@mlsreacts Lmao your solution is to have one company own all the teams and sell permanent spots in the league for more than most PL clubs are worth while making rosters equally mediocre.
Sit this one out π
@hildaflowrr@tlatlz@TheStalwart Is it normalized to the general population? Or is this just the mean of people who took the test.
Massive, massive difference.
@AntiSoccerHype@bwfast "that it canβt be imposed upon the leagues by USSF"
No soccer governing body can *make* anyone do anything. FIFA, US Soccer, and CONCACAF can, however, absolutely organize sporting formats for competitions.
Every top quality league in the world uses a competitive format fwiw.
@AntiSoccerHype@bwfast MLS, assuming they could demonstrate functional club autonomy (as opposed to separate ownership), could of course enter teams into the D1 with pro/rel if they wanted to.
I'm guessing you don't want any of that, but I'd think carefully about invoking antitrust as an objection./2
@AntiSoccerHype@bwfast 100%. FIFA/US Soccer can't make MLS participate in pro/rel.
What they can do is assign qualification for regional competitions to the winners of a league with pro/rel and remove it from a closed league. MLS could do its league/Leagues Cup on its own as it does today.
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@AntiSoccerHype@bwfast There's like 3 competing complaints there, so let's maybe try to separate them out before addressing them.
"You didnβt address the issue of MLS needing to break their single entity"
Why would MLS teams need to stop being owned by MLS to participate in a US D1 with pro/rel?
@AntiSoccerHype@bwfast A) There are a number of options that wouldn't require that.
B) If push came to shove, it's pretty unlikely the single-entity defense that worked in Fraser would work again today.
C) At the end of the day they can just not participate and have their own comp w/out sanctioning.
@AntiSoccerHype@bwfast Lmao why would you believe antitrust law would make sports governing bodies unable to make pro/rel a requirement to take part in FIFA events.