College Soccer could leave the NCAA

[UConnTrumbull]

Seems there is some serious smoke about professionalizing college soccer - specifically the ACC and Big Ten seem onboard. I’ll admit, I know very little about it and how the legalities will work. But, this could be a sign of things to come for the bigger sports.

 

[KryHavok]

I wonder if this will force the college game to be more like traditional soccer in terms of substitutions. It's crazy that nearly a whole team can be substituted at a time...it's soccer, not hockey.

 

[UConnTrumbull]

I wonder if this will force the college game to be more like traditional soccer in terms of substitutions. It's crazy that nearly a whole team can be substituted at a time...it's soccer, not hockey.

I would assume so. For some reason college soccer (and high school for that matter) do not follow FIFA regulations. If this goes through, they are semi-professional players. Playing time in soccer is the toughest sport to find yourself in if you ride the bench.

 

[ZooCougar]

Seems there is some serious smoke about professionalizing college soccer - specifically the ACC and Big Ten seem onboard. I’ll admit, I know very little about it and how the legalities will work. But, this could be a sign of things to come for the bigger sports.

This would be the best thing for college soccer. College soccer has too short of a season to be legitimate development platform.

In soccer college age players should be pros or at least in the most pro environment possible

We should also limit the amount foreign players since this should be a development platform for Americans.

 

[ZooCougar]

I wonder if this will force the college game to be more like traditional soccer in terms of substitutions. It's crazy that nearly a whole team can be substituted at a time...it's soccer, not hockey.

It’s almost not even the same sport. The clock doesn’t even work the same.

 

[upstater]

This would be the best thing for college soccer. College soccer has too short of a season to be legitimate development platform.

In soccer college age players should be pros or at least in the most pro environment possible

We should also limit the amount foreign players since this should be a development platform for Americans.

Almost all the D1 players I know play in the USL from May until July.

 

[ZooCougar]

Almost all the D1 players I know play in the USL from May until July.

Yeah like the lowest division of USL, the PDL. Which is hardly pro.

 

[superjohn]

If this were to ever happen schools should just drop soccer.

 

[ZooCougar]

If this were to ever happen schools should just drop soccer.

Or just make it Club.

Interesting that the USL is fueling alll of this and MLS is pushing back in order to protect MLS Next who nobody cares about.

 

[UConnTrumbull]

If this were to ever happen schools should just drop soccer.

I’ll admit I have no clue how that works. So soccer is removed from the NCAA but operates under a pro-system and just rents the university facilities? I don’t actually know how it entails.

 

[ZooCougar]

I’ll admit I have no clue how that works. So soccer is removed from the NCAA but operates under a pro-system and just rents the university facilities? I don’t actually know how it entails.

Nobody does. The report indicated that just the Big 10 and ACC were in talks and some other top programs were involved.

 

[upstater]

Yeah like the lowest division of USL, the PDL. Which is hardly pro.

Well, that speaks to the level of the player, doesn't it?

So... the question of pro development is negligible if a player can't even get onto a decent team in the offseason.

 

[ZooCougar]

Well, that speaks to the level of the player, doesn't it?

So... the question of pro development is negligible if a player can't even get onto a decent team in the offseason.

Exactly. College Soccer as it exists is a poor development platform. Three month seasons don’t cut it.

 

[shizzle787]

BYU already does this so it's allowed. I expect UConn (and possibly the rest of the Big East) to join the ACC and Big 10 in breaking away.

 

[WrenchFan69]

If this were to ever happen schools should just drop soccer.

Sucks we just built the new stadium. Would have been an obvious answer for us.

 

[ZooCougar]

BYU already does this so it's allowed. I expect UConn (and possibly the rest of the Big East) to join the ACC and Big 10 in breaking away.

Oh sweet summer child. There is nothing that isn’t allowed now.

 

[WrenchFan69]

BYU already does this so it's allowed. I expect UConn (and possibly the rest of the Big East) to join the ACC and Big 10 in breaking away.

BYU men's soccer is an athlete-pays-to-play club sport model. Quite different from what is being suggested here.

 

[shizzle787]

BYU men's soccer is an athlete-pays-to-play club sport model. Quite different from what is being suggested here.

Now yes, but between 2003-2017 they played semi-professionally.

 

[Kolumbo]

How about college soccer just remain what college athletics are supposed to be, a way for student-athletes to play their way through college. I know a guy who won a national championship and is now in banking.

Sucks we just built the new stadium. Would have been an obvious answer for us.

The stadium has been there for years with recent renovations. Tony Rizza donated $8 million for the renovations and the Rizza Family Complex. They could always use it for Lacrosse when UConn goes D1.

 

[ZooCougar]

How about college soccer just remain what college athletics are supposed to be, a way for student-athletes to play their way through college. I know a guy who won a national championship and is now in banking.


The stadium has been there for years with recent renovations. Tony Rizza donated $8 million for the renovations and the Rizza Family Complex. They could always use it for Lacrosse when UConn goes D1.

Let’s hope we never waste money on Lacrosse. I like Lacrosse but our plate is full.

 

[Fishy]

Remarkable that all of this is happening with so many moving pieces and the only one who is saying anything is some random Twitter account.

 

[Patman]

I wonder if this will force the college game to be more like traditional soccer in terms of substitutions. It's crazy that nearly a whole team can be substituted at a time...it's soccer, not hockey.

they could have done that at any time. That's an independent issue.

 

[Patman]

Real talk. All sports will start to have problems when the sport divorces from the academics. At that point it is just a minor league team and the sympathies are going to be highly variable. It is mostly sentiment that propels college sports above common minor sports. Common minor sports has always been a money pit where programs fold on the regular. Teams move all the time. Owners shift in and out. This is when sports will start to fail.

 

[ZooCougar]

 

[upstater]

How is the money going to work? Training, coaching, etc.?

This will require more resources from football.