It would be nice to start to get the U-23 cycle going, but October seems to be a really bad time for it. The college players are not going to play and the MLS players will be in the playoffs.
It comes up under a Freddy Adu Google News Search http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=freddy+adu
It would be nice for the U-20s to get some match experience against older teams, but I agree, the timing is terrible considering that the college players would have to miss at least a quarter of their season and the MLS players would miss some fairly important matches.