What is happening at oc academy?

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So simple answer is no contact by D1

Not sure. My son is younger and teams not in practice due to high school.

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Yes. Expect that to change next season.

Did anyone see the article written today on Orlando City pyramid is in jeopardy

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Did anyone see the article written today on Orlando City pyramid is in jeopardy

Themaneland.com

Orlando city’s soccer pyramid is out of whack

OC bragged about this vertical system. It’s gone at this point.

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Did anyone see the article written today on Orlando City pyramid is in jeopardy

Great read, right on point

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Title IX

Not to start a debate but that is a myth that Title IX killed men's soccer and fencing and wrestling, etc.

It was actually the explosion of the "Big 2 Men's Sports", football and basketball and the arms race investments they required which then led to the college revenue they created. My daughter did a master's thesis on the subject and it is a pervasive myth that Title IX is what reduced men's sports programs. It's a convenient argument - but false.

The dirty secret is that men's football and basketball generate so much revenue at major D1 schools that those programs along could fund men's and women's soccer teams (as well as wrestling, gymnastics, etc.) but the Athletic Director's at major colleges are powerless to stop the University leadership from siphoning off the revenue from football and basketball for non-sports uses. If all the money generated by sports could stay in the Athletic Department there would be tons of Men's and Women's teams in the fringe sports. Instead, some of the money Nick Saban generates is used to fund the Distinguished Physics Fellow position.

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Did anyone see the article written today on Orlando City pyramid is in jeopardy

https://www.themaneland.com/2018/1/1...rong-direction

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There is no more pyramid. There is not really a DA in the true sense of why it was created which was to give USsoccer a way to scout, recruit, and train our top talent in a way that is constant across such a large area so that less talented players slip through the cracks. The foreign owner could care less about developing our US kids but instead clear his books from this yearly debt, sink the lake Nona project, get rid of OCB, and still produce home grown foreign players after they hit 18 years of age with 1 year of eligibility. Its called manipulating the system but technically not breaking the rules.

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There is no more pyramid. There is not really a DA in the true sense of why it was created which was to give USsoccer a way to scout, recruit, and train our top talent in a way that is constant across such a large area so that less talented players slip through the cracks. The foreign owner could care less about developing our US kids but instead clear his books from this yearly debt, sink the lake Nona project, get rid of OCB, and still produce home grown foreign players after they hit 18 years of age with 1 year of eligibility. Its called manipulating the system but technically not breaking the rules.

I think the fully funded Pride days are numbered as well.

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So the plan is to have the US born players on the DA and then add the MV SIMA players from Africa and elsewhere to the DA team on their 18th birthday when they can get legal FIFA clearance? Is that what you are suggesting?

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So the plan is to have the US born players on the DA and then add the MV SIMA players from Africa and elsewhere to the DA team on their 18th birthday when they can get legal FIFA clearance? Is that what you are suggesting?

Its about time they tried something different . The current DA program at OC has been a failure, its never been successful without outside recruiting and its so evident this year .

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I think the fully funded Pride days are numbered as well.

Are you just guessing, or hoping? I think both.

No one has said if the boys side is still funded or not.

I'd wait and see how the MV transition goes and how OC will handle funding/ recruitment/ subsidization.

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There is no more pyramid. There is not really a DA in the true sense of why it was created which was to give USsoccer a way to scout, recruit, and train our top talent in a way that is constant across such a large area so that less talented players slip through the cracks. The foreign owner could care less about developing our US kids but instead clear his books from this yearly debt, sink the lake Nona project, get rid of OCB, and still produce home grown foreign players after they hit 18 years of age with 1 year of eligibility. Its called manipulating the system but technically not breaking the rules.

Give this man a prize! Nailed it!

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So the plan is to have the US born players on the DA and then add the MV SIMA players from Africa and elsewhere to the DA team on their 18th birthday when they can get legal FIFA clearance? Is that what you are suggesting?

To do that, you don’t need to outsource the DA to MV. You just need to sign up the over 18 years old foreign players to OCDA during a “gap year” between high school and college and have them play OCDA for one year to become eligible for homegrown status.

OC ownership is not really trying to sign any MV kids to MLS roster, and those MV players are looking for $$ in college soccer scholarship and maybe a USL deal.

Outsourcing OCDA to MV is pure money-saving move by OC ownership and marketing opportunity for MV to try and lure tuition-paying players from out of town.

It will be no different than IMG and Barca Academy and Shattuck (Minnesota) competing in the DA — having MLS affiliation is a sham.

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To do that, you don’t need to outsource the DA to MV. You just need to sign up the over 18 years old foreign players to OCDA during a “gap year” between high school and college and have them play OCDA for one year to become eligible for homegrown status.

OC ownership is not really trying to sign any MV kids to MLS roster, and those MV players are looking for $$ in college soccer scholarship and maybe a USL deal.

Outsourcing OCDA to MV is pure money-saving move by OC ownership and marketing opportunity for MV to try and lure tuition-paying players from out of town.

It will be no different than IMG and Barca Academy and Shattuck (Minnesota) competing in the DA — having MLS affiliation is a sham.

Chill , it will be better than what's out there now! The only people that are bitching are those whos son will be out because they were connected or parents that brown nosed the good ole boys and now will be on the out trying to look in .

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Chill , it will be better than what's out there now! The only people that are bitching are those whos son will be out because they were connected or parents that brown nosed the good ole boys and now will be on the out trying to look in .

I sure am glad I never paid a penny to OC. Tried out made u13 DA and been there since. Never spoke to a coach never had too. But the funny thing is all the people complaining about how OC was ran still don't have kids good enough to make the old team much less the way it will be next year.