Effective way to use $1 billion for improving MLS

$1 billion?

Hmm, seems like enough money to buy Mexico. Their economy's in the shitter, and that would simply add a bunch of quality clubs, and a whole lot of potential USMNT stars (and allocation order players) to the pool.

In a buyer's market, with the right financing options, we might could get Belize thrown in for free.

 

Nope.

http://www.economist.com/news/speci...ent-and-rising-violence-mexico-last-beginning

 

I'd go around Brazil and buy all the local neighborhood and lower division clubs. Take a look at all the best players in Brazil, they usually start off in little local teams and get poached by the bigger clubs when they are teens. Buy a few hundred little clubs and send the best kids to MLS academies. 20 years from now the entire Brazil NT would have went through MLS.

 

1 billion?

put it into MLS-2 to build stadiums then create a 10 year plan for fully integrated pro/rel.

 

I'm guessing you failed math in high school.

But otherwise i'd only adjust your plan to include paying garber to axe cusa and build a stadium for orlando

 

You know what I would do if I had a million dollars? I would invest half of it in low risk mutual funds and then take the other half over to my friend Asadulah who works in securities...

 

No, it really doesn't. Building a strong d2 wouldn't be the worst thing, if say, you gave USSF the $1b. Then again, if you're giving the $1b to MLS, it doesn't make any sense for those 19 clubs to use that money for their competition

 

That was how it came across to me, thus the suckage. I'm also not sure that giving the USSF the 1B$ is the right answer for D2 either though.

We agree 1000% though, that building a strong D2 is absolutely a good idea.

 

It seems to me the suggestion of spending a billion dollars to develop a D2 is more an answer to improve soccer in the US not MLS. I mean the fact that you are spending all the money outside of the current MLS team suggests that it is a overall development project not something to directly improve MLS.

If you wanted to improve soccer in the US while also helping MLS a smarter suggestion would be to break up the 1B to each team (52.6M each) and force them each to create extensive free academies and affiliated minor league teams. Basically a combination of international soccer youth academies and minor league baseball. Something that could develop players throughout the system, but also be totally owned and controlled by MLS.

 

Ugh this thread topic just makes me depressed. Because I get all excited and then I realize we actually don't have 1B dollars...