Timbers Boys Academy - FREE Thorns Girls Academy - $$$$$$

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Why is there nobody making a big deal about this?

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Because its not a big deal. The Timbers and now separate ownership Thorns can spend their money how they see fit.

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Why do people think it is OK to tell other how and where to spend their money?

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Let us know when NWSL has true homegrown rights and then the teams will invest their money in academies

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Let us know when NWSL has true homegrown rights and then the teams will invest their money in academies

It's already going that route, although slowly. They have the ability to sign and protect four U-18 players.

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Even with the ability to protect four players, who says you have the right to demand they fully fund their youth academy. Its their money.

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Even with the ability to protect four players, who says you have the right to demand they fully fund their youth academy. Its their money.

No one except the NWSL has the right to say that they fund an academy...

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It's already going that route, although slowly. They have the ability to sign and protect four U-18 players.

I’m very aware, the word true was the key to my statement

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Why do people think it is OK to tell other how and where to spend their money?

A deluded Thorn parent. Spend it how you like, but don't go telling friends your daughter is in the Thorns Academy (Boise Thorns, Eastside Thorns, Alaska Thorns, California Thorns) Are these kids saying they are in the Thorns Academy?

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Even with the ability to protect four players, who says you have the right to demand they fully fund their youth academy. Its their money.

You have no clue about how professional soccer academies run.

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Back when Peregrine owned the Thorns, there was a legit equal-opportunity question (though as Title IX does not apply to professional sports, it was more of a moral question than a legal one).

Now that Thorns are owned by someone else, that question pretty much vanishes.

It would be great if Thorns did become a free academy. It also would be great if there were a female version of MLS Next, but there isn't, so ECNL will have to do.

But even if you gotta pay, they're still the best game in town on the girls' side.

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Back when Peregrine owned the Thorns, there was a legit equal-opportunity question (though as Title IX does not apply to professional sports, it was more of a moral question than a legal one).

Now that Thorns are owned by someone else, that question pretty much vanishes.

It would be great if Thorns did become a free academy. It also would be great if there were a female version of MLS Next, but there isn't, so ECNL will have to do.

But even if you gotta pay, they're still the best game in town on the girls' side.

Why would any professional sports organization have to invest equally in men's and women's sport when the return is not equal?

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Why would any professional sports organization have to invest equally in men's and women's sport when the return is not equal?

Why would any college, for that matter?

For colleges and universities, the government says they have to. (But NIL money will fix that!)

For pro soccer in Europe, many of the national federations say the pro teams have to.

Nobody in the US says pro teams have to.

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"Nobody in the US says pro teams have to". Exactly. They don't have to, if they do not want to. It their money they should be allowed to support organizations as they see fit. It would be great if more people wanted to, but they don't

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Back when Peregrine owned the Thorns, there was a legit equal-opportunity question (though as Title IX does not apply to professional sports, it was more of a moral question than a legal one).

Now that Thorns are owned by someone else, that question pretty much vanishes.

It would be great if Thorns did become a free academy. It also would be great if there were a female version of MLS Next, but there isn't, so ECNL will have to do.

But even if you gotta pay, they're still the best game in town on the girls' side.

It's not the best U13, not the best U14 (NWE beat them for goodness sake), not the best at U16 and not the best U17. That's four out of six where state teams are better than you. GO ECNL! Go, fake academy!