(01-29-2018 06:19 PM)Usajags Wrote: Just for your help, and I'm pulling these out of my head of stadiums that could be used: Ladd Stadium, Legion Field, Crampton Bowl, that stadium in Dothan we played a game at in our second season, that stadium in Columbus, GA, the Citrus Bowl(the stadium in Orlando), Cotton Bowl, Liberty Bowl, the dome in St Louis, Alamo Dome, some of the city owned high school football stadiums in Texas, War Memorial in Little Rock, the stadium in San Diego(Qualcomm I think is what it was called), there is a stadium in Jackson MS.......get the idea, there are plenty of venues that could be used. And again, these are just the ones I could think of while typing this.
Edit: Add the stadium at the Louisville Convention Center.
The XFL is not putting a team in Ladd Stadium...I also think that P5s are going to be reluctant to take on a tenant too, ESPECIALLY if that tenant is a league that is going to draft underclassmen.
Sure, Here's the available venues
1) San Diego (maybe) - Qualcomm stadium - Problem is that MLS and SDSU are fighting over who gets to buy it and if someone does buy it, they're going to want to make changes to the facility. Maybe. If not, there's no place to play in SD
2) Los Angeles - They can probably get the Coliseum or the Rose Bowl. They will be paying full market rent. Unfortunately, the upgrades necessary for the Olympics might make it unavailable. Since their season overruns with MLS and MLB, there's no place to play in LA otherwise.
3) Oakland - Oakland Coliseum.
4) Phoenix - Maybe Arizona State will let them rent their stadium. I'm thinking they'll say no. Most P5's will say no. G5s probably will say yes.
5) Salt Lake - Unless the Univ. of Utah wants to let them rent out their stadium...no place to play. Also too cold.
6) Denver - No place to play. Also too cold.
7) Oklahoma City - OU ain't renting out their stadium. No place to play
8) Dallas - Cotton Bowl
9) San Antonio - Alamodome
10) Houston - Either Rice or UH could rent out their stadium
11) Memphis - Liberty Bowl
12) St Louis - EDJones Arena
13) MSP - No place to play other than U of Minnesota. Also too cold
14) Milwaukee - No place to play
15) Chicago - No place to play
16) Indianapolis - No place to play
17) Detroit - Maybe they could rent out EMU's stadium. Too cold too.
18) Cleveland - No place to play. Also too cold
19) Columbus - The old MLS stadium is available. Bring a jacket
20) Cincinnati - Perhaps U of C will rent out their stadium. Too cold
21) Pittsburgh - No stadium available
22) Buffalo - U of B stadium. But no. They aren't getting a team
23) NYC - Where would they play if the Giants and Jets both have refusal rights on their NFL stadiums for pro football? Rutgers?
24) New England - Only thing available might be the stadium in East Hartford.
25) Philly - Is there a place there? I'm not aware of anything bigger than Villanova, which seats 12,500. Maybe they could play at U of D in Newark, DE (which is getting a bit out of the Philly market) and it seats 22k
26) Baltimore - Maybe play at Annapolis?
26) DC - RFK...What a friggin dump that would be. And don't ask the DC government to front you any cash to do any renovations.
27) Charlotte - UNCC stadium
28) Raleigh/Durham - Nothing available unless NCSU, UNC or Duke want a tenant.
29) Atlanta - Georgia State
30) Jacksonville - Nothing available
31) Orlando - Citrus Bowl
32) Tampa/St Petersburg - Nothing available.
33) Miami - FIU
34) New Orleans - Nothing available
35) Nashville - Nothing available in town unless Vandy wants to rent. Otherwise they could rent from MTSU or WKU I suppose.
36) Las Vegas - UNLV stadium is available, but ... is Vegas going to be busy digesting the Raiders.
37) Kansas City - No facility
38) Seattle - No facility unless UW wants to rent to them. They probably don't.
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Now 1m plus metros cities with no pro teams
1) Birmingham - Legion Field
2) Louisville - I don't see a facility unless U of L wants to rent to them
3) Honolulu - No...just no.
4) Albuquerque - UNM
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Unless the NFL wants to help them, and I don't see why they would, or a city wants to build them a facility (which is going to be difficult), They're going to have difficulty getting a league off the ground.
Unless this is purely a minor league. Sure you could put a league together with Mobile, Little Rock, Shreveport, Jackson, Atlanta Memphis, Birmingham, Dallas, Orlando, San Antonio, DC, Oakland, Miami, St Louis, and maybe a team in Southern California.....But man, oh man, its going to look like NAIA vs FBS in comparison to the NFL. The stadiums will all be either old or bare bones college erector set buildings.
McMahon says he will personally put 100 m into this venture and is probably looking for 100m more. That's not going to get very far, even at lower salaries for long unless people start showing up, in significant numbers, and start paying significant amounts. Just so you know...100 million dollars doesn't even finance 1 years' worth of football in the Sun Belt. And our cost (scholarship and other costs) per football player....is around 50k per.
He says he wants 8 teams. With a 44 player roster. I think he needs around 2 B to even start to try to pull this off. No city in their right mind would finance this. So he's got 100m committed. Lets see if he can raise another 1.9 Billion.
