I know. When I played rugby at school we were lucky if someone's girlfriend showed up with some oranges at half-time.
They're professional, but the Hartford Yard Goats are the highest level minor league baseball team in Connecticut.
And you know what, it's none of those assholes business. That being said, after 100-150 years of most NCAA Division 1 schools being in existence, some now graduating 20K of alums every year, that's a lot of fans
I haven't checked the freshman drop rate in a few years and those that take a couple of years off and finish at Directional State A & M, but it was about 35% my freshman year in 1988. It was upwards of 75% of major change out of Architecture to others for that remaining 65% that didn't drop out of the school's freshman class in 88
Even if the school has existed for 100 to 150 years, the school may not have been in Division I that whole time. According to Page 71 of http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_basketball_RB/2016/DivI.pdf here are how many Division I Men's Basketball teams there have been in seasons where the second year (such as 2014-2015 counting as 2015) are multiples of 5: 1950: 145 1955: 162 1960: 175 1965: 182 1970: 196 1975: 235 1980: 261 1985: 282 1990: 292 1995: 302 2000: 318 2005: 326 2010: 334 2015: 345 The 2014-2015 RPI listed 351 teams, including 5 who are transitioning to Division I, not eligible for the NCAA Tournament, and not counted in the NCAA's 345 amount. 345+5 is 1 less than 351, so there's a discrepancy of 1 somewhere, but that's not a big deal.
Not the point. In reference to some "Yuropeens" not understanding our amateur athletics systems, some of the current NCAA schools have been around for 100-150 years, if not longer in some east coast states. That's as long most "Yuropeen" clubs have been in existence and a damned long enough time for those academic institutions to take on a lofty and venerated status as a part of the identity of those states, just as much as any of the organizations that begat the current Bundesliga, La Liga or BPL clubs
For example, the Pac-12 conference is celebrating 100 years this academic year but the conference claims the history of its predecessors going back to the Pacific Coast Conference founded in 1915 by Cal, Oregon, Oregon State, and Washington. In fact Washington and Cal are the only two members to play all 100 years in the organizations that the Pac claims in its history. On top of that Washington was playing football for 26 years before the conference was founded.
Regular season champion: November - Supporters Shield - MLS Champion. End unbalanced Schedule. Home and Away games same Conference, one legged games interconference games (rotating each year). With 24 teams: 34 games. MLS Cup during summer (July or August) with all 24 (in this case) clubs? 8 groups with 3 teams each - 3 games. R8, R4, R2 - 3 games. Total: 6 games. Seeding: previous 4 season records, for example.
Paulo, I understand that you have a preference for a format that's different from the one MLS currently uses. I get that. And that's OK. But stop flooding the forum with threads and posting your ideas in threads where they're not relevant. This thread is about changing the date for MLS Cup within the existing format. This isn't the place to pitch another idea for a completely different league with a completely different schedule.
Ok, but I believe it was clear that another date in November was inexistent or irrelevant. So what the point of this thread?!! It ends were it begins!
I believe is to form a point of view an opinion, independent of League plans, current reality and such. Brainstorm. If you must be constrained to current situation, just shut down the forum!
Friday itself doesn't contain that much college football. ESPN lists 15 games on their scoreboard, but only 1 SEC (Arkansas-Missouri), 1 Big 10 (Nebraska-Iowa), 2 Pac 10 (Oregon-Oregon St. & Wash.-Wash. St.), 1 ACC (Pitt-Miami) & 1 Big 12 game (Baylor-TCU).
Yes, so Friday would be a possibility. In the USA, most big individual sporting events like Triple Crown horse racing, boxing, the end of tennis and golf tournaments, and the Super Bowl are on weekends. The NCAA Men's Basketball and Football championship games are Monday nights. Championship series like the World Series can end different days of the week.
http://www.mlssoccer.com/mls-cup-playoffs/2016/bracket Ha, so I e-mailed them a year ago with my suggestion, and they implemented it to a tee.
No, that's just the poor stiffs like me that had to go to school on loans and grants. Plenty of stupid rich people still fully fund their kids education