Sacramento joining USL Pro in 2014

Oakland still qualifies as a "major" city?

 

Sacramento bills itself as the "City of Trees". Perhaps the name could reflect that.

 

The Sacto Sacs.

 

This reminds me of a Styx song... "Too Much Time on My Hands"

 

Oakland Stompers would be the historic name to use (since the Clippers are a basketball team now). But the best name would be the Oakland Relocations

 

Even though the Clippers lasted for 2-3 years and the Oakland Stompers lasted one.

 

Neither name is all that well known compared to the bigger names of the day. But it seems at least anecdotally that Stompers is more visible these days than Clippers. That and being that the Clippers name is also ised by tje basketball team in LA it would also be less desirable from a marketing perspective (and maybe legal one).

 

Why the Oakland hatred? To each his own. I prefer Oakland to San Jose and certainly to San Diego, where I believe you live.

Back on topic, I hope Sacramento can succeed in USL Pro, whatever its team name.

 

Not hate, just facts. Oakland is not even near the top 5 in terms of population anymore (it's hovering just above Bakersfield at this point) and is soon to lose 2 if not all 3 of its major league sports teams. It's a legitimate question, is Oakland even major league anymore. It's certainly a much smaller and less major league town than Sacramento at this point.

As for preferring it to San Jose or San Diego, that's your business but your hatred of both cities, particularly the home town of your favorite soccer team, is puzzling.

 

I don't hate San Jose or San Diego. I just prefer Oakland to either one, and you took a big leap to infer that I hate San Jose or San Diego from my comment. And maybe, I leapt to a conclusion about you hating Oakland, but I remember many anti-Oakland comments among your many Big Soccer postings.

 

I hope that one day both the USL pro and the NASL can put aside whatever differences they have or had and possibly get a USSF division 2 sanction as they had two years ago. I think a national coast to coast 2nd division could do wonders for the game in this country....

 

I didn't think you actually hated San Jose or San Diego. Consider my earlier response a teaching moment and you appear to have understood the message. So well done.

Also you are misremembering. As and Oakland A's fan I'd be pretty hypocritical if I hated Oakland. I loathe Oakland's leaders and government (if you can call it that), but that's not the city itself just the morons running it.

 

Won't happen unfortunately with the personalities running both. Not several decades at any rate. The best we can hope for short term is that one league folds and the other picks up their surviving teams.

 

Considering the leagues that were in place 20 years ago, WSL/APSL/SISL, I can't see how either the NASL or the USL will still be around in the next 20 years. I mean I hope they will last that long but its not likely, especially not if they keep fighting one another for players, status and/or prestige....

 

I just did a quick search of your past posts using "Oakland" as the search word and easily found several that are anti-Oakland, criticizing its neighborhoods and residents, in addition to its leaders and government.

Now, that I've admitted to being a little obsessive and adept at wasting time, I'll move on and reiterate my wish that Sacramento can be a good home to professional soccer.

PS. If I ever require your teaching assistance, I'll send you a personal message.

 

Just did that same check, couldn't find but one that was critical of its neighborhoods. And none critical of its residents. Found about well over 100 critical of the Oakland Coliseum. But then who isn't critical of that dump.

 

Actually, there are firm rules in place for NASL, but almost none for USLPro. Thus, USLPro have the Charlotte Eagles, who have a pitiful attendance average, play in a lousy high school stadium (that has sink holes!), no beer at games, and a host of other weirdness. The club is a Christian missionary organization, so they don't seem to care how much money they lose, and it seems that their owners have very deep pockets.

And there's a new USLPro team sprouting up in Phoenix, and they had two or three teams in Puerto Rico briefly, but they all folded in season, because they didn't have enough money nor decent business plans. USL are every bit as unstable now as they used to be, you just hear less about them because their top flight is D3.

NASL have just admitted the Cosmos (who may well be out of business in a couple of years) and who just announced that they can't get it together for the Spring half of the NASL season, so they won't start until the Summer/Fall half of the season in August. (Gives you warm fuzzies, no?) And NASL have also admitted a team in Northern Virginia, for the 2014 season, who may not have a place to play.

I am hopeful that the lower divisions stabilize. I want to see long-term successful teams. (The Eagles have been around for 20 years I think.) The USLPro Pittsburh Riverhounds are in the final stages of building a sweet little stadium just across the river from downtown Pittsburg. It's very cool looking, but only two sides have seats, well, maybe three. So there's good news in the lower divisions, but still a noticeable lack of stability.

GO QUAKES!!

- Mark

 

Gonna be rocky for a while. That Phoenix team you mentioned may never play a game. The owners are apparently suing each other.

 

NASL has trouble enough running their own house, I don't see them taking over USL. USL is messed up to be sure, but they have tons of youth teams, women's teams, and their USLPro, which is D3.

NASL includes the bogus Cosmos, who look like they can't get their act together at all.

Even so, it would be nice to see all of MLS, NASL, and USL under one roof. But that would require the shitte who run USL to stop running USL.

Back to Sacramento, I sure hope that they are successful, because I want to see the popularity of the game grow, all around the country.

Oh, and USL D2 (before the schism with NASL) used to be coast to coast. But with the Portland, Wankouver, and shittle franchises joining MLS, USL lost those clubs. So Sacramento, el-lay (who may be in trouble financially), and Phoenix (whose owners may be suing each other). Yeah, great stuff.

GO QUAKES!!

- Mark

 

Source?

I see that they just nailed down a stadium deal.
http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/OdeenDomingoFC/174444
No mention of owners suing each other, but you might be right.

GO QUAKES!!

- Mark

 

Wonder if the Quakes should use them as their farm team and if Sac will sign a lot of Northern Cal based players? I'd think playing in an actually full USL season set up , it would be a lot better than playing in a 10 game only MLS reserve league