It has generally been the thought process of many college soccer coaches that to be competitive and win, you must have foreign players on your roster. Think again. The NCAA final match pitted a private Jesuit school, Georgetown, against a Midwest state school, Indiana. Of the 54 rostered players (25 GT, 29 Indie) there was only 1 foreign player(Ind). 17 of Indiana's players were from Indiana. A total of 22 of the 29 players(76%) hail from the 4 states of Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana.
The other two teams in the final four: Creighton, another Jesuit School has 28 total rostered with 5 foreign and Maryland(state supported) has 27 rostered with 6 foreign.
Look at 8 of SC's Men's Soccer programs at State supported Colleges: Francis Marion, Winthrop, Coastal, College of Charleston, USC Columbia, Clemson, Lander, and USC Upstate.
Four of the schools have double digit foreign players. Lander has 18 out of 27 total with 2 from SC. Winthrop comes next with 13 of 29 with 4 SC, Coastal 11 of 22 with 2 SC and Francis Marion 10 of 23 with 4 SC. USC Columbia has the most SC players with 12 followed by College of Charleston 10 and USC Upstate 8.
