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    US Soccer Announces Numerous Changes

    Today US Soccer announced a handful of development related changes, including:

    - Evaluations of youth national teams, Dev academy program and clubs
    - New courses for coaches
    - U12 age group for DA
    - Increased funding for DA scholarship program
    - U16 and U19 YNT for men's and women's
    - Collaborations with NCAA to extend college soccer season over a longer period of time

    Thoughts?

    Full article: http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/club-...anges_aid35559

    #2
    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
    Today US Soccer announced a handful of development related changes, including:

    - Evaluations of youth national teams, Dev academy program and clubs
    - New courses for coaches
    - U12 age group for DA
    - Increased funding for DA scholarship program
    - U16 and U19 YNT for men's and women's
    - Collaborations with NCAA to extend college soccer season over a longer period of time

    Thoughts?

    Full article: http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/club-...anges_aid35559
    U14 was stupid, u12 just silly, laughable. Basically catering to egos of DAP clubs to corner younger players to move to them or be out of the loop even if they have horrible dev at younger ages (read crap Bolts). Should be doing justthe opposite: widen the net, build relations with hundreds of clubs that do the dev at younger ages and focus on u16-18.
    Just another example of USSF corruption/cronyism. They could care less about building a strong youth system.

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      #3
      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
      U14 was stupid, u12 just silly, laughable. Basically catering to egos of DAP clubs to corner younger players to move to them or be out of the loop even if they have horrible dev at younger ages (read crap Bolts). Should be doing justthe opposite: widen the net, build relations with hundreds of clubs that do the dev at younger ages and focus on u16-18.
      Just another example of USSF corruption/cronyism. They could care less about building a strong youth system.
      Agree - bigger net captures more quality fish. Keep younger kids closer to home, playing with friends. Work with clubs to strengthen coaching for all, not just the few that can afford/crazy enough to make the commitment. As for the other points"

      Evaluations of youth national teams, Dev academy program and clubs - thought they were already doing that?
      New courses for coaches: great. Never stop learning
      Increased funding for DA scholarship program - Does this mean less action towards a fully funded program? Just offer some more scholarships?
      U16 and U19 YNT for men's and women's - Fine
      Collaborations with NCAA to extend college soccer season over a longer period of time - This has been discussed before. From a national soccer development standpoint it makes sense (as does not playing HS). But realistically most kids are in college to get an education. Stretching out the season makes it that much more difficult on course selection, internships....That won't go over well. also going to be tough to make the argument when basketball, football etc. have a set playing season.

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        #4
        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
        Agree - bigger net captures more quality fish. Keep younger kids closer to home, playing with friends. Work with clubs to strengthen coaching for all, not just the few that can afford/crazy enough to make the commitment. As for the other points"

        Evaluations of youth national teams, Dev academy program and clubs - thought they were already doing that?
        New courses for coaches: great. Never stop learning
        Increased funding for DA scholarship program - Does this mean less action towards a fully funded program? Just offer some more scholarships?
        U16 and U19 YNT for men's and women's - Fine
        Collaborations with NCAA to extend college soccer season over a longer period of time - This has been discussed before. From a national soccer development standpoint it makes sense (as does not playing HS). But realistically most kids are in college to get an education. Stretching out the season makes it that much more difficult on course selection, internships....That won't go over well. also going to be tough to make the argument when basketball, football etc. have a set playing season.
        I agree. As a former college player, the season was exhausting. After 3 months of being in season it was always a relief to finally get some time off to just focus on academics.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
          Agree - bigger net captures more quality fish. Keep younger kids closer to home, playing with friends. Work with clubs to strengthen coaching for all, not just the few that can afford/crazy enough to make the commitment. As for the other points"

          Evaluations of youth national teams, Dev academy program and clubs - thought they were already doing that?
          New courses for coaches: great. Never stop learning
          Increased funding for DA scholarship program - Does this mean less action towards a fully funded program? Just offer some more scholarships?
          U16 and U19 YNT for men's and women's - Fine
          Collaborations with NCAA to extend college soccer season over a longer period of time - This has been discussed before. From a national soccer development standpoint it makes sense (as does not playing HS). But realistically most kids are in college to get an education. Stretching out the season makes it that much more difficult on course selection, internships....That won't go over well. also going to be tough to make the argument when basketball, football etc. have a set playing season.
          Your D1s already play a spring season, though a shortened season, but none the less they are still required to train. One of the things I considered bad about the spring was the fact that could play more than one game in a day with a roster without seniors and likely some underclassmen still nursing injuries from the fall (especially in the case of women with ACL injuries). That made no sense.

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            #6
            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
            U14 was stupid, u12 just silly, laughable. Basically catering to egos of DAP clubs to corner younger players to move to them or be out of the loop even if they have horrible dev at younger ages (read crap Bolts). Should be doing justthe opposite: widen the net, build relations with hundreds of clubs that do the dev at younger ages and focus on u16-18.
            Just another example of USSF corruption/cronyism. They could care less about building a strong youth system.
            Thanks Sir Alex. Where would youth soccer be w/o you?

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              #7
              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
              I agree. As a former college player, the season was exhausting. After 3 months of being in season it was always a relief to finally get some time off to just focus on academics.
              But realize this is coming from us soccer's perspective, not the academic people. From a sports perspective, several college sports already have a longer season. Ice hockey's seems geared to come as close to the length of the non-college hockey season as possible. In soccer, those playing outside the college system go from august-May. What college soccer could use is a combination of playing a match once per week instead of twice, while extending the season to include spring as well as fall. Play all 12 Saturdays between labor and thanksgiving days, then maybe 6 Saturdays in March-April. Do away with the excessive league tournament + national tournament that have players playing on back-to-back days, which is not in the interest of player wellbeing. Go with 1 tournament of maybe 8-16 teams, similarities to a champions league.

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                #8
                I thnk college soccer is going to say to US Soccer "thanks for the input but we're all set. We're an education based non- revenue generating sport. We can't afford to double the length of our college soccer season. And it's not in the best interest of our student athletes"

                Which in turn will probably spawn a new U21 and even U23 DAP program similar to what hockey has with its junior leagues. If that happens, d1 college freshmen male soccer players will be 21 or even older just like their hockey brethren. Which will make it even harder for high school grads to contribute to a d1 program.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                  Thanks Sir Alex. Where would youth soccer be w/o you?
                  You must have a kid on Bolts and think because you are paying a lot of money for him to be on ulittle DAP club team that your kid must be DAP level. Anyone who has seen your kids team actually play knows better. It's really not that complicated.

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                    #10
                    This is what BA and the FC Bolts Board of Directors have been PRAYING for. Huuuuge windfall for the Bolts. GPS, NEFC and all the others will take another beating.

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                      This is what BA and the FC Bolts Board of Directors have been PRAYING for. Huuuuge windfall for the Bolts. GPS, NEFC and all the others will take another beating.
                      You are assuming that other soccer parents are as stupid as you. Nobody who has done even a little bit of due diligence on where to go for youth development would even consider the Bolts because everyone knows that are crap. Pathetic attempt to supposedly corner youth market at younger ages with a far inferior system.

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                        You are assuming that other soccer parents are as stupid as you. Nobody who has done even a little bit of due diligence on where to go for youth development would even consider the Bolts because everyone knows that are crap. Pathetic attempt to supposedly corner youth market at younger ages with a far inferior system.
                        "Crap" produced many top D1 and professional soccer players. The fact of the matter is they are now the only place in the Boston area (other than the Revs at the older ages) for getting top players playing at the highest level possible in this country AND seen by the top scouts in this country.

                        PB of GPS can spew all the nonsense his puffed up head can say but there's no denyingthat FC Bolts is the place to go if you want to train AND play at the highest level AND get seen.

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                          "Crap" produced many top D1 and professional soccer players. The fact of the matter is they are now the only place in the Boston area (other than the Revs at the older ages) for getting top players playing at the highest level possible in this country AND seen by the top scouts in this country.

                          PB of GPS can spew all the nonsense his puffed up head can say but there's no denyingthat FC Bolts is the place to go if you want to train AND play at the highest level AND get seen.
                          Oh my! Not when they are 11 or 12!!

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                            U14 was stupid, u12 just silly, laughable. Basically catering to egos of DAP clubs to corner younger players to move to them or be out of the loop even if they have horrible dev at younger ages (read crap Bolts). Should be doing justthe opposite: widen the net, build relations with hundreds of clubs that do the dev at younger ages and focus on u16-18.
                            Just another example of USSF corruption/cronyism. They could care less about building a strong youth system.
                            Spoken like someone who derives a portion of their revenue from club soccer.

                            I hope my kid makes the Revs so I can stop overpaying for soccer.

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                              #15
                              Imagine if the Revs managed to snare 14 of top 30 players at the U12 age level. That would significantly weaken a majority of the top 5-10 teams in the state, thus leveling the playing field in a strange way.

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