RE: USL Exploring Relegation/Promotion
With all of the MLS JV teams departing, I think USL needs to land about 16-20 teams to truly make this work. Make sure there's a reasonably equal number of teams for East/West conferences. Send the bottom two in each conference in Championship down, and let the top two in each conference come up from League One.
Ideally, I'd like to see San Francisco, Boise, Reno, Inland Empire (Ontario, CA), Fort Worth, Wichita, New Orleans, Little Rock, Milwaukee, Jacksonville, Huntsville, Lexington, Knoxville, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Virginia Beach, and Baltimore among the additions. Spokane, Fresno (Central Valley), Monterey Bay (CA), Rhode Island, Iowa, Buffalo, Northern Colorado (Windsor), Fort Wayne, Queensboro (NY), and Portland (ME) are already scheduled to join either League One or Championship.
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