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| Source:Zoltan Toth- a map of some of the MISL. |
"Kansas City effected by national media coverage.
What was wrong to fold MISL Soccer even if Kansas City sold out is Lost ESPN the national tv sport coverage."
From Zoltan Toth
For me at least, to be a major sports league in America, you have to be in the major markets and you have to have national sports exposure on TV. If you can't get the broadcast networks to show your league, you at the very least need national cable networks to do that, as well as local television to cover your league.
Then you also need a feeder system to your league like a minor league system where your clubs can draft young players from, but also develop players who are not ready to play in the major league full-time yet.
Then all of your clubs need to be in major sports markets and not just New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Boston, Detroit Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, but Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Miami, as well. As well as the good mid-markets where your sport is popular. And in the MISL case, that would be Baltimore, Cleveland, Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Kansas City.
What a major sports league needs to have to not just stay in business and be profitable, but be around indefinitely and be in place where you are not worried about which club or clubs is folding or relocating at the end of the season, are things that the MISL has never had for the most part and why they're still a minor sports league in America. Even though they have a great sports that's purposely designed for the American sports fan, with a lot of action, speed, end to end, and great plays, where you can play both great defense and offense and where you need to do both to be champions.
