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October 27, 2009 02:03 PM | General

Welcome (back) to Inside the 18. Keep your eye on the far post.

Let’s start with a comment from Julio from a couple of weeks back: “College soccer is supposed to be the link to professional level as football and basketball. College soccer needs to increase league competition to all year around.”

First, I disagree that college soccer is supposed to be the link to the pros. Because of sports like football and basketball, we expect to see a natural progression of our college stars into our domestic professional league, but that’s not necessarily the case. Most of the marquee names in MLS are foreign players sprinkled in with a few prominent Americans. College soccer is one of the avenues for players to come up through the ranks, but shouldn’t be expected to be the only way as it is with other sports here in the U.S.