Superdraft 2015 Mega-thread
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There's an article on mlssoccer.com analyzing the draft, and here's what they had to say about The Bad Guys:
Here's a link to the rest of the draft: http://www.mlssoccer.com/superdraft...m-team-breakdown-who-did-what-2015-superdraft
MagnusPax
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Really think he'll play before Taylor? I was thinking bench maybe high probability of Hammerheads.
USAfan6
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Sounds like they are really high on Shelton. Good to hear, we need depth at the forward position.
Ahab_Flanders
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Lol at that article. No one was talking about Shelton going early, but it was obvious.
Alright then.
NYCFCFan10
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I sit at the other end of the spectrum.
I hope that MLS and the NCAA figure out a way to make soccer stand shoulder to shoulder with college football and basketball. College sports are incredible and can be a truly unparalleled weapon for our country.
I love the innovation, creativity, and the passion that goes with playing for one's school.
Look at it like this, our Manchester friends are thrilled that their U21s will play here:
Meanwhile our U21's-ish can play in venues like these:
(an aircraft carrier holding a regular season college basketball game between UNC and MSU in San Diego harbor)
in front of crowds like these
in front of their fanatical peers like these:
with insane parties and things like underwear runs and such all around them
Wisconsin's Battle For Bascom Hill snowball fight
If you give kids $100k contracts but allow them to develop in this type of atmosphere, they'll flock over here. Obviously top level kids will go first team right away for the big, big money but everyone else will go to college -- like basketball before they instated no high school signings.
And obviously we need to fix some rules in college and up the resources and coaching but also doable.
EDIT: The point is, is I believe kids will play and try harder in this system where games have such huge meaning rather than having a European setup where crowds will never get larger than this:
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Matt Doyle is a huge, gaping *****, and I don't mean that in the good and entitled way. He's one of those MLS anti-European player idiots, so you know he'll hate us from go.
Shit, he talked down about Jermaine Jones every damn day of his life until JJJ came to MLS. He was a ringleader in "bench JJJ and give Bradley the keys" idiocy. He has shit on Fabian, Jermaine, John B and damn near got himself arrested for hate speech over Julian Green. He's really a numb nuts.
Honestly, I despise him 20 times more than Ives. He makes Ives seem humble. I fucking hate fat, bald, arrogant assholes. It's A,B, or C, you fucker. Choose two at most. There is no D, all of the above, or there shouldn't be, but this jerk wrote it in. He's literally THE FUCKING WORST.
We'll see how they look in preseason. Taylor is such an unknown.
"That's one of the beauties of [Khiry Shelton], actually, is that he gives us some versatility," Kreis said. "I don’t think that any of us are married to a system right now. We still have some pieces to add, to be frank, to think about what our system is going to be at the end of the day. We don't have to make that decision right now, and a player like Khiry gives us some flexibility to play a couple of different ways."
(MLS SuperDraft: NYCFC entertained offers for No. 2 pick, but opted to select "our top guy" Khiry Shelton)
(MLS SuperDraft: NYCFC entertained offers for No. 2 pick, but opted to select "our top guy" Khiry Shelton)
I sit at the other end of the spectrum.
I hope that MLS and the NCAA figure out a way to make soccer stand shoulder to shoulder with college football and basketball. College sports are incredible and can be a truly unparalleled weapon for our country.
I love the innovation, creativity, and the passion that goes with playing for one's school.
Look at it like this, our Manchester friends are thrilled that their U21s will play here:
Meanwhile our U21's-ish can play in venues like these:
(an aircraft carrier holding a regular season college basketball game between UNC and MSU in San Diego harbor)
in front of crowds like these
in front of their fanatical peers like these:
with insane parties and things like underwear runs and such all around them
Wisconsin's Battle For Bascom Hill snowball fight
If you give kids $100k contracts but allow them to develop in this type of atmosphere, they'll flock over here. Obviously top level kids will go first team right away for the big, big money but everyone else will go to college -- like basketball before they instated no high school signings.
And obviously we need to fix some rules in college and up the resources and coaching but also doable.
EDIT: The point is, is I believe kids will play and try harder in this system where games have such huge meaning rather than having a European setup where crowds will never get larger than this:
I go a small to mid-size DI school where (American) football, basketball, lacrosse, and even wrestling are more popular that soccer. I only go to the top soccer matches, when we're playing a nationally ranked team or the top team in the conference. At most schools you're playing into the season when it gets really cold and even a library, or party, is warmer and better to be at. But I agree, collegiate soccer should become big in the realm of sports. It was the 2nd sport in college athletics.
The quote should have been "We still have some pieces to add, including Frank..."
NYCFCFan10
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There's already Aa proposal with a huge push behind it for soccer to run the entire academic year.
And the ncaa has agreed to let the power conferences do what they want essentially.
Those two things will be huge steps forward for fixing soccer. It won't fix everything wrong with college soccer but it opens the door to being able to...
College sports and the ncaa is a scam for the kids. The sooner its gone the bettet
That's correct and it even became more prevalent with the hiring of Oliver Luck (former AD at West Virginia & Andrew Lucks Dad) as second in command of the NCAA. He's the one who's been pushing for it. He's already said there's going to be major changes to the college soccer system so that's great for the MLS and the development of these kids.
NYCFCFan10
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...they're going to start paying the kids, Gramps....
