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[QUOTE="crewbear742, post: 3270010, member: 7435"]
Lots of people have theories about how to fix US Soccer. Implement Pro/Rel. Provide transfer payments. Get rid of pay-to-play. But no one has any idea how to do it.

1. How do you implement Pro/Rel in this country when there is no cultural history of supporting Soccer at the community level? Relegation would mean financial disaster. And it's moot anyways because the MLS will never accept it.

2. Transfer payments won't survive US courts. And players in the US oppose them as money taken from their pockets.

3. Pay-to-play is the only reliable source of money for soccer programs. How do you replace that money if you get rid of pay to play?

The US is too big and too uninvested in soccer for any of this to work. Until kids play soccer the way they play basketball, the US will always remain at the margin of world soccer competition. So the question becomes "Why does it matter if the USMNT can't compete?" If the MLS succeeds on its own terms, why isn't that enough?
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