Hank Spears

#GoCougs
Prattville, AL

[Hank Spears @hank_57_]

@FiredUpCoug I think I'm nearby, my wife and I would be happy to help!

[Hank Spears @hank_57_]

@BYUSportsNation Given that I'm upset that morgan scalley keeps saying nice things about us, yeah.

[Hank Spears @hank_57_]

@Big12Conference Yearly missing Darius Lassiter post😞

[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.

[Hank Spears @hank_57_]

At least football is coming soon....

[Andrew Peterson @Apetey222]

Well I’m ready for College Football again 😭

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

America, start your engines.

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[Hank Spears @hank_57_]

@MarnieGraves_ It's called sarcasm and exaggeration🤦🏼‍♂️

[Hank Spears @hank_57_]

@MrBeast 17,762,500

[College Football Zone @CollegeFBonX]

Happy 4th of July Terry!

[Nate Tice @Nate_Tice]

ready to run through a wall now

[WestCoastCFB @WestCoastCFB]

4/5 ⭐️ Commits for 2027 for P4 Programs in the West:

1. Oregon - 17
2. UCLA - 12
3. Cal - 10
3. Washington - 10
5. USC - 9
6. Colorado - 4
7. ASU - 3
8. Stanford - 2
8. BYU - 2
10. Arizona - 1
11. Utah - 0

[Caleb®️ @awsomehog1]

Ok hear me out yall we’ve got just under a week to make this work in Seattle #worldcup #usmnt

[Hank Spears @hank_57_]

@ByuSome The funniest part to me is they claim we wear the same thing as everyone else😂😂😂 don't let them see SEC cheer leaders

[Hank Spears @hank_57_]

@JustRalphyyy I understand the hulk isn't natural per say, but banner literally chooses to keep the hulk away because he thinks it's bad😭 just a thought I had.

[Hank Spears @hank_57_]

@SkylarSkye3 It's the best!

[Hank Spears @hank_57_]

@FreddyLA7 The best restaurant

[Hank Spears @hank_57_]

@byuROC Prices?

[Hank Spears @hank_57_]

@BYUSportsNation This doesn't change my expectations at all. We've beat him before and we wouldn't even have the chance to play them until the Conference Championship. I still expect 13-0.

[Hank Spears @hank_57_]

@STO1232 I felt like this one was pretty ok, the second one was horrendous though