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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]Adding Bayside FC continues this narrative of this shadow war on the boys side.  Bayside FC has MLS Next.  None of the clubs that have switched to ECNL from GA have MLSN on the boys side and none of the clubs that have come into GA or DPL have any ECNL affiliation from the boys side, NL or RL.[/quote]
Yep, and just wait until NWSL Next happens.

It's becoming very clear what's going to happen next.[/quote]
I think everything could change overnight.

All NWSL has to do is implement a homegrown rule and say that they'll have Acadamies in the next season.

And boom everything in girls you soccer would be flipped on it head.

While I do have my doubts, I'm not ruling that out.  It would be a win win for them, they wouldn't have to put much into it at first, just wait and see how it blooms and then start figuring out the rest.  People keep talking about the financials but nobody is expecting fully funded NWSL academies from the beginning.  We all already pay a large sum to participate and would continue to do so.[/quote]

That's now really how it works. It needs to be truly differentiated from any other local club. As another poster pointed, Washington Spirit Academy was terrible. If you are charging people money then they would have to beat expectations. Paying to be a part of a start up in a already saturated market does not lead to immediate success.

The only way a NWSL Academy system will get off the ground is to be either fully funded or much much cheaper than other competing youth clubs.

NWSL is still competing with College recruitment for player's goals and objectives. If the academy has no track record or a true ability to showcase competitively it will fail upon launch. The hope of being pro is just not enough with the few limited pro opportunities available. And if the academy can't draw the interest of the best players regionally then it will not serve the purpose to the pro club either.

If it's free then that changes the dynamic of the player is no longer the consumer, but as long as the player is the consumer Spirit would have to offer one hell of  bang for the buck in comparison to other clubs who can do the same thing for their player.

I just don't see this changing overnight. It is going to be a long and thoughtful process for NWSL to launch any meaningful academy system. Yes, it will happen but it will take a decade and there is nothing wrong with that. It would be better to to roll it out slowly and get it right than try and rush it, waste time, money and look bad. NWSL would never recover from a a faceplant. [/quote][/quote]
I think everything could change overnight.

[b]All NWSL has to do is implement a homegrown rule and say that they'll have Acadamies in the next season.
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And boom everything in girls you soccer would be flipped on it head.[/quote]

I think you overestimate how delusional kids are about where they stand. In a given region, a homegrown rule may apply to one or two girls at most. The other few thousand playing at any one time understand that they won't go pro regardless [/quote]

The kids and parents may be delusional but the NWSL Clubs can't feed into that. The homegrown rule is ultimately how the academy will be funded and if it isn't taken seriously by the club and attracts serious talent then its nothing more than pay to play fan experience. [/quote]
Either way it doesn't matter. The "problem" addresses itself.

If clubs don't take development seriously they won't get transfer money from selling players to other clubs via transfer fees. Also if clubs don't develop players they won't get call ups to academy team and ultimately pro MLS/NWSL teams.[/quote]

Question: what is the homegrown rule?[/quote]
Homegrown rule basically means that a player has come up within XYZ professional teams general geography.

To encourage this MLS let's clubs pay homegrown players whatever they want and it doesn't count against their salary cap.

From a spectators perspective its much more interesting if a player came from where you live. In theory this generates interest for teams and puts butts in seats.[/quote]

And why would anyone think they would do this on the girls side?[/quote]

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