Promotion/Relegation

[AvidSinger]

What would people think about putting a promotion/relegation system in place in the US? For instance, the top two A-League teams get swapped with the bottom two MLS teams, and so on down the line.

[Knave]

Oh wow!

How come nobody has ever thought to bring up this topic before?

:rolleyes:

[bobuck]

For the love of God, pleaseeeeeeeee not again.

[Etienne_72772]

I gotta say, it took more than just a couple of months for this topic to come around again. New membership in Bigsoccer slowing down? And too bad about the big crash of 2002--or we could list the massive amount of threads started on this very topic over the last few years...

[diablodelsol]

Please add-

Hmmm... I never really thought about that.

[Dan Loney]

Originally posted by AvidSinger
What would people think about putting a promotion/relegation system in place in the US? For instance, the top two A-League teams get swapped with the bottom two MLS teams, and so on down the line. I have an idea - relegation ONLY. Two teams get sent down each year. Next year, we'd have eight teams. In 2004, we'd have six, then by 2006 we could have the Galaxy playing the Quakes in a thirty-six game home and home aggregate series. Loser gets relegated, winner spends 2007 barnstorming and playing pick-up games at junior high playgrounds.

It sounds crazy, but it just might work.

[AvidSinger]

Originally posted by Dan Loney
I have an idea - relegation ONLY. Two teams get sent down each year. Next year, we'd have eight teams. In 2004, we'd have six, then by 2006 we could have the Galaxy playing the Quakes in a thirty-six game home and home aggregate series. Loser gets relegated, winner spends 2007 barnstorming and playing pick-up games at junior high playgrounds.And when a team gets relegated, Don Garber holds a torch in front of them and says, "The League has spoken" and snuffs out the flame.

[mactheknife]

i sure am the only person to vote "yes".

i guess i'm still a newb.

[superdave]

Originally posted by AvidSinger
And when a team gets relegated, Don Garber holds a torch in front of them and says, "The League has spoken" and snuffs out the flame.
Friggin' hilARious!!!

[ToddP25]

I'm thinking that the relegated teams must wear Big Soccer thongs as their shorts for the next season.....give them something to play for...

[art]

Originally posted by mactheknife
i sure am the only person to vote "yes".

i guess i'm still a newb.

This is definately the #1 pariah discussion on BS...in all honesty, probably alot of people would like to see pro/rel, but it's completely unrealistic in this country, a point that has already been made...and made, and made, and made...

[VonMorrisky]

Isn't it a TOS violation to start a pro/rel thread if you have less than 150 posts?

[photar74]

Originally posted by VonMorrisky
Isn't it a TOS violation to start a pro/rel thread if you have less than 150 posts?

Actually, I think those are the only people who start such threads.

[NACIONAL]

Originally posted by bobuck
For the love of God, pleaseeeeeeeee not again.

i join the thousand voices that claims the same thing that you...

[AvidSinger]

Originally posted by Mike Segroves
AvidSinger = Sekrah Who is Sekrah?

[Glenwood Lane United]

Originally posted by ToddP25
I'm thinking that the relegated teams must wear Big Soccer thongs as their shorts for the next season.....give them something to play for...

I'm all for this for the WUSA.

[Casper]

Originally posted by VonMorrisky
Isn't it a TOS violation to start a pro/rel thread if you have less than 150 posts?

Actually, it's a TOS violation to do it if you have more than 150 posts, because if you do, you would know that people will just dismiss it instead of actually stating the REASONS that it's currently unworkable in the US (financial incentives, single-entity ownership of MLS, lack of understanding of the concept among the general public, the prevalence of the baseball "minor league model," Anschutz / Hunt / Kraft not wanting teams exposed to relegation; the fact that DC and New York would be minor league next year, while cities like Richmond, Rochester, Charleston, Milwuakee, or Seattle could be promotion candidates, lack of large and passionate fan bases that would continue to support a team even if it was minor league temporarily...)

[superdave]

Originally posted by AvidSinger
Who is Sekrah?
That's what Sekrah always says.

[roarksown1]

So what about relegation in the U.S. Does anybody think that would be good? Oh, wait a minute, what are we talking about here?

[Knave]

Screw relegation and promotion.

MLS has contraction.

It's even better.