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Message: [QUOTE="huskymedic, post: 5204071, member: 549"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.sportico.com/leagues/college-sports/2025/us-soccer-college-year-round-pilot-program-1234829400/[/URL] -> Since mid-2024, the two power conferences have held regular talks with soccer’s national governing body about initially inviting 32 schools to participate in a two-semester trial run, seeking to bypass the traditional NCAA legislative process that has halted previous attempts to put the year-round model into play. <- ->In the summer of 2024, there was a push to see if the pilot program could get off the ground for the 2025-26 academic year, timed to coincide with the start of the 2026 World Cup in North America. As part of this initiative, a document obtained by [I]Sportico [/I]presented a 32-team, four-region structure that included all 15 men’s soccer programs from the ACC, all 11 from the Big Ten, as well as West Virginia, Oregon State, San Diego State, South Carolina, Kentucky and UCF. However, by the end of last year, that ambitious timeline had been put on indefinite hold to allow for, among other things, a clearer understanding of the NCAA’s evolving governance structure. <- [/QUOTE]