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If you mean that instead of a spring school season there was just a spring club season (or fall in NC or elsewhere). Then I think the answer is obviously a yes.

However if you want to grow the sport you need to get people involved and watching the games and build a better understanding of the sport in the public. High school programs are building a fan base for a better future for the sport, hell when I was a kid (will leave the decade out) many high schools (even the big ones) did not even have soccer as a sport now most do.

I think the school programs with solid club support are still going to improve players (unless we move to the aforementioned club season twice a year). If anything I would like to see the rules set up to allow/encourage club play by schools based teams, not official school team of course but one whose coach and players could be mostly from a school if they wanted to. After all football has an officially approved spring/summer training season, really all year for top programs, yet we hamstring are players by making a hard line separation between club and school.

Yes I know there are $$$$ and other problems with this approach but I think that given a goal to achieve it some of the bright people here and around the state could come up with answers to the problems.
In the end the benefit would be to the players and the sport and of course the answer to the question would then be "Of Course Not!"



i see high school football and i get excited, not only i like and understand the american game, but if soccer ever gets that big in high school, it will be awesome, the last game between irmo and northwestern was insane, i dont think i have ever experienced anything like that in a high school game, it was simply amazing.

i have seen high school football games on espnU where they have teams from florida playing vs teams from california, i wonder how that works?

i used to watch this other reality show on mtv where kids from some high school from alabama claim to be the "best" football program in the nation, every game to them was very hard and competitive.

i dont understand how somebody cant see that picture in high school soccer.

you get an elite competition going, 15 quality games all season, not more 7-0 boring games, not more empty stadiums and top programs humilliating high school with not soccer tradition and not soccer interest.

once high school soccer goes elite, then i would have a lot more respect for american soccer.

high school ball could be very essential to take the next step, to get to the next level of the brazilians and italians.

high school soccer has the hype, fans, media. now we need quality competition, elite competition.

Club of the century.