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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Its so weird to me that someone would advocate that players would want to play in college but not play professionally.

Would you say the same thing about football, baseball, or basketball players?

Everyone wants to play professionally. Sometimes players never get the opportunity and sometimes they don't. But in a perfect world, if given the option players 9x out of 10 will choose to play professionally.[/quote] Wouldn't say they are advocating but look at the median salary of MLS/NWSL NBA, MLB and NFL and you see why pro soccer isn't a career destiny for most and shouldn't be a destiny either. It is presented to young ones as a Walter Mitty dream and to parents as a mirage so they fork over enough cash to keep the machine pumping money into clubs and coaches. Real academies need low national wages so they can try to take advantage of poor kids. That model doesn't work in the U.S. Heck, even stopping at HS or going D3 would be a better path than D1. Hopefully kids remember soccer as a fun youth activity and not a failed career attempt for a career path that never really existed anyway.[/quote]

The other option is to make college soccer more of its intended purpose rather than try to make it a semipro league.  Don’t we have enough semi pro soccer leagues/academies already.  Kids kinda know what direction they want by 18.  College soccer will never be revenue generator for schools no matter what gets contrived.  [/quote]

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