9A - Testing the Hypothesis, Part 2

Who: In my interviews I found that the main people who would benefit from the need of a new soccer system in the United States are players first and foremost as well as the MLS teams. In the long-run the hope is that it would benefit soccer in the United States as a whole and create a larger fan base due to better developed players. of some of the interviews I conducted I found that the average U.S. sports fan does not really care for a change. Similar to my interviewees in my last post, two of my class mates I interviewed this week believe college sports are integral for tradition and do not really need to be changed. Since they did not really care for soccer in the first place, they did not really care for a change either and would thus fall outside of the boundary. Overall all of my interviewees admitted that even if it is not a total necessity, it really does not create any harm and if anything does benefit.

What: I found through my interviews that soccer as a whole is not big enough in the states for people to care whether there is a change or not. No one said my idea was a bad one; they just did not care for it. It seems this need is not big enough to overtake the tradition of college sports as that, in a way, is a need and something to look forward to for a lot of U.S. college students.

Why: The difference between the outside and inside has simply to do with the fact that the inside are soccer fans and players, while the outside does not care for soccer. Simply enough soccer just has not become that big here and people do not know enough about European soccer to actually realize there is a flaw in the system.

	Inside the Boundary	Outside the Boundary
Who	Aspiring soccer players, soccer fans, the MLS as a whole	College sport traditionalists, non-soccer fans, uninformed soccer fans
What	A better soccer system in the United States for accelerated development	It is not worth breaking the college sport tradition and draft tradition. Soccer is not big enough for a change.
Why	It exists because our nation is lightyears behind other powers despite our resources due to the fact that college athletics prevents them from becoming professionals at a much earlier age and hinders their development. It can also provide an economic opportunity.	We do not really care for soccer and do not need to break tradition. It is fine the way it is. American Football is real football.