#620: What happened to the FC Dallas pipeline? With Buzz Carrick

Scuffed | USMNT, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Adam Belz

Sports, Usmnt, Men's National Team, American Soccer, Us Soccer, Soccer, Mls, U17 National Team, U20 National Team, Youth National Teams, Yanks Abroad

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Buzz Carrick, the founder of the 3rd Degree, the Dallas soccer blog and podcast, joins Belz to explain why the pipeline of elite talent at FC Dallas, once so full, has stopped producing (at least for a little while). Detailed conversation about a multi-faceted phenomenon with a guy who knows the pipeline from valve to valve.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the scuff podcast where we talk about U.S. soccer.
0:15.2	Our guest today is a legend of soccer coverage in America.
0:19.2	He runs the third- blog and podcast, vital sources
0:22.6	for fans of FC Dallas and American soccer in general, I think. And I strongly recommend
0:27.5	joining the Patreon. Buzz Carrick, welcome back to scuffed. Thanks, Adam. Thanks for having me on.
0:34.3	If you look at the birth years, 1998 to 2003, which you have in detail.
0:39.5	Yeah.
0:39.9	FC Dallas graduated a truly remarkable number of high-level talents that were born in those
0:45.3	five years, six years, I guess.
0:47.1	At the top of that list are Weston McKinney, Chris Richards, and Ricardo Pepe.
0:51.1	But there are a lot of others, Tanner Test Testament, Jesus Ferreira, Reggie Cannon,
0:55.2	Ali Zendahas, Paxon and Pomacall, Brian Reynolds, Edwin Serio, and there are more than that.
1:01.0	That pipeline, by say, 2021, when the 0-4s were turning 17, it seemed like a gift that was just
1:08.4	going to never stop giving, but it did.
1:11.7	It did kind of stop giving, at least from a national team perspective.
1:15.2	What happened?
1:16.5	Well, a whole lot of things have happened.
1:19.5	Let's talk about all of them.
1:20.8	Yeah.
1:21.1	First, you have to understand that FC Dallas had a head start on everybody else.
1:26.5	They were one of, if not the first group to embrace the academy system and the value of the academy system.
1:33.2	So their first classes in 1991, which is darn near a decade before this golden window that you're talking about.
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