IU Men's Soccer News and Notes

[8bucks]

12 minutes ago, Aaron said:

Pennsylvania region which is actually one of the better prospects who actually make it to college.

Someone in the top-9 in country doesn't go to college and straight to MLS or academies. Heck even most of the top the top-100 players in America overall skip college for academies and then pros similar to Europe.

IU gets the best prospects of what's left, but that's way down the list and until the game goes to a school year long model as Yeagley and most coaches want, the best talent is going nowhere near college. 

Rules are quite different for most part then other leagues in world with unlimited subs and games every couple days. Until NCAA fixes this and listens to US soccer federation and its best coaches, the game will continue to be fairly low quality and not the option for the best players.

To be clear, IU has done nothing wrong and Yeagley has made the best of a terrible situation the NCAA has caused, but reality is the game is borderline unwatchable right now with second tier prospects.

Championship is in the middle of every major sport no one notices in the freezing cold and all you have to do basically is qualify for NCAA Tournament and you have chance to win it all as Washington and Vermont has done last two yrs as teams who barely got in. Regular season is only relevant to qualify at this point.  

NCAA doesn't care and has made a mess of college soccer, but having an elite program is worth very little anymore through no fault of IU's. They are doing best they can with dozens of issues around them they didn't create. 

Thanks that helped.  I heard Yeagley talk about the year long season with the mid year break where transfers could take place and liked the idea.  I also kind of like the unlimited subs tbh and always find it odd that when my daughter played ECNL they only had the one sub.  I know international play has the limited sub but at the instructional level, more so ECNL youth level, I think it has value to be able to pull a kid quickly for a teaching point then put them back in.  

Does top drawer or someone post a ranking of recruiting classes like we see for football or basketball?

[Aaron]

16 minutes ago, 8bucks said:

Thanks that helped.  I heard Yeagley talk about the year long season with the mid year break where transfers could take place and liked the idea.  I also kind of like the unlimited subs tbh and always find it odd that when my daughter played ECNL they only had the one sub.  I know international play has the limited sub but at the instructional level, more so ECNL youth level, I think it has value to be able to pull a kid quickly for a teaching point then put them back in.  

Does top drawer or someone post a ranking of recruiting classes like we see for football or basketball?

Yes, Top Drawer posts it, but its premium content and I don't subscribe to it.

I agree and like the unlimited subs. However, it def makes game different. Players would overlook that though if they went to year round model and were not playing every three days as they do now. This is the crux of the issue and everyone from US Soccer to Todd Yeagley to other top coaches has told the NCAA to fix it but so far they have not considered the sport high priority enough to do anything.

As a result you are in situation now with second tier Americans and international players with very low quality game very few follow.  

[Aaron]

It looks like Dempsey Resich is no. 66 nationally per the article about the class. As it clearly states in said article that is one of the top players to even make it to college (I would have to guess maybe second or third). 

There is no guarantee he actually makes it to campus, but even getting someone in top-100 to sign at this days and age says how good Yeagley is.  

The fact that the no. 66 player is one of the few and amongst the highest of the top-100 to maybe make it to campus is the crux of the issue and why game is in such trouble.