The American Soccer Show: 11.14.10
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Conspiracy! Jason and Zach cover the USMNT roster for the friendly against South Africa, chat with noted conspiracy theorist Ted Westervelt of soccerreform.us, and hit on Americans abroad news of the day.
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3 comments:
Enjoy the show, gents.
Why the false dichotomy of MLS-style v. Rest-of-the-world style leagues? Tinker with something in between.
The best starting point is: what next needs to be accomplished?
Sure, different interest will disagree. But can we agree that: our teams (national and club) are not at the level we would like; our players are not developing to the level we would like; soccer is not penetrating the country as we would like, our Div. II is a shambles, and our best youth development is unaffordable and unavailable to a large segment of the population?
Is the current system capable of solving those issues? If you answer yes, fine, say so, hope to preserve the status quo, and continue to live in some wierd, dilusional world. If you answer no, support tinkering.
Ideas: How about strenghtening Div. II and improving market pentration by having promotion with no relegation (a "guest team" program - top Div. II team gets one year with MLS)? Maybe change the Open Cup to allow more markets to see MLS teams? Maybe cap Div. I at 20 teams so there is a point in investing in Div. II without the ever-looming threat that the successful teams will just jump ship to MLS? Mabye kill single entity to improve competition between clubs but have more profit sharing rules. Just ideas that might be worth trying, none of which alone preserves the status quo or goes whole hog Euro style.
Finally, please drop the stuff about "15 year old league." No real business goes around saying "give us a break, we're only 15 years old." Facebook isn't 15 years old. Mixed martial arts isn't 15 years old. Over half the companies in existance are not 15 years old. 15 years is beyond puberty for any company in the world. Sport is only marginally different; it is entertainment, and if anything 15 years in entertainment is "mature."
Hey guys love the show but I think you guys were harsh on ted last sunday.
He seems more like an idealist and although some of his ideas won't work you just have to take the positive things he said. The main problem with making the united states a Europe based league where teams can switch from division to division is the distance. The United States is huge and traveling logistics would be a nightmare.
Also I like the previous commentor's idea on Division II, it sounds like a good idea and please make it a single table please? there is my 2 cents...
Ted is a very poor communicator.
I know pro/rel can work. I just wish its most high profile promoter in this country were a better communicator.
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