Same, or Tulsa But it's not up to the league is it It's whether someone locally step up and finance a team
Yeah, there's no threat of overlap between the two. Oceanside is a San Diego adjacent city and tends to gravitate that way, not toward OC thanks to Camp Pendleton.
Nope. I was told it was very close and therefore they wanted to hold off on the interview. I was also told NASL was spacing the OC and SD announcements out a bit. But I think you can count on OC and SD joining for 2018.
Especially if they're going to need some good news to off set the death of one of their other teams since it looks like San Francisco is dead team playing.
Last year at this time Miami was doing worse in a market that is known for not supporting local teams, and look where they are now. Just because a team is off to a poor start does not mean they are dead. If the Californians on this board are representative of the majority of Californians that is just one more reason to be happy that I do not live in California.
Last year there were two teams in that market, this year there's only one. You don't think maybe some of that increase is due to the Strikers not existing anymore? Under your reasoning the league should put a team in Oakland and hopefully one of them will fold and the other will get an attendance bump or hey an even better idea why doesn't the league look to find reasonable owners in markets that don't already have an entrenched soccer team and possibly have a stable team on our hands. Nah that's not the NASL way, BRING ON THE SILVERBACKS!!!
Miami's attendance bump started last season, while the Strikers were still (technically) around, after they started getting very aggressive with player signings and promotions.
Miami drew 10,156 for their first home game and had one of their other four home spring matches delayed by hours because of rain. And actually, poor starts are fairly decent indicators. Unless you are talking about a league-run team with no budget (as Minnesota was, once) that gets an infusion of money from a new owner, or an incredibly stubborn owner (as Edmonton has) most teams that start as poorly as the Deltas have don't make it. And they have actual owners.
Looks like Orange County has found it's President/GM... http://www.nasl.com/news/2017/05/23...d-general-manager-of-orange-countys-nasl-club
I noticed since the announcement of a possible expansion in Orange County CA, Orange County Blues' attendances have increased by 50%. Could that impact the potential support for a NASL team?
How so? OC Blues have completely rebranded, are affiliated with LAFC, and are in an actual SSS now and in a better location. That their attendance has gone up dramatically is not surprising in the slightest.
You guys realize we are talking about a sample size of *1* home game for OCSC right? I am confident they will continue to do better than last year, but let's not assume they are averaging 4000 per game consistently at this point. Hope they do, but we aren't there yet.
Realize that that first game was against LA Galaxy II and there were probably quite a few LAFC fans there as well as Orange County regulars.
So, this sounds pretty darn half-baked. Frankly, I expect this is just another example of the "fan service" that I've noted time and again from the NASL.
NISA D3 discussion here: https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/nisa-new-nasl-allied-d3-league-mega-thread.2057673/