It will be a joint-affiliation with an English team: The Blackburn-Mars Rovers. (OK, I think I'm done with my Mars jokes.)
Only way a PDL or NPSL team works in Hawaii is if a bunch of teams join together and form their own division. The cost of travel is just too high to the Islands for teams at that level. These teams bus to games usually, not fly.
2, Opportunity and Curiosity. Spirit was trying to get to the match but got stuck in a sand dune and died in the attempt.
Isn't the only thing that makes sense for Hawaii (if anything truely does) is to go for an NASL team, where, ya' know, you need a $20M owner? And, yes, a travel schedule would look outright weird: I would expect some Wed-Fri-Sun road trips. If NASL gets big enough where they play single-round-robins for both halves of their season, they might switch the travel to Hawaii, where a team would play two matches "on the Island" in one half, then host Hawaii twice in the other half. And watch Hawaii win the first half, where they would then host the final....
Doesn't make sense at any level really. Even Big 4 teams would balk at having to make the trips regularly. I mean what was the last pro team the islands had in any sport? The Islanders?
Islanders moved out in 1987. WFL team was there in 1974-75. CBA team in 1979-80. Obviously, the U of H teams are used to going to the mainland, but that's the U of H and people go to U of H and obviously care about U of H.
Until recently, they had a $15M athletic department deficit, and their finances are still not in great shape: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/02/06/3917204/possible-2m-budget-short-fall.html Many - if not most - college athletic departments at big schools are separate entities and still have to generate revenue and manage expenses. They aren't like GM, getting bailed out by the government.
some of the history of soccer in Hawaii pages 264-268: http://books.google.com/books?id=s4...wAg#v=onepage&q=hawaii tsunami soccer&f=false
https://www.khon2.com/sports/exclusive-hawaii-eyeing-professional-soccer-team-for-new-aloha-stadium/ HONOLULU (KHON2) — The state of Hawaii is looking to become the home to a professional sports franchise once again. A contingent of five lawmakers and three Aloha Stadium Authority Board Members met up in Tampa, Florida for a meeting to bring the United Soccer League to the islands “We are very, very interested in Hawaii because of the community-driven nature that our clubs instill in their markets,” USL Vice President of Club Expansion Dan Holman said. “The fact obviously with the NASED project is massive, we are very much interested in transformational projects.”
Hawaii should join the NASL, they could have a five team league with New York Cosmos, Puerto Rico Islanders, Hawaii Warriors, Guam and Alaska Salmons... That would be a viable league.