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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is changing the soccer scene in NOVA contingent to USA as a whole or can we lift from the ground up a new environment? All these partnerships, organizations, leagues, ridiculous fees feeding bloated salaries for YOUTH SOCCER and all the charade it has become this college machine scam to sell to parents?[/quote]

Seriously to what true end?

Soccer is popular in the States but it isn't a cultural touchstone the way that football, basketball or baseball are and it may never become that either.

If you want to take the money out of soccer and other youth sports then it really starts with college sports. College sports is used as a pathway to pro football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer and golf.

On top of it, sports are a pathway into college. There is a tremendous incentive to use a sport to not only get into a college but to have some of that school paid for. This doesn't even take into account the prestige that is associated with playing D1 sports considering the high value we place on playing HS varsity sports. And playing sports in college is rather attainable for many athletes who put in work.

When soccer gets expensive it does so when a pathway to college soccer is an attainable goal.

Soccer that is played that is not being played as part of a pathway is generally not that expensive. (And lets just kill the idea that soccer should be free. Nothing is free, the closest you'll get is HS soccer and that still costs about as much as a youth rec league.)

There is no feasible way to extract high level soccer from the pathway to higher levels of soccer. The closed leagues work for soccer, because they are very effective at filtering players based on skill and most importantly, they are efficient and cost effective for college coaches. Soccer programs do not have the budgets that college football or basketball programs do to be able to scout literally thousands of of players at thousands of schools.

There are lots of cost effective and competitive leagues for kids to play but it is up to the player and parent to know before hand about what they are getting in to. I've seen far to many posts in the pasts complaining about the travel of this league or that league. This is all information that is easily found and you only have your own ego to blame for signing up for it. [/quote]

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