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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I find funny is that people defend college soccer as some kind of incubator for talent between youth and playing pro. Yet foreign youth academy washouts are highly coveted players and recruited by college coaches.

How is college developing players to a higher level when foreign Academy washouts are highly prized? College coaches are literally amazed by the players foreign [b]acadamies[/b] think aren't good enough.

Do you see the disconnect?[/quote]

My god you are obtuse.

For the 30,000 time, nobody is arguing against academies, NWSL or otherwise. Nobody is ride or die for ECNL or college soccer.

But you must accept that a true European Academy system will take years to be implemented here. There will be steps to that end but some will be incremental and others will be bigger. But in the scheme of things patience is key.

But, unlike Europe, we do have a very well developed and culturally engrained college athletics system. Europe doesn't even really do HS sports to the extent that we do here. The college sporting experience is not going away anytime soon, NIL or not. That is the trick for NWSL and the USNT have to contend with.

The other problem with your talking points is the contradictory nature of them. When it is mentioned earlier that we should only have 3 or 4 elite league options in Northern Virginia you argue that it cuts out too many kids. But then you also want to dismantle college soccer on the women's side because we need a professional academy system. Even though there are over 300 D1 women's programs compared to 14 NWSL teams to play for. Of the 200 or so kids who migrate to the college ranks each year less than 20 have the potential to play professionally.

Kids still want to play at the highest level they can and those who know they will never play professionally are not interested in pursuing a professional track but will still want to play in college. Any NWSL academy system needs to accept college soccer and college sports. You clearly have a 12 year old girl and believe she is going to go pro so I get your passion but you're letting you passion turn into delusion. You can only place your kid in the best spot in the system that exists now. No amount of predicting and hoping is going to change what is now. IF things change then you are free to do what is best for your kid. That said, I would not waste any time trying to anticipate who is getting what, when and how good it will be based on little more than hopes and dreams.

We all hope what you are dreaming of happens but we live in the now. [/quote]
What you don't get is that I don't care about college soccer or scholarships or showcases or anything like that.

All I care about is fielding the best possible talent at the professional level.

Everything else can fend for itself. Which I'm sure ECNL can handle just like they do on the boys side.

What I'm saying upsets lots of people involved with the girls side because Acadamies are going to blow up the pay to play culture and many make their living this way because girls youth soccer is a cash cow.[/quote]

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