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Poiponen13:
My proposal for MLS revamp:
MLS will have 32 teams divided to 2 conferences of 16. Below it will be MLS 2, a 22-team league playing 42 games. It will have 8-team playoffs. There is promotion and relagation between these two leagues.
Bruce:
--- Quote from: Poiponen13 on December 12, 2022, 03:41:21 AM ---My proposal for MLS revamp:
MLS will have 32 teams divided to 2 conferences of 16. Below it will be MLS 2, a 22-team league playing 42 games. It will have 8-team playoffs. There is promotion and relagation between these two leagues.
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32 teams with 2 conferences is the likely outcome of the next few rounds of expansion.
An MLS-owned second division would be met with protests from USL, who could lobby USSF against the idea. Pro/rel ain't happening so long as investor-operators have tight control of the league's structure. It's also not palatable to fans, and with the thinner margins in American soccer it makes zero sense.
An actual MLS proposal: bring back the dribbling PKs.
Poiponen13:
--- Quote from: Bruce on December 12, 2022, 04:39:38 AM ---
--- Quote from: Poiponen13 on December 12, 2022, 03:41:21 AM ---My proposal for MLS revamp:
MLS will have 32 teams divided to 2 conferences of 16. Below it will be MLS 2, a 22-team league playing 42 games. It will have 8-team playoffs. There is promotion and relagation between these two leagues.
--- End quote ---
32 teams with 2 conferences is the likely outcome of the next few rounds of expansion.
An MLS-owned second division would be met with protests from USL, who could lobby USSF against the idea. Pro/rel ain't happening so long as investor-operators have tight control of the league's structure. It's also not palatable to fans, and with the thinner margins in American soccer it makes zero sense.
An actual MLS proposal: bring back the dribbling PKs.
--- End quote ---
Lower leagues could have pro/rel, e.g. between USL Championship and USL 1, as well as USL 1 and USL 2.
NWI_Irish96:
Relegation and promotion, while it makes a ton of sense, will never work in the US. Owners buy into franchises with the understanding that they will get TV money from the league they're buying into, not a second tier league.
SP Cook:
Relegation is often brought up, both about soccer and about other sports. It has no application to North America. In Europe, national leagues represent neighborhoods or communities, not entire metro areas as in the USA. Do you want to explain to Fox that the league won’t have a team in New York this coming year, but will have one in Boise?
Further, vis soccer in the USA, remember that the MLS is not real competition. Like the old CART auto racing series, it is a controlled competition/exhibition. The league owns all the teams and all the players work for the league. There is an “owner” of each team, but that is just for the media, that person really just owns a share of the whole league. While they are trying to win to some degree, it is not the same as 30 different owners, each trying to out do the others.
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