USSF 'Business Plans'

[Ten Shirt]

With everything that is going on (or isn't going on), it's interesting to see what the Fed's plans are.

Four Phases of USSF's Business Plan:
http://www.ussoccer.com/services/content.sps?iType=230&icustompageid=11401

[sidefootsitter]

With everything that is going on (or isn't going on), it's interesting to see what the Fed's plans are.

They should just concentrate on building ~ 8-10 new fake-turf purely soccer fields each year; pay for a Project 100 soccer academy and throw a few dineros to the poorest kids to participate in those academies if they qualify otherwise.

Leave the pro business to the pros. Those stadium deals sound like kickbacks.

[SgtSchultz]

Those stadium deals are kickbacks. The Frisco complex costs $65 million. The local community is paying $55 million. Uncle Lamar was picking up the rest. Now his deal even looks better since the Federation is gifting him an additional $5 million. He only has to pay $5 million and annual rent for the next 20 years at $100,000. For that, he gets a the naming rights to the stadium, all the ancillary revenues and the actual stadium. Maybe Soccer has learned something from the other sports leagues in America. I am disgusted.

[Serie Zed]

No, no, no.

The USSF isn't a "business" so how can it have a "business plan"? It's a non-profit devoted to the good of soccer, the well-being of soccer players and the advancement of society in general.

At least this is what I read from the BSers who say that the players are greedy, blood-sucking athletes.

[Adam Zebrowski]

the greater good of soccer is NOT to qualify for 2006 according to ussf practices....

it is literally almost impossible NOT to advance out of this group of hex, and it seems ussf and the players have found a path to make it possible...

each deserves usa NOT advancing!!

[Roehl Sybing]

each deserves usa NOT advancing!!
They call this spite where I come from.

[TAKK]

They call this spite where I come from.

I thought they were "skubee manuke gaijing" where you are writing from.

Forgive the spelling.

[Bill Archer]

Those stadium deals are kickbacks. The Frisco complex costs $65 million. The local community is paying $55 million. Uncle Lamar was picking up the rest. Now his deal even looks better since the Federation is gifting him an additional $5 million. He only has to pay $5 million and annual rent for the next 20 years at $100,000. For that, he gets a the naming rights to the stadium, all the ancillary revenues and the actual stadium. Maybe Soccer has learned something from the other sports leagues in America. I am disgusted. Yes and no.

I mean, I see your point, and I don't necessarily disagree on principle, but at the same time if it's possible to make these taxpayer-fleecing deals, than why shouldn't soccer make them too?

G** knows everybody else is sucking up municipal, county and state money for these projects: huge, fantastic almost surreal piles of dough being tossed into the ground to build gargantuan concrete palaces so people can pay forty bucks a seat to watch obscenely overpaid egomaniacs play some game and some fabulously weathy owner can walk away with a profit.

All socccer wants is our fair share. Yes the whole thing is obscene and insulting, but why should soccer be the ones to say "Hey, you know, this is really unfair and we're just too noble and civic minded to grab up tax money for private purposes. It's just not right"

Let Bud Selig go first. Then we can talk. Until then, I'm all for stuffing soccer's snout into the public trough just like everybody else.

[TAKK]

Yes and no.

I mean, I see your point, and I don't necessarily disagree on principle, but at the same time if it's possible to make these taxpayer-fleecing deals, than why shouldn't soccer make them too?

G** knows everybody else is sucking up municipal, county and state money for these projects: huge, fantastic almost surreal piles of dough being tossed into the ground to build gargantuan concrete palaces so people can pay forty bucks a seat to watch obscenely overpaid egomaniacs play some game and some fabulously weathy owner can walk away with a profit.

All socccer wants is our fair share. Yes the whole thing is obscene and insulting, but why should soccer be the ones to say "Hey, you know, this is really unfair and we're just too noble and civic minded to grab up tax money for private purposes. It's just not right"

Let Bud Selig go first. Then we can talk. Until then, I'm all for stuffing soccer's snout into the public trough just like everybody else.

Well said.

[sidefootsitter]

Let Bud Selig go first. Then we can talk. Until then, I'm all for stuffing soccer's snout into the public trough just like everybody else.
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