Jake Vaccaro

Eagle Scout. Sports Fan.

Software Engineering Grad from @UNLincoln. Tech Enthusiast.

Go Big Red

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

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@gaykittycorps This didn't happen once to me in college lol.

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@MrBlockbuster64 @WWE @CodyRhodes @SamiZayn who is "we"

bro had one of the most boring title runs in the past five years

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@baharkarakrt B is infinitely many answers. It solves down to 8 = 8.

[Bordeaux @bordeauxyoutube]

I’m buying 16 copies of College Football 27 to give away to you all. Thanks for another amazing year of this being my job 🫡

just follow, retweet, and comment your favorite team + platform to enter

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@bordeauxyoutube Nebraska, on PC!

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@BrettKollmann Every Chiefs fan knows this by heart. During the 2019 season our hopes of getting the first round bye rested on Miami, a team that was so bad that year they were talking about actual tanking sanctions against them, getting an upset at New England.

Nothing is a given in the NFL.

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@to_my_king I consistently see way more Gil self inserters than Shirou self inserters lmao

the rich boy fantasy is way more popular than the bum fantasy

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@CFBKings @TheNaverZ Think you completely missed the point. If the NFL had a worthless regular season, it wouldn't be getting higher viewership than the actually meaningful college football games.

I love the sport as much as anyone, but the idea that it shouldn't try to improve itself is stupid.

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@ilikefootball80 @TheNaverZ @flatland_sports Dude Clemson had 7 players go in the Top 100 of this year's draft, they finished 7-6 in the ACC.

This is why we play games on the field instead of in a boardroom.

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@eaglesanalysis1 @HawkguyMatt The Chiefs Bills game on a random Sunday in October (with other games competing against it btw) averaged more viewers than the National Championship.

People who only watch CFB are kind of delusional about what the NFL is actually like from a fan perspective.

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@celticsby100 @celtic_husker You are right, but not in the way you think funnily enough. Burrow's style of play is very similar in that he's a pocket passer with an absurdly high pressure to sack ratio. That's gotten him in a lot of trouble in Cincinnati where he doesn't have a huge team talent advantage.

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@Dragnmastralex_ @LiteralMem3s This would only apply if both operations were multiplcation/division or addition/subtraction.

Since we have no groupings or exponents the first thing we do is multiply. 10*2 = 20. Then, we add the 10, since Addition and Subtraction are last in the Order of Operations. 10+20=30

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@NQuatrocky @jazayerli Wacha's sick. That's why Avilla got the start.

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@pavelkasuncle Isn't Berke a senior though?

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@TheSwitchForce Nintendo fans when they are forced to play Nintendo Games

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@evanstravers @nflbadtakez If not knowing ball was a person

[Nebraska Men's Basketball @HuskerMBB]

Heroes come and go.

But legends like @KentPavelka live forever.

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How sweet it is.

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WATCH AND DREAM.