I guess I disagree. If you’re a competitor, and most pro athletes are lunatic competitors, you aren’t going to give a bit more to try and keep your club out of relegation.
I just don’t think American fans without any relationship to brand new clubs can survive relegation. People could blame the owners but I bet fans would bail if teams got relegated.
Pro/Rel, in my opinion will never work for US soccer leagues.
It works in England where everything is regional and people have deep emotional ties to a club.
It will not work with brand new clubs that are already trying to get interest.
Terrible decision, I’ll never understand it, but here we are.
I hope MLS can continue to grow. I actually think they should be 50-60 teams and a place like DSM should get one too. I wish they were holding off a bit in the USL thing.