Michigan Bucks [3-0] Midland-Odessa Sockers; Bucks score early, and was able to cruise most of the match. Bucks (the true #1 top seed, league-wide, so beware, Calgary) to host the Final, their fifth championship game. Did you know? ? ? The city of Cal-Gary-Al-Berta was named after four people? It's true!
The Ultimate Soccer Arenas is a fantastic facility. Recently expanded to five fields (four of them enclosed; and four of them full-sized).
Not sure how many of these guys are NCAA eligible. And, if they were, for how many years they would have. That's their home facility. Has been for years.
Hammerheads possibly to drop down to the PDL: http://www.wect.com/story/32591181/report-wilmington-hammerheads-to-take-2017-season-off
Interviewed three members of San Francisco City FC management. Talk about the first PDL season and if the team might still have a future in the NASL http://www.americanpyramidblog.com/...n-and-jacques-pelham-of-san-francisco-city-fc
I am concerned with the new Lakeland Tropic. Andrew Haines has consistently left debt and lawsuits in the teams he has been involved with in indoor football and the misl.
The PDL just awarded Haines a team, to play in Lakeland under the same Tropics name as his new MASL team that has a ton of fake Twitter followers and will draw flies.
No, tell us, Kenn, what do you really think? Lakeland is the Detroit Tigers minor league affiliate, and spring training facility. Not that the Tropics would play the Michigan Bucks (except for playoffs), but it would have been an interesting matchup. Lakeland (2017): http://www.uslpdl.com/news_article/show/699447 Nashville (2017 PDL, 2018 USL): http://www.uslpdl.com/news_article/show/698095 I sort of remember Lakeland hosting the NORCECA (volleyball's version of CONCACAF) championships one time. (NORCECA: NORth, CEntral, CAribbean)
Thanks for that information. Typically, that's what should be included in such an obscure post. It could help with some consistency in "brand" and continuity. But...I doubt it, I'll go with your assessment.
http://www.mlive.com/sports/saginaw/index.ssf/2010/12/cloud_hangs_over_new_saginaw_s.html http://www.readingeagle.com/news/article/troubled-legacy https://archcitysports.com/2015/11/18/trouble-brewing-for-the-ambush/ http://www.readingeagle.com/sports/article/roar-soccer-team-closes-office As a soccer fan I don't want these kind of owners in the league. It makes the league look bad. That is what it has to do with the PDL.
While he certainly has a checkered past, and I'm not a fan, it would only "make the league look bad" if anyone actually lost sleep over what the league looked like.
Ug, lakeland, really? I guess it is the right market size for a PDL team...but I still hate the Tropics name for either the indoor team or this new PDL team. No one I know in Florida refers to it as the "tropics", that is a vision of people marketing from outside the state that have no clue.
I did. Lakeland is a small metro in a largely rural county with 13 percent of the population living below the poverty line. The indoor team will be a train wreck. The PDL team will be...a PDL team, I guess.
The PDL announced it has awarded the Hammerheads an expansion team for next season. The Hammerheads will retain the same owner, George Altirs, but will now be operated by the Wilmington Hammerheads FC Youth Board of Directors. As a result, their partnership with NYCFC will end and City will have to enter a partnership with another team in the USL or launch its own. http://www.empireofsoccer.com/usls-wilmington-hammerheads-to-move-to-pdl-54113/
Nipun @NipunChopra7 (2) Emerging reports (3 diff sources) of negotiations b/w USL and NPSL. What that means for NASL-NPSL collaboration is unclear. 5:15 PM - 31 Oct 2016
It probably would not really impact NASL-NPSL. Some NASL teams have had PDL sides in the past, IIRC. Just as some MLS sides have NPSL teams at times.
Not sure what to make of this, since at least one owner in the NPSL has refuted it. Today is going to be interesting. It looks the NPSL is announcing it's newest expansion team, and it looks like it just might be Kitsap changing leagues based on what I'm hearing
Is there any reason that the USL "selling off" the PDL to NPSL would help them in their effort to get D2? Like could the USSF frown upon one organization owning a D2 league and another league? Didn't the USL get rid of their Women's league (and maybe other leagues) in the last 3-5 years? Are they consolidating in an effort to go after D2?
Maybe, just maybe, the national amateur leagues are realizing that working together would be in their best long term interest. Sometimes I make myself laugh
If they did that, and talked a few regional leagues (ASL, PLA) to the table, they could ... COULD ... get enough people together to make a very economical "summer" season (that would fit the PDL/NPSL schedule) AND maybe a spring/fall season for those that wanted a more "full year" calendar. It could essentially be similar (but not exactly) like the NASL's spring/fall season ... with a different trophy for each season. It's crazy, I know ... but it could work. Too many ego's I'm guessing, although you might get a few NASL/USL teams wanting to have their own "reserve" team playing in the season long options ... and some more MLS/NASL/USL U23 teams playing the summer leagues as an extension of their academy.