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The european model for soccer academies should be the way by Wooderson

forward.

Pay kids a small amount, let them train, and if they pan out, they can go make money. They still get an education along the way.

The NFL would never go for it, as CFB is a free-to-them development league.

I doubt oxford and Cambridge pack in 5k fans for a rugby or soccer match, but Yale-Harvard gets 35k+ and they're not even important in the scheme of things.

Make pro leagues responsible for development, and pay the kids, and the NCAA goes away forever. And we're all better off. The ones who "don't come to play school" don't drag down the ones who do, they get the money they're valued at, and you can still go have club sports.

I'll get tarred and feathered for that opinion, but IDGAF.