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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Women still get recruited from colleges to pro teams so still worth it imo if the player wasn't picked up by a pro team before college. It can't hurt.[/quote]

The ACC is excellent and there are excellent players in many of the conferences.  If your daughter isn't being recruited by a high level school, getting money and having a real chance of playing in Florida State vs. Stanford game as an example then it doesn't matter anyway.  The people on this strand ripping on the college coaches and games don't have kids that can play at that level.  Look at the roster of the US women the other night.  MOST of the team were college players including the young and new additions.  The really young players are a rare exception like the Netherlands girl...she developed at AJAX, at a real club that has the infrastructure and resources to develop these players.  Going pro and skipping college HERE TODAY rarely makes sense with our current structure and support for these girls.  Hopefully the clubs will continue to grow and create an environment for younger players.  The first two draft picks for the SPIRIT graduated from college.  They are both excellent players and they have both been called up to National camp. [b]The system we have today if far from where it could be, but it still works.[/b][/quote]
Yes! It's not all gloom and doom. US women's team has been going through what all accomplished teams go through - players age, get complicit, coaching stagnates. There has been an influx of very good, young players and a new coach that has brought a revived energy. This summer is really the first glimpse we'll get of the new era. Give the coach and the new players a couple years to get comfortable with each other and we could be looking at another run for a great team. The entire system doesn't need to be scrapped. Just needed to change out from the old guard. No country's team stays dominant forever it goes in cycles.[/quote]

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