NCAA SOCCER REALIZES IT CAN'T COMPETE WITH NCAA FOOTBALL
July 28th, 2014
Today Steven Goff (The Washington Post) reported that a Division 1 Soccer Coaches Committee is proposing changing their schedule.
In my opinion it is about time they did.
Now this may be sparked by the fact the U.S. didn't win the recent World Cup.
It might even be that College Soccer can't compete with College Basketball and Football for crowds in the fall.
A longer Schedule does the following:
- Less competition from other College Sports at Tournament time.
- More in line with High School and Youth Soccer schedules.
- More in line with Professional Soccer's schedules.
- Opens up play for The cold weather states of the north.
- More in line with when the World Cup is played.
Even if College leads into to Pro, it still benefits Soccer as a whole.
Hopefully the NCAA will see it the same way.
Here are the current and proposed schedules
| CURRENT NCAA DIV. 1 SOCCER SEASON | |
| AUG TO NOV | SEASON |
| MID NOV | CONFERENCE TOURNAMENTS |
| NOV TO DEC | NCAA TOURNAMENT |
| PROPOSED NCAA DIV. 1 SOCCER SEASON | ||
| AUG | Preseason | |
| Sep to Nov | 1st Half of Season (13 games) | |
| Nov to Feb | Winter Break | |
| Feb | Spring Camp (includes 1 Exhibition game) | |
| Mar to Apr | 2nd Half of Season (9) games | |
| Apr-May | Conference Tournaments | |
| May to Jun? | NCAA Tournaments | |
If you would like to read the original article, here is the link
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