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  1. 12 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    Does the National team have a large group of high level players that were not featured on this squad?  Or will there be a large drop off/transition when this group moves on?  

    Yes but they get no opportunities due to how the USWNT is structured and compensated.  

    Lloyd (39), Sauerbrunn (36), Rapinoe (36), Heath (33) and O'Hara (33) should each get a testimonial and never play for the team again.  Morgan and Press should also be on the chopping block.  Rose Lavelle, the purported "young star" of this team, will be 28 when the next World Cup starts.

    It will take a few years to reset this team (exact same thing happened in the 2000s when the 99ers held on too long) but the depth of talent in the US is there.   

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  2. The new USL Academy league will ultimately replace the DA.  MLS Next is a true academy system that is just at another level from anything US soccer has ever offered.  The biggest benefit of MLS expansion is MLS academy expansion.  

  3. 9 minutes ago, pied06 said:

    You know this is funny.  Funny to me that is.  I have a kid who plays and follow the local (DFW) FB groups and there are SOOO many posts about how wrong we are in the US about development.  

    Every team complains when they lose that the winning team only plays "kick ball" and doesn't play "soccer". That the coaches don't develop kids or care about anything but winning.  While I would certainly admit there's a part to that, most coaches try to develop the kids while being competitive.

    I SOOOO want to post on some of these pages that mexico clearly has it wrong in player development and that their youth coaches are terrible and the priorities are in the wrong places and a million other things.  

    There are cycles in each country/team and we were clearly on a low one for the past ~5 years.  If you can't look at the current crop of players, even this B-/C+ squad and see a difference, I'm not sure we'd agree on much.  

    A lot to work on for sure, at all levels, but A LOT to be optimistic of as well.

    The old club soccer system is now a development ground for college soccer players.  In the future, USMNT players will almost exclusively be developed in professional academies. 

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  4. The vast majority of El Tri fans have zero understanding of the evolution of the USMNT player development model.  The current USMNT pool is really the first that includes a bunch of players who were developed in a legitimate academy system.  The US academy system continues to expand and the pool in 5-10 years will consist almost entirely of players who started playing in the academy of a professional club (MLS and/or Europe) no later than U-13 (6th or 7th grade). 

    Look at guys like Busio (joined Sporting KC's academy at 14), Sands (joined NYCFC at 15), Bello (joined Atlanta United at 13) and Vines (joined Colorado Rapids at 13).  Going forward, most national team level players will be developed in MLS, USL or European academies and not play any college soccer.  This is a very recent development that only applies to players born after 2000.  It is a permanent change that will forever tilt the balance of power in CONCACAF.

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  5. 8 hours ago, williemackgarza said:


    Yea ok. But like aggy ur first thought is someone eatin dick.
    That was a pathetic effort by a mexico c team. Congrats.
    But u sound like aggy fuckin ur sheep after beating a shitty so carolina like team.
    Mexico played like shit. So did the usa. Was like a retard fight.
    Congrats though on the win.

    It's over. The USMNT has permanently surpassed El Tri.  You are going down in Azteca in WCQ and going forward your only hope for staying close to the US will be to rely on Mexican-Americans who don't want to battle for a spot on the USMNT.  

    The irrelevant era of Mexican dominance

    1934 - 1990: 23 Mexico wins, 2 USA wins, 3 ties

    The era of parity

    1991 - 2019: 17 USA wins, 13 Mexico wins, 12 ties

    The relevant era of USA dominance

    2020 - End of world: 2 USA wins, 0 Mexico wins, 0 ties

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  6. 18 minutes ago, WBT said:

    Yeah and the biggest missed opportunity was the Dutch's poor penalty in the 80th minute.  Good performance for the US to go through though.  I expected this to look like the Sweden game.

    Awful foul by O'Hara on that pen BTW.  She is another player that needs to be replaced immediately after the Olympics.  33 year old FBs are a recipe for disaster in the modern game.

  7. Pretty wild game that either team could have won in both regular and stoppage time.  Vlatko made some tough decisions in benching Morgan, Rapinoe, Press and Lavelle but they were justified by the result.  Naeher let in a soft goal for the Dutch second and more than made up for it with her performance on PKs.  Her save on Miedema in particular was world class.  

    Aside from Sweden, the Dutch were probably the toughest matchup for the US in the tournament and we should be more comfortable against Canada.   

    A win against Canada and the USWNT will be in its 6 final in the last 7 major tournaments (08, 12, 20 Olympics and 11, 15 and 19 WC).  Japan is second with 3 appearances.  

  8. 2 minutes ago, G650 said:

    Yeah it really isn't though. She would risk being dead or a paraplegic just as much as those two.

    I've never heard of an elite gymnast dying or becoming a paraplegic as a result of an accident in competition.  I'm sure it has happened but I seriously doubt it has happened as regularly as in auto racing before the safety era.  As for Honnold, he is dead if he falls.  Gymnasts fall every day and the vast majority aren't injured at all much less dead.

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  9. 4 minutes ago, Okie State said:

    Someone should tell us why the PAC/B1G/ACC should/should not add the Big 12 leftovers.

    Because they add very little revenue but increase costs.  Why would existing PAC schools agree to reduced distributions and increased travel costs and time?  PAC expansion into the Big 12 only made sense when Texas and OU were involved.  

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  10. The cost to manufacture an "oxy" pill is less using fentanyl as the active ingredient.  The cartels sloppily use the same pill presses to produce "valium" and "xanax" that they use for "oxy" and the cross-contamination is killing people who have no tolerance to opiates. 

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  11. There is no reason for the other Power 5 conferences to add any of the remaining Big 12 schools at this time. 

    Baylor has no chance to ever join another Power 5 conference and KSU is likely similarly fucked.  

    The Pac represents the only alternative Power 5 option for Tech, TCU and Okie State and all would dilute existing revenue.  There is no reason for the Pac to add any of them in the near term.  If circumstances develop such that the Pac needs to add schools, each would be available at the time of the Pac's choosing.

    Iowa State and WVU are in the same position vis a vis the BIG and ACC, respectively.  No need to take them now but they are options when and if they are needed by those conferences.

    KU basketball provides them with two possible landing spots in the BIG and ACC and perhaps they could play them off against one another to obtain an invite but basketball alone probably doesn't move the needle enough.

    An expanded Big 12 including some smattering of shit strikes me as the most likely solution until the Great Shakeup occurs.  

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  12. Last season was the first time that the top-4 (City, United, Liverpool, Chelsea) remained the same as the previous season since the glory days of the original Big 4 in the late 2000s (United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal) when the top 4 stayed the same for 4 seasons in a row (2005-2009).  This was the era when the EPL placed 3 teams in the CL SFs three years in a row.

    The current UK top-4 odds have United at -350 to finish in the Top-4 (Liverpool and Chelsea are generally -400 and City are at least -1667) while Leicester is next shortest at +450.  

    I can't recall the last time there was this much perceived separation between the Top-4 and everyone else going into the season.  

  13. 33 minutes ago, Harrison Bergeron said:

    That's one of the main reasons I've always thought these militia threats were a little overblown ... while the orthodoxy is problematic the orthopraxy always seemed so mutt & jeff.

    We have to keep gen pop living in fear of various bogeymen (Islamists among us for the Rs and domestic terrorists for the Ds) to maintain/increase agency budgets and impose a broader surveillance/police state.

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  14. There are plenty of examples of more egregious FBI entrapment of 18 year old ISIS and Al Qaeda fanbois but this is straight from the FBI playbook only applied to the preferred target of the party currently controlling the federal government.  

    https://theintercept.com/2017/09/03/the-fbi-pressured-a-lonely-young-man-into-a-bomb-plot-he-tried-to-back-out-now-hes-serving-life-in-prison/

    https://theintercept.com/2015/02/26/fbi-manufacture-plots-terrorism-isis-grave-threats/

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/16/fbi-entrapment-fake-terror-plots

     

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  15. USWNT got ripped to shreds by Sweden 3-0.  The USSF needs to regain control of the team from the players and move on from the over 30 players who refuse to jump off the gravy train that they incessantly whine about.  The roster is stunningly old with only 2 players under the age of 26 and 11 over 30.  This group has been incredibly successful but they aren't entitled to a spot on the team.  A completely new coach (preferably a Euro) and staff will be required to implement a new direction with an overhauled roster.  The talent depth in the US is insane but they get almost no chances at the international level because the members of the old guard never miss an international game (even the most irrelevant friendlies) because unlike the men they rely almost exclusively on the USWNT for publicity and income.       

     

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