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Message: [QUOTE="meyers7, post: 2339154, member: 343"] A couple things. There are 333 Div1 Women's programs vs 206 Men's programs. Don't know if I'd call that comparatively few. 2/3s isn't bad. However having more college soccer wouldn't help our MNT. In fact college soccer is one of the scourges of men's soccer. In order to compete with the rest of the world we need many more players to go professional/clubs than go to college. While players in college are spending 4 years training a few months a year and playing a really compressed game schedule (about 3.5 months), professional players during the same period are training around 10 months a year and playing games at much more forgiving schedule. Less and less of our MNT players have played college. [/QUOTE]