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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just saw 2 kids from the Arlington 2011 signed with Austin.  Speaks volumes that people are sending their kids or moving across the country to avoid DCU. [/quote]

So 2 Arlington 2011s can't make one the strongest academy 2011 roster in the country and went across the country to find a place they could get in

How's that a bad reflection on DC?
They should make their 2011s roster 45 kids? [/quote]

One of the strongest 2011 academy roster in the country??????  Says who?  You?  A DCU parent. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.  Could almost guarantee that the DCU 2011 team wont stack up well against national competition. Regional and local competition they will fare much better.  Just on the coaching and playing style and methodology alone, the DCU teams have no chance.  They have some talented kids in the system but they will never realize their potential in a system that doesn't prioritize their development.[/quote]

Then why your unhealthy obsession if they're nothing?[/quote]

Literally couldn't care less about DCUs teams.  Definitely not u15 soccer where half the kids won't even be on the team in a few years because everyone else caught their early puberty size gap. What I do actually care about is any false narrative about the quality of DCUs academy overall.  This false narrative is killing youth development in our area because parents think DCU is the end game when it in fact should.be avoided if possible and realistic for a family. [/quote]

Ironically, you make a statement about false narratives when the only narrative being pushed is yours. So is that the false narrative?

You love throwing around the word development because it makes you sound knowledgeable, yet, without details.

If you don't have the beginning elements of all players, physical, mental and technical, plus details of their daily on and off field training both physical and theoretical, then also have metrics milestones to measure growth, how can you state if and what development is or isn't taking place and at what pace?

You can blab and throw catchy words and phrases around hoping folks on dcum don't know better, but occasionally intelligent soccer and youth development people will see your BS[/quote]

Everyone, and I mean everyone who knows anything about the MLS academy world knows DCU is a complete trash bin.  Anyone who says otherwise does not know what they are talking about.  No catchy words or phrases.  DCU is not a good academy and this is a fact.  You can choose to live in an alternate reality and not believe this because you chose them.  But don't try to ruin other people's chances at becoming better footballers.

The most insightful thing you can see on this thread is that the poster that defends DCU never actually says DCU is quality.  Which is evidence enough that it isn't.  They just try to poke minescule holes in positions others have taken showing DCU is a crap place to be.  The fact is that no argument can be advanced that DCU is a quality outfit because the argument doesn't exist.  If it did you would have seen it already. That is all you need to know. [/quote]

In the academic and intellectual world, one counters a factual argument with opposing factual arguments. 
Hence the never ending arguments around religion between believers and the agnostic.

Whats the intellectual factual argument and response to "DC United is the worst academy"? 
Especially when the individual making the claim can neither qualify nor quantify with data.

What's the academic intellectual response to "DC doesn't develop players"?
When the person making the argument cannot present metrics?

What's the response to "DC spends the least of every academy"
When the accuser cannot present budgets or expenditures for all academies?

So you see, there's an accuser but not a defender, because there's nothing to actually defend.

May as well argue NY pizza vs Chicago pizza or ice cream vs cake for endless pontifications[/quote]

What's the academic and intellectual response to DC United does not have a U14 squad?

What's the academic and intellectual response to DC United does not have an MLS Next Pro squad?

What's the academic and intellectual response to DC United has a below average number of academy products on the first team?

What's the academic and intellectual response to DC United charges its players for a remote education?[/quote]

DC has a U14 squad

DC doesn't have a MLS Next Pro team

DC has academy products on the first team and first teams elsewhere and in Europe 
(what is the "average" number of academy players on a MLS club senior team?)
Academy players to Senior teams vary in every club, league and level.

[b]We're in the DC area where private education is common and tuition under $20K per year is considered bargain basement [/b]

Being at the academy is optional and going to another academy gives you no more or less than +/- 1% chance of going professional

I doubt there's a MLS academy out there churning out high percentage of Pros and keeping it a secret [/quote]

The average professional footballer is not coming from a DCUM profile.  That works until 14-15 but then the mental struggle kicks in and a kid with 6k+ square feet home in Loudoun and a 529 funded my grandpa worth $500k is going to mail it in and explore more high-percentage options of success than a kid without such luxuries.  That is precisely what the DCUA model gets wrong.[/quote]

Nice story

All these poor suffering kids from other academies know da struggle is real
(they all were on scholarships during the U-littles pay-to-play years and arrived at training after taking 4 busses and walking 8 miles)

DC Academy has a Bentley, Rolls-Royce and Ferrari loaner car program for service drop-off [/quote]

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