YOUR ideal MLS

[Chivas]

Basicaly what changes would you make to the mls such as number of teams, short or long seasons, playoffs or no playoffs, one table or different groups, season running from august to june intead of all summer, ownership, kit sponsors and maker(addidas). Just any changes you would like to see.

[Chivas]

ohh, and also promotion and relegation.

[acdc]

good points. Its really hard to change the mls right now. But If I could i'd get rid of the conferences. Seed the playoffs 1-8 and randomly draw opponents. That would get rid of that stupid 1 legged game of the conference finals. To establish a relegation and so on teams would really have to get their own stadiums. Im talking about the USL teams if thats the "Division 2". Once they have their own stadiums they could easily move up into the mls and just play like a regular team instead of playing on a college field or wherever they play.

[Æther]

I would require every team to have their own stadium so that they could actually play on FIFA regulation size pitches. Also, I would have the promotion/relegation system that other's talked about, and that would include adding a few more teams to still have a relatively good number of teams per 'division'

[tankfantry]

one problem with your promotion/regulation issue. The MLS doesn't own the USL league like they do with the MLS. In case you don't know the MLS regulates everything within the league, they own all the players they have a salary cap, the contorl all aspects of the game. Another point is the MLS has a hard time keeping fans in the stands as is, what would happen if San Jose got bumped down after one season. Just think about it. Our league is way to young to pretend we can play with the big boys on the pyramid level.

[The Boss]

Here is my list

• Get enough good teams so we could have a regulation zone
  
• Give the contracts of the players to the club
  
• See more established players in this league
  

I could go on but those are the three main ones

[acdc]

Jun 7, 2008 19:47:42 GMT -6 @tankfantry said:

Another point is the MLS has a hard time keeping fans in the stands as is, what would happen if San Jose got bumped down after one season. Just think about it.

I dont know about that, I saw lots of hard core fans when Chi played them and I told myself Where do those fans come from..to cheer for San Jose like that. Hehe. But I agree SJ would probably lose the casual fans.

I'd give it 10-15 years to see if by then we could do something with relegation.