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1. The club environment will continue to consolidate, and in ten years there will be only a handful of national programs. Those teams will get even more preferential treatment for tournaments and coach eyeballs.

2. Fall season should NOT be a second summer season. Clubs are playing way too many games, and not practicing, training or resting enough.

3. The qualifier formats (PGF and Alliance) make it so that teams have to play six months out of the year in order to get into the finite number of meaningful exposure tournaments, exacerbating the problem with lack of practice, training and rest.

4. In ten years, high school softball will be decimated by players opting out to play the club circuit in the hopes of gaining college opportunities.

5. JUCO and exposure leagues (e.g., Gulf Coast and Northwoods) will become an increasingly viable route for high school players to get into the D1 ranks, much as it is for baseball.

6. College programs will create their own semi-pro leagues, comprised of area or alumni players, in order to raise revenues and monetize the facilities that are unused for much of the year.

7. College softball will have its own governing body, separate from the NCAA, as college football is creating with its CFP and NIL structures.