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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=RantingSoccerDad]Geez, another pro/rel discussion? OK, here we go again:

https://rantingsoccerdad.com/all-about-promotion-relegation/

In short -- it might be a good idea for taking U.S. soccer to the next level, but there are legitimate issues that even Riccardo Silva's Deloitte report pointed out, and the ideologues who are pushing it have surely set back the idea by a decade or more.

In the meantime -- I'm confused. Is Taylor Twellman the modern-day Ben Franklin?[/quote]

I'll grant that there are some true jerks and wackos on twitter who tend to dominate the debate on whatever issue they are obsessed over.

The guy I quoted is not one of the wackos.

In short - the FIFA system (independent clubs competing in pro/rel system; transfer market ; training compensation to repay youth clubs for investments in players; solidarity payments to reward youth clubs for successful player development) - is vastly superior when it comes to incentivizing player development.    That is not a hypothetical statement.  We don't have to theorize about how such a system "might" work.  It is the system in place virtually everywhere else in the world, in countries rich and poor, large and small.  It is used in countries whose soccer traditions are as old as the sport itself, and others in which the sport is much newer than it is here.

None of that means that I think pro/rel is a magical cure-all for everything that needs to be improved in US Soccer.  But it will makes us better, and there is a limit to how much we can improve without it.   Trying to compete with that system using our current system is like fighting with one hand tied behind our backs.

The main losers in moving to an open system are those MLS owners who bought into a monopoly where they are insulated from competition, and want to keep it that way.  I don't blame them, but I also don't care about them.  I care about soccer in this country getting better.

Thanks for sharing your blog again Beau.  Here's some more information for those interested"

https://prorelforusa.blogspot.com/2017/12/25-open-pyramid-myths-and-questions.html

http://blog.3four3.com/2015/09/14/pay-to-play-and-the-link-to-promotion-relegation/

Also non-wackos here:  http://www.beinsports.com/us/soccer/video/the-future-of-u-s-soccer-promotionrelegation/823124

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Thanks for posting this.  There some great stuff on these blogs. [/quote]

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