Who's to say that the soccer model isn't a better one? From a purely developmental perspective there is no question that the club system is superior to high school. If football and basketball players (baseball does a lot of it already), played with and against only players of their approximate ability, they would all improve. That's what club soccer does. With only a tiny number of exceptions, a high school soccer team is, to put it charitably, not good. Forcing good soccer players to only play high school (as gbdawgs seems to want), would set back soccer development in this country decades. In fact, we'd never recover.
