The four South clubs have an average lattitude of 35.1 degrees, which is slightly south of the average of 35.3 degrees for the Central. That uses cities, not suburbs like Bridgeview.
I agree with this. The current divisions: Denver - Houston: 878 air miles Dallas - Denver: 662 miles Houston - Kansas City: 645 miles Kansas City - Denver: 557 miles Dallas - Kansas City: 454 miles Houston - Dallas: 225 miles -------------------------------------- Miami-Chicago: 1,191 miles Miami-Cincinnati: 955 miles Miami-Atlanta: 606 miles Atlanta-Chicago: 588 miles Atlanta-Cincinnati: 370 miles Chicago-Cincinnati: 252 miles Average distance: 615.25 miles If you went with a "North/South" split: Denver - Cincinnati: 1,100 miles Denver - Chicago: 918 miles Denver - Kansas City: 557 miles Kansas City - Cincinnati: 539 miles Kansas City - Chicago: 412 miles Chicago-Cincinnati: 252 miles --------------------------------------- Dallas-Miami: 1,110 miles Houston-Miami: 967 miles Dallas- Atlanta: 719 miles Houston-Atlanta: 701 miles Miami-Atlanta: 606 miles Houston-Dallas: 225 miles Average distance: 675.5 miles Not a huge difference but the groups the USSF used are slightly more compact.
I can always count on BS to break this down to such minute detail. Thank you all for the geography lesson(s) - I'm being serious with this, too. No snark
U.S. Open Cup 5th Round: Home team first, times are ET Tuesday, June 27 FC Dallas (MLS) v. Colorado Rapids (MLS) 8:00 pm Wednesday, June 28 Houston Dynamo (MLS) v. Sporting Kansas City (MLS) 6:30 pm New England Revolution (MLS) v. DC United (MLS) 7:30 pm New York Red Bulls (MLS) v. Philadelphia Union (MLS) 7:30 pm Miami FC (NASL) v. Atlanta United (MLS) 7:30 pm FC Cincinnati (USL) v. Chicago Fire (MLS) 7:30 pm San Jose Earthquakes (MLS) v. Seattle Sounders (MLS) 10:30 pm LA Galaxy (MLS) v. Sacramento Republic (USL) 10:30 pm The quarterfinals are July 7-16.
It is a double-header with the Houston Dash, the women's team. The Dash already had a home game scheduled that day. We don't know if the Dynamo tried to move the Open Cup game to Tuesday but they didn't announce this scheduling until June 20 so they may have been trying to work something else out and had to settle on this.
Tickets went on sale at 1 pm today, trending towards a sell out: Go ahead and 🙋 if you're in that number for next week's @opencup match against @chicagofire! #USOC2017 pic.twitter.com/dk39p0lkpE— FC Cincinnati (@fccincinnati) June 22, 2017
First it got real, then you brought the 🔥... The Bailey will be doing it again against @chicagofire, as the section is SOLD OUT! #USOC2017 pic.twitter.com/AqQ0ufpmJL— FC Cincinnati (@fccincinnati) June 22, 2017
Real possibility that #ESPN will be covering @fccincinnati @usopencup game vs @ChicagoFire on June 28th. #MLS #USOpenCup— Taylor Twellman (@TaylorTwellman) June 22, 2017
Several times including the semis + final last year. Not sure if such an early round match has ever made it to ESPN, but one has made it to FSC (now FS1 when an amateur club called FC Roma reached the quarters and played the Galaxy)
Club and Bailey already sold out. Westside down to a few hundred seats in the corner. ESPN covering game? That number is going to double...— Bill Wolf (@billwwolf) June 22, 2017 Club/premium seating now sold out.
Can we get some live whip-around coverage from Houston, Harvard, Harrison and Miami, too? USOC demands multiple live look-ins and goal updates.
We'll have a few more 👀 on our @opencup Round of 16 game versus @ChicagoFire, as it will air live on @espn 2!More: https://t.co/S7EJKg4KzB pic.twitter.com/XQgHiAHNXu— FC Cincinnati (@fccincinnati) June 23, 2017
Well at least one Round of 16 game looks to be headed live to ESPN 2. So the thinking somewhere is that this stage of the USOC would/could "out-rate" whatever it is that ESPN 2 could have opted otherwise to put on the channel in that time slot. Certainly what Cincy showed in the previous round had to have some real impact on the national tv programming decision. You don't think ESPN 2 will provide some updates and show some goal highlights from elsewhere in the USOC on 6/28 during the coverage or at halftime specifically of the Cincy/Chicago match? Live knock-out Cup competitions are exciting. Relative to say the grind of the middle of some long regular season. Throw in the "major v minor" league wrinkle and the drama is sure to be a dream for ESPN 2 on a random early summer Wednesday evening. ESPN knows how to promote its content -- http://www.fccincinnati.com/news_article/show/805816?referrer_id=2584136
Which do you prefer? A match and coverage like this -- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ion-with-the-big-time/?utm_term=.14be3ff95aa5 Or, say something like this -- https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...12026319da7_story.html?utm_term=.f710b26f48e2
I know what I prefer, and I am also well aware that most of the MLS watching public doesn't share my opinions on this. You are both preaching to the choir, and also wrong But I hope I am wrong, and American soccer perceptions are changing.