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re: Anyone else heard of Darius Madison from Virginia College?
Posted on 6/25/14 at 1:18 pm to cwil177
Posted on 6/25/14 at 1:18 pm to cwil177
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Do you actually think that our academy system, which is in its infancy, can actually scour a country the size of ours and cover all the available talent?
No, it can't. College soccer still serves a purpose.
College soccer for the most part does not develop talent the way we need it on the world stage. These guys need to go abroad or sign with the MLS instead of college. Of course there will be diamonds in the rough but the way MLS academies are coming along and how balls deep euro teams are scouting our talent the majority of these guys will and should never see the college ranks.
Posted on 6/25/14 at 2:26 pm to StraightCashHomey21
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College soccer for the most part does not develop talent the way we need it on the world stage. These guys need to go abroad or sign with the MLS instead of college. Of course there will be diamonds in the rough but the way MLS academies are coming along and how balls deep euro teams are scouting our talent the majority of these guys will and should never see the college ranks.
I agree with all of the above, but there will always be those who slip through the cracks. Even if the college system is the gutter of soccer development in this country, it makes sure that more players get filtered. Tons of guys on our squad came up through the NCAA (both of our centerbacks, for example), and I'm ok with that. Our reliance on college players will get smaller and smaller as our academy system gets better. But even DeAndre Yedlin played a year at Akron, and I'm ok with that. He's doing just fine right now, I would say.
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