a couple rumors also they made add men's lacrosse soon
http://www.gocards.com/tickets/lou-tickets-soccer.
http://www.gocards.com/tickets/lou-tickets-soccer.
New Louisville soccer complex
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But will they have anything but empty seats? If Pitt built the same no one Pitt would would come to watch except families and friends of the players and some local Pitt soccer team alums.
Louisville doesnt have pro soccer and given that the facility is new and really nice plus the fact that the soccer team playing in it is one of the best in the nation, I'd imagine they will draw pretty well. They'll probably sell-out some games, not all of them.
Louisville is like what Pitt would be if the Steelers, Pirates, and Pens relocated. If you wanted to see live sports (and Americans LOVE live sports), you wouldnt have a choice but to attend Pitt games and become Pitt fans. So, of course, if Pitt built the same thing, nobody would come. Its not a facilities thing, its a "pro sports town" thing.
Beautiful stadium. Many colleges do not charge for soccer, Louisville is. That stadium will be used for more than Louisville soccer. High school state games and college tournament games. Seating is just over 5,000.
Totally worth it when you play in the ACC, especially women's ACC.
Totally worth it when you play in the ACC, especially women's ACC.
Starting next year....
Louisville will have a USL Pro team. The USL franchise that is in Orlando is moving to Louisville when Orlando starts playing in MLS and will be the minor league affiliate of Orlando. I wondered if they might also play their games at the stadium Louisville built, but it appears they are going to play at the Louisville Bats stadium at least at the beginning.
Louisville will have a USL Pro team. The USL franchise that is in Orlando is moving to Louisville when Orlando starts playing in MLS and will be the minor league affiliate of Orlando. I wondered if they might also play their games at the stadium Louisville built, but it appears they are going to play at the Louisville Bats stadium at least at the beginning.
Pitt's facility is OK. A bigger problem can be found on the field and on the sideline.
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College coaches, with the backing of US Soccer, formerly petitioned the NCAA to make the regular season last the fall and spring semester. It's long overdue. There's so many great places to play and scholarships are so small b/c of NCAA scholarship limits that it doesn't make much sense for a player with big aspirations to play college ball anymore.
BYU's team, which plays in the PDL rather than the NCAA, actually made the playoffs this year. Pitt had a few players play in that league this summer with the Riverhounds U23s and a couple others play for Fort Pitt in the NPSL. The PDL's regular season is the summer, so BYU plays friendlies all fall and spring semesters. They did beat U of Denver and UNLV's D1 teams during the spring. UDenver had made the NCAA playoffs the previous semester. They also beat San Jose Quakes U-23's twice.
This post was edited on 8/11 1:14 AM by rpost3
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College coaches, with the backing of US Soccer, formerly petitioned the NCAA to make the regular season last the fall and spring semester. It's long overdue. There's so many great places to play and scholarships are so small b/c of NCAA scholarship limits that it doesn't make much sense for a player with big aspirations to play college ball anymore.
BYU's team, which plays in the PDL rather than the NCAA, actually made the playoffs this year. Pitt had a few players play in that league this summer with the Riverhounds U23s and a couple others play for Fort Pitt in the NPSL. The PDL's regular season is the summer, so BYU plays friendlies all fall and spring semesters. They did beat U of Denver and UNLV's D1 teams during the spring. UDenver had made the NCAA playoffs the previous semester. They also beat San Jose Quakes U-23's twice.
This post was edited on 8/11 1:14 AM by rpost3
Its easy to build that kind of stuff when you have benefactor donors that hand you checks for tens of millions of dollars. People blame Pederson for a lot of things but one of his biggest faults is that he's not landed a single uber-rich alum to make a donation of say $20-50 million. Those donations are becoming more common and that's how this think got built by Louisville.
Pitt's baseball/soccer/softball facilities are "acceptable." I wouldnt call them "nice" or anything like that but considering where we came from. We went from an F to a C.
Most college teams aren't getting Louisville money, so the soccer facilities end up being acceptable. VT has similar bleachers to Pitt. The field is in great shape, the teams have European style benches with coverage, and a turf and grass practice facility. The overall stadium is good enough. The men were very good until their sanctions, the women are very strong.
But like I sad, few schools feel they can invest heavily in soccer considering they are non revenue generating sports. Louisville unlike 99% of the schools will be charging for admittance. VT has free admission. That's very typical.
http://www.hokiesports.com/msoccer/fanpage/2012/images/sliders/field_01.jpg
http://www.ussportscamps.com/assets/camps/soccer/virginiatech/PracticeField2.jpg
id insert the photos, but from the iPad it gets all screwed up.
But like I sad, few schools feel they can invest heavily in soccer considering they are non revenue generating sports. Louisville unlike 99% of the schools will be charging for admittance. VT has free admission. That's very typical.
http://www.hokiesports.com/msoccer/fanpage/2012/images/sliders/field_01.jpg
http://www.ussportscamps.com/assets/camps/soccer/virginiatech/PracticeField2.jpg
id insert the photos, but from the iPad it gets all screwed up.
I would think.....
that way more than 1% of schools charge admission to their soccer games. Pitt certainly does. In fact I am kind of surprised that you say Virginia Tech doesn't. I would have thought that any program playing in one of the "bigger" leagues would charge some admission fee for their soccer games.
that way more than 1% of schools charge admission to their soccer games. Pitt certainly does. In fact I am kind of surprised that you say Virginia Tech doesn't. I would have thought that any program playing in one of the "bigger" leagues would charge some admission fee for their soccer games.
Re: I would think.....
The only sports VT charges admission for are football and basketball. All other sports are free.
Tom Jurich at Louisville is in my opinion the best AD in the nation. It's not easy to get that kind of a facility. You have to convince the donor to give you the money. It takes a lot of work to find potential donors like that and then to get one to commit the funds. Jurich does it. SP, the nation's worst AD, can't.
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