Agreed. While Detroit's population shrinkage appears to have stabilized, the fact is the city is not yet economically rebounding. The money is not flowing freely there, yet.
Tennessee 6.651 million North Carolina 10.15 million North Carolina also missing MLB, but still waiting on MLS.
The Ouija board just said no, MLS is not interested in Sacramento. It also said it can't figure out why in the hell MLS wants to move the Crew to Austin.
The Ouiji board also said Satan himself is preparing a special corner of hell just for Garber and Precourt.
It most likely does have an impact. Imagine if there was no speculation at all about Columbus moving to Austin. Do you think MLS would take one of it's 4 remaining slots and use it to put a 2nd team in Ohio? I think it would be unlikely. And there's no way to know for sure that the Austin move is really going to happen until all the details are final on stadium location, financing, infrastructure, and temporary location. Any of those details could easily fall apart. So, it's entirely possible that they may want to wait until the future of the Crew is known before making a final decision on Cincinnati.
I think as a business, which is what ALL PROFESSIONAL SPORTS LEAGUES ARE, they would put a team in whichever market they felt would provide the greatest return. If that means putting a second team in Ohio, they'd do it. Plain and simple. Using your logic, Cinci wouldn't even be a finalist in this round if the league was that worried about waiting to see what happens in C-Bus.
I'm not understanding the whole debate about which city gave birth to which musician. The whole point of Nashville being Music City is the size of the recording industry. Musicians go there. It doesn't matter where they started.
Cinci's success is impossible to ignore and I'm actually rooting for them to get in. When a team captures the heart of their city like they have, you want them in your league. But there are practical considerations that could affect the timing and therefore cause them to be awarded in the second round rather than the first. I think the Crew situation is one of those considerations. My specific prediction is this. If MLS becomes satisfied with the ownership situation in Sacramento, they'll be next. If not, it will be Cinci. Either way, I think Cinci gets in eventually. Their support is just so massive and proven that they won't be denied in the long-run.
We'll have to agree to disagree on this. I personally don't believe any current market has any influence whatsoever on which expansion markets get in. Its about money. Who is going to make MLS the most money. Period. Yup, which is why they are delaying the announcement of the 2nd team. Cinci doesn't get in until they figure out where the missing $25 million is going to come from to build a stadium. If they let them in before that, and say that Nippert Stadium is ok as a temporary venue, the politicians will never pass any stadium measure. MLS doesn't want to walk down that path.
I don't think naming em "dynamo" was the right solution IMO. Sounds kind of mickeymouse. CD Tejas or Tejanos CF woulda been a healthy compromise for both communities.
Mickey Mouse like naming your team after the ancient Greek name for your island nation, or maybe your national flower, a human organ, a Queen, or that bloke down the pub called Stanley. And if they wanted to appeal more to the Latino community (35% of their fans), they could replace the y in their name with an I. Anyway for me it's Nashville Cashville.
I think the name will be Nashville, not Tennessee... my suggestions: Nashville Music City SC Nashville Stars FC
I remember that and MLS was desperate for any teams then. Rochester quickly went in the dumps and could not really compare to Cincinnati. Rochester doesn't compare to Cincinnati as a city. I feel pretty confident about Cincinnati, never felt confident about a small town like Rochester. Their high school stadium was in a pretty bad neighborhood.
Not only that, but Detroit doesn't have a vibrant center, and that's been key for MLS success. You don't have to have a bustling downtown, but at least some centralized area like SKC. Teams that have struggled have put stadiums in locations that don't really have anything else going for them. Maybe someone can correct me, but my impression of Detroit is that it's pretty much devoid of a central entertainment district.
Why do the simple minded insist on telling us all about how this is a BUSINESS, as if it was some kind of received wisdom. Thanks a bunch there Sparky but we all get it. Truly. As for "plain and simple" there isn't one goddam thing about all of this that is the least bit "plain and simple". If you haven't figured that out yet, you need to stop posting annoying drivel and go get a handle on the facts. I'm not sure that "worried" is the term. But it is naive to think that the Columbus situation does not, in at least a couple different ways, have any bearing whatsoever on a Cincy bid. Don told a questioner last Wednesday in Nashville that why no, absolutely not, the Columbus issue has no bearing, none, zip, zero, on the Cincy bid. And it was clearly a lie. Indeed, if he didn't even CONSIDER some of the ramifications of what's going on there then he ought to be fired. The Cincy funding shortfall is a convenient dodge. There's much much more going on.