MLS with 40 clubs...

And I'm the one banned from half the forums on this site...

 

Could you make this a bit more complicated?

 

Personally, I'm just "absorved" by the possibilities.

 

If you want topics like this to not get attention, don't post in them. Paulo PT didn't post anything here than should get him banned from this forum.

A limit of 41 domestic games is lower than the current limit of 45 (34 regular season + 6 playoff + 5 U.S. Open Cup).
I don't like the idea of making the U.S. Open Cup for MLS clubs only.

 

Maybe all of the clubs can get participation trophies. So the fans can celebrate more

 

OR you could just stop making moronic suggestions.

 

There seems to be a common perception that a lot of people live in Canada, which is manifested any time large-scale expansion is discussed. Canada has 35M people, while the U.S. has 320M. There are just over forty cities in the U.S. and Canada with over 2M people. Only three are in Canada, and all have teams already. There are three more cities with about 1.2M people, but a city that size is a marginal market at best, unless support has the fanaticism of hockey in Canada. Eight or nine U.S. cities are Toronto's size or larger, so that market is unlikely to see a second team. Montreal and Vancouver are significantly smaller.

Eight to twelve teams in Canada just can't happen. Even a fourth is unlikely any time soon.

 

Hey, maybe we should go to the league format that Nepal used until 2014. Their third division played its full season, followed by the second division, followed by the first division, and promoted teams simply kept on playing -- so it was theoretically possible for a team to win as many as three league championships including the first-division championship after starting that season in the third division.

Or maybe we should stop trying to created ridiculously complicated league schemes.

 

So you're saying a separate league in Canada, then? I can't see the current Canadian teams thinking that's a good idea. There's much more money to be made staying where they are; the only discussion about their potential involvement in the Canadian Premier League was the league not wanting to take their reserve teams. I don't see that being any different if the league in question were directly affiliated with MLS. Swansea isn't interested in leaving the premiership for the same reason.

 

someone needs a social life...

 

Is that your name, your sign, or your number?

 

Kids today don't get that reference.

 

As a Welsh-Canadian I will tell you that you do not know what you are talking about. I find it difficult to understand what you mean by one all Canadian MLS: 8-12 teams within the 40 with no relegation? Or a separate league all together? Either way it fubars the concept of a single-entity top flight league in NA... Does Canada get 4 conferences as well? What happens to the successful MLS teams part of the single entity currently? How does inter league play work?

While I am a proponent of the CPL, if it takes away from the cities in the MLS that would suck, a lot.

I dispute that 8 or 9 cities in US are bigger than Toronto. 8 or 9 MSA's or CSA's maybe.

While everything else you mention about Canada and population is correct, it should, however, be noted how concentrated the population is in one geographic area.

Over a third of the nation's entire population lives in the Golden Horseshoe centred around Toronto. The Quebec-Windsor corridor (which includes Montreal & Ottawa) has over half of the nations population as well. The size and density of this area alone could warrant -potentially- a fourth team in the MLS sometime in the near future.

 

The NFL and NBA each play for one trophy. Neither even bothers to award a trophy to the regular season champion.

Unbalanced schedules are fine as long as there are consistent rules for how the schedules are set up.

 

This has a third division that plays a fully national schedule, 19 road trips. that's kind of high end real estate for clubs looking at low end revenue, isn't it? I mean, the schedule allows the top league, which will be far wealthier, to play a regional schedule?
Also, the US Open Cup has the word Open right there in the title. While MLS clubs are dominating these days, they hardly have the most history of any club in that tourney. The US has very little in the way of soccer tradition. Why dump what we do have?