We had a great talk with Riverhounds President Jeff Garner yesterday. He talked the future of the USL, Pro/Rel, what makes the league unique vs MLS and a ton more. Chapter timestamps included.

Got the okay from the mods to post.

New project I made at 4am because I am bored. I will be tweaking with this format but plan to generally keep this format. I intend to post these weekly every sunday with each day of the week for USL Championship, League 1 and Super League

Reno Pro Soccer dropped a hint of their colors

Charleston-Hartford: 2,816 (-28.96%)

Charleston does underperform their average (3,964), but at this point with kids back in schools, I would read very little into that. Granted you basically should always read less into Wednesdays, but still.

MLS returning with all its teams to USOC is great, and them joining earlier in the tournament is a welcome development too.

But it's a MASSIVE problem that not all D2/D3 teams are included. Not just the expansion teams being excluded (which is nonsense), but teams playing now will be out if they don't do well enough this year (how they decide who amongst the League One and 3 indy MLSNP teams gets in will be interesting).

Bottom line is we could relatively easily include every professional club in the tournament, and fit the entire thing within the July-December footprint (instead of having the first round way back in April and then a huge gap).

- Include EVERY pro independent club (there will be 80 by my count next year, based on announced expansion but I'm not counting the Armada).

- Add 16 additional amateur clubs to bring the total field to 128 teams. They can be additional league-based direct spots or more from the fall open qualifying rounds, or some combo of both.

- Everybody starts in the First Round. This would add only one game to the calendar for an MLS team that makes it to the final, compared to the published format where they start in round 2.

- Split the field into 8 regional pods of 16 teams each, trying to have at least 3 teams from each of D1/D2/D3 pro wherever possible. Fill out the rest of the region with the amateur clubs that make the most sense geographically.

- Rounds 1-4 played entirely within each regions. Random draw with lower division side hosting, and matchups between clubs in same league avoided if wherever possible.

- Regional winners advance to the national quarterfinals, which is the only time where substantial cross-continental travel would become necessary. From QFs through Final, random draw for hosting/matchups (amongst teams that apply and have adequate venue to host).

This format more closely emulates the fun of the NCAA basketball tournament where some of the highest ranked teams play the lowest ranked ones in the very first round. More chances for upsets. Everybody in.

"RP Sports fails to complete the stadium, Ed Randolph, executive director for Jacksonville’s Office of Economic Development, says the Armada will “either have to surrender the property or pay us fair market value plus 3%” as outlined in the initial deal."

The deadline is Sept 10th. Is the Sporting Jax/ Jacksonville Armada soccer saga nearing it's end?

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I mean they are a d1 pro league, so by that standard they should have at least some way to qualify to the champions league/cup or whatever you wanna call it

I just received this Crowdfunding invitation^ to invest in the $1M pre-money round for launching Dothan United into the USL1 --the campaign is already a quarter completed! What do you all think? How successful will this effort in Dothan, Alabama be? The SE corner of AL is 1 1/2 hours from Tallahassee so could presumably draw from Florida for its fan base? What has D.U.'s fan attendance at their USL2 games been like?

BUT, that's not the only surprising thing about the campaign! The crowdfunding is led by Vicinity Ventures, the same group leading Greenville Triumph's crowdfunding effort. Will Vicinity own equity in BOTH clubs? A burgeoning empire of USL1 clubs??

^ Dothan United - Offer Details - Vicinity

The USL OKC stadium is HAPPENING!

Hat tip to u/Ok_Flamingo_3059 for the post earlier which had the link to pics of the current construction of the soccer specific stadium, two of which I've downloaded and appended here for your viewing pleasure!

Find the rest of the pics here:

https://www.reutersconnect.com/item/construction-continues-on-the-okc-united-soccer-stadium-in-oklahoma-city-on-monday-aug-31-2026/dGFnOnJldXRlcnMuY29tLDIwMjY6bmV3c21sX01UMVVTQVRPREFZMjk3MDQ2NzA