Discouraged

I agree with that Bill. USL 1 should be single table also it would be great if USL 1 and 2 could do relegation/promotion although they never would. I think more west coast teams could only help the league by creating great regional rivalries as well as cutting costs. Then you could always have East v West championship at the end of the season.

 

As far as D1 goes wouldn't that be go back to? Not that I would have a problem with it, but my guess is the league would consider it a step backwards; they seem happy with single entity.

And personally that is my objection to D2 expanding to a western division. I just fear that after a year or two of separate divisions that they would then decided to go single table and teams would find themselves in some financial crisis because of the travel. Also, as has been said elsewhere, you're going to need to find a bunch of teams that are willing/able to join at the same time

 

You would definitely need more than one team in the West. Look at the westward expansion of the Brooklyn Dodgers and NY Giants. They had to move at the same time to lower travel cost and to create a rivarly. The bad part was that it completely killed off the Pacific League in the process (the original SF Seals, Oakland Oaks, Hollywood Stars, etc).

I always wondered if the MLS had similar plans for the Pacific Northwest. Would a separate MLS team in the PNW kill off the USL in that region? Probably not. The fan base is too strong in that area, and I am sure no one is stupid enough or evil enough to try and break the Seattle/Portland/Vancouver rivarly... well, maybe AEG is.

But nevermind that. Perhaps have D2 split between east/west (setting opportunities for some PDL teams to move up and fill the void while retaining their PDL counterparts as reserves), and leave D1 as national. What do you think? Or do you think that the D2 franchise costs would still be too great for some PDL teams?

 

Seattle are averaging over 4k per match in all home games.

 

I think the problem in Seattle is playing at Quest field. With 4000 in there the place looks empty.

 

Seattle are averaging 3250 per game not 4K+
Vancouver average 5183

Thank you very much
2006 USL-1 Champions > 2005 USL-1 Chumps

 

This is all very true. Freight is intentionally trying to kill off AMTRAK.

 

Isn't Seattle a larger market?