Sooooo.....The USSF decided to award the $25K to another lower division team for advancing furthest in the tournament....because Sac Republic had fewer "wins" since they advanced via PK's....... That's disgusting. The USSF should be ashamed. Between this and the paltry finger flick of a punishment administered to Orlando ($1K-$5K) for spying on Sac Republic's training sessions the Federation is such a joke most of the time. It's no wonder not many outside of the diehard fans gives two flips about this tournament.
If the USSF is giving the 25k to another team in addition to Sacramento, that's fine, but if they aren't giving it to them at all, well, that sucks...big time! Fans in Sacramento have been good for American soccer. Too bad soccer hasn't been as good to the fans there.
Boooooooooooooo USSF! Sacramento should get something out of its memorable Cup run other than being treated badly.
The runner-up from the tournament is supposed to get $100,000. Do you mean nothing specifically for the being the 2nd division team to advance the farthest? https://thecup.us/2022/01/25/2022-us-open-cup-will-feature-modern-era-record-103-teams/
They did NOT receive the $25K for being the furthest advancing 2nd Division team. According to the USL Show on SiriusXM FC.
Well that bullhockey. Seems to me like 'furthest advancing' is a pretty clear measure. If they can show something in the rules that says 'most wins' or something else, then they have a leg to stand on. Otherwise, this is some bizarre politics to try and boost enticement for other teams that don't quite get there. While that might make some sort of sense, it's wrong, IMHO. If that's what they're thinking, it seems likely to me that it'll just cause teams to say 'nevermind'. I mean, if the USSF decides to just give the winnings to someone else based on some bizarre, not previously disclosed metric then I'd walk away.
It's specifically in the rules that the Champion/runner-up prize money is awarded in lieu of the divisional bonuses.
Yep, that's the last line of page 17 of the handbook. You can find the Handbook here: https://www.ussoccer.com/us-open-cup
Think of this like how MLS handles CCL spots.. If a single team wins the SS and MLS Cup, the team that places second gets the SS spot.. Since Sacramento is already getting $100k for reaching the finals, the lower division team that advanced the 2nd furthest is getting the $25k. IMHO, this seems to be a better way of handling things than giving Sacramento $125k. Now Sacramento still gets $100k, but a second team gets $25k as well.
Thank you for clearly laying out the logic that I expect they're using. The problem is, as far as I know there was nothing explicitly stated that they would do that. Granted, I'm not paying that close attention, but I would think that someone would've heard about that plan ahead of time. Like, before the game, because this would have already come into play as soon as Sacramento won the semifinal. Did they do this the last time a non-MLS team made the final? I suppose it's possible that it was there in the rules all along and Mike Watts and co-host didn't do any research before getting upset about it. I mean, that never happens with podcasters, right? With that in mind, I guess I should take a pause on my righteous fury for a bit and see where this goes.
Actually not all that bothered by this. I think Union Omaha deserves the $25K (assuming they would be the recipient). And SRFC's chief bookkeeper may disagree with me on this, but I think having had five additional home fixtures (two of which were against MLS teams and were sellouts) will probably make more for SRFC in the aggregate than the USSF's $25K "highest placed lower division team" bounty. No need to double-dip.
Union Omaha won the DIII prize. The DII recipient is probably Louisville City if they actually get the money. The way I read the rule doesn't necessarily say that it is a hand-me-down situation.
guarantee you neither of those two circumstances have eff-all to do with why non-die-hards are not into this tournament.
Care to any reasons as to why the non-diehards don't give two flips about the USOC? Aside from the USSF apparently not giving enough craps about it.