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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]Since I don't pretend to have expertise about soccer at pro academy levels, I used Google AI and Chatgbt to ask two questions coming from statements made on here

Can scouts and coaches accurately predict which youth players are going to become successful professionals?

List professional players who were rejected or looked over as youth players by club academies?

Based on the responses, the best scouts and coaches and academies in the world not only can't predict, they admit they can't predict.

So I'll take these comments here on that topic as light toilet reading 
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Pretty dumb questions to ask as the answers are obvious.  If anyone could predict those things why have academies?? There are scouts and coaches that have a better eye and a better track record than others.  DCU does t have either. Nice try...so many better uses of chatgpt tha to fuel a ridiculous argument.  [/quote]

So someone claims DC academy doesn't have any youth players that can become professional here or Europe

Someone points to clear evidence that not even the best scouts and coaches at youth level in the world can make such predictions

Another or same as first person agrees, the best scouts and coaches can't predict, but DCU can't predict either, so nanny nanny boo boo

*since Americans aren't becoming professionals through MLS academies in general, seems the hat fits everyone 
Unless there are secret files of players going to Europe in significant numbers to top division clubs[/quote]

Please stop.  This line of "reasoning" has already been dismissed.  Bukayo Saka and I had the same number of goals in the Premier League this weekend - zero.  That doesn't mean I'm as good as Saka or that you can't evaluate and come to the conclusion that he's better than me.  (he is, by a whisker)[/quote]

You're also a world class International player on a Division One senior team in England or Europe?

Your analogy would be crazy in a mental hospital much less outside

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I know you have trouble with logic, and I'm sorry.  It must be a struggle.  You spend so much time on here doing nothing more than trying to cast doubt on the myriad reasons DC United does not compare favorably to other academies.  The end result of your efforts is more and more evidence that it is in inferior academy.  [b]No one on here WANTS that to be true.  It is true.[/b]  That needs to be admitted in order for it to improve.  The Philly Union article linked above, which I doubt you read, is more than a little cheerlead-y but provides a great overview of what the cost and benefits of their approach is.  It's working from a development and financial standpoint. [/quote]

I suspect it is defensive parents who are defending their parental decision to send their kids to a free academy.  I understand, you love your kid.  You can love your kid, be proud of them and still acknowledge the state of the DCU Academy.  I think you need to understand the statement above in bold.  We want change.  We want the academy to be better.  THE FIRST step to that is acknowledging that the DCU academy is far below the standards and that is language in their own press releases.  The status of the academy MAY or MAY NOT include their evaluation of your kid.  We don't know that piece and you have to be a grown-up and get over that.  We do know the DCU Academy system sucks and we deserve better for our area.[/quote]

Disingenuous, hypocrisy and intellectual dishonesty ar its best on display

Why would a parent who's kid is at the professional academy and both the kid and parent are happy need to defend the choice to others? 
Make that make sense

This isn't objective analysis nor is it based on anything more than mainly feelings and conjecture

None of us know what is in the minds of each family, so who are we to judge?

Who is the "we" that deserve better when none of us have kids involved with the academy?

If you want to scream and act emotionally over the Senior team where you pay your money to watch, that is understandable. 
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No one is asking you to defend your choices.  We are just pointing out that your choices are dumb as sh#t.  And if you're happy at DCU with what it is offering your son, then you have bigger problems than soccer.  [/quote]

If the person with a kid at the MLS club academy is dumb for doing so, what about the thousands of us spending lots of money at regular clubs? Are we imbeciles 😄 [/quote]

If you actually have a plan to go pro via Europe, no, you are intelligent.  Dozens of DMV kids taking this path.  If they fail to go pro, many will return with a 2nd language, a D1 spot and a life-changing experience.

If you are at DCU because it is free, you are financially savvy but seriously uneducated if you have a kid with high aspirations.  If your kid does not have high aspirations, you are smart to take advantage of the situation and the academy are imbeciles for bringing on that type of family.  This reinforces our point.

If you can’t afford $10k in soccer fees annually in the DMV, get off DCUM and learn how to be more productive with your time.  There are plenty of ways to make an extra $1k a month in the DMV.

Only an imbecile would ignore the owners own words and press releases about bringing the academy up to the modern league standards.  They can’t fathom that someone like me could actually give DCU the Logan Roy treatment.

Soccer Peasants.[/quote]

So going to PPA or Manassas or Paragon is a smart parent move because that is the route to get into a European club because European passport or legitimate residency is no longer required

What is you and your family's portfolio of soccer accomplishments, education and professional, financial successes so we can see which superior being this is looking down on the rest of us dumb failures [/quote]

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