Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is D.C. United's Academy Still Free?

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-d-c-uniteds-academy-still-free/id397784823?i=1000707014835

If you're not one of the parents of the very kids few they want, doesn't concern you

If they want your kid and you don't want to go, don't worry about it, not your issue

If they want you and you're okay with the program, go with it

The rest is soap opera drama

It concerns anyone with a kid that plays football in our area that has any ambition in the sport beyond where they are currently. DCU is the gateway to higher level football in our area and it is an institution that is completely failing the kids. If you're genuinely serious about soccer, DCU cannot be your path unless you have no other options available to you. Choosing DCU is like knowingly putting your kid in a substandard school for their education. Sometimes there are no other options. And like I said earlier if DCU is the only option, go, and just know what you're signing up for - a sh#t academy that has no intention or making your son a professional or even advancing him as an individual. DCUs academy is there to only appease the MLS and it is a half ass#d operation with poor management and leadership.

It's around million dollars to run DCUs academy per season.

10k per kid, 25 kids per team (minus the scholarship kids) with four teams and that is a million bucks. Not hard to understand what they are doing from a financial perspective. There is no investment in the online school because they made the wealthy parents pony up for it and pay for the academy. Its an embarrassment.

Anonymous wrote:So to sum it up, DCUA isn't that much different from other MLS academies in terms of subsidizing tuition....

Wrong. DCU is pay to play for any kid not given a scholarship which is like 95 percent of the kids. It is pay to play because they have made morning practice mandatory for all the teams. Meaning that a player cannot go to public school and still participate. AND they jacked up the price for the online school to offset the costs of the academy per player. So they are coming out even or close to it on the balance sheet with this model. Meaning the online schooling costs are more expensive at DCU because they made the cost higher to sneak in some of the costs for running the academy. It is so shady and poor and DCU should be embarrassed that they did this.

Other MLS academies subsidize the schooling for pro path kids and ket the others go to public school. Either way, it is free. At DCU it's isn't.

Why DCU is a trash academy with sh#t leadership and management. No way you can have your kid in DCUs system willingly if you have legitimate other options. It's just a bad move all around. Academically and from a footballing perspective DCU is a complete joke. Mostly rich, snobby, manipulative and pompous soccer parents from wealthy dmv suburbs, who know jack sh#t about football think DCU is genuinely worth a damn because they have collectively given it the "elite" social status tag. Once they figure out DCU is not elite and it gives their son minimal if any advantages in this soccer ecosystem, then they will turn on DCU. Just hasn't happened yet because the academy is too new to this parent ecosystem. Its just a matter of time. Other parents are aware of but tolerate DCUs shortcomings because they don't have other options. But it is widely known that DCU is a substandard academy with no real intention of being better.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is D.C. United's Academy Still Free?

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-d-c-uniteds-academy-still-free/id397784823?i=1000707014835

If you're not one of the parents of the very kids few they want, doesn't concern you

If they want your kid and you don't want to go, don't worry about it, not your issue

If they want you and you're okay with the program, go with it

The rest is soap opera drama

But yet you still post...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is D.C. United's Academy Still Free?

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-d-c-uniteds-academy-still-free/id397784823?i=1000707014835

If you're not one of the parents of the very kids few they want, doesn't concern you

If they want your kid and you don't want to go, don't worry about it, not your issue

If they want you and you're okay with the program, go with it

The rest is soap opera drama

How dumb is this. If you're joining an academy, it's pretty sad you can't consider the club in your own area due to how bad it is. That means having to live away from home and family to train in a better environment. We want change.

Who is we?
It's only an extremely small percentage of soccer players in the dmv that can be one of the few at dcua or any other mls academy

Elitist soccer mom from a wealthy DC suburb with a predictable post. This post is irrelevant

Anonymous wrote:Word on the street is that DCU is finally starting up a second team to play in MLS Next Pro.

Yeah right. Will not happen

I heard that is not going to be free anymore.

Word on the street is that DCU is finally starting up a second team to play in MLS Next Pro.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is D.C. United's Academy Still Free?

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-d-c-uniteds-academy-still-free/id397784823?i=1000707014835

If you're not one of the parents of the very kids few they want, doesn't concern you

If they want your kid and you don't want to go, don't worry about it, not your issue

If they want you and you're okay with the program, go with it

The rest is soap opera drama

How dumb is this. If you're joining an academy, it's pretty sad you can't consider the club in your own area due to how bad it is. That means having to live away from home and family to train in a better environment. We want change.

Who is we?
It's only an extremely small percentage of soccer players in the dmv that can be one of the few at dcua or any other mls academy

Correct, the parents who are reading this thread and commenting most likely have kids good enough or are in an academy. Is your kid good enough?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So to sum it up, DCUA isn't that much different from other MLS academies in terms of subsidizing tuition....

Right. Every academy has a couple of kids that are considered pro material and the academy pays for their education. The rest of the kids either pay for their own or go to public schools.

The problem is, DCU is going to only do trainings in the morning starting next season. Which forces all the players to do online school. The few high prospects, DCU will pay for. The rest of the kids will have to pay out of pocket. Regular public school is no longer an option.

No different than other MLS academies

Nope. The pro pathway kids are the ones that do morning training, online school, then evening training. The rest of the team does public school and show up to the evening trainings.

Starting 25/26 season, all the kids do morning training, online school, afternoon training. There is no evening training.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is D.C. United's Academy Still Free?

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-d-c-uniteds-academy-still-free/id397784823?i=1000707014835

If you're not one of the parents of the very kids few they want, doesn't concern you

If they want your kid and you don't want to go, don't worry about it, not your issue

If they want you and you're okay with the program, go with it

The rest is soap opera drama

Do they want yours? Why does this concern you?

Why are you obsessed and incessantly reviving the dead thread

Misery does indeed love company

Focus on the future, not the rejection pains of the past
Are you listening to break-up songs as you post comments?

Anyways, have good reflections honoring the Memorial Day weekend and give other people's business a rest.
Will be good for your well-being

Why would this thread be dead? Is DCU no longer the academy for this area? Why wouldn't it be our business to know that DCU is no longer free to play again if we live here?

Guess the players offered 25/26 spots at dc haven't heard its dead lol

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is D.C. United's Academy Still Free?

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-d-c-uniteds-academy-still-free/id397784823?i=1000707014835

If you're not one of the parents of the very kids few they want, doesn't concern you

If they want your kid and you don't want to go, don't worry about it, not your issue

If they want you and you're okay with the program, go with it

The rest is soap opera drama

How dumb is this. If you're joining an academy, it's pretty sad you can't consider the club in your own area due to how bad it is. That means having to live away from home and family to train in a better environment. We want change.

Who is we?
It's only an extremely small percentage of soccer players in the dmv that can be one of the few at dcua or any other mls academy

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So to sum it up, DCUA isn't that much different from other MLS academies in terms of subsidizing tuition....

Right. Every academy has a couple of kids that are considered pro material and the academy pays for their education. The rest of the kids either pay for their own or go to public schools.

The problem is, DCU is going to only do trainings in the morning starting next season. Which forces all the players to do online school. The few high prospects, DCU will pay for. The rest of the kids will have to pay out of pocket. Regular public school is no longer an option.

Morning trainings became a problem in soccer when?

If the parents want to be there and can afford it and aren't asking you for a loan, then go have a coke and a smile

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So to sum it up, DCUA isn't that much different from other MLS academies in terms of subsidizing tuition....

Right. Every academy has a couple of kids that are considered pro material and the academy pays for their education. The rest of the kids either pay for their own or go to public schools.

The problem is, DCU is going to only do trainings in the morning starting next season. Which forces all the players to do online school. The few high prospects, DCU will pay for. The rest of the kids will have to pay out of pocket. Regular public school is no longer an option.

No different than other MLS academies

Nope. The pro pathway kids are the ones that do morning training, online school, then evening training. The rest of the team does public school and show up to the evening trainings.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So to sum it up, DCUA isn't that much different from other MLS academies in terms of subsidizing tuition....

Right. Every academy has a couple of kids that are considered pro material and the academy pays for their education. The rest of the kids either pay for their own or go to public schools.

The problem is, DCU is going to only do trainings in the morning starting next season. Which forces all the players to do online school. The few high prospects, DCU will pay for. The rest of the kids will have to pay out of pocket. Regular public school is no longer an option.

No different than other MLS academies