This has absolutely nothing to do with "open borders", but recent topic expert is here to stir some s**t up

Anonymous wrote:Open borders except when it affects my kids chance to play non scholarship soccer. Cut off the colleges money, pass laws that advantage my kids, quotas to make it “fair”. Do you people hear yourselves.

let me guess you're here from recent topics and don't have a kid in the sport. You are out of your element.

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Anonymous wrote:Open borders except when it affects my kids chance to play non scholarship soccer. Cut off the colleges money, pass laws that advantage my kids, quotas to make it “fair”. Do you people hear yourselves.

Almost every professional league in the world has some kind of homegrown rule to protect development of their academy players. Why is it unreasonable to expect that public schools, funded by tax payer money, have some rules to promote and give preference to people from their state?

They do already, called in state tuition right?

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Anonymous wrote:Open borders except when it affects my kids chance to play non scholarship soccer. Cut off the colleges money, pass laws that advantage my kids, quotas to make it “fair”. Do you people hear yourselves.

Almost every professional league in the world has some kind of homegrown rule to protect development of their academy players. Why is it unreasonable to expect that public schools, funded by tax payer money, have some rules to promote and give preference to people from their state?

“Rules to promote and give preference”. Like affirmative action for soccer players. You folks hear yourselves?

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Anonymous wrote:Great! Maybe they will graduate and stay in the US and coach our Club teams. Then WE can field better developed players.

If these kids were superstars they'd be in their home countries playing professionally at some level. Believe it.

But they are better than the US kids?

Anonymous wrote:Great! Maybe they will graduate and stay in the US and coach our Club teams. Then WE can field better developed players.

If these kids were superstars they'd be in their home countries playing professionally at some level. Believe it.

Anonymous wrote:Wash U won this year with pretty much all US kids and many from Washington which is good.

FYI: Wash U is the abbreviation for the University of Washington in Saint Louis

Anonymous wrote:Open borders except when it affects my kids chance to play non scholarship soccer. Cut off the colleges money, pass laws that advantage my kids, quotas to make it “fair”. Do you people hear yourselves.

Almost every professional league in the world has some kind of homegrown rule to protect development of their academy players. Why is it unreasonable to expect that public schools, funded by tax payer money, have some rules to promote and give preference to people from their state?

Great! Maybe they will graduate and stay in the US and coach our Club teams. Then WE can field better developed players.

They have to maintain a min GPA. These players from "Life University" etc are going to be doomed.

This is the logical evolution of the college and even youth sports industrial complex? Why are you so surprised and upset? System not working for you anymore?

Open borders except when it affects my kids chance to play non scholarship soccer. Cut off the colleges money, pass laws that advantage my kids, quotas to make it “fair”. Do you people hear yourselves.

Time for the state of Missouri to stop giving tax dollars to Missouri State.

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Anonymous wrote:Please don’t turn this into a thread that should be in politics forum.

My kid is a sophomore in HS and looking to play in college and this absolutely sucks. If you think UVA, Va Tech, UMD, etc won’t do it too, you’re high. And consider that men’s soccer doesn’t really make schools money (it’s not football).

Professional sports should have farm teams and colleges and universities should have intramural and intermural teams without recruiting, scholarships or a special admissions process.

I get what you are saying as college athletics has drastically changed from the days of true amateurism that was seen back in the perceived good old days. But, this evolution to where we are today has only been accelerated with the allowance of compensation for athletes. There are really no guardrails any longer. What led to the death sentence for SMU football in the 1980s is now 100% acceptable today.

But, I don't see what you are suggesting happening anytime soon. There's just too much $$ being made at these major schools for them to walk away and return to their initial core mission of education.

What makes this really damning of US development is what international player want to play for Missouri Stare as their first choice? These are not the top international men.