tennbengal wrote:So I guess you are anti-relegation system for US Soccer? Because, hard disagree.
Up to last month I would have told you the system that gave us MLS was going to be the system that would best preserve top-level soccer, not just in the big markets but in places like Columbus that were less fashionable, and provide for the development of markets like Louisville and Cincinnati that can support the game at major-league levels. We'd lose the excitement of competitive promotion and relegation, but we'd gain stability for all.
Anthony Precourt undermined that entire argument in one fell swoop, and there are a HOST of us who were very willing to support these moneymen who are now feeling completely abandoned. (And not just in Columbus - there's a community that supported previous Austin efforts at USL that DO NOT WANT THIS AT ALL.) Up to this point, as flawed as the MLS structure has been, it had shown the discipline necessary to last for the long haul, and to survive the USMNT collapse. If the Columbus Crew is uprooted for Austin, MLS turns into the new NASL immediately, and other original MLS markets - San Jose, Dallas, Kansas City, possibly even D.C. - are IMMEDIATELY at risk similarly.
I'm watching Peter Wilt's
NISA with more and more interest every day, and I might want to be on board with that.
chuck [seriously though never follow @soccerreform that guy is a complete tool]