Depends how inclusive they/we want it to be. If someone like Alex Zotinca should be a Sporting Legend someday, then one a year from here on out is probably fine. If you want something more exclusive, then 1 every other year, 1 every fifth year, etc. What pace would you like to see?
I would like to see anything that suggests there is no pace or planned timing to any of this. That's what I want to see.
I would like to see it be less inclusive. Don't really have the parameters. Just get the feeling like skc are force feeding history and nostalgia that's not really there. Just my opinion.
Who elected or nominated hasn't deserved to be in? Who that's been up for it has made it feel less inclusive? The team had 17 years of history to back track on. I agree that over the first two years I got a little hesitant of how they were going about it, but limiting it to 1 a year if that is fine.
Honestly cannot remember all the nominees. If Vermes is in as a coach, that's premature. If Vermes is in as player, i think that's not something I'd have voted for. Klein is the 6th or 7th inductee. For a team that's been around for 17 years (with basically a .500 record in that time), that means we are almost averaging .5 of a player every year. Mathematically, it just feels a bit much. Going forward, if we kick out a hall of fame-worthy player at that rate, we're either way above .500 or have too broad of a definition. I think all the inductees are pretty outstanding, but generally would error on the side of limiting the franchise going forward. Committing to add a certain number per year feels like a mistake.
Vermes is the only one I think you can argue with, but if you combine his playing and coaching it becomes harder. Here are the 6 that are in at this point, not counting Klein Preki Meola Gansler Conrad Vermes Hunt So three players, 1 coach, 1 player/coach, and the original owner of the team. I don't think that's over doing it, Klein with his stats for the club, it's hard to argue he shouldn't be in. From here there are only maybe 3 players I'd add in that aren't retired, Garcia, Johnston, and Zavagnin. Just because a team is just over .500 doesn't mean that they don't have hall of famers and the players around them just aren't good enough...
As I said, Vermes is really the only one I can say I wouldn't vote for so far. We will see going forward. Like most all things this thread especially, it's like, your opinion man.....
They aren't being selected for the US soccer hall of fame (there still is one, isn't there?). To me, this is nothing more than making official what you would chant in the stands. Sporting Legend. It's just fun, and as much about the fans as the players. On that, there are some others I think should be included. Digital. He scored our first goal, was the first player to attract local attention. the crawl was cool. I will always stand and smile and applaud Digital. Also, I stonewalled Dig once in a scrimmage, so I need at least one legend like that. Miklos Molnar. A total hoot of a player. Could only score goals. Won us a title. Tiny feet in tinier shoes. Lalas. Mostly so he'd come back and be booed. But he was fun, if a bit crap. Maybe a lot crap. He was fun though. His beard in the Guinness trick was a hoot. Maybe say we're giving him a Legend selection then pull it away at the last second... Mo. Of course Mo. We need that photo of the blood running down his face plastered everywhere. That is the quintessential image of SKC, even if he was a Wiz/ard. Is there anyone on here that wouldn't chant KC Legend when Mo walked onto the field?
I can see the reasoning behind Digital, Molnar, and Mo. (Not Lalas though, are you kidding me?) But for me at least, I favor longevity for the club - sustained excellence over a large-ish period of time - more than one or two seasons of excitement. Yes, the 2000 season was awesome. But I don't see any of those guys getting in before someone like Zavagnin. Of course, I think all the obvious candidates have now been chosen. The next few are going to be interesting.
The next ones depend on retirement length before inclusion. Both Nielsen and Arnaud are going in eventually.
wow, I forget how much the league has progressed until I see a goal set up at Mile High in the middle of a Broncos painted endzone without a visible end line
My first MLS game to ever see in person was Marcelo Balboa's Rapids v Wizards in the summer of 1996. Yes, the league has progressed.
Fun fact: All four of those guys played in the 2000 MLS Cup. However, two of them were playing for the Fire.
The Hall, to date: 2013 – Preki, Tony Meola, Bob Gansler 2014 – Peter Vermes, Jimmy Conrad, Lamar Hunt 2015 – Chris Klein 2016 – Kerry Zavagnin Mo should be in because Mo was incredibly cool. Gutierrez should be in because, if I am correct, he was our first local star. I know Wolff was with us for a while, but we aren't the club that comes to mind with him, are we? I still think of him as a Fire player who came over, and very much did a job, and the image of him I keep is against Mexico in Columbus ... Of course, I just made a case for Mo, so maybe this is a crap argument. But he'd be tied with Garcia for my third choice on the list.
Every year I'm shocked that Mo is rejected again and I wonder if there is some concern by the club that he wouldn't return for recognition.