Crew to Austin in 2019..(Maybe)

Someone on Twitter made a good point that this would also violate the Professional League Standards requiring all Division I teams to play in a stadium with at least 15,000 seating capacity. If they let them move in to Dell Diamond anyway or temporarily reduce that standard for two years, I'd guess it would give more ammo to NASL in their case.

 

MLS Ponders Possible Chicago Move To San Antonio If Austin Attendance Mirrors Dallas And Houston

https://www.thenutmegnews.com/curre...-austin-attendance-mirrors-dallas-and-houston

 

My buddy is from Oklahoma and is a huge OU fan. Can't wait to show him this haha.

 

There's a simpler explanation: South Park and hipster Millennials. (Seriously.)

 

For my money, Woo Pig Sooie is the most unintentionally hilarious thing in CFB. So weak and corny.

 

Sorry you aren’t an insider

 

There is intentionally misspelling 'dog.'

 

Wrong again! I don't have Mac or apple. Windows/ Android.

At least you were half right (the built in browser VPN is a neat idea).

 

Somethin that 2 million Austnites could never do

 

Is that like an Onion thing? God I hope so.

 

People keep saying this. People keep saying that this is an international PR disaster for Precourt and the league. (I think the latter is overstated, but let's say it's true).

Precourt and the league have gone through 10 months of hell in Austin just to get this far. Precourt has invested money in lobbyists, lawyers, astroturf, and countless scarves.

How much has the valuation of the Crew increased? He would have been better off staying an absentee owner, buying cheap ass DP's, and collecting expansion fees and SUM money through the next World Cup before selling.

You don't go this far, throw yourself into the PR disaster everyone claims it is, and submit yourself over to an unending lawsuit if you are just planning to flip it at first chance.

 

No.

It started a little less than a decade ago, when, after victories, people would go back to 4th Street and Big Kev would play "Africa" on the jukebox to celebrate. It became a tradition and it just spread from there. This is the first I've heard of any connection with the contingent of African players we've had, since it predates Berhalter being manager.

 

Please pardon me as a commit a message board faux pas of responding to a later post and then an earlier post. I used kid (hear you love kids!) gloves yesterday because it was too late to pop off a proper response.

You know you are now the moderator of the BS Crew boards? A message board. On the internet. Right? What do you expect around here, puppies and rainbows? Detailed analysis everyday without any sort of conjecture or fun?

Yes, together we have built caricatures of Precourt, Garber, et al. In my superior and incredibly educated estimation (see how fun?), how much of those caricatures are rooted in fact and how much is just us shooting into the wind is not really the point. PSA: You are reading a message board right now. To everyone who actively or passively (lurk) participates, you are reading this post on an internet message board.

The certainty and confidence you read may not resemble any facet of the real world (huge shock!!!!). So go out and breathe some fresh air. Have a drink (or five). Folks, go get laid.

I would have just left your matchy-match post that was a near carbon copy of posts earlier in the day by hang and KCBUS (god, what a match of such three terrific! posters) had it not been for this part of the post.

1) You posted the tweet that contained the news on the stadium. YOU. POSTED. FFS.
2) Just what the ******** type of response were you expecting around here? “Great job, Precourt. Playing in a baseball stadium? God, why didn’t Columbus think of that?”
3) By my count (could be off), three posters responded with nothing like your shitty caricature of them. If you want to deliver a mini-lecture on the merits of not creating caricatures not based in reality, I would kindly suggest you do not set up your entire argument with a strawman caricature.

And seriously go look at your rep for the post (which again I hate rep and wish for a BS-free rep board, but that is neither here nor there). You have:

Soccer dad – Yesterday was still was under the misinformation that PSV bought Crew in some public sale. Read again: YESTERDAY.
Bach – Team rep circle jerk
Cbus20 – Doomsday townkrier.
KCBus – Obligated to rep the matchy-match post
Hang – No comment (per my lawyer’s orders)

Multi-quote on mobile works as well as a two-legged chair.

 

And this is exactly my thought process that leads my to question the ra ra we are gonna save the crew people. If he is not willing to sell and the potential buyers are only willing to buy this team and not accept expansion, how exactly does this happen? I get that it’s MLS and they can make shit up as the go but it still leaves pleanty of room to question the confidence of people who think PSV winning in ATX doesn’t matter.

 

You're smarter than I thought. Though not much.

 

I get what you're saying, but to me it would depend on the payday.

If some of the wild ass valuations are true, like DC United suddenly worth $500 million or whatever, then the reported $2 million he's spent in Austin (and I don't see how that could be but liars gonna lie and sometimes it's just not worth arguing) is a drop in the bucket.

Plus of course we don't know how much of that tab MLS is footing. At least some, surely.

So you go through ten months of ugly publicity, the vast majority of which he can sit in SF and not even be aware unless he wants to be, with the end game being turning a $68 million investment made in 2013 into $400 million by 2021.

I don't know about you but I'd be delighted to have every single person in the US call me the worst SOB in the world every day for a year in return for $340 million. I'll make that deal all day.

 

So the subhead wasn't obvious enough?
"Satire, Humor, Commentary - Contains No Actual News"

 

The Hippie's right. What's going on now is way, way less rational than the scenario presented (...would be if it were even possible given all that has transpired).

 

"The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense"--T. Clancy

 

I disagree. The fact that really nothing was done in Austin when he announced(remember he had a press conference scheduled for the next day when the news broke at night) I think he was looking for Columbus to buck up and offer him the moon to for sure keep the team. Instead they said we aren’t playing ball as long as Austin is on the table and ruined his plans.

 

I never said there was a public sale (auction, classified ad) for the Crew in 2013. It has been stated on here multiple times that the Hunts were looking for local investors. Is that not offering even a part of the Crew for sale? Were the Hunts looking to sell the whole shebang? We have to take MLS's word that they were not. But your insinuation that I am an uninformed hayseed for calling the purchase of the Crew by Precourt a sale is simply asinine.

Here is Webster's definition of sale:

sale
1: the act of selling; specifically : the transfer of ownership of and title to property from one person to another for a price
2: opportunity of selling or being sold :

Lighten up.

 

Are stadiums good investments though?
I feel right now is the high water mark for for profit for the Crew.

Invested 68+5 million sell for 160 million take your ~100 million over 5 years and call it one of the largest coos in sports history.

Or invest another 250 million wait another 5 years and sell it for??? It would have to be north of 500 Million to get the same return.

*Shrug* I just don't see it. I think he wants to be a pro sports franchise owner, and wants it his way; and thinks he didn't get in Columbus and is getting that down in Austin.

It will be telling to me if his children come to and go to school in Austin. If the family stays on the left coast your theory holds more weight.

I'd also put the over under at year 7 not 5 (2 to build + 5 of free rent.)

 

Clark Hunt told several publications, very specifically and in response to questions, that the Crew was not for sale, that it was an important part of the HSG portfolio,io and any rumors to the contrary were erroneous.

It appears that he was looking for an arrangement like Anschutz has, owning all of one team and half of another while in reality running them both.

Everyone knew that Garber badly wanted to get to singls team ownership buf when Phil got the Houston arrangement that was OK with him. Hunt was trying to do something similar but nobody locally wanted to go into business with the Hunts, for all the reasons discussed.