(11-17-2017 11:06 AM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  

(11-17-2017 10:55 AM)BearcatMan Wrote:  

(11-17-2017 10:42 AM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  

(11-17-2017 10:39 AM)BearcatMan Wrote:  

(11-17-2017 09:04 AM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  I was hoping COMEBOL and CONCACAF would get together on that.

Yeah...that'll be a garbage venture if it includes any Caribbean nations not named Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, which of course it will.

Not looking forward to having only one marquee friendly for the next 5 years now.

But we'll get 4 games against Haiti and Belize.



Honestly, this might be the start of Mexico and the US starting to think about joining COMEBOL

I still think they should just add them all together at this point. With a 48 team WC, every one of the major squads would still qualify with a change at an upset or two, and you'd have better/actually watchable games. I would be against US/Mexico jumping into CONMEBOL without some additional spots being added into their qualification quota, because lord knows we would have to squeak in anyways.

Honestly, Comebol and concacaf need to completely merge. Won't happen though because who the hell wants to play Belize and Barbados if you dont have to.

That's thing...market it as an easier way into the WC for the premier teams with more viewers, a higher chance for competition for the mid-tiers for a spot, and a snowball's chance in hell for the Caribbean teams not named Jamaica and T&T

Every federation outside of CONMEBOL has their Monacos, Andorras, Gambias, and Uzbekistans of the world...they should have a few awful ones too. I mean, if you market it as something that increases both viewership AND television inventory...I don't think any of these federations would turn it down. Who loses in that? Not CONMEBOL, because in those tables there's no way any of the big guns lose out, and hell, some of their lower properties have increased shots, and in CONCACAF you increase the level of competition in preparation for the WC for the prime 4 while also increasing the amount of good game inventory for viewers.