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[Mike Ryan (Ruiz) @MichaelRyanRuiz]

Just found out Zlatan said at HT “if it hit the cable then the cable had a better performance than Madueke.” 💀

[The Chef 👨🏽‍🍳 @TheChefKayy]

Bronny should be out there playing

[Oli McBurnie @oli_mcburnie]

Not being funny but that’s never been a foul🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Tactical Manager @ManagerTactical]

Norway’s 🇳🇴 goal was disallowed because of this soft Haaland push and FLOP from the English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 player…

Game is dead, this is ridiculous.

[Aaron Breitman @aaron_breitman]

Dylan Harper shines in NBA Finals.

Carli Lloyd and Alexi Lalas front & center of World Cup coverage.

Chris Gotterup earns 5th career PGA tour victory.

Josh Kuroda-Grauer hits .500 in first week of MLB career.

Football flips 4-star RB from PSU.

Summer of Rutgers continues…

[Dan Patrick Show @dpshow]

Dan Patrick on WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert cancelling her appearance on the show:

"If you want to be treated as a serious league, this is what happens! These are tough questions, but this is a fair outlet for you – a fair platform. I will treat you with respect."

[Bordeaux @bordeauxyoutube]

These design choices inside College Football 27 are really hard to ignore due to EA's recent decisions

If I start a Road to Glory as a 5-Star Pure Runner QB in CFB 27, my overall is only a 73. In CFB 26 with the same build, my overall would start as a 80

You would also have some physical abilities already unlocked and upgraded in CFB 26 as a higher rated recruit, but even as a 5-star in 27, I'm starting college with 0

The microtransactions are out of order for me and I'm trying to figure out why they're sorted this way

Dynasty defaults to Online now, instead of Offline like it did on CFB 26. It only gives you reasons to select Online, which is the one with micro transactions

When you double down on your stance, and lose the trust you have built within the community, the smaller things that I would never question are seen in a much different light. Do what's right. #CFBPlayDontPay

[Torrey Smith @TorreySmithWR]

I lose my mind arguing with folks that have never played but talk so crazy.

Shoutout to Austin

[Grillmaster Nehmdawghausen 🍉 @nehmdoge]

If the USMNT was serious Yunus Musah not only makes the squad but starts

[Drew (NTE) @NotTheExpertYT]

Btw if you had Nick Saban’s exact career arc in CFB 27 you would not hit max level.

Greatest coach of all time. 7 nattys. Not enough. Only way is to pay real money.
#CFBPlayDontPay

[Bordeaux @bordeauxyoutube]

EA has responded, but sounds like they’re gonna stand firm for now and double down on the changes with micro transactions

They’re also using creators to push their messaging without making a statement themselves or addressing anything

“the core coach level progression is unchanged from CFB 26” true, but normal is way too slow, and you REMOVED 2 faster settings

They acknowledge “Fast/Faster Coach Progression was removed from Dynasty,” 0 update on a plan to bring it back

ZERO mention of removing XP sliders from Road to Glory either

“continuing to monitor community feedback” basically meaning we don’t wanna make a change because we think it’ll blow over lmao

I can’t believe this is the response the College Football team is making. Do better @EASPORTSCollege #CFBPlayDontPay

[dandelion georgism 🔰🏗 @DolphinMossad]

“And every four years when the World Cup comes around, we will say that we’d dominate if we had a stronger youth program.”

“And will we develop a stronger youth program?”

“We will not.”

[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.

[Harrison Lee @HarrisonCLee]

Thierry and Zlatan saying they wouldn't have become soccer players because of the costs of the American youth system, then seeing Lalas say it's a great system because it makes a lot of money for some people really sums it all up nicely

[Etan @EtanBoss]

Landon Donovan says America is missing soccer talent because kids can’t afford to play.

“Only 2% of kids playing organized soccer in America came from households that made less than $50,000.”

“If you don’t make $50,000, your kid cannot play organized soccer.”

“Think about how many kids you’re missing out on in this country because they can’t afford to play the game.”

“There is zero chance I could have played club soccer.”

“My mom made $34,000 a year, single mom raising three kids.”

“She couldn’t pay $4,000 for me to play club. Are you kidding? She couldn’t pay $400.”

“That’s not a good system to create good players.”

[fan @NoodleHairCR7]

🚨 Peter Schmeichel on Argentina vs Switzerland:

"In my 50+ years of football, I have never seen an easy route like this in the World Cup. It seems like Argentina are playing Europa League version of the World Cup."

😭😭😭😭

[Carli Lloyd @CarliLloyd]

You rest when your playing career is over. Period.

[Bordeaux @bordeauxyoutube]

i don’t like being blindsided by micro transactions and removing features hidden behind all the new shiny stuff

i like the game a lot. the devs did a great job. whoever made the micro transaction decision did not #CFBPlayDontPay

[Bordeaux @bordeauxyoutube]

Sneaking micro transactions into single player modes lets me know everything i need to about where EA wants to take both football titles in the future

That’s why it’s now or never to make a change. Taking the game in that direction is going to ruin all of the support and love you have built from this community. Do what’s right @EASPORTSCollege

#CFBPlayDontPay

[Mark Goldbridge @markgoldbridge]

This ref hasn't done himself any favours. The accusations aren't going away. Didn't want to look at that pen for Egypt at all