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World Soccer XXXI: Golden Generation?

Just looked at the wiki map of MLS teams and burst out loud laughing at grafting a schedule into November-March anywhere north of maybe St. Louis and Cincinnati.
 
bronconick said:
Just looked at the wiki map of MLS teams and burst out loud laughing at grafting a schedule into November-March anywhere north of maybe St. Louis and Cincinnati.
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People will say “just don’t schedule home games for those teams during the cold months.” Like dude, you’re talking about 12-14 teams going 2-3 months without a home game.
 
Jimjamesak said:
People will say “just don’t schedule home games for those teams during the cold months.” Like dude, you’re talking about 12-14 teams going 2-3 months without a home game.
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WMU's baseball team started with 15 road games over the first month from 2/15-3-15 last spring. Multiply that by what, 10 teams?
 
bronconick said:
WMU's baseball team started with 15 road games over the first month from 2/15-3-15 last spring. Multiply that by what, 10 teams?
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And it wouldn’t be season openers or playoff games like now. I just can’t imagine the casual fans in Minnesota or Chicago or Colorado would be all gung ho about going to a mid-season throwaway game against San Jose in November or February.
 
Possibly some big changes coming to college soccer.

NEW: College soccer is on the verge of a monumental shift in the landscape, per numerous sources I’ve talked to in the past 24 hours. Here’s what I know: There is a plan that at most basic level will make the college soccer season a full-time season. It will most likely mirror the pro calendar. Gone will be the three month season. It will essentially double (if not more) in length. This is where things get interesting: This shift is likely to happen in 2025-26 or 2026-27. Most seem to think it will start up in 2026-27 to align with the likely shift of MLS/MLSNP (and probably USL too) to the European calendar at that point. This has been something that has been worked on for some time now, but my belief is that the plan might’ve gotten a boost from MLS’s acceleration of their shift in their calendar. How would it work? From those I’ve spoken too, there’s a high likelihood that US Soccer Federation will be involved as a governing body and/or power broker. Numerous sources have expressed their active role in making this work. Currently, I believe there are two major conferences that have signaled they are on board: ACC and Big 10. In fairness, I’ve heard mixed things on whether every single program in those conferences is on board at this point. Yet, the premise of how it’s going to work is simple and moving forward: The top 40-50 programs in college soccer are lining up their ducks in a row to go to the NCAA (if they haven’t already) and ask them to cooperate in this new venture. NCAA is losing the amateurism battle right now in many sports. They don’t have much leverage. I believe the pitch is “work in cooperation with US Soccer in this venture or we will completely breakaway from the NCAA and join the US Soccer umbrella.” From discussions I’ve had, it sounds like this new landscape would be classified as “semi-professional” in how it would work. There’s the possibility that players might be able to have some role in the professional club landscape. Most likely, that could happen in the form of participating during the college offseason. That’s still to be worked out I believe, and any compensation during the season is another topic that I believe is in play and needs to be sorted out. Yet, it does appear that a monumental shift is coming for college soccer. It seems to be a matter of when, not if, at this point.
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Not sure how much stock to put into this but it would be a massive shift.
 
There will be a new MLS Cup champion as the New York Red Bulls eliminate Columbus in the first round.
 
In other MLS Playoff news, Houston’s Hector Herrera was red carded after spitting at the referee (and a very quick VAR review). Lengthy suspension incoming.

This was Houston’s second red card in as many games after Coco Carrasquilla was sent off (after a VAR review) for kicking out at a Seattle player during a mass confrontation.

So you’d think after playing both games a man up for ~30 minutes Seattle would have won comfortably? Nope, scored one goal total, gave up an own goal and “won” both games in PKs to advance.
 
That sound you hear is the tears of Apple and MLS execs as Atlanta upsets and eliminates Miami from the MLS Playoffs.
 
I was starting to wonder if Minnesota was out of the playoffs. So I checked and their last game was November 3rd. Their next game? November 24th. Nice system.
 
So earlier this week there was a video revealed of Premier League referee David Coote calling former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp a “German c*”. Coote was indefinitely suspended and an investigation was launched. Now there’s another video out of Coote snorting “white powder” at a UEFA hotel during the Euros this year.

It’s watching the normal reactions of “OMG what an idiot!” versus the reactions on some referee forums of “so some other people had to have known about this stuff and covered it up. These investigations aren’t going to be pretty…”
 
Jimjamesak said:
Pulisic scored against Jamaica and apparently did the "Trump dance" celebration.

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”I know this thing is political but I totally didn’t mean for it to be political.”

"I saw everyone doing it yesterday in the NFL, I saw Jon Jones do it, and we were just having a bit of fun," Pulisic said of the celebration. "I thought it was a pretty fun dance. Obviously, that's the 'Trump Dance' but it was just a dance that everyone was doing. He's the one who created it, and I thought it was funny."

He added: "It's not a political dance. It was just for fun. I saw a bunch of people do it and thought it was funny, so I enjoyed it."
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So, at best, dude completely ruins his image because “hey, fun meme dance”? Yeah he’s a Dump voter.
 
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