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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Acadamies at least are honest about the end goal. If you're good enough you play professionally and if you're not you don't. Traditionally while you're learning how to play Acadeny soccer is free.

College sports could be good but colleges are greedy. If every player received a guaranteed 4 year scholarship then it would completely make sense. If colleges paid players an actual hourly wage it would also make sense. The problem with college sports is often the value of being a student athlete isn't there. Also because the player college relationship is 99% in favor of the college coaches have too much power and it leads to abuse of players. (Coach's dropping players if the find something better, coach's sexually abusing players by dangling their scholarship, and these are just a couple off the top of my head)[/quote]

The academy might be free but the distance education or private education is not free.

It is impossible to dedicate to an academy while doing traditional schooling.

And academy coaches don't wield power? Tear an ACL is the academy going to care?

Academies are a business and you are their product. If they can't play you or sell you they cut you. It is not for everyone and it should not be promoted as though they would serve the interests of any more than the .0001%.

College can be extremely harsh as well but at least you are also attending school and preparing for a career while hopefully enjoying some aspect of the sport.

There really is no backup plan after getting cut from an academy. [/quote]
The top Acadamies in Europe have "education" tied into development. Usually this revolves around soccer tactics and training but they also teach players how to speak multiple languages. This is because it makes the players more marketable to clubs in different countries.

Clubs do not usually drop[b] top [/b]players from academy programs if they have ACL injuries. However they might sell via transfer fee or trade them to another academy. This is because acadamies value development and the time spent to be top talent.[/quote]

They all are not "top" players with lots of money or time invested are they though.

Look, this country does need pro academies to compete in international soccer but we are also a very different sports culture where soccer is still a fringe sport. Yes it is growing but it will never supplant the NFL, NBA or MLB. NHL? possibly.

Regardless, our sports culture of combining academics and sports is unique to the States and SEC Football is not going to go away so that soccer can lead the charge in professionalizing youth soccer. And why you would wish for the death of college sports is baffling.

We need to figure away both can coexist because frankly, I don't care enough about our World Cup success or professional leagues enough to throw college soccer away. Our domestic leagues don't even align seasons with their European counterparts because MLS simply cannot compete with the NFL, NBA and NHL from August to June. More people will watch the NFL Draft than the MLS championship.

Know your place and your value.[/quote]
Once Acadamies are availabe for women's youth players everything will sort itself out. (Just like it has for the boys)

Groups like ECNL are going to have to change if clubs can't collect talent by age group anymore because Acadamies will recruit top talent away.[/quote]

DC United syphons off less than 30 players per age group. Clubs will find a way to survive [/quote]

No, interest with youth layers will simply dry up. Look at how many kids play in ECNL just on the hopes of playing in college. If that is gone, so are the players.

There just isn't enough interest in the professional side. College has always been the carrot for many kids, who, while they love playing, they have certainly dedicated more personal time in developing to achieve that goal.

Remove college all together and replace it with 14 underfunded NWSL academies and watch interest plummet after U13. Culturally we just don't care enough about women's sports or women's soccer beyond World Cup to just cut out one of the sports biggest ambassadors in this country.

You want MORE soccer not less. Eliminate 300 D1 women's soccer programs and you have lost 7500 players to the game. Those who would have continued to play in hopes of playing at that level will also play just enough to make the HS team.

You are asking to kill one of the sports greatest ambassadors, all because you don't like ECNL. [/quote]

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