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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Charlotte FC consider nearest mls academy down south?  Seen Richmond and VA beach area kids being recruited.[/quote]

Too bad DCU doesn't have a residency/homestay program.  How many talented kids have they lost to other academies.[/quote]

I know personally of at least two handfuls of kids that they have lost in the last few years due to the lack of quality there and better quality elsewhere.   Residency requires too much investment.  Something DCU doesn't do for the academy because they don't really care about producing pros from the academy.  The academy is a nice to have not a need to have for DCU leadership and it isn't a big part of their business strategy/model and how they want to make money.  If a pro surfaces from the academy they are happy and it offsets some costs. If one doesn't, the academy is rationalized as just necessary money on their balance sheet that they have to spend to be in the MLS as a club.  And they try to keep those numbers as low as possible to stay credible in the league.  And they are barely succeeding at that.  Not even on par with some of the worst academies and light years away from the best.  The only thing that keeps them from not being the complete laughingstock of the league is the fact that we have good talent in the DMV.  If DCU academy as it stands today was in say. .Nebraska, it would be hands down the worst in the MLS [/quote]

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