Have you checked the Arizona, Orange County, Orlando, Rochester, and Wilmington subforums lately? Chicken and egg issue with us and fans from other cities regarding all these stupid Superthreads. There are 27 pages in this one "Superthread," which is about 20 pages too many IMHO. Several of us would post more often and even create our own threads if there was a simple one-stop subforum with several threads like the one bigsoccer has deemed OKC worthy of a couple of years ago, yet somehow Tulsa is not? http://forums.bigsoccer.com/threads/why-does-my-usl-club-not-have-a-subforum.2023202/ http://forums.bigsoccer.com/threads...ead-added-to-the-usl-expansion-forum.2001128/ http://forums.bigsoccer.com/threads/tulsa-roughnecks-fcs-2016-schedule.2028494/ forums.bigsoccer.com/threads/questioning-tulsa-attendance.2030865/ http://forums.bigsoccer.com/threads/tulsa-downtown-soccer-stadium-thread.2023329/ http://forums.bigsoccer.com/threads/usl-executives-head-to-tulsa-for-league-summit.2026324/ http://forums.bigsoccer.com/threads/okc-vs-tulsa.2020221/ Instead, this single thread I created years ago was hijacked, re-named and stickied as a lazy catch all, and several fans who might otherwise post have ignored the forum outright. Hey, there's always Reddit, I guess... Thanks for nothing, Bigsoccer!
Then the mods should get rid of half the team subforums in USL and force them onto individual "superthreads" ... bet that makes them even more popular than the snoozefest we have now... have you checked many of them out lately?.... most have little activity even though we're mid-season. Once again, I know several people who simply won't post on a single all-purpose catch-all thread. Have a nice day!
Top Five Roughnecks Topics that won't get discussed in the Super Thread 1. Is a soccer specific GM critical for the success of the Roughnecks? 2. Is having a minority owner that has majority stakes in Energy FC a conflict of interest? 3. Roughnecks have two frequent starters that grew up in the Tulsa area. Should discovering local talent be a priority? 4. Is the TRFC front office skimping on the operating budget, or is there unsustainable spending going on from all the other independent teams? 5. Fire coach Irving and try to poach Joey Ryan from the Athletics?
If there were, I would have initiated a profoundly interesting thread last week about "soggy pitches." Pity.
I think I'll put this right here... and no, this isn't from my website or affiliated with it. http://roughnecksfc.com/
If the coach gets to keep his job, it's an admission that the Drillers FO think they're getting their money's worth...
Yawn. Coach fired... er uh... promoted... http://www.roughnecksfc.com/news_article/show/713929?referrer_id=2723911 Rayo OKC assistant coach hired... http://www.roughnecksfc.com/news_article/show/730901?referrer_id=2723911 Guess it must be good for business that Roughnecks FC have a front office that drives people to drink... http://www.roughnecksfc.com/news_article/show/720408?referrer_id=2723911
@USRufnex Just saw this on Vaudreuil's facebook page. Hope he does well for Tulsa.... Vaudreuil Ready to Set Standard for Roughnecks - USL
We know there's money in Tulsa. Oklahoma City businessmen just recently relocated the WNBA Tulsa Shock to Arlington, TX. Why aren't any local Tulsa businessmen bankrolling the Roughnecks?
Doesn't the loss of the Shocks imply insufficient interests from the business leaders for pro sports?
No, it implies that OKC business people should never have majority interest in any Tulsa pro sports team.
Nope! Understand your concern with what happen with the USL Tulsa Roughnecks involving Prodigal. Tulsa does have the potential to support a higher level of soccer than the USL. IMO, more so than OKC since the Thunder takes a lot of our city's corporate & community support. William Cameron (OKC businessman) was one of the owners of the Shock; he like George Kaiser (Tulsa's businessman) both are current minority owners with the NBA Thunder, Oklahoma's highest major league level in pro sports. Let's not continue to alienate both cities with this rhetoric of pitting Oklahoma City against Tulsa. If Oklahoma ever plans to advance in pro sports, especially soccer; it's going to take the ownership & investments from people with deep pockets from both of Oklahoma's largest metropolitan areas as well as the support from both communities.
United we stand: The combined demographics of OKC-TUL represent 1.3 million tv households with a metropolitan population of roughly 2.4 million residents. There are probably more like 3 million plus residents within 150-mile radius of the two. The 91-mile Turner Turnpike (75 mph) separate the two corporate city limits; our metro areas are more like 70 miles. Projects like high speed rail (under study) between both cities has the potential to increase development in both communities. It's time to bury the hatchet.
Agree interests in professional sports are risky. As far as OKC businessmen having faith in the Tulsa market to invest majority ownership is another question. USRufnex & myself would love to see the return of a the glory days of the professional soccer in T-town. When the NASL Tulsa Roughnecks were competitive; they excited the interest & fancy of Tulsa and many OKC soccer fans.
They each have at least one team, and two of them are in the same league with the same group owning a large part of two teams? What else do you want, an Oklahoma-Exclusive 3rd Division?
Rayo had the better players, Energy the better team as the game wore on. Vaudreuil will have neither with the Prodigal-influenced Roughnecks.... meanwhile.... Hearing #cf97 and Saint Louis FC have ended their USL relationship. Fire will partner with Tulsa Roughnecks FC this coming season.— Guillermo Rivera (@FireConf) January 15, 2017 So @Mr. Warmth will this make you a fan? Me neither.
To be fair, if you weren't a fan before ... and are in touch with lower level soccer enough to have an opinion on "MLS affiliates" ... then they weren't really doing this for you. It's not really done for the fans ... and the ones they're trying to get through the gates likely don't care about this.
I've gone to many of the games, so you have no right to lecture me. Our fans will know that the worst team in USL is affiliating with the worst team in MLS. If the team improves, they might get a small boost... otherwise the damage is already done.