Division I men’s soccer coaches have begun a public campaign to revolutionize their sport by stretching the compact fall season across the full academic year.
The proposal would reduce the number of fall games, create a winter break, add games in the spring, reduce weekday games and bring both the conference and national tournaments to weather-friendly May and June.
“It’s a model whose time has come,” said Maryland Coach Sasho Cirovski, Division I men’s committee chair of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. The current NCAA soccer calendar, which runs through the fall semester only, has been in place since 1959.