents put up with it is what I'm shocked by.

The one thing that parents need to remember when they have a truly talented player is that you are in control of the situation. Not the other way around. DCU wants you to believe it's your privilege to be with them and in their program but the reality is that it is THEIR privilege to have your son and the more you demand from them the better your experience will be. Because they KNOW what they are doing is garbage. Even the MLS knows its garbage.

Where can we find a link to the training schedules of all the MLS academies that details the multi-session training program daily?

Here is an article from NBC 13 years ago showing what Philly is doing with their academy players who are residents. This was 13 years ago. They are light years ahead now. But they have been training their kids at least two times a day for over a decade. And you wonder why they run circles around DCU. No one has this data on all academies in the MLS. Stop asking for dumb things. You're a troll. But I still gave you proof. Shows you how genuine I am.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com/soccer/philadelphia-union/an-inside-look-at-the-unions-ysc-academy/395305/%3famp=1

After you're done with the Philly adoration jock-sniffing session, answer the real question that was asked

Unless you're admitting you actually don't know the training regimen of all the other MLS academies but you're just here bashing dcu about theirs regardless

Even if he didn't know what all other academies are doing what difference does that make??? He did in fact show one academy that does train the kids twice a day and this academy is less than two hours from DCU. Many other Academies follow this model. You can believe it or not.

Choose not to believe

Isn't it much easier for you (pretending to be a different "he"something? just show the evidence than just repeating 'because I said so'?

Philly is a top academy. No one disagrees. Stop trying to convince us. That's not in question.

Do they have unlimited roster room and can we all send our kids there?
No?
Then what's the point?

Then you're dumb. Evidence has already been provided.

I'm not trying to convince anyone Philly is a top academy. This is known. What I'm trying to do is show DCUs problems so people don't go their blindly and haphazardly like you did.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's discuss how horrible their new "residency" program is...

Not much to discuss. It's an absolute joke. No housing options available which makes calling it a residency program very questionable at best, at worst it is massively misleading to the footballing community in this country, barebones infrastructure with no real facilities, they don't even consistently feed the kids because they are so cheap, it is honestly a complete embarrassment.

The ONLY benefit of the program is the increased training workload and frequency. But, given that you're at DCU, the training is subpar and the methodology is weak in terms of development. So that isn't even a plus. You have to be in either their online school or an online school that allows for the player to train in the mornings which is a big decision for families. Many opt not to do that and you've seen this trend over the last year. Mainly because the ROI on DCU is just not that high for what your Iin up. Inis the same situation for this lt homegrown player. The ROI for him just isn't strong enough for the deal DCU gave him and it was lopsided. Same with the residency. DCU gives you a really bad residency program.but you're giving them your player rights AND trusting them with your kids schooling???? No way.

The schooling is SIA which is run by many academies and programs on the east coast. They can't screw that up, right?

So, they don't have a homestay program? That is what we were offered at another academy but we are not ready for our kid to leave the next yet. It would seem like an easy solution to provide.

I believe they are trying to set one up, not positive however. If your son was offered a homestay, they must have offered your son guest a play spot at the bigger events since you turned it down. I would just do that and stick with club soccer.

DCU calling it a residency program is laughable. The only thing they did was move training to the mornings and forced kids to do online schooling (10k!!!). There is no extra training, just the 1.5hr session in the morning and then they are completely hands off. Meaning your kid can stay and do his schoolwork (no physical instructor present) or go home and do whatever they want. Provides lunch only twice out of the week and not enough food for everyone to eat. Shuttle? Sure, it only costs a couple hundred a month. If the coaching was spectacular, maybe the other stuff could be forgiven. But it isn't.

Even worse. One training a day. Most credible residency programs train two or more times a day because they have so much time with the kids. Morning training, school/independent study, evening training/individual session. This is how a normal program runs. Training only in the mornings for DCU is a ridiculously low standard and also because no one is demanding that they train their kids more like other academies do they get away with it. They just do whatever DCU throws them. Like scraps. DCU kids can't keep up with true residency programs just on touch rate and rigor of training regimen alone. It is honestly an embarrassment and the fact that parents put up with it is what I'm shocked by.

The one thing that parents need to remember when they have a truly talented player is that you are in control of the situation. Not the other way around. DCU wants you to believe it's your privilege to be with them and in their program but the reality is that it is THEIR privilege to have your son and the more you demand from them the better your experience will be. Because they KNOW what they are doing is garbage. Even the MLS knows its garbage.

Where can we find a link to the training schedules of all the MLS academies that details the multi-session training program daily?

Here is an article from NBC 13 years ago showing what Philly is doing with their academy players who are residents. This was 13 years ago. They are light years ahead now. But they have been training their kids at least two times a day for over a decade. And you wonder why they run circles around DCU. No one has this data on all academies in the MLS. Stop asking for dumb things. You're a troll. But I still gave you proof. Shows you how genuine I am.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com/soccer/philadelphia-union/an-inside-look-at-the-unions-ysc-academy/395305/%3famp=1

After you're done with the Philly adoration jock-sniffing session, answer the real question that was asked

Unless you're admitting you actually don't know the training regimen of all the other MLS academies but you're just here bashing dcu about theirs regardless

THIS IS A THREAD ABOUT DCU GENIUS

You constantly mention Philly Union, You say all the other academies have multiple training sessions daily

Then you're complaining about this being a dcu only thread when you can't backup your argument? 😂

I said most credible academies train their top kids multiple times a day. DCU isn't credible. And I gave you proof.

Google "proof"

Because you haven't shown the other 28 academies training schedules in 2025

Dumb. Moving on.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no data showing kids from the DMV who had an opportunity to go to dcu but chose another MLS club and then had top tier success after U18 professionally or internationally.

Nice try, but no.
https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Missing-Data-Fallacy

Aaron Heard
Stiven Jimenez

One at Leverkusen and the other on FC Cincinnati first team. There are others, I just don't have time to dig them all up. I know these two personally.

FC Cincinnati is MLS

I hope you have more than one-offs to prove a pattern

For starters, these are TWO examples so on it's face couldn't be one offs. Second, I hope you have some examples of how DCU is doing a good job. You LITERALLY have a one off homegrown signing which I've shown is compete bulls#t. Keep trying.

Actually those are two names and of the two only one is at a top league club

Add to that, where is the proof they were offered a place at dcu but chose elsewhere?
Also, with all the MLS academies, pre-mls next and after MLS next started are very different eras

Pre and post mls next is irrelevant. Actually post MLS next showed MORE academies investing in true residency programs and training multiple times a day. Union was doing that over a decade ago. DCU still not doing it.

Says you

You sure love brand name and image and appearances
Because all the fancy frills you keep mentioning about other academies all lead to the same destination. College ball and less than 1% going true professional.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's discuss how horrible their new "residency" program is...

Not much to discuss. It's an absolute joke. No housing options available which makes calling it a residency program very questionable at best, at worst it is massively misleading to the footballing community in this country, barebones infrastructure with no real facilities, they don't even consistently feed the kids because they are so cheap, it is honestly a complete embarrassment.

The ONLY benefit of the program is the increased training workload and frequency. But, given that you're at DCU, the training is subpar and the methodology is weak in terms of development. So that isn't even a plus. You have to be in either their online school or an online school that allows for the player to train in the mornings which is a big decision for families. Many opt not to do that and you've seen this trend over the last year. Mainly because the ROI on DCU is just not that high for what your Iin up. Inis the same situation for this lt homegrown player. The ROI for him just isn't strong enough for the deal DCU gave him and it was lopsided. Same with the residency. DCU gives you a really bad residency program.but you're giving them your player rights AND trusting them with your kids schooling???? No way.

The schooling is SIA which is run by many academies and programs on the east coast. They can't screw that up, right?

So, they don't have a homestay program? That is what we were offered at another academy but we are not ready for our kid to leave the next yet. It would seem like an easy solution to provide.

I believe they are trying to set one up, not positive however. If your son was offered a homestay, they must have offered your son guest a play spot at the bigger events since you turned it down. I would just do that and stick with club soccer.

DCU calling it a residency program is laughable. The only thing they did was move training to the mornings and forced kids to do online schooling (10k!!!). There is no extra training, just the 1.5hr session in the morning and then they are completely hands off. Meaning your kid can stay and do his schoolwork (no physical instructor present) or go home and do whatever they want. Provides lunch only twice out of the week and not enough food for everyone to eat. Shuttle? Sure, it only costs a couple hundred a month. If the coaching was spectacular, maybe the other stuff could be forgiven. But it isn't.

Even worse. One training a day. Most credible residency programs train two or more times a day because they have so much time with the kids. Morning training, school/independent study, evening training/individual session. This is how a normal program runs. Training only in the mornings for DCU is a ridiculously low standard and also because no one is demanding that they train their kids more like other academies do they get away with it. They just do whatever DCU throws them. Like scraps. DCU kids can't keep up with true residency programs just on touch rate and rigor of training regimen alone. It is honestly an embarrassment and the fact that parents put up with it is what I'm shocked by.

The one thing that parents need to remember when they have a truly talented player is that you are in control of the situation. Not the other way around. DCU wants you to believe it's your privilege to be with them and in their program but the reality is that it is THEIR privilege to have your son and the more you demand from them the better your experience will be. Because they KNOW what they are doing is garbage. Even the MLS knows its garbage.

Where can we find a link to the training schedules of all the MLS academies that details the multi-session training program daily?

Here is an article from NBC 13 years ago showing what Philly is doing with their academy players who are residents. This was 13 years ago. They are light years ahead now. But they have been training their kids at least two times a day for over a decade. And you wonder why they run circles around DCU. No one has this data on all academies in the MLS. Stop asking for dumb things. You're a troll. But I still gave you proof. Shows you how genuine I am.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com/soccer/philadelphia-union/an-inside-look-at-the-unions-ysc-academy/395305/%3famp=1

After you're done with the Philly adoration jock-sniffing session, answer the real question that was asked

Unless you're admitting you actually don't know the training regimen of all the other MLS academies but you're just here bashing dcu about theirs regardless

THIS IS A THREAD ABOUT DCU GENIUS

You constantly mention Philly Union, You say all the other academies have multiple training sessions daily

Then you're complaining about this being a dcu only thread when you can't backup your argument? 😂

I said most credible academies train their top kids multiple times a day. DCU isn't credible. And I gave you proof.

Google "proof"

Because you haven't shown the other 28 academies training schedules in 2025

Youre asking for things that don't exist. You're not adding anything to the conversation. You're a troll.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's discuss how horrible their new "residency" program is...

Not much to discuss. It's an absolute joke. No housing options available which makes calling it a residency program very questionable at best, at worst it is massively misleading to the footballing community in this country, barebones infrastructure with no real facilities, they don't even consistently feed the kids because they are so cheap, it is honestly a complete embarrassment.

The ONLY benefit of the program is the increased training workload and frequency. But, given that you're at DCU, the training is subpar and the methodology is weak in terms of development. So that isn't even a plus. You have to be in either their online school or an online school that allows for the player to train in the mornings which is a big decision for families. Many opt not to do that and you've seen this trend over the last year. Mainly because the ROI on DCU is just not that high for what your Iin up. Inis the same situation for this lt homegrown player. The ROI for him just isn't strong enough for the deal DCU gave him and it was lopsided. Same with the residency. DCU gives you a really bad residency program.but you're giving them your player rights AND trusting them with your kids schooling???? No way.

The schooling is SIA which is run by many academies and programs on the east coast. They can't screw that up, right?

So, they don't have a homestay program? That is what we were offered at another academy but we are not ready for our kid to leave the next yet. It would seem like an easy solution to provide.

I believe they are trying to set one up, not positive however. If your son was offered a homestay, they must have offered your son guest a play spot at the bigger events since you turned it down. I would just do that and stick with club soccer.

DCU calling it a residency program is laughable. The only thing they did was move training to the mornings and forced kids to do online schooling (10k!!!). There is no extra training, just the 1.5hr session in the morning and then they are completely hands off. Meaning your kid can stay and do his schoolwork (no physical instructor present) or go home and do whatever they want. Provides lunch only twice out of the week and not enough food for everyone to eat. Shuttle? Sure, it only costs a couple hundred a month. If the coaching was spectacular, maybe the other stuff could be forgiven. But it isn't.

Even worse. One training a day. Most credible residency programs train two or more times a day because they have so much time with the kids. Morning training, school/independent study, evening training/individual session. This is how a normal program runs. Training only in the mornings for DCU is a ridiculously low standard and also because no one is demanding that they train their kids more like other academies do they get away with it. They just do whatever DCU throws them. Like scraps. DCU kids can't keep up with true residency programs just on touch rate and rigor of training regimen alone. It is honestly an embarrassment and the fact that parents put up with it is what I'm shocked by.

The one thing that parents need to remember when they have a truly talented player is that you are in control of the situation. Not the other way around. DCU wants you to believe it's your privilege to be with them and in their program but the reality is that it is THEIR privilege to have your son and the more you demand from them the better your experience will be. Because they KNOW what they are doing is garbage. Even the MLS knows its garbage.

Where can we find a link to the training schedules of all the MLS academies that details the multi-session training program daily?

Here is an article from NBC 13 years ago showing what Philly is doing with their academy players who are residents. This was 13 years ago. They are light years ahead now. But they have been training their kids at least two times a day for over a decade. And you wonder why they run circles around DCU. No one has this data on all academies in the MLS. Stop asking for dumb things. You're a troll. But I still gave you proof. Shows you how genuine I am.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com/soccer/philadelphia-union/an-inside-look-at-the-unions-ysc-academy/395305/%3famp=1

After you're done with the Philly adoration jock-sniffing session, answer the real question that was asked

Unless you're admitting you actually don't know the training regimen of all the other MLS academies but you're just here bashing dcu about theirs regardless

Even if he didn't know what all other academies are doing what difference does that make??? He did in fact show one academy that does train the kids twice a day and this academy is less than two hours from DCU. Many other Academies follow this model. You can believe it or not.

Choose not to believe

Isn't it much easier for you (pretending to be a different "he"something? just show the evidence than just repeating 'because I said so'?

Philly is a top academy. No one disagrees. Stop trying to convince us. That's not in question.

Do they have unlimited roster room and can we all send our kids there?
No?
Then what's the point?

Then you're dumb. Evidence has already been provided.

I'm not trying to convince anyone Philly is a top academy. This is known. What I'm trying to do is show DCUs problems so people don't go their blindly and haphazardly like you did.

My daughters aren't allowed unfortunately

Every academy has problems and the few "people" who have academy quality sons desired by dcu in the dmv are going if they want to because not only they aren't seeing your crusade, they wouldn't care.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no data showing kids from the DMV who had an opportunity to go to dcu but chose another MLS club and then had top tier success after U18 professionally or internationally.

Nice try, but no.
https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Missing-Data-Fallacy

Aaron Heard
Stiven Jimenez

One at Leverkusen and the other on FC Cincinnati first team. There are others, I just don't have time to dig them all up. I know these two personally.

FC Cincinnati is MLS

I hope you have more than one-offs to prove a pattern

For starters, these are TWO examples so on it's face couldn't be one offs. Second, I hope you have some examples of how DCU is doing a good job. You LITERALLY have a one off homegrown signing which I've shown is compete bulls#t. Keep trying.

Actually those are two names and of the two only one is at a top league club

Add to that, where is the proof they were offered a place at dcu but chose elsewhere?
Also, with all the MLS academies, pre-mls next and after MLS next started are very different eras

Pre and post mls next is irrelevant. Actually post MLS next showed MORE academies investing in true residency programs and training multiple times a day. Union was doing that over a decade ago. DCU still not doing it.

Says you

You sure love brand name and image and appearances
Because all the fancy frills you keep mentioning about other academies all lead to the same destination. College ball and less than 1% going true professional.

Same ridiculous argument over and over. So then don't even try. Just stick with mediocrity. Which is what you're doing anyway at DCU.

The kids at Barca, Real Madrid, Ac Milan, Benfica etc etc have the same low chances. But I guess their chances are the same at those academies than they are at DCU?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭😭. Similar situation doesn't mean two things are similarly situated.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's discuss how horrible their new "residency" program is...

Not much to discuss. It's an absolute joke. No housing options available which makes calling it a residency program very questionable at best, at worst it is massively misleading to the footballing community in this country, barebones infrastructure with no real facilities, they don't even consistently feed the kids because they are so cheap, it is honestly a complete embarrassment.

The ONLY benefit of the program is the increased training workload and frequency. But, given that you're at DCU, the training is subpar and the methodology is weak in terms of development. So that isn't even a plus. You have to be in either their online school or an online school that allows for the player to train in the mornings which is a big decision for families. Many opt not to do that and you've seen this trend over the last year. Mainly because the ROI on DCU is just not that high for what your Iin up. Inis the same situation for this lt homegrown player. The ROI for him just isn't strong enough for the deal DCU gave him and it was lopsided. Same with the residency. DCU gives you a really bad residency program.but you're giving them your player rights AND trusting them with your kids schooling???? No way.

The schooling is SIA which is run by many academies and programs on the east coast. They can't screw that up, right?

So, they don't have a homestay program? That is what we were offered at another academy but we are not ready for our kid to leave the next yet. It would seem like an easy solution to provide.

I believe they are trying to set one up, not positive however. If your son was offered a homestay, they must have offered your son guest a play spot at the bigger events since you turned it down. I would just do that and stick with club soccer.

DCU calling it a residency program is laughable. The only thing they did was move training to the mornings and forced kids to do online schooling (10k!!!). There is no extra training, just the 1.5hr session in the morning and then they are completely hands off. Meaning your kid can stay and do his schoolwork (no physical instructor present) or go home and do whatever they want. Provides lunch only twice out of the week and not enough food for everyone to eat. Shuttle? Sure, it only costs a couple hundred a month. If the coaching was spectacular, maybe the other stuff could be forgiven. But it isn't.

Even worse. One training a day. Most credible residency programs train two or more times a day because they have so much time with the kids. Morning training, school/independent study, evening training/individual session. This is how a normal program runs. Training only in the mornings for DCU is a ridiculously low standard and also because no one is demanding that they train their kids more like other academies do they get away with it. They just do whatever DCU throws them. Like scraps. DCU kids can't keep up with true residency programs just on touch rate and rigor of training regimen alone. It is honestly an embarrassment and the fact that parents put up with it is what I'm shocked by.

The one thing that parents need to remember when they have a truly talented player is that you are in control of the situation. Not the other way around. DCU wants you to believe it's your privilege to be with them and in their program but the reality is that it is THEIR privilege to have your son and the more you demand from them the better your experience will be. Because they KNOW what they are doing is garbage. Even the MLS knows its garbage.

Where can we find a link to the training schedules of all the MLS academies that details the multi-session training program daily?

Here is an article from NBC 13 years ago showing what Philly is doing with their academy players who are residents. This was 13 years ago. They are light years ahead now. But they have been training their kids at least two times a day for over a decade. And you wonder why they run circles around DCU. No one has this data on all academies in the MLS. Stop asking for dumb things. You're a troll. But I still gave you proof. Shows you how genuine I am.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com/soccer/philadelphia-union/an-inside-look-at-the-unions-ysc-academy/395305/%3famp=1

After you're done with the Philly adoration jock-sniffing session, answer the real question that was asked

Unless you're admitting you actually don't know the training regimen of all the other MLS academies but you're just here bashing dcu about theirs regardless

THIS IS A THREAD ABOUT DCU GENIUS

You constantly mention Philly Union, You say all the other academies have multiple training sessions daily

Then you're complaining about this being a dcu only thread when you can't backup your argument? 😂

I said most credible academies train their top kids multiple times a day. DCU isn't credible. And I gave you proof.

Google "proof"

Because you haven't shown the other 28 academies training schedules in 2025

Youre asking for things that don't exist. You're not adding anything to the conversation. You're a troll.

You're a troll bashing the local academy and kids and parents with your angry bitter biased crusade because of rejection or other reasons

Troll on

Wrong. I'm just providing information to people that don't have it. You're the only one taking the conversation in a misguided direction. DCU deserves to be bashed. They are a terrible place.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no data showing kids from the DMV who had an opportunity to go to dcu but chose another MLS club and then had top tier success after U18 professionally or internationally.

Nice try, but no.
https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Missing-Data-Fallacy

Aaron Heard
Stiven Jimenez

One at Leverkusen and the other on FC Cincinnati first team. There are others, I just don't have time to dig them all up. I know these two personally.

FC Cincinnati is MLS

I hope you have more than one-offs to prove a pattern

For starters, these are TWO examples so on it's face couldn't be one offs. Second, I hope you have some examples of how DCU is doing a good job. You LITERALLY have a one off homegrown signing which I've shown is compete bulls#t. Keep trying.

Actually those are two names and of the two only one is at a top league club

Add to that, where is the proof they were offered a place at dcu but chose elsewhere?
Also, with all the MLS academies, pre-mls next and after MLS next started are very different eras

Pre and post mls next is irrelevant. Actually post MLS next showed MORE academies investing in true residency programs and training multiple times a day. Union was doing that over a decade ago. DCU still not doing it.

Says you

You sure love brand name and image and appearances
Because all the fancy frills you keep mentioning about other academies all lead to the same destination. College ball and less than 1% going true professional.

Same ridiculous argument over and over. So then don't even try. Just stick with mediocrity. Which is what you're doing anyway at DCU.

The kids at Barca, Real Madrid, Ac Milan, Benfica etc etc have the same low chances. But I guess their chances are the same at those academies than they are at DCU?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭😭. Similar situation doesn't mean two things are similarly situated.

No, the kids at the European academies you listed have a higher probability of being in the low percentage of who makes it to top tier professional careers

The MLS academy kids who stay here till 18 do not have that high probability.

Please drop the emotional comments

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Anonymous wrote:Let's discuss how horrible their new "residency" program is...

Not much to discuss. It's an absolute joke. No housing options available which makes calling it a residency program very questionable at best, at worst it is massively misleading to the footballing community in this country, barebones infrastructure with no real facilities, they don't even consistently feed the kids because they are so cheap, it is honestly a complete embarrassment.

The ONLY benefit of the program is the increased training workload and frequency. But, given that you're at DCU, the training is subpar and the methodology is weak in terms of development. So that isn't even a plus. You have to be in either their online school or an online school that allows for the player to train in the mornings which is a big decision for families. Many opt not to do that and you've seen this trend over the last year. Mainly because the ROI on DCU is just not that high for what your Iin up. Inis the same situation for this lt homegrown player. The ROI for him just isn't strong enough for the deal DCU gave him and it was lopsided. Same with the residency. DCU gives you a really bad residency program.but you're giving them your player rights AND trusting them with your kids schooling???? No way.

The schooling is SIA which is run by many academies and programs on the east coast. They can't screw that up, right?

So, they don't have a homestay program? That is what we were offered at another academy but we are not ready for our kid to leave the next yet. It would seem like an easy solution to provide.

I believe they are trying to set one up, not positive however. If your son was offered a homestay, they must have offered your son guest a play spot at the bigger events since you turned it down. I would just do that and stick with club soccer.

DCU calling it a residency program is laughable. The only thing they did was move training to the mornings and forced kids to do online schooling (10k!!!). There is no extra training, just the 1.5hr session in the morning and then they are completely hands off. Meaning your kid can stay and do his schoolwork (no physical instructor present) or go home and do whatever they want. Provides lunch only twice out of the week and not enough food for everyone to eat. Shuttle? Sure, it only costs a couple hundred a month. If the coaching was spectacular, maybe the other stuff could be forgiven. But it isn't.

Even worse. One training a day. Most credible residency programs train two or more times a day because they have so much time with the kids. Morning training, school/independent study, evening training/individual session. This is how a normal program runs. Training only in the mornings for DCU is a ridiculously low standard and also because no one is demanding that they train their kids more like other academies do they get away with it. They just do whatever DCU throws them. Like scraps. DCU kids can't keep up with true residency programs just on touch rate and rigor of training regimen alone. It is honestly an embarrassment and the fact that parents put up with it is what I'm shocked by.

The one thing that parents need to remember when they have a truly talented player is that you are in control of the situation. Not the other way around. DCU wants you to believe it's your privilege to be with them and in their program but the reality is that it is THEIR privilege to have your son and the more you demand from them the better your experience will be. Because they KNOW what they are doing is garbage. Even the MLS knows its garbage.

Where can we find a link to the training schedules of all the MLS academies that details the multi-session training program daily?

Here is an article from NBC 13 years ago showing what Philly is doing with their academy players who are residents. This was 13 years ago. They are light years ahead now. But they have been training their kids at least two times a day for over a decade. And you wonder why they run circles around DCU. No one has this data on all academies in the MLS. Stop asking for dumb things. You're a troll. But I still gave you proof. Shows you how genuine I am.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com/soccer/philadelphia-union/an-inside-look-at-the-unions-ysc-academy/395305/%3famp=1

After you're done with the Philly adoration jock-sniffing session, answer the real question that was asked

Unless you're admitting you actually don't know the training regimen of all the other MLS academies but you're just here bashing dcu about theirs regardless

Even if he didn't know what all other academies are doing what difference does that make??? He did in fact show one academy that does train the kids twice a day and this academy is less than two hours from DCU. Many other Academies follow this model. You can believe it or not.

Choose not to believe

Isn't it much easier for you (pretending to be a different "he"something? just show the evidence than just repeating 'because I said so'?

Philly is a top academy. No one disagrees. Stop trying to convince us. That's not in question.

Do they have unlimited roster room and can we all send our kids there?
No?
Then what's the point?

Then you're dumb. Evidence has already been provided.

I'm not trying to convince anyone Philly is a top academy. This is known. What I'm trying to do is show DCUs problems so people don't go their blindly and haphazardly like you did.

My daughters aren't allowed unfortunately

Every academy has problems and the few "people" who have academy quality sons desired by dcu in the dmv are going if they want to because not only they aren't seeing your crusade, they wouldn't care.

Having daughters and posting on a DCU thread? Makes sense.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no data showing kids from the DMV who had an opportunity to go to dcu but chose another MLS club and then had top tier success after U18 professionally or internationally.

Nice try, but no.
https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Missing-Data-Fallacy

Aaron Heard
Stiven Jimenez

One at Leverkusen and the other on FC Cincinnati first team. There are others, I just don't have time to dig them all up. I know these two personally.

FC Cincinnati is MLS

I hope you have more than one-offs to prove a pattern

For starters, these are TWO examples so on it's face couldn't be one offs. Second, I hope you have some examples of how DCU is doing a good job. You LITERALLY have a one off homegrown signing which I've shown is compete bulls#t. Keep trying.

Actually those are two names and of the two only one is at a top league club

Add to that, where is the proof they were offered a place at dcu but chose elsewhere?
Also, with all the MLS academies, pre-mls next and after MLS next started are very different eras

Pre and post mls next is irrelevant. Actually post MLS next showed MORE academies investing in true residency programs and training multiple times a day. Union was doing that over a decade ago. DCU still not doing it.

Says you

You sure love brand name and image and appearances
Because all the fancy frills you keep mentioning about other academies all lead to the same destination. College ball and less than 1% going true professional.

Same ridiculous argument over and over. So then don't even try. Just stick with mediocrity. Which is what you're doing anyway at DCU.

The kids at Barca, Real Madrid, Ac Milan, Benfica etc etc have the same low chances. But I guess their chances are the same at those academies than they are at DCU?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭😭. Similar situation doesn't mean two things are similarly situated.

No, the kids at the European academies you listed have a higher probability of being in the low percentage of who makes it to top tier professional careers

The MLS academy kids who stay here till 18 do not have that high probability.

Please drop the emotional comments

And the kids here who are at better academies have a higher percentage of success than the ones at sh$t academies like DCU.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's discuss how horrible their new "residency" program is...

Not much to discuss. It's an absolute joke. No housing options available which makes calling it a residency program very questionable at best, at worst it is massively misleading to the footballing community in this country, barebones infrastructure with no real facilities, they don't even consistently feed the kids because they are so cheap, it is honestly a complete embarrassment.

The ONLY benefit of the program is the increased training workload and frequency. But, given that you're at DCU, the training is subpar and the methodology is weak in terms of development. So that isn't even a plus. You have to be in either their online school or an online school that allows for the player to train in the mornings which is a big decision for families. Many opt not to do that and you've seen this trend over the last year. Mainly because the ROI on DCU is just not that high for what your Iin up. Inis the same situation for this lt homegrown player. The ROI for him just isn't strong enough for the deal DCU gave him and it was lopsided. Same with the residency. DCU gives you a really bad residency program.but you're giving them your player rights AND trusting them with your kids schooling???? No way.

The schooling is SIA which is run by many academies and programs on the east coast. They can't screw that up, right?

So, they don't have a homestay program? That is what we were offered at another academy but we are not ready for our kid to leave the next yet. It would seem like an easy solution to provide.

I believe they are trying to set one up, not positive however. If your son was offered a homestay, they must have offered your son guest a play spot at the bigger events since you turned it down. I would just do that and stick with club soccer.

DCU calling it a residency program is laughable. The only thing they did was move training to the mornings and forced kids to do online schooling (10k!!!). There is no extra training, just the 1.5hr session in the morning and then they are completely hands off. Meaning your kid can stay and do his schoolwork (no physical instructor present) or go home and do whatever they want. Provides lunch only twice out of the week and not enough food for everyone to eat. Shuttle? Sure, it only costs a couple hundred a month. If the coaching was spectacular, maybe the other stuff could be forgiven. But it isn't.

Even worse. One training a day. Most credible residency programs train two or more times a day because they have so much time with the kids. Morning training, school/independent study, evening training/individual session. This is how a normal program runs. Training only in the mornings for DCU is a ridiculously low standard and also because no one is demanding that they train their kids more like other academies do they get away with it. They just do whatever DCU throws them. Like scraps. DCU kids can't keep up with true residency programs just on touch rate and rigor of training regimen alone. It is honestly an embarrassment and the fact that parents put up with it is what I'm shocked by.

The one thing that parents need to remember when they have a truly talented player is that you are in control of the situation. Not the other way around. DCU wants you to believe it's your privilege to be with them and in their program but the reality is that it is THEIR privilege to have your son and the more you demand from them the better your experience will be. Because they KNOW what they are doing is garbage. Even the MLS knows its garbage.

Where can we find a link to the training schedules of all the MLS academies that details the multi-session training program daily?

Here is an article from NBC 13 years ago showing what Philly is doing with their academy players who are residents. This was 13 years ago. They are light years ahead now. But they have been training their kids at least two times a day for over a decade. And you wonder why they run circles around DCU. No one has this data on all academies in the MLS. Stop asking for dumb things. You're a troll. But I still gave you proof. Shows you how genuine I am.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com/soccer/philadelphia-union/an-inside-look-at-the-unions-ysc-academy/395305/%3famp=1

After you're done with the Philly adoration jock-sniffing session, answer the real question that was asked

Unless you're admitting you actually don't know the training regimen of all the other MLS academies but you're just here bashing dcu about theirs regardless

THIS IS A THREAD ABOUT DCU GENIUS

You constantly mention Philly Union, You say all the other academies have multiple training sessions daily

Then you're complaining about this being a dcu only thread when you can't backup your argument? 😂

I said most credible academies train their top kids multiple times a day. DCU isn't credible. And I gave you proof.

Google "proof"

Because you haven't shown the other 28 academies training schedules in 2025

Youre asking for things that don't exist. You're not adding anything to the conversation. You're a troll.

You're a troll bashing the local academy and kids and parents with your angry bitter biased crusade because of rejection or other reasons

Troll on

Wrong. I'm just providing information to people that don't have it. You're the only one taking the conversation in a misguided direction. DCU deserves to be bashed. They are a terrible place.

No One with kids academy ages who got them to that level is reading your nonsense and making decisions 😂😂

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Anonymous wrote:Let's discuss how horrible their new "residency" program is...

Not much to discuss. It's an absolute joke. No housing options available which makes calling it a residency program very questionable at best, at worst it is massively misleading to the footballing community in this country, barebones infrastructure with no real facilities, they don't even consistently feed the kids because they are so cheap, it is honestly a complete embarrassment.

The ONLY benefit of the program is the increased training workload and frequency. But, given that you're at DCU, the training is subpar and the methodology is weak in terms of development. So that isn't even a plus. You have to be in either their online school or an online school that allows for the player to train in the mornings which is a big decision for families. Many opt not to do that and you've seen this trend over the last year. Mainly because the ROI on DCU is just not that high for what your Iin up. Inis the same situation for this lt homegrown player. The ROI for him just isn't strong enough for the deal DCU gave him and it was lopsided. Same with the residency. DCU gives you a really bad residency program.but you're giving them your player rights AND trusting them with your kids schooling???? No way.

The schooling is SIA which is run by many academies and programs on the east coast. They can't screw that up, right?

So, they don't have a homestay program? That is what we were offered at another academy but we are not ready for our kid to leave the next yet. It would seem like an easy solution to provide.

I believe they are trying to set one up, not positive however. If your son was offered a homestay, they must have offered your son guest a play spot at the bigger events since you turned it down. I would just do that and stick with club soccer.

DCU calling it a residency program is laughable. The only thing they did was move training to the mornings and forced kids to do online schooling (10k!!!). There is no extra training, just the 1.5hr session in the morning and then they are completely hands off. Meaning your kid can stay and do his schoolwork (no physical instructor present) or go home and do whatever they want. Provides lunch only twice out of the week and not enough food for everyone to eat. Shuttle? Sure, it only costs a couple hundred a month. If the coaching was spectacular, maybe the other stuff could be forgiven. But it isn't.

Even worse. One training a day. Most credible residency programs train two or more times a day because they have so much time with the kids. Morning training, school/independent study, evening training/individual session. This is how a normal program runs. Training only in the mornings for DCU is a ridiculously low standard and also because no one is demanding that they train their kids more like other academies do they get away with it. They just do whatever DCU throws them. Like scraps. DCU kids can't keep up with true residency programs just on touch rate and rigor of training regimen alone. It is honestly an embarrassment and the fact that parents put up with it is what I'm shocked by.

The one thing that parents need to remember when they have a truly talented player is that you are in control of the situation. Not the other way around. DCU wants you to believe it's your privilege to be with them and in their program but the reality is that it is THEIR privilege to have your son and the more you demand from them the better your experience will be. Because they KNOW what they are doing is garbage. Even the MLS knows its garbage.

Where can we find a link to the training schedules of all the MLS academies that details the multi-session training program daily?

Here is an article from NBC 13 years ago showing what Philly is doing with their academy players who are residents. This was 13 years ago. They are light years ahead now. But they have been training their kids at least two times a day for over a decade. And you wonder why they run circles around DCU. No one has this data on all academies in the MLS. Stop asking for dumb things. You're a troll. But I still gave you proof. Shows you how genuine I am.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com/soccer/philadelphia-union/an-inside-look-at-the-unions-ysc-academy/395305/%3famp=1

After you're done with the Philly adoration jock-sniffing session, answer the real question that was asked

Unless you're admitting you actually don't know the training regimen of all the other MLS academies but you're just here bashing dcu about theirs regardless

I know a kid at Orlando and at Salt Lake. Both train twice a day and have another shorter session working on individual items, maybe weights or specific skills

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Anonymous wrote:There is no data showing kids from the DMV who had an opportunity to go to dcu but chose another MLS club and then had top tier success after U18 professionally or internationally.

Nice try, but no.
https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Missing-Data-Fallacy

Aaron Heard
Stiven Jimenez

One at Leverkusen and the other on FC Cincinnati first team. There are others, I just don't have time to dig them all up. I know these two personally.

FC Cincinnati is MLS

I hope you have more than one-offs to prove a pattern

For starters, these are TWO examples so on it's face couldn't be one offs. Second, I hope you have some examples of how DCU is doing a good job. You LITERALLY have a one off homegrown signing which I've shown is compete bulls#t. Keep trying.

Actually those are two names and of the two only one is at a top league club

Add to that, where is the proof they were offered a place at dcu but chose elsewhere?
Also, with all the MLS academies, pre-mls next and after MLS next started are very different eras

Pre and post mls next is irrelevant. Actually post MLS next showed MORE academies investing in true residency programs and training multiple times a day. Union was doing that over a decade ago. DCU still not doing it.

Says you

You sure love brand name and image and appearances
Because all the fancy frills you keep mentioning about other academies all lead to the same destination. College ball and less than 1% going true professional.

Same ridiculous argument over and over. So then don't even try. Just stick with mediocrity. Which is what you're doing anyway at DCU.

The kids at Barca, Real Madrid, Ac Milan, Benfica etc etc have the same low chances. But I guess their chances are the same at those academies than they are at DCU?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭😭. Similar situation doesn't mean two things are similarly situated.

No, the kids at the European academies you listed have a higher probability of being in the low percentage of who makes it to top tier professional careers

The MLS academy kids who stay here till 18 do not have that high probability.

Please drop the emotional comments

And the kids here who are at better academies have a higher percentage of success than the ones at sh$t academies like DCU.

Theory and Reality are two different things

When all MLS Clubs Academies except DCU start consistently selling players they developed to top tier leagues, please drop the evidence here.
We'll all be waiting.

Gracias

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Anonymous wrote:Let's discuss how horrible their new "residency" program is...

Not much to discuss. It's an absolute joke. No housing options available which makes calling it a residency program very questionable at best, at worst it is massively misleading to the footballing community in this country, barebones infrastructure with no real facilities, they don't even consistently feed the kids because they are so cheap, it is honestly a complete embarrassment.

The ONLY benefit of the program is the increased training workload and frequency. But, given that you're at DCU, the training is subpar and the methodology is weak in terms of development. So that isn't even a plus. You have to be in either their online school or an online school that allows for the player to train in the mornings which is a big decision for families. Many opt not to do that and you've seen this trend over the last year. Mainly because the ROI on DCU is just not that high for what your Iin up. Inis the same situation for this lt homegrown player. The ROI for him just isn't strong enough for the deal DCU gave him and it was lopsided. Same with the residency. DCU gives you a really bad residency program.but you're giving them your player rights AND trusting them with your kids schooling???? No way.

The schooling is SIA which is run by many academies and programs on the east coast. They can't screw that up, right?

So, they don't have a homestay program? That is what we were offered at another academy but we are not ready for our kid to leave the next yet. It would seem like an easy solution to provide.

I believe they are trying to set one up, not positive however. If your son was offered a homestay, they must have offered your son guest a play spot at the bigger events since you turned it down. I would just do that and stick with club soccer.

DCU calling it a residency program is laughable. The only thing they did was move training to the mornings and forced kids to do online schooling (10k!!!). There is no extra training, just the 1.5hr session in the morning and then they are completely hands off. Meaning your kid can stay and do his schoolwork (no physical instructor present) or go home and do whatever they want. Provides lunch only twice out of the week and not enough food for everyone to eat. Shuttle? Sure, it only costs a couple hundred a month. If the coaching was spectacular, maybe the other stuff could be forgiven. But it isn't.

Even worse. One training a day. Most credible residency programs train two or more times a day because they have so much time with the kids. Morning training, school/independent study, evening training/individual session. This is how a normal program runs. Training only in the mornings for DCU is a ridiculously low standard and also because no one is demanding that they train their kids more like other academies do they get away with it. They just do whatever DCU throws them. Like scraps. DCU kids can't keep up with true residency programs just on touch rate and rigor of training regimen alone. It is honestly an embarrassment and the fact that parents put up with it is what I'm shocked by.

The one thing that parents need to remember when they have a truly talented player is that you are in control of the situation. Not the other way around. DCU wants you to believe it's your privilege to be with them and in their program but the reality is that it is THEIR privilege to have your son and the more you demand from them the better your experience will be. Because they KNOW what they are doing is garbage. Even the MLS knows its garbage.

Where can we find a link to the training schedules of all the MLS academies that details the multi-session training program daily?

Here is an article from NBC 13 years ago showing what Philly is doing with their academy players who are residents. This was 13 years ago. They are light years ahead now. But they have been training their kids at least two times a day for over a decade. And you wonder why they run circles around DCU. No one has this data on all academies in the MLS. Stop asking for dumb things. You're a troll. But I still gave you proof. Shows you how genuine I am.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com/soccer/philadelphia-union/an-inside-look-at-the-unions-ysc-academy/395305/%3famp=1

After you're done with the Philly adoration jock-sniffing session, answer the real question that was asked

Unless you're admitting you actually don't know the training regimen of all the other MLS academies but you're just here bashing dcu about theirs regardless

I know a kid at Orlando and at Salt Lake. Both train twice a day and have another shorter session working on individual items, maybe weights or specific skills

Then that kid will be on the US Men's Senior Team in no time and sign with Real Madrid soon

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Anonymous wrote:Let's discuss how horrible their new "residency" program is...

Not much to discuss. It's an absolute joke. No housing options available which makes calling it a residency program very questionable at best, at worst it is massively misleading to the footballing community in this country, barebones infrastructure with no real facilities, they don't even consistently feed the kids because they are so cheap, it is honestly a complete embarrassment.

The ONLY benefit of the program is the increased training workload and frequency. But, given that you're at DCU, the training is subpar and the methodology is weak in terms of development. So that isn't even a plus. You have to be in either their online school or an online school that allows for the player to train in the mornings which is a big decision for families. Many opt not to do that and you've seen this trend over the last year. Mainly because the ROI on DCU is just not that high for what your Iin up. Inis the same situation for this lt homegrown player. The ROI for him just isn't strong enough for the deal DCU gave him and it was lopsided. Same with the residency. DCU gives you a really bad residency program.but you're giving them your player rights AND trusting them with your kids schooling???? No way.

The schooling is SIA which is run by many academies and programs on the east coast. They can't screw that up, right?

So, they don't have a homestay program? That is what we were offered at another academy but we are not ready for our kid to leave the next yet. It would seem like an easy solution to provide.

I believe they are trying to set one up, not positive however. If your son was offered a homestay, they must have offered your son guest a play spot at the bigger events since you turned it down. I would just do that and stick with club soccer.

DCU calling it a residency program is laughable. The only thing they did was move training to the mornings and forced kids to do online schooling (10k!!!). There is no extra training, just the 1.5hr session in the morning and then they are completely hands off. Meaning your kid can stay and do his schoolwork (no physical instructor present) or go home and do whatever they want. Provides lunch only twice out of the week and not enough food for everyone to eat. Shuttle? Sure, it only costs a couple hundred a month. If the coaching was spectacular, maybe the other stuff could be forgiven. But it isn't.

Even worse. One training a day. Most credible residency programs train two or more times a day because they have so much time with the kids. Morning training, school/independent study, evening training/individual session. This is how a normal program runs. Training only in the mornings for DCU is a ridiculously low standard and also because no one is demanding that they train their kids more like other academies do they get away with it. They just do whatever DCU throws them. Like scraps. DCU kids can't keep up with true residency programs just on touch rate and rigor of training regimen alone. It is honestly an embarrassment and the fact that parents put up with it is what I'm shocked by.

The one thing that parents need to remember when they have a truly talented player is that you are in control of the situation. Not the other way around. DCU wants you to believe it's your privilege to be with them and in their program but the reality is that it is THEIR privilege to have your son and the more you demand from them the better your experience will be. Because they KNOW what they are doing is garbage. Even the MLS knows its garbage.

Where can we find a link to the training schedules of all the MLS academies that details the multi-session training program daily?

Here is an article from NBC 13 years ago showing what Philly is doing with their academy players who are residents. This was 13 years ago. They are light years ahead now. But they have been training their kids at least two times a day for over a decade. And you wonder why they run circles around DCU. No one has this data on all academies in the MLS. Stop asking for dumb things. You're a troll. But I still gave you proof. Shows you how genuine I am.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com/soccer/philadelphia-union/an-inside-look-at-the-unions-ysc-academy/395305/%3famp=1

After you're done with the Philly adoration jock-sniffing session, answer the real question that was asked

Unless you're admitting you actually don't know the training regimen of all the other MLS academies but you're just here bashing dcu about theirs regardless

Even if he didn't know what all other academies are doing what difference does that make??? He did in fact show one academy that does train the kids twice a day and this academy is less than two hours from DCU. Many other Academies follow this model. You can believe it or not.

Choose not to believe

Isn't it much easier for you (pretending to be a different "he"something? just show the evidence than just repeating 'because I said so'?

Philly is a top academy. No one disagrees. Stop trying to convince us. That's not in question.

Do they have unlimited roster room and can we all send our kids there?
No?
Then what's the point?

Then you're dumb. Evidence has already been provided.

I'm not trying to convince anyone Philly is a top academy. This is known. What I'm trying to do is show DCUs problems so people don't go their blindly and haphazardly like you did.

My daughters aren't allowed unfortunately

Every academy has problems and the few "people" who have academy quality sons desired by dcu in the dmv are going if they want to because not only they aren't seeing your crusade, they wouldn't care.

Having daughters and posting on a DCU thread? Makes sense.

Probably because they live in the DMV and DCU is the only professional academy