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I had no idea Borchers skipped like a girl and wore a bra. Good article in that hippie rag, the New York Times. Sachin
from a great article by Ives Galarcep... Chicago's loss is Jersey's gain if link doesn't work.....you have to get it manually.
Re: Denver Post U-23 article Mmmm, typolicious... Sunday Oct. 16th? And why would you have a camp the day AFTER a friendly?
i call it grasping at straws it's the u.s. open cup... give it an audience... try believing in the product and it's ability to create converts tells me the ussf doesn't have faith in our product
Would you feel the same way if the potential tripleheader were in Los Angeles and not Chicago? I agree 100 percent with Ives.
Come on... where are all the conspiracy theorist??? The Open Cup is being played in NJ to give the Metros the greatest shot at winning possible. Is it not that obvious to everyone else? Why else play it in a stadium with the highest per game rent of any in MLS on synthetic grass? Obvious bias on the part of USSF to have the Metros win.
A reliable source (someone who works at DU and has access to student records) tells me that Borchers is still a DU student on scholarship despite the fact that plays professional for the Rapids. If he were a football or basketball player, you'd think this would be a major scandal. Does nobody notice/care since he's a soccer player?
Well, if he suits up for DU and plays, I'm thinking the NCAA might take notice. Other than that, what's the big deal? If it's an academic scholarship, it's totally unrelated to his athletic pursuits. Even if it's a soccer scholarship that he's finishing up school with - no issue. He earned the scholarship with his tenure on the DU soccer team and now DU is holding up it's end of the deal and paying for the costs for him to finish his education. I'm not sure you understand how scholarships work.
I dunno. I'm biased but I think Chicago probably would've supported the Open Cup better anyway, as it's shown in the past. That seems to me to be a reasonable criteria for awarding it. But it's kinda ironic if Chicago fans bitch too much-- we've benefitted from some fairly low-down USSF Open Cup shenanigans ourselves. Fact is, it's not a competition ruled by fairness or logic-- it's still struggling despite all of its history-- but for that very reason, Ives is off-base. But this is why I think the guy's probably the best soccer sportswriter out there. He's not afraid to go out on a limb and state an actual opinion; more importantly, he's done his research to back it up.
They weren't selling the product. They were adding it on to something already going. That's as much hiding it as putting it in the Swamp. If they were so concerned about promoting this game, they would have announced it first, let the USOC fans get the best tickets, then added a match to the bill. It was an afterthought.
you really think wilt and company didn't know that the 15th was the date for the open cup final? to make it a show, you gotta have people as it is, i expect 5000 for the final
Maybe. I would like to point out that athletic schollys are a series of one year deals, renewable at the school's discretion. So DU is under no obligation.
I know they knew the date, but hey planned other things first, were (allegedly) going to give those things a better timeslot in the scheme of things and sold tickets to people interested in that game first. 5,000 when that's what they are there to see is fine with me. You don't build interest making it a secondary part of a larger event. You really think the Mexican or Uruguyan fans would care oneiota about this game?
Chicago has hosted two Open Cup finals in the past five years. One of those finals (1998) should have been held in the only soccer-specific stadium in MLS at the time (Crew Stadium). It's time that another team gets an opportunity to host the final. Fire fans have no reason to complain.