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Will the second tier clubs be allowed to have their players play high school? -
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What is happening to DA if true is pretty funny and embarrassing for a program that's produced nothing.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Produced nothing?Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
Relative to the number of DA players they account for a greater percentage of D1 and national team players.Comment
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Ok, I guess that's something if that's the goal. I would have expected that the mission of this very expensive experiment would have been more but I guess not.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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I’m ok with a scholarship versus 36,000/year MLS rookie Contract.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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The rookies get $60,000/year for a bench player. The starters are over $100kOriginally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Villanova Univ. cost is 62,000/year. I’m still ok with a scholarship. Your calculations are not acccurate either.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Different poster but MLS minimum is $65000. You are posting old informationOriginally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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It really doesn’t matter. Until the minimum salary goes up the MLS is going to lose out to College and Europe every time.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Every time? Perhaps most of the time. College isn't the right decision for allOriginally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Obviously not for you, Daddy Warbucks. It’s not bad for a minimum.Originally posted by UnregisteredComment
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Until US soccer starts paying multi million dollar contracts and its stars are as popular as Bball or Basketball players, it won't attract more athletes. So until that time we need to do a better job with the highly skilled athletes we do have. Thus far, ten years in, our record is spotty at bestOriginally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
You are right about one thing.....the money part.
http://peninsulapress.com/2015/03/23...ome-disparity/
http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/J...ia/MLS-TV.aspx
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-av...ers-in-the-MLS
While things are changing, it is not fast enough for impatient Americans. If the goal of youth soccer is to get a college acceptance or even a scholarship consider the fact that the former is increasing but the latter, especially fro American youth might be leveling off. Soccer is certainly becoming more popular as seen at the youth levels and attendance at MLS games. Furthermore, there are now two viable soccer leagues in the US and a third if you want to consider indoors. Colleges (all divisions) have solid foundation regarding soccer teams especially since the cost is less than other varsity teams.
Interest in youth soccer is on the rise:
US Youth Soccer Annual Registration of Players
1974 - 103,432
1980 - 810,793
1985 - 1,210,408
1990 - 1,615,041
1995 - 2,388,719
2000 - 3,020,442
2005 - 3,050,465
2007 - 3,123,698
2008 - 3,148,114
2009 - 3,094,868
2010 - 3,036,438
2011 - 3,025,551
2012 - 3,020,633
2013 - 2,804,711
2014 - 3,055,148
However, competition for college scholarships is on the rise with an increasing influx of non American players into the D1 and D2 ranks. Since colleges are still not showing large attendance at their soccer games and there are no big TV contracts to air the games, the money that colleges earmark for soccer is limited. Your child might be better off concentrating on getting good grades and getting academic support.
Professional ranks are larger today than 10 years ago without a doubt and the number of American youth playing are increasing, but, again, they are competing with foreign players as well.
As for American teams competing with the rest of the world.....well....to echo the prior poster, that won't really happen until they are able to compete with other top professional sports in this country.Comment
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