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Post by rifle on Jan 13, 2024 12:59:09 GMT -5
Found this on Bigsoccer I think some ‘withdrawals’ post-draft were anticipated.
"New for this year, the SuperDraft was expanded to include college players who are collegiate sophomores and above, Generation Adidas players, any former college player who departed college with remaining eligibility since the conclusion of the college season approximately one (1) year prior to the SuperDraft, and other players specifically made available by the League.
Drafted players with collegiate eligibility remaining can opt to return to school in the fall. Any drafted player who opts to return to college in the fall of 2024 or turns professional will not be draft-eligible in the future."www.bigsoccer.com/threads/akron-zips-2024.2129053/Sorry for the off topic rabbit hole. Back to the thread…
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Post by rifle on Jan 12, 2024 20:56:47 GMT -5
Are they able to make more with NIL's than they would in MLS? No idea but apparently it wouldn’t be very hard to earn more than a MLS rookie contract pays. Clearly they see that being drafted is actually just a tryout and they know that some who do manage to sign a MLS contract are trapped in a league determined to pay them next to nothing. It’s kinda sad that “one more shot at a college championship” is preferable to (hoping to) sign with MLS. If it was just one I would wonder but two players from the same team? I only follow Akron because I grew up fifteen minutes away. Are any other men’s college players doing the same?
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Post by rifle on Jan 12, 2024 13:22:37 GMT -5
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Post by rifle on Jan 11, 2024 12:16:56 GMT -5
Prediction: Miami will finish the regular season in 4th. Those old dudes will break. Gressel was always exhausted by minute 60. If he is the only one able to run, it’ll exacerbate his problem. He isn’t really young anymore either. Congrats to him for getting another championship though. Hah! LOL. You’re on. Your prediction certainly was true this past season as the Messi injury destroyed Miami’s MLS playoff hopes. Hopefully, they’re smart and can mix in more minutes with some of the younger talent they have and rest their superstars. Youngsters can benefit from the experience, maturity, and professionalism of these guys, like Benjamin Cremaschi did this past year. Time will tell. I’m firmly in the Messi is the GOAT camp. But he is old and concentrating all the money on a quarter of the starting eleven is the biggest reason MLS just sucks.
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Post by rifle on Jan 11, 2024 12:13:13 GMT -5
Thank you Rifle. Nobody caught that rule to this point . . . the team will be most appreciative. I'm forwarding your points to team/club and hopefully they will be able to apply enough pressure to make people come to their senses and do the correct thing. I will let you know how this ridiculous thing plays out. NPL is the governing body of SAPL and SAPL is a division / league under them. I'm sure you know, but NPL is also under US Club Soccer. I perceive US Club as the org that never should have been.. If the federation had any balls. But since US Club stormed the castle, the big clubs write and rewrite the rules however they can benefit themselves.
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Post by rifle on Jan 11, 2024 6:28:08 GMT -5
First - I am really sorry this happened. It sounds truly shizatty.. and the “Director’s discretion” thing is a total cop out. These leagues have been around long enough to foresee this specific situation and write a rule about it.
But “club soccer gonna club soccer”. If it doesn’t hurt their P&L statement they won’t make the effort.
Second - never heard of SAPL and the (above) linked rules appear to be for NPL. If those leagues operate under the same rules.. keep reading. If the rules I am about to cite are not applicable - let me know and I will delete this.
The paragraph you keep quoting (#3.5) is about rescheduled games. Not voluntary forfeits. (*It also references paragraph 3.4 which is unrelated so it also appears to be a rule written by an org that doesn’t care enough to proof read).
Since it’s an issue of points and the director already rendered a decision based on the forfeits paragraph.. I think you are SOL.
However.. if you are going to continue to try and extract blood from a rock based on the rule book - this is where you might have a better opportunity for relief:
3.2.2 Play-Offs and Finals Commitment. All clubs participating in the NPL are required to complete all scheduled competitions for which they are scheduled or for which they qualify in the post-season, including without limitation participation in post-season play-offs and the NPL Finals. US Club Soccer reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to allow limited exemptions for individual participating clubs due to exceptional circumstances , as solely determined by US Club Soccer.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, any club that does not participate in all required competitions [/], and that does not receive an exemption from US Club Soccer, may face sanctions from US Club Soccer, including without limitation, forfeiture of points, ineligibility for post-season play for the relevant team or the entire club, or immediate removal from the NPL
I would think that “undesire to drive X hours for one inconsequential game” is not an exceptional circumstance. I would also be *shocked* if the directors are buddies. I suspect they called and confirmed the outcome before deciding to skip the inconvenience.
It sucks. If YOUR club really cares, they would be threatening to pull all their teams from the league going forward. But they won’t because next year they have a new incoming batch of willing suckers to pay them.
Again - I am sorry you are going through this. I like the saying “If you can’t get out of it.. get INTO it!” So I hope the girls choose to harness their frustration and put on a clinic with their showcase game(s). It’s about all you can do.
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Post by rifle on Jan 10, 2024 22:50:39 GMT -5
Participate in an odd big d*** contest.. you just might look like one.
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Post by rifle on Jan 10, 2024 22:49:27 GMT -5
Inter Miami added Julian Gressel the other day. They are building a super team … Messi, Busquets, Alba, Suarez, Gressel = domination. Hopefully, this leads to an arms war and pushes the MLS salary cap envelopes. Prediction: Miami will finish the regular season in 4th. Those old dudes will break. Gressel was always exhausted by minute 60. If he is the only one able to run, it’ll exacerbate his problem. He isn’t really young anymore either. Congrats to him for getting another championship though.
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Post by rifle on Jan 10, 2024 12:03:32 GMT -5
Good job calling out his bad comment... but then you added your own attack on other areas. Thumbs down on that one. not sure what you intended to quote Edit: ok I went and found it. I stand by my statement that OH is more racist than GA. I lived there 25 years and now have been here for 14. Lots of other states in between. I’ll take the thumbs down if you disagree.
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Post by rifle on Jan 9, 2024 11:18:00 GMT -5
Parents want someone to look down on and they don't like their kid being moved between teams. nailed it
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Post by rifle on Jan 6, 2024 18:25:26 GMT -5
The person that wrote it probably deleted it.
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Post by rifle on Jan 1, 2024 14:33:24 GMT -5
Schedule your vacation for July!
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Post by rifle on Dec 29, 2023 17:10:15 GMT -5
People say Bundesliga, LaLiga, EPL suck because the same teams always win. At least they have whole teams of good players not parity seeking rules that conspire to pay players poorly. A closed league that crushes all others is just crappy.
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Post by rifle on Dec 28, 2023 14:30:46 GMT -5
MLS is somehow letting Inter Miami sign a dream team with Messi, Suarez, Busquets, etc despite the salary cap and single entity structure. So somehow, it seams, they could potentially incorporate a transfer fee, trading system as well for D2, D3, etc Could. But they won’t. The league was founded with a written statement saying they would grow and add P/R in alignment with FIFA regs. But then they decided they wanted to lose* money and keep the league closed, and run it like NFL instead. *I wonder if they still claim to be losing money.. Or is that just when MLS negotiates with the players union?
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Post by rifle on Dec 25, 2023 12:45:56 GMT -5
The cost of youth sports has become absurd. When kids hear a parent say the cost is a lot… and they aren’t having fun.. they’re smart enough to do parents a favor and quit.
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Post by rifle on Dec 25, 2023 12:30:23 GMT -5
The Roswell parks turf fields are always open and there are frequent pickup games out there dawn to dusk.
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Post by rifle on Dec 25, 2023 12:29:06 GMT -5
Merry Christmas.
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Post by rifle on Dec 22, 2023 14:58:48 GMT -5
Thirty six year old Luis Suarez will smoke MLS defenders.
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Post by rifle on Dec 22, 2023 8:16:57 GMT -5
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Post by rifle on Dec 21, 2023 22:05:44 GMT -5
My issue with MLS is the play just isn't very good. It's hard to get excited by a game when the action is boring compared to other leagues. And THAT…. Is the problem. MLS mimics other pro sports that are built for running ads during the game.. but fans get a league that prioritizes crappy salaries and parity. The sad truth is.. it stops being fun to watch the middle school team when your kid hits ninth grade.
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Post by rifle on Dec 21, 2023 17:04:40 GMT -5
My suggestion is that a single EPL club be in both America and Canada. These would be professional academies run as their own entity / business. If you did this instantly MLS would become a 2nd tier league + all of America/Canada would be watching a single team. What happens when the American or Canadian “EPL” team gets relegated? Play in the Championship? The team would disband at that point according to MLS logic.
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Post by rifle on Dec 21, 2023 11:54:18 GMT -5
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Post by rifle on Dec 20, 2023 14:32:29 GMT -5
I am not sure why I am laughing so hard at US Soccer giving MLS the Heisman 😆😂😆😂😆 The double tallman 🖕🏼🖕🏼. I didn’t think they’d have the fortitude.
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Post by rifle on Dec 20, 2023 10:48:08 GMT -5
I apologize for crapping on the super draft (like all things MLS). Big congrats to any player having the talent to be drafted. I wish we would see more of the league comprised of home grown and draftees rather than seeing teams take a flyer and spend big on guys like Zeke Barco.
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Post by rifle on Dec 20, 2023 10:40:09 GMT -5
It appears that AI has entered the chat. Click with care.
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Post by rifle on Dec 19, 2023 21:38:36 GMT -5
It would be like an NFL livestock sale except the “winners” here only get a tryout and often don’t get a contract at all. #runaway
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Post by rifle on Dec 18, 2023 10:34:24 GMT -5
Must have dual citizenship or parents moved there. I was always under the impression FIFA wouldn’t permit players under a certain age to play in Europe. As a prior post stated parents moved there. A ”nomad visa” was referenced above. No idea what that is but sounds like it’s pertinent.
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Post by rifle on Dec 17, 2023 10:51:12 GMT -5
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Post by rifle on Dec 16, 2023 12:45:47 GMT -5
If ya can’t stand her.. and it is understandable… why write a story about an athlete that was put out to pasture in the recent past.. over something she said a long time ago? Clickbait is an illness.
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Post by rifle on Dec 16, 2023 9:03:03 GMT -5
“We don’t control it so it sucks” -Don Garber . Well, he didn’t really say that but I shortened the article for you. Rather than allowing small teams to host matches against “superior” MLS teams and create a boost to their income stream, MLS prefers to pinch off their income stream. Basically… “we were unable to monetize it so we’re out”. Good riddance. MLS may be on a more solid footing over the past twenty years as a result of the franchise model but their control of the federation is suffocating the growth of the game in our country.
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