So, next weekend, the players need to STOP moving during the game. Right in the middle of the action. See if the commentators can ignore it then. See if the cameras cut away.
It will be fascinating to see what the next move from the USLPA is. I was dubious about this Friday night but yesterday realized it was working because we began talking about USL Productions and their unwillingness to show or acknowledge it.
Great peace here and this weekend was pathetic. I cannot see how the league can be taken seriously if their commentators don’t even acknowledge what all of the fans who are really engaged with this league are VERY aware of. They don’t even acknowledge there’s been some controversy in the off-season. They can just acknowledge it and move on and discuss the match, but they won’t even do that acknowledge what they see going on in the first minute on the pitch, but they won’t even do that.
The USL will never replace or equal the MLS. The USL is not in enough large markets and the league leadership in not big league.
So, for those who think somehow Pro/Reg makes a league big time, it does not. Watching Wrexham try to buy their way to the Premier league in not an example to any league.
I think it’s unfair to think big markets like New York should have the permanent advantage over a place like Omaha or Des Moines? To me that’s classism. This having been said, USL can never truly be an “open” system with its business model. PRO/REL within a closed league system will NEVER accomplish what PRO/REL advocates think it will. Can it increase valuations and interest slightly? Sure. May even increase sponsorships and some media revenue. But it’ll never overtake MLS as closed-structure with movement within a closed-structrue. USL’s value is that they are in places like El Paso and Knoxville. They are growing the game in the hinterland. But that doesn’t jive with their rhetoric. They have a clear function in this landscape, I wish they’d tout that more than wanting to challenge MLS and wish they’d be truly open and have revenue-sharing …then maybe they could challenge MLS.
I think the production arm thing is interesting, and it's something people calling for more centralized platforms should take to heart. If you have one single platform for every event do you think you'll ever get any coverage of issues involving ownership outside of them donating bibs to a middle school or something? No chance.
Correct! This is the downside of a centralized production and the cost-offsets that go with that. This is a demonstration of how that can curtail open discussion of things and leads directly to broadcasts being propaganda.
What general themes can be gleaned from this distinction of broadcasts that were by USL Productions or the host club? Has the USL Productions been less detailed as presumably the commentators are all remote? Or the club-produced broadcasts vary widely in quality (and which clubs did particularly well here?)?
Kartik seems to suggest that the club-produced local broadcasts were more respectful of a long moment of silence that the players were observing, but not entirely clear....?
I re-watched the Bham/Tampa game today, and the announcers were the local crew. Notably, they pretty much stayed silent during the minute. In person, a chunk of the fans that had remained after the delay stood and applauded during that time.
So, next weekend, the players need to STOP moving during the game. Right in the middle of the action. See if the commentators can ignore it then. See if the cameras cut away.
It will be fascinating to see what the next move from the USLPA is. I was dubious about this Friday night but yesterday realized it was working because we began talking about USL Productions and their unwillingness to show or acknowledge it.
Great peace here and this weekend was pathetic. I cannot see how the league can be taken seriously if their commentators don’t even acknowledge what all of the fans who are really engaged with this league are VERY aware of. They don’t even acknowledge there’s been some controversy in the off-season. They can just acknowledge it and move on and discuss the match, but they won’t even do that acknowledge what they see going on in the first minute on the pitch, but they won’t even do that.
The USL will never replace or equal the MLS. The USL is not in enough large markets and the league leadership in not big league.
So, for those who think somehow Pro/Reg makes a league big time, it does not. Watching Wrexham try to buy their way to the Premier league in not an example to any league.
I think it’s unfair to think big markets like New York should have the permanent advantage over a place like Omaha or Des Moines? To me that’s classism. This having been said, USL can never truly be an “open” system with its business model. PRO/REL within a closed league system will NEVER accomplish what PRO/REL advocates think it will. Can it increase valuations and interest slightly? Sure. May even increase sponsorships and some media revenue. But it’ll never overtake MLS as closed-structure with movement within a closed-structrue. USL’s value is that they are in places like El Paso and Knoxville. They are growing the game in the hinterland. But that doesn’t jive with their rhetoric. They have a clear function in this landscape, I wish they’d tout that more than wanting to challenge MLS and wish they’d be truly open and have revenue-sharing …then maybe they could challenge MLS.
I think the production arm thing is interesting, and it's something people calling for more centralized platforms should take to heart. If you have one single platform for every event do you think you'll ever get any coverage of issues involving ownership outside of them donating bibs to a middle school or something? No chance.
Correct! This is the downside of a centralized production and the cost-offsets that go with that. This is a demonstration of how that can curtail open discussion of things and leads directly to broadcasts being propaganda.
What general themes can be gleaned from this distinction of broadcasts that were by USL Productions or the host club? Has the USL Productions been less detailed as presumably the commentators are all remote? Or the club-produced broadcasts vary widely in quality (and which clubs did particularly well here?)?
Kartik seems to suggest that the club-produced local broadcasts were more respectful of a long moment of silence that the players were observing, but not entirely clear....?
It was a mixed bag in general...some of the local crews did worse than those remotely and vise versa
I re-watched the Bham/Tampa game today, and the announcers were the local crew. Notably, they pretty much stayed silent during the minute. In person, a chunk of the fans that had remained after the delay stood and applauded during that time.