Lucas Corley

People call me Corley. Indiana Grad 2016.

[Lucas Corley @thelucascorley]

Good time to remember this interaction between myself and Hammer & Rails. Good memories.

[Hammer and Rails @HammerAndRails]

Who is giving IU $20.8 million to fire their football coach? That’s just an absurd number to plop down for IU football.

[Lucas Corley @thelucascorley]

Perhaps the funniest video I have ever seen.

Not only does Indiana have five national championships in basketball to Purdue’s zero, we literally are the reigning national champion in football.

Maybe they won some titles on the moon I’m not aware of.

[Lucas Corley @thelucascorley]

East is a beast.

[Sports Illustrated @SInow]

🚨 LeBron James is heading to Philly on a two-year, $8 million deal with a player option 🚨

According to @ShamsCharania

[Lucas Corley @thelucascorley]

The most incredible 0-0.

To Extra Time!

[Lucas Corley @thelucascorley]

Fours up. Argentina is a fourth quarter team.

@BarstoolBigCat

[Lucas Corley @thelucascorley]

Muppets for the halftime show is electric.

[Lucas Corley @thelucascorley]

I’ll be rooting for Argentina today.

[Lucas Corley @thelucascorley]

Ryan Fox with some absolute GUTS to hit that birdie putt under pressure to win The Open.

[Lucas Corley @thelucascorley]

*10 goals

[Lucas Corley @thelucascorley]

Really high level effort from England and France in this 9 goal third place game.

[Lucas Corley @thelucascorley]

Really high level effort from England and France in this 9 goal third place game.

[Tricia Whitaker @TriciaWhitaker]

Kyle Schwarber. An American treasure.

11 home runs at his home stadium.

(Also a Hoosier you know I had to)

[Lucas Corley @thelucascorley]

I really wish Schwarber was still a Cub

[Lucas Corley @thelucascorley]

Sad day for Hoosier Nation. Always enjoyable to listen to.

[Jeff Rabjohns @JeffRabjohns]

Very sad news today. Joe Smith, longtime & distinguished member of the IU radio network, has passed. Smith was on the IU radio network for nearly 40 years, was a Bloomington radio man for more than 50 years, covered thousands of events, high school & college, won numerous awards.

[ESPN @espn]

It's official. LeBron James is headed home.

[Lucas Corley @thelucascorley]

I’ve got two takes.

1. Initial thought is that this many teams makes it hard for Americans to get interested in soccer because there’s just too many “local” options. And there aren’t stars on most of these teams
2. European model of promotion/relegation might solve this

[Favian Renkel @FavianRenkel]

Attention all new US Soccer fans: Here’s a map of all the domestic teams. Choose one and support!

#MLS #USL

[Brittany Hughes @RealBrittHughes]

Hey @Netflix: The first season has 10 episodes and you binge it in a week. The second season airs three years later with 8 episodes that come out in two random chunks six weeks apart for no reason. And by the time it airs, you've forgotten the first season anyway and it's not worth the time to go back and rewatch it.

There. Just saved you a crapton of consulting money. You're welcome.

[Lucas Corley @thelucascorley]

Argentina. My god what a comeback.

[Lucas Corley @thelucascorley]

@CrimsonCast

[Lucas Corley @thelucascorley]

USA may have crapped the bed, but the other games have not disappointed.

Argentina and Egypt has been a thriller!

[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.