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So US Soccer is going to align to school year instead of birth year for the purposes of college recruiting...

As college sports is imploding and undergoing a massive re-shift under NIL, roster limits, athletes eventually becoming employees.

As college teams rely more on international players and taking older players from the portal.

And to move the system further away from alignment with the international system as the USA struggles with development compared to other nations.

Smh. What idiots...
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England seems to do pretty well with development and they aren't on a birth year system............

[b]If you want facts, international players still make up a very small percentage of D1 roster spots,[/b] college sports for everything but football and hoops is basically staying the same. You act like Michigan is going to start paying their players pro salaries.

We all get it, you have a Q1/Q2 average kid and they may get dropped from the top team. It sucks for him/her but what a great time to teach him/her that life is not always fair vs teaching him/her to call everyone that disagrees with your biased opinion idiots.

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Are you talking about the women's side? Because I've read that 30% of DI spots for soccer on the men's side are international players. And from my observation, many of them aren't your typical 18 year old freshman. Some have played professionally in Europe (without contracts) and are 21 year old or more freshman. [/quote]

Higher percentage in mens vs women's for sure. But those numbers might be skewed a bit as they include kids that have been here going to school and not fresh off the plane. Additionally, women D1 soccer also has almost twice as many teams as men and, obviously, Internationals are not as many due to not putting an emphasis on the women's side. 
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