DA/MLS pay to play has always been bad but now has got completely out of hand. Whole teams disrupted by players with parents as donors, coaches, board members etc. Reform is needed if US soccer is ever to work. Badges should not be given to clubs that operate in red and survive only on "donations". Donations should go to a national pool allocated for a certain number of scholarships per team, but that should be handled by the league not the team coach. Current system stinks. Who agrees?
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Who agrees?Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
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I agree but no other group is going to take pover funding, so parent paid is what we have. This is a country that is pushes private paid education and private healthcare and we think some entity is coming in to fund kids sports? There is no incentive for anyone to pay for sports. The MLS clubs barely want to pay for their own academies. Who would pay for the rest of the millions of kids who play?Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Covid accelerated the demise of BDA. MLS clubs are only interested in developing a few high potential players, and one point they were paying to develop 80 or so players. It's no wonder they wanted out. As it was 2/3 of BDA was pay to play. Now it practically all is.Comment
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I smell a rat!! Who else agrees??Comment
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original poster - I am ok with all parents paying their 3-4k. What stinks is the guys paying tens of thousands to get their undeserved kids spots. Thats what most of these "board members" are doing.Comment
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Oh I know that. Board members dropping $10k per child and then expecting starting spots and guaranteed PT is a joke. I’ve never met a “board member” who deserved respect. They’re all the worst.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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What is a Board Member? Are they on the board of directors for the club or is it just a fake title so they pay more for a 'contribution'? Is this all DA clubs or just the Revs?Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Anybody check out the MLS next games yesterday on YouTube? Two teams from Colorado played each other ....not the quality I’d hope to seeOriginally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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College coaches don’t care about what YOU expect.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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What, 2 groups of pretty big and athletic kids checking each other and pushing all over the field? Seriously, what else were you expecting. Been like this for years. If da games were played with real international refs, there would be a dozen yellow cards and 3 or 4 reds every game! Most games are brutal and robotic.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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On that we agree. But all the climbing to get to “that”Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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BDA was around 10-11 years and there was very little improvement with robot play increasingly an issue. No one should think it will get better under the new system.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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This won’t workComment
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