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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostIn the immediate term, some feel like they won and some feel like they lost. No sense arguing past each other, although I do believe the late months in the aggregate have been more disaffected by the change than the early months ever were under the old system. Anyway I've said this since day 1 and I'm sticking to it: when US Soccer looks back in five years and sees: i) overall participation rates down 10-15%, ii) the relative age effect drastically magnified, and most importantly iii) zero improvement in our national teams' relative world standing, they'd better be willing to not make excuses and admit they made a mistake.
Easier to find the needles if you shrink the haystack.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostUSSF doesn't care if participation among the riff-raff falls off. There aren't enough fields and coaches for them anyway. They are aiming for quality over quantity and will increase prices to maintain revenue. In other words, they WANT to magnify the RAE.
Easier to find the needles if you shrink the haystack.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThere is room for them in a different sport all together if us soccer does not want to grow the sport for all.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostWhat? You realize sports are ultimately an entertainment industry. Without a big haystack it is just a sorry bunch of needles with no support or purpose.
From USSF thread "Youth soccer is losing players – down from 11.2 million in 2011 to 8.9 million in 2015, according to Project Play."
Yet soccer at the pro level is still quite popular. Boys Youth national teams also have great success at 17 and 20 levels
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