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[QUOTE="ZooCougar, post: 1891744, member: 296"]
I think we have to give them better choices. If we're going to continue to prop up college soccer then reform it so that it actually is a decent development platform. But, schools won't do that because then they have to build another field for the Lacrosse team.

MLS depresses the incentive to sign younger players even to home grown deals, because the wages for a young signing are artificially limited.

The United States Soccer Federation is probably the only country that still doesn't make solidarity payments to developmental clubs when players are sold.  So these developmental clubs have little incentive to put more elite players on scholarship. When an MLS player is sold, the league takes 30% of the fee and the club gets the rest, if they want to use that money to sign a designated player, they still get "taxed" around 500k towards the salary cap.

Financially and strategically, you couldn't design a dumber system.  You can begin to understand why Jurgen encouraged young players to explore European opportunities.
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