Sam Gregory

Yeah, for sure.

I think it's also just the level of where the U.S.

is relative to every other country in the world.

And I think Title IX is a big part of that, right?

That there's been this history of women's sports in the U.S.

that there hasn't always been in Europe.

But you look at some of these European teams on the women's side, they're now developing so much faster than the U.S.

because they have a system that works on the boys' side and they just pick it up and put it on the girls' side.

Yeah, and I think it's the way... I think fighting against that isn't the way to go.

I think that's the way that things are going is that a lot of players won't end up going to college.

That's not to say you still don't see... I mean, we have players who will most likely be on our World Cup team who have experience playing NCAA soccer.

So I don't think we want to... There's still a lot of value in that pathway, but it's never going to be the number one source because when you look at kids in Europe, they're starting their professional careers at 16, 17, 18 years.

So if a kid comes out of college starting their professional career at 22, it's tough to compete with that.

Yeah, I think there's two big changes that have happened.

One is more off the field, which is just you see clubs spending their money so much more smartly than they were 10 years ago.

If you just were to look at the top transfers by money spent,

It's a much better group of players now and a much more successful group of players now than it was 10 years ago.

It's not to say that dumb decisions have been removed from the sport.

But if you look at... Again, it's similar to what baseball went through right now, where it's not... You don't see...

the same level of money being spent on players who are completely, completely misvalued.