re: Do you believe the US will win a World Cup in your lifetime?

I wasn't using that to advance the argument that we'll win the World Cup in the foreseeable future, simply that it's not really that hard to change things and we already are changing things.

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I should also point out that the how and where of how they are doing it will give us a deeper pool

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Correct, but we're not really hurting for participation, though more is always nice.

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whereas we can say that the players who are exceeding the limitations of the structure are merely outliers.

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They're professional soccer players. They're all outliers.