To take a different view point... Is ODP worth the time and money? If you read the Bio on every UNC womens player, the answer is, YES. Every Bio has something about ODP and or a national team in their background, sort of like it is in their DNA.
Every young person that has asked me the question, the answer they get is, "if you want to play for a college team, YES".
The white paper posted by momofboywholovesoccer, has one key component that SC should address, the COST. We - SC, in my opinion, are behind in our ODP efforts. SCYSA should take the stock pile of money they have ear marked for the SCYSA fields and use it to fund the ODP teams for FREE This will insure we do not leave any SC child out of this equation. Hey, but I must be a soft hearted, liberal, hmmm ... NOT!
