Chronic Hoosier

Short. Sighted. Hoosiers.

[Chronic Hoosier @ChronicHoosier]

INDIANA
vs.
EVERYBODY

[Chronic Hoosier @ChronicHoosier]

The best team this tournament lifts the cup- as it should be.

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HOW BOUT THEM APPLES?!?! #IUFB

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I had a close friend reach out to me about my intent with that word after the game, too. I intended that to mean "dawgs." They added some toughness this year.

[m.benn.53 @53_benn]

@ChronicHoosier Dogs in a good way?

[Indiana Football @IndianaFootball]

The Best Men's College Athlete, @fernandomendoza.

@ESPYS | #IUFB

[Chronic Hoosier @ChronicHoosier]

Sunset over the home of Your Undefeated National Champion Indiana Hoosiers

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They hung 98 in their 1st organized game together. So there's that

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U-S-A chants break out in the Hall.
Love it.

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Moody got that Mo Creek in him

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I could've used this in the 1st half.
It's an interesting mix, for sure.
Looks like he may have found a few dudes & a few dogs. Huge to get the extra, early run with this foreign trip to start figuring stuff out together. #iubb

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@insidethehall @realrickbozich Here with my son as well. Cheers, gents.

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I spy 3 generations of Boziches at Assembly Hall's press table today. @insidethehall @realrickbozich

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No radio broadcast today, but Joe Smith's absence hangs heavy in the Hall. Indiana sports fans lost a great one this week.

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Samet Yigitoglu is a large motherfucker

[Chronic Hoosier @ChronicHoosier]

Red, White & Hoo up in the Hall.
It's like the summer of '84 again.

[Chronic Hoosier @ChronicHoosier]

Indiana Basketball on Bastille Day?
Might as well get an early look at the 2.0 Devries Hoosiers. #iubb

[Evan Kamikow @emkamikow]

England: blowing leads on American soil since 1776 😂

[Chronic Hoosier @ChronicHoosier]

Dios mio. Una final de la Copa del Mundo totalmente hispana.

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Desperation is the English way

[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.