Considering the fact that the Lady Tar Heels and Wolfpack draw above the average W-league team or WPSL, the Courage drew well in Chapel Hill and Cary, and many women's soccer alumni live or have roots around here, I think a W-league team would be successful here.
That would be a fun addition to a fun area, for sure. Charlotte's W-League team has always seemed to be solid in the FO, but that's a specialty organization; they are a missionary organization. So, I'm not sure if the waters are different in Charlotte. I was closer to the Upstate SC cities. Not any history there, pretty sure. Not sure about the CU Tigers. Their men's side seems to draw, but what about the women?
A women's team in North Carolina in say Raleigh, Charlotte or Chapel Hill Area is a total DUH!!! moment. Some of the best women's soccer comes from NC, it'd be stupid NOT to put a team or two there.
Anyone here remember the Raleigh Wings? They did well record wise but I don't remember them drawing a ton of people. But my memory gets a bit hazy after all this time. As with a WPS team, pretty much the only thing really necessary for there to be a WLeague team in the RDU area is an owner willing to pay the franchise fee + costs of team operations. I'm guessing the best bet would be if the Carolina Railhawks wanted to add a WLeague team. But I highly doubt that's going to happen any time soon -- especially given the D-2 jumble right now.
OK, I may be missing something, but there's a team called the Cary Clarets, which I thought were spun off of the Railhawks somehow. They have a PDL team, and a W-League team. Not sure if they still exist, but there's that.
They don't exist anymore. I *think* the PDL team b/cm part of the Railhawks and then ceased to exist under the Clarets name. The WLeague team died.