"Cole plans to attend this weekend's draft prospects minicamp for Dallas of the MLS." Anybody got a time or place?
Training is at Greenhill, 9:00 a.m., 2:30 p.m. Saturday, and 10:00 Sunday. these are "college trialists."
Smart idea. By getting a number of MLS Combine players in early, as well as several others with noteable collegiate and PDL experience, the Burn stands the most to gain from its draft picks. Frankly the MLS Combine is something of a crap shoot when it comes to draftable talent, so the idea of bringing in a select group of players to evaluate beforehand and under closer scrutiny, as a hedge, makes considerable sense. Not only can they decide if the players who will be in the MLS combine are actually worth a draft pick, but there may be some good bargains in non-combine players who'll be overlooked by other teams in the draft.
These are not the Adidas Combine players that will be in Florida. These are players not invited to Flordia I am told. Cross your fingers I am gonna try and go out and do a little scouting tomorrow.