Yeah, uh, no. You gave away the house to sniff the car and the sleaze ball that said it was his. Can’t wait until you all see it was a yugo with a new paint job.
Being serious here. What do you really expect of Austin. Its not everyday you get an opportunity to land an MLS team. Naturally, there are big soccer fans in Austin who are excited to have the chance to go to live matches. Do you think fans are happy to have a team relocate as opposed to getting a new team? Of course not, but we dont chose these things. Our choice is no MLS team for a very long foreseeable future or accept the team being offered. Switch roles for a second and really think. The facts remain, your ownership agreed to sell their franchise with the possibility of the team being relocated. All parties agreed to it. Be pissed at Precourt, Be pissed at MLS. Nobody in Austin snuck into Columbus and hijacked your team under the cover of darkness, your ownership came to Austin.
When? This would be the news of the week. Surely you have a link? Or are you just that ********ing sloppy with the English language?
No, Columbus did not. J. Anthony Precourt did. Not so sure you should be commenting on analogies here.
https://www.statesman.com/news/loca...ND&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=austin360 Austin City Council approves deal for an MLS stadium 2:05 p.m. update: Austin appears to have landed a Major League Soccer team after the Austin City Council approved the McKalla Place deal Wednesday for a soccer stadium in North Austin. The stadium deal paves the way for Columbus Crew SC owner Anthony Precourt to begin financing an estimated $200 million stadium at the 24-acre tract of city-owned land near The Domain. Precourt aims to have the team playing in the Austin area next year.
The Modell law might well be unconstitutional if it applied to all sports team owners. But it doesn't, it only applies to those who accepted public support. HSG/PSV could have paid market rates of rent and taxes on the stadium and not had to worry about the law. But they didn't. It's not clear even today if MLS/PSV has given notice of the proposed move even yet. There is a dispute about who owns the team and there has been a lot of parallel paths stuff up until yesterday. The plaintiffs in Ohio are seeking to get the judge to rule that the "opportunity to buy" means a reasonable offer must be accepted. That's not a stretch and if the judge so rules, then PSV won't have a team to deliver to Austin. Maybe MLS grants them an expansion team, maybe not. I agree there won't be an empty stadium at McKalla because construction won't begin until all the contingencies have been worked out. The Modell case is a pretty big one and that won't even go to trial until next year. It's also possible there are suits or a referendum in Austin.
The contingencies can be worked out pretty quickly. MLS can commit to put a team in McKalla when it is completed. The only issue today is what happens to the Crew. As long as the lawsuit is ongoing, they need to play most of their home games in Columbus. They could potentially split time between Austin and Columbus.
MLS could get out from under the Modell suit pretty quickly (ie before discovery starts) if they want to but so far there are no signs of that. But Whitfield/Chen/Capella/Epstein still have a good case in Austin that an RFP should have been used to dispose of McKalla instead of leasing it to PSV for decades.
As of right now........The Crew don't have a place to play in Austin next season.......... It should also be noted that yes, Precourt is likely bringing a team to Austin, it's just not going to be the current winning team. It's highly likely Triple G leaves after the season to take a role with US Soccer, if not the USMNT job as has been rumored. If not that, he'll likely leave for a another job. That happens and a lot of players will leave or ask to leave. Trapp and Meram in particular will likely lobby to move to FCC. Trapp my opt to move to Europe. Triple G runs the entire Soccer Operation too, so that's a huge void that likely needs to be filled.
Surely you don't believe that. That would be like believing they don't have a team name, logo, and colors already picked out.
So where, exactly, will they be playing NEXT season??? They couldn't tell the ACC this, so how do you know?
If they are worth their salt they already have logos, kit designs, partnerships, sponsors and possibly even a venue lined up. But there is nothing for them to gain by disclosing any of that information. They theoretically have 6 months until they potentially kick off in Austin. I'm in no way connected, but I can guarantee they have 90% of that buttoned up.
Another sock that has two posts, both in favor of Austin. Why am I not surprised? It’s probably AP himself, seeing as how he can’t go on Twitter anymore.
When will it be ok for pro Austin people to comment on the matter? It wasn't allowed during the announcement in October, nor after the first city council vote, nor the second, now the third when our city Council agreed to bring MLS to Austin. If you want to complain about it, you have a 25,000 post thread over in the crew section where you can say what you want. Let's at least try to keep ONE thread on this site for people who actually want to discuss the possibility of this move without being labeled as shills, etc.
If they were actually ready to go, they would have used that as a selling point to the Austin city council. Here are the Austinites who have pledged to buy tickets, here are our local business partners, here's where we'll play for 2 years, etc.
I would imagine contracts already established in Austin would have odd consequences to the lawsuit in Ohio.
So, with your inside knowledge, are you saying there are no contracts or that they simply haven’t been announced? I’ll send your answer onMike DeWine’s office when I am there on Tuesday.
So, given PSV’s complete lack of a history of being anything but competent, your uninformed guess is that he has a bunch of sponsorship deals, temporary facility and other things needed to run a team all ready to go. No leaks, no whispers of sponsors, nothing. Hell, AP hasn’t even been in Austin all that much. You think that all sounds plausible?
Sure? I don't see why not. And I could also be completely wrong. I guess I just don't see why anyone else couldn't think it's even plausible.