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Interesting question. From the academy page at US Soccer:

"To maintain a focus on training, Academy teams do not play in any other leagues, tournaments, State Cup competitions, ODP or All-Star events without written permission from Academy staff. Full-time Academy players can only participate on their designated Academy team, with only 2 exceptions: high school soccer and national team duty"

If CESA were to become Academy would they not lose their stranglehold on SC cup play? Well on the boys side at least. Seems like they would have to shift the top players(teams) to Academy and then likely drop the sweeping of state cup. Not saying they could not field some good cup teams, just that inorder to win like they have been they have needed their top teams playing in Cup. Seems like the status quo has worked well for them to build their club/system.
Right now in SC CESA draws players from all over the state becasue they are precieved as the best place to play at the highest level if other clubs started winning the "in state" competitions could they not make a better arguement to keep more players local thus hampering CESA's efforts to expand.

As a disclaimer I am not anti CESA or pro SCUFC just asking a question as to what benefit/harm Academy could provide CESA.

(by the way Charlotte has two different Academy club options for players; with a metro population of 1.7 mil vs Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson Combined Statistical Area (CSA) which in 2006 had an estimated population of 1,203,795 with none.)