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re: Why does the SEC have a lack of mens soccer teams?
Posted on 2/13/13 at 10:50 am to trader_tiger83
Posted on 2/13/13 at 10:50 am to trader_tiger83
Check out the soccer board.
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Posted on 2/13/13 at 10:58 am to fightingtigers98
Being a huge fan of soccer myself, I hope college soccer never gains popularity.
Posted on 2/13/13 at 11:00 am to ohiovol
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Being a huge fan of soccer myself, I hope college soccer never gains popularity.
Don't you think it would help the MLS, thereby making the US team more competitive?
Posted on 2/13/13 at 11:01 am to fightingtigers98
Title IX is the reason why. It's a shame because soccer is another sport we would dominate given the large Hispanic population in SEC states.
Posted on 2/13/13 at 11:02 am to GeorgiaTide
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given the large Hispanic population in SEC states.
Texas & California got that trumped. And Cubans play baseball so that rules out the entire Miami area.
Posted on 2/13/13 at 11:05 am to trader_tiger83
There are a ton of top players that have come from GA. Sean Johnson, Ricardo Clark, Josh Wolff and Clint Mathis are a few of them. The Atlanta area is big on soccer, but so many of the guys stop playing in college because they go to UGA.
Posted on 2/13/13 at 11:06 am to TxTiger82
I should have said Florida, Georgia, and Texas instead of the whole SEC.
Posted on 2/13/13 at 11:06 am to TxTiger82
I think it is about Money.
ADs do not want to add another unprofitable sport.
ADs do not want to add another unprofitable sport.
Posted on 2/13/13 at 11:07 am to GeorgiaTide
Missouri would actually do well if the SEC had soccer teams. Outside of Texas and Florida, there is quite a bit of talent in St. Louis.
Posted on 2/13/13 at 11:09 am to RomeDawg11
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There are a ton of top players that have come from GA. Sean Johnson, Ricardo Clark, Josh Wolff and Clint Mathis are a few of them. The Atlanta area is big on soccer, but so many of the guys stop playing in college because they go to UGA.
Pretty much the identical situation in MO. Either they go to SLU or Indiana to play on scholarship, or they go to MU and binge drink thier careers away. Every year at least one HS soccer team from St Louis is nationally ranked. Wasted talent.
Posted on 2/13/13 at 11:09 am to RomeDawg11
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There are a ton of top players that have come from GA. Sean Johnson, Ricardo Clark, Josh Wolff and Clint Mathis are a few of them. The Atlanta area is big on soccer, but so many of the guys stop playing in college because they go to UGA.
The original Mexicutioner.
Posted on 2/13/13 at 11:11 am to TxTiger82
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Don't you think it would help the MLS, thereby making the US team more competitive?
No. Academies are the way to go.
Posted on 2/13/13 at 11:12 am to bird35
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I think it is about Money.
ADs do not want to add another unprofitable sport.
Most of the soccer programs help fund themselves through soccer camps during the summer, went to Clemson and USC growing up. Plus all SEC schools have Women's teams already so the facilities and fields are already there.
Posted on 2/13/13 at 11:24 am to ohiovol
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No. Academies are the way to go.
I don't know if that's the way to go or not to improve the U.S. national team. But it definitely is the way it's going. Forget college, hell, the top high school players are foregoing playing for their high school team to play for the academy teams. Kind of a shame really.
Posted on 2/13/13 at 11:26 am to RomeDawg11
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Most of the soccer programs help fund themselves through soccer camps during the summer
I think you underestimate how much having a team would cost. Camps in the summer would not even come close to funding scholarships, travel, equipment, uniforms, gameday workers, admin, coach salary, medical bills, etc.. Title 9 forces schools to lose money on lots of sports already, so I seriously doubt that you would have much interest from most schools in adding a Men's soccer team. Even when you include camp revenues, I would bet that men's soccer would be in the red by $1M plus every year.
Posted on 2/13/13 at 11:29 am to RomeDawg11
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Most of the soccer programs help fund themselves through soccer camps during the summer, went to Clemson and USC growing up.
Yup. I went to UVA's camp, met Reyna.
Posted on 2/13/13 at 11:32 am to reedus23
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I don't know if that's the way to go or not to improve the U.S. national team. But it definitely is the way it's going. Forget college, hell, the top high school players are foregoing playing for their high school team to play for the academy teams. Kind of a shame really.
It's unquestionably the way to go.
Posted on 2/13/13 at 11:36 am to fightingtigers98
Title 9.
Oh, and soccer sucks.
Oh, and soccer sucks.
Posted on 2/13/13 at 11:48 am to agswin
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1.Too emotional. Fans could not take the excitement of watching grown men run around like fire ants, flop on the ground when someone runs within 2 feet of them and after two hours of this excitement, have everyone line up and kick the ball towards the goal in anticipation of a 1-0 win. No way could we handle that type of excitement.
Seattle fans
Americans don't care about soccer
US fans and goal by Texan Clint Dempsey
US Goal
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2. Texans don't allow communists sports to be played at public universities
Yeah it's a good thing those communists in Cuba don't play a sport that A&M plays.
Posted on 2/13/13 at 1:13 pm to TbirdSpur2010
quote:have you ever watched soccer in your life? most people that say soccer sucks have never watched it before
Oh, and soccer sucks.
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