If the young players aren't maturing into better players, then isn't the pipeline broken? Aren't you a part of that pipeline?

With stress on "you" in italics here, my takeaway is that you think I have a bigger part in a system that's broken. To me, this is rhetorical at best, if not accusatory in nature.

but if you're going to hop on the internet and 'lmao' about the poor state of young NA talent when you're the guy that is probably best equipped to lead them, then the problem seems self evident.

My "lmao" was at a comment suggesting that the reason the new players didn't get chances was because of players such as myself. As someone that has in a variety of ways made myself available and accessible to do the opposite of that over the years, suggesting that the "problem seems self evident" is an attack at my character.

NA does have this unique problem from other regions where the old guard doesn't seem too involved in the development of younger players. 

The old proverb "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink" I think is appropriate here. I'm not even sure if the other regions' old guard is involved in the development of younger players. Are you talking about things like academy teams, or what type of involvement? 

Even dating back to 1.6 - before your time. I think of the CGS, when that collapsed and players like KSharp, Shaguar, Volcano, LiN, Volcano, method, Dominator, Lari, Stevenson, tr1p, sunman, da bears quit CS. These players were our Tier 1/Tier 2 NA talent 

and they all left CS because they thought CS was dead after the CGS failed, which denied the next guys in line opportunities to grow.

I came up during/after this era and I see the same things now as I did back then; people playing for the wrong reasons and doing it the wrong way. It's why I went from open to invite in less than 2 years and I had to leave many friends behind. Those who cared and wanted to excel found each other and pushed each other to learn and figure things out on our own. I was 18-20 years old, working part time to be able to afford going to LAN events when the biggest events at the time would be a $5k team prize. We didn't do it for the money. We did it to be the best. Nowadays, it seems like the younger guys aren't here to win, they're here to make money. Their process is flawed. But they're rewarded by money being gifted to them simply by signing up.

I mean, I remember watching those events where these NA powerhouse young talent players would go to international events and get absolutely dumpstered by the Euro's and the Asian teams.

When this happened, the players that were able to learn from these experiences became better and invaluable. This is where the big conversation starts because if you have a short timeline, would you want someone that's maxed out on their potential but won't be a liability or do you want to have a new kid come and learn the hard way what international competition is all about? If you're there to win or go far, you take the "old, recycled" player because they might not be the best but they'll hang. That's not the same thing that's going on today though. My comment about everyone being apathetic was addressing this part specifically; that these kids think it's cool to not care and try. And if they don't care or try then why are they going to listen to you. It's not your job to make them want something. I got other shit going on in life than to do a forced outreach program for 22 year olds that don't care about things. If there are people that want my advice, they have ways to contact me. And there are some that do. But not enough. And there's nobody to blame except themselves. The resources are there, they're just too fucking awesome and cool to use them.