https://www.frontrowsoccer.com/2024...ENvfP-HimbioLq8Y4U_aem_jPUnCyoHJQTUMLZZsrjcVw Roc City Boom will field a team in the Major Arena Soccer League 3, the league announced on Tuesday morning. The M3 team will kick off a 10-game regular season schedule against the Cleveland Samba at the Rochester Sports Garden in Rochester on Saturday, Jan. 11.
I am good friends with Soccer Sam I am surprised he did not tell me about this. I know he knew I had a lot going on and was the first to reach out to see if I was ok after my house caught on fire in July. He knew I was working 20 hr days rebuilding everything to get my mother back home. I am sorry to hear that the lancers are gone,
Keith Tozer Commissioner 1 hour ago Fantastic news for the @MASLarena and professional indoor soccer that 40 regular season games will be broadcast live on @CBSSportsGolazo. The game of professional indoor soccer continues to grow with more exciting news still coming.
I think this is good in that the broadcasts on CBS Golazo had the feel of a major league broadcast, and it's easily accessible for fans, but it probably isn't going to do anything to grow the fanbase (I never even heard of CBS Golazo before the MASL had a game on there).
People hadn't heard of espn2 before they put North Carolina/Duke on there. Don't they just take the local broadcast anyway, though? It's not like CBS is producing 40 games, right?
BREAKING: MASL Commissioner Keith Tozer has signed a two-year contract extension Full Story: https://lnkd.in/gmUJiwKc
Good for Tozer, and I hope the league. Announcement twice mentioned expansion: "the league is well positioned to expand and continue to grow its footprint across North America and globally" and "exciting upcoming league expansion, and the addition of new sponsors, the future of the MASL has never looked brighter." Do they mean at the MASL men's level? MLIS has already announced Pittsburgh and the "return" of the Rockford Thunder.
I don't think the MASL has expanded since 2015. They've moved a couple teams. They've had owners pay for the rights to defunct teams, but even those rarely get used. They literally can't give teams away.
Were the Missisauga Metrostars a true expansion team? Weren't Mesquite an expansion team? The Tropics and Coyotes were, weren't they?
You're right. So I think the league hasn't expanded since 2019. I overdid it on the negativity, but you could argue the MASL has never had a successful expansion team from an attendance/financial point of view, other than Sonora.
TBF, financially, nobody's been successful. San Diego will be moreso with the vertical integration. But they should totally expand more, as fanboys continually tell us. The track record is that good.
Does Expansion honestly count if at least One of the Texas teams are folding? At One point the MASL Removed Both Texas team from the Main Website. Once fans online were talking about it , they quickly restored it. Iowa is rumored to move up to the M1 and Guadalajara was expected to play this season but was announced 3 years ago. The M2 & M3 Is Expanding faster then the MASL & I am positive its because of the Franchise fees. the MLIS is getting a lot of the teams that wanted to be apart of the MASL But Franchise fees rumored to be between $125K and $250K is like throwing your money out the window. Because you are never going to make that Back and your never going to turn a profit owning a indoor soccer team. Everyone knows the real money is made in summer camps