For those of you who have seen complaints about the structure of us soccers youth development but don't know exactly what were talking about , read the latest Dempsey entry at http://www.thisisamericansoccer.com and read about the struggles non-wealthy families have being involved. I would love to see that contrasted with like the Michael Bradley story. My parents were divorced and didn't make a lot of money. Try as they could, we could never afford half the crap that select teams want you to do. It's insane. Its really insane the cost of this. I was on the highest level select team in Texas that won the state title and every state tournament we entered. Traveled to Minnesota for international tourney, and to Mexico as well. It would cost around $5,000 per person a year to be on the team and travel. Every other weekend you go to Austin, Houston, Dallas, ect for a road game and the other weekensd they would come down here. I didn't play very long on it because of the expense. Of course that was the best year winning 5 titles and 3rd in the biggest one. Outside of that I was getting college coaches asking me to mail them tapes because they didn't have it in their budget or availability to come down to South Texas to scout. The number of Men's university soccer teams in Texas is very small. outside of SMU and Texas A&M I don't think any other D1 school has Men's soccer. Title IX has really screwed Men's soccer IMO.