While searching for stuff on the Beat v Freedom match tomorrow night in Houston I ran across some things. Women's league to test city's interest in soccer By JANNY HU Copyright 2002 Houston Chronic Here is a survey: http://www.hwsa.org/wusa.htm Here are current results of the survey: http://www.hwsa.org/wusastats.htm Here is the Space City Shootout site: http://www.hwsa.org/wusahouston.htm I'm gonna try to get a petition started up here in Wanker County, Georgia.
Fear, what are you doing in Wanker County? That's where I live! Well actually I live in Walker County.
Hrumph! I made a petition to get an expansion team down here in South Florida....got tons of signatures and all....mailed it to corporate HQ....no acknowledgement at all from the WUSA, not even a form letter response. NOTHING! All that work for naught.
If the WUSA expands within the next 3 years it will be a HUGE mistake. The officials have shown no ability to get the league exposed or to make even one team profitable. Without at least a bit of profit from the current eight I strongly doubt that adding a team (or teams) will have any positive effect. In fact the effect would, most probably, be to speed the leagues demise. The product on the field is good enough for the league to be a success BUT the public must become aware of it and the league must translate that awareness into attendance and viewership to drive success. So far the league has shown virtually zero ability to promote or in any way publicize their great product and that means that the league is loosing tons of money and adding the additional drain of another team would make the investors bail sooner rater than later. There are many many cities that "deserve" a team and Houston is one of them but the league really needs to develop BEFORE expanding. Of course MOVING a team, or teams, is a whole other thing……
I agree with FOF. That was one of the things that buried the ABL basketball league. Bad marketing plus expanding too soon equals early demise.
Try finding someone with some money, first. Signatures are meaningless. If there's no money behind the effort, it won't even show up on the radar.