Chico,
You are obviously a bright person so don't go down that road. I just think you are highly partisan.
Having said that....your analogy is ridiculous. Besides CASL....the Raleigh area boasts really good Clubs like Goldstar, Fuquay Varina, TFC, Triangle United. A Triangle parent does not have to go to Greensboro to have exhaustive choice.
Charlotte has a couple of clubs (CSC-CUFC at the least) that can compete age group to age group with CESA-Bridge, so don't kid yourself. The really good Bridge '93 team got beat by CUFC Gold at Jefferson Cup last year, and Gold is less than half of their top kids.
You raise a great point tho. Is the objective to raise the level of play throughout SC? Or is the objective to be as competitive as possible within the region? Two different answers with two different paths.
If you want to build teams to go beat Texas or Georgia or Florida within the next 2 years.....superteams/superClubs are the way to go.
If you want to raise the overall level of play and create synergies between CLubs and districts with the intention of long-term building teams to go beat Texas or whomever......I would argue against it, given where SC currently is.
First build the pool, then narrow it to a Super team or 2. But the foundation precedes the roof.
