From an interview with Dan Duggan, CEO of the Michigan Bucks on the USL site... "...Our plan was to have a USL PRO team that would play over the top of the Bucks and then tie some academies and youth structure under that..." "We’ve got a lot of our nucleus in the Detroit area, in the Michigan area, to do something that a lot of places only dream about, but we haven’t completed the pieces or joined the dots for a lot of reasons, some of it being financial, some of it political with land and things like that. But I see it all happening with the addition of the pro team, because the pro team is something everyone can call their own and really get behind." Full interview is here... http://www.uslsoccer.com/home/551985.html
The Bucks have a great history and I think they would be a good addition to the National Division. The owners have been around long enough to know what it takes to run a team and shat it would mean to step up.