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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1) a local BSC kid is going to Nashville from Landon and is doing YSC Academy, the same program with Philly Union.  I imagine that his family had the same questions and I suppose YSC has had to deal with this in the Philly market which has a similar parent base built on academics as the DMV.

2) Stanford Online High School is a high-level option.

3) There are 168 hours in a week. Public school and many private waste 3-4 hours daily in inefficiency.  There are much better pure learning methods but the social aspect is important for most kids. An academy player has his social covered so they just need meat and potatoes academics to get the job done.

4) The days of being at Westpoint and going to the NFL are over.  You can still go to an academy and then go Ivy but the perfect path is a lot harder academically but you will have academy experience to compensate for it.  At a certain point, you do have to make choices.  Are you going to spend an extra hour daily on AP science or your first touch?[/quote]

I guess for the men's side, but so many successful women went to top tier colleges like Stanford IN PERSON and still thrived. Plenty of examples in the NFL of particularly linemen taking advantage of scholarships to top academic colleges to get even better jobs after their playing career as well. [/quote]

Difficult discussion but the women in the U.S. has benefitted from our pro-woman stance on equality in politic terms.  Their success is not reflective of our development systems.  For example, there is about 20% more competition for the men coming out of the Middle East that women do not have to deal with.  This is just one slice of the pie.

How many women NWSL Next academies are there?  That answers your question on why a woman can get a high education in the U.S. and still achieve the highest level of soccer.  Anything is possible on the men’s side but just not likely.[/quote]

LOL - well imagine if the middle east actually treated women equally?!?!

It's not just that - it's that women's soccer is still held up on a pedestal compared to men's soccer in the US. Our best athletes don't give AF about soccer on the men's side and it is what it is. So please keep telling me how the US women are doomed to fail *eventually*. [/quote]

I really hope that you don’t run anything important in our current administration.

That’s the point! Middle eastern girls are not playing many if ANY sports while American girls have both a system to play and girls dads and moms who support them.  Middle eastern men are playing and countries like Qatar actually have a better “system” than the US on the men’s side.  Saudi is investing more money in their means league than the MLS.  Our women has several advantages globally over countries and our “system” can be completed ineffective but still produce the most due to sheer competitive advantage.

Let’s say 75% of the worlds men are trying to compete in soccer while 25% of their worlds women are trying to compete.  If Americans are 1% in both scenarios, you don’t have to be a mathematician to like your odds in this scenario for the USA women succeeding at a higher rate globally in comparison to the men.  That is honest truth about women’s soccer and basketball.  We have to evaluate our systems to see if they support our goals in these supports.[/quote]

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