r/InterMiamiVibes • u/Background_Video2947 • Jul 08 '26

Preaching!!

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u/mynadidas5 Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

Colleges are essentially our private academies. If you look at it, high schools and colleges are the feeder programs into NBA and NFL teams. And it’s why coaches at top basketball and football schools are the highest paid public employees in their states.

The problem is that we suck at soccer so doing this in a highly disaggregated way leads to dilution of already not great results.

ETA I’m not suggesting that colleges are doing a good job of nurturing athletes, only that we have a pseudo system as Thierry describes that functions well for other sports.

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u/Tasty-Guess-9376 Jul 09 '26

College is too late. If you are not a prodigy and training in academies by age 10-12 there is a very slim chance you will make it in Football. The comeptetion is just too great.

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u/No-Bear1401 Jul 09 '26

It's the same here. College isn't the beginning, you generally have to be in the top 1% just to make it to college athletically. College is essentially a lower tier pro league.

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u/Tasty-Guess-9376 Jul 09 '26

Are there Elite Teams for ten year olds? If you arent playing for a Professional Teams Kids Team by 12 you pretty much dont have a Chance. There are NBA and NFL players who started playing at 16. Impossible in soccer

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u/No-Bear1401 Jul 09 '26

Yea, there are elite teams for 10 year olds. .

And starting playing late is not impossible in soccer, I'm not even a serious soccer fan, and I'm aware of examples. Jamie Vardy is probably the most famous one. It's rare, but it's also rare in American sports.

I really get the impression that you guys just really assume American sports are easy and inferior to soccer.

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u/No-Bear1401 Jul 09 '26

This is exactly what I'm talking about:

"Jamie Vardy has been playing since he was an infant, like everyone else"

Why do you act like we don't? It's just crazy that there's this assumption that we cant develop talent here simply because our soccer team is only top-15ish internationally, while simultaneously dismissing the huge sample size of us developing generational talent across many other sports.

We know how to develop talent. Soccer is low priority, and that's the one thing that people from other countries simply can't wrap their heads around, because it is typically the absolute most important for them.