This is the only true way to “fix” the NCAA. USA Basketball with the help of the NBA sets up a promotion/relegation system in which the NCAA Division 1 teams become the second and third division under the NBA.

Not sure if anyone here or if Billy has read Pep Confidential, the book about his first season at Bayern but it’s essential in understanding Pep and Bayern Munich. The management there wanted a change in how they played, to be a club that’s on the edge of modern tactics and pushing forward and Pep has done just that.…

realistically, you should never think about winning the world cup and just be happy a US teenager is playing for a really good club in Europe. It’s very very very very very very very very difficult to win a WC. Mexico has never done it and they have a better league, more history, more talent than US and they haven’t…

Have you seen the video of Pep Guardiola screaming at De Jong after a pre-season game?

the college draft is an outdated mechanism for dispersing talent, no other country does it besides the US. Amateur players should be allowed to sign with any team as soon as they’re allowed to. If it means anything I don’t like it for rest of the top professional leagues in the US either. The farce of…

MLS will always behind the top leagues in Europe and even Liga MX because they do everything backwards from the rest of the world. No pro/rel, amateur drafts, the schedule, the cap, etc. Until they drop all of the protectionist policies and open the game they will forever be a league where old Euro players go to…