Hammer and Kyle, I couldn't agree more concerning ODP and our recruiting of our best (and often minority) athletes. Kyle and I have had this conversation(or similar)on numerous occassions, that ODP and many clubs price some extremely talented athletes out of the market.
Hammer, I worked at the Academic Enrichment Center at USC and studied much of Lapchick's work during graduate school. You make some strong points that are easily supported when coupled with socioeconomic statistics. Sports have historically been a means by which economically depressed cultures have found their way our of poverty. Soccer has for the most part been a white collar sport in the US and our ODP program and club programs promote such in a pretty big way.
