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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Keep on hating and pushing the anti-Spirit agenda, but that doesn’t subtract from the fact that the focus in the short time they have been open has been on developing the players they have.  The talent overall may not be on par with the established clubs, but why would anyone expect that with no club financing of players and after only one full year of operation.   And there are some very talented players there regardless.   [/quote]

Your post brings up a few questions.

Can't all of the same things be said about WS-MD?  Aren't they also new?  Don't they also have the same philosophy of development over results?

So why are they doing so much better?  Is it the talent?  Coaching?  Both?

Is it considered "anti-Spirit" to point out how much better the WS Academy in MD is doing compared to VA?

Is it possible Santino Quaranta has just done a much better job than Tom Torres?    For those who know the track records of both, is that even surprising?

Even assuming that some of the answers to those questions are along the lines of "It's just harder in VA given the landscape, geography, density of competition, whatever ...."  if you were the head of WS Spirt, rather than a parent of a WS-VA player, wouldn't it just make more sense to drop the VA program and invest in the MD side?

It's not like there's any real need for pro-academies to have 2 DAs.  Off the top of my head I can't think of any others that do.

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On your very last point, I don't know, but would guess that the original decision to have a second pro-academy team in VA was $$ driven.  The fact that Spirit VA has full rosters across its age groups would indicate that there was sufficient demand for the product being sold.

From the prior posts, it sounds like any decision to retain or fold Spirit VA will not be primarily driven by the economics of Spirit VA's operations.

But what do I know?  [Beating people to the punch:  nothing.][/quote]

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