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i wonder if the drop in the mid state is the initial result of the merger in columbia.if things did not work out the way a player wanted they went elswhere.maybe this is one of reasons for the growth in the peidmont.



By "did not work out the way a player wanted" I don't know if you meant a player not being selected for the the team he/she wanted, as a result of the merger. If this is what you meant, I don't know of any players going to the piedmont as a result of not making a certain team in the mid state. I would think the only reason a player would go to the trouble of traveling to a district other than the one they lived in to play soccer, would be that they thought they would get better training, better competition, better guidance, more overall commitment, and thus a better chance of achieving their goals.