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[QUOTE="ZooCougar, post: 4672624, member: 296"]
MLS needs to take this opportunity and transform. Open up the salary cap a bit, allow the clubs that are willing to spend to make “super clubs” so that that they can actually have a national brand.

The Single Entity aspect and the obsession with parity has kept the league pretty vanilla. Also having so many teams dilutes the talent pool because per federation rules a certain amount of roster spots have to go to “home grown” American players for developmental reasons.

I think that they need to move away from that a bit. The better American players will benefit from playing against higher quality on their own soil.

And American fans who are far more knowledgeable than they get credit for will be attracted by a higher standard of play.

College soccer ain’t it anymore and won’t be until it is professionalized. By the time you are 21 you should be an established professional.  There are exceptions like goalkeeper which is the only position where raw athleticism can compensate for a lack of technique. And Keepers everywhere mature at a different rate than outfield players.
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