St. Louis Ambush return for 2013-14 season!

I think its done for the sake of posting it . People are jumping the gun because Soccer Sam was seen at the pasl Championship game . He was there doing his radio show . He is also looking for a league to place the Lancers 2 team in .

 

Selling tickets online now does not make a team a lock. It's surely a good indicator. It doesn't make them locks. Considering you'd have zero revenue coming in the door between now and camp season, selling tickets now is smart. That doesn't mean you won't come to a realization three months from now that it doesn't work.

But if you want to go there, Chicago is not selling tickets. Wichita is not selling tickets. Missouri is. Baltimore is not. Rochester and Syracuse are. Milwaukee is.

Most of the last several teams that have gone away have done so in the summer months, and often the only announcement is when the lineup of teams for a given upcoming season is released and they are not on it.

 

The Norfolk SharX will still pushing their lifetime tickets online up until their demise.

 

And likely after the decision had been made that they would be closing shop.

 

Breaking NEWS from "source very close to the situation" has told me that the
MISL has received the formal application from STL...as well as their business plan.

 

Wait a minute.....ZINSY hasn't confirmed it yet, so it must not be true.

 

is St Louis the only expansion team we are looking at for next year?

 

You mean besides all the others that are rumored EVERY year?

 

well yeah there are rumors, but i'm talking situations like St Louis, which looks like its going to be reality. solid stuff behind it, rather than gossip

 

So this....with no actual media reporting behind it...qualifies as solid, to you?

Not saying it won't happen....just curious where your threshold is.

 

This just might happen, but solid? I am going to wait and see

 

Perhaps "solid' is not the right word, kenn. afterall, we dont have an official statement saying ' yeah we're in the process of vetting the St Louis ownership and preparing to welcome them into the league' now THAT would be pretty good evidence that we're going to have a St Louis team next year. short of that, yeah its 'wait and see' mode.

 

No , The Misl is looking for a travel partner for Baltimore but I have not heard any more on that . The ST Louis thing as soon as I get word its a done deal ill let you guys know

 

There have hardly even been rumors in the USL era.

 

Whether that's because USL does a better job of clamping down, or whether we have (coincidentally or not) finally entered an era in which it is nigh on impossible to convince someone they should own a team, I couldn't tell you.

 

Well, the Franchise Fee has dropped to $100,000 .... about $95,000 too much still

Must make Wink and the others who came in much higher than that figure happy

Card Man- why did you not break this story?

 

"The ST Louis thing as soon as I get word its a done deal ill let you guys know"
This just sounds NOT right = "as soon as I get word" "it's a done deal"
Thats what I told my last car salesman who sold me a car as soon I decide to buy, it is a done deal
contradiction of terms????

 

As soon as Detroit and Minnesota are done deals, he'll let us know that, too.

 

Chicago Philly Cleveland Detroit = as soon I get the word it is a done deal

 

who told you the league has droped its fees because that is incorrect .

 

Because I will get word before the MISL releases the info .

 

Well Card Man- if that is incorrect then you better let CHRIS E and STEVE S know that!

Good God my friend... do you work for the USL?

 

I am just telling you what I know and what was Paid to the League , I think you have your info mixed up I know the USL League fees vary

 

HOLY FREAKING SH**

THIS INFO CAME DIRECTLY FROM THE HORSES MOUTH ABOUT THE MISL FRANCHISE FEE!!!!!! BUT IF YOU SAY OTHERWISE THEN I AM WRONG

GOOD LORD no wonder Kenn bangs his head on the wall when talking with some of you on these boards

 

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