Originally posted by Unregistered
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DA needs to dissolve, send all the college bound kids back to ISL and high school, which will strengthen those programs. USSF can use the money to set up 5-6 residential academies around the country for the kids serious about making a living from soccer, which will form a nice pool for YNT & NT choices. Obviously, these residential academies will not be able to play each other in a weekend league set-up, but could have a couple showcases each year to bring the teams together to compete.
The key will be that somebody with some creativity and who knows the soccer landscape well in each region will need to set up a schedule of weekly games against high quality competition. This might be local private school/high school teams or older club teams for the younger residential players, and for the older residential players, high quality college teams, amateur teams, USL teams (I think there are three levels in USL now), some international games, etc. There is plenty of competition out there to help develop players without the need for a structured league, in which often times half the opponents don't offer quality competition.
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