New Orleans (or Louisiana) and MLS

#BoycottMLS

#GarberOut

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I was wondering what the chances of the MLS ever coming to New Orleans or Louisiana in general are?

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Highly unlikely for the time being. Should work on getting a USL team.

Kenny Ferrel who is the coach and runs the team is a total jackass and pisses everyone off that he deals with.

If someone magically showed up with money to build a state of the art downtown soccer specific stadium and another $200 million franchise fee then I guess maybe but there’s pretty much no chance of that happening soooo

NOLA is a small market and while there’s a good group of soccer fans here there’s not near enough to support an MLS team. I mean people barely support the NBA team as it is.

The Jesters games are a lot of fun though, hopefully they will have an announcement of where/when they will be playing soon

That answered it! Thank you.
I guess I’ll need to get into the lower leagues to support local teams. Even with Arthur Blank’s success I don’t see Gale Benson stepping into the MLS waters

New Orleans won’t get an MLS team. Unless we somehow have pro-rel in the future and that team gets promoted all the way up. NOLA is just too small of a market nowadays, and it’s not the type of small market MLS would take a chance on, even if Gayle Benson decides to spend money on an MLS team tomorrow. Louisville and Indianapolis have much higher chances of getting an MLS team because they both have stadium plans and well-supported USL teams.

I think a realistic goal would be for New Orleans to get a USL Championship team. If that team marketed well to the NOLA Hispanic community and soccer fans in Jefferson Parish and the Northshore, I think NOLA could easily support a D2 team. I’m not sure the Jesters will ultimately be that team with Farrell at the helm. We’ll see. If they fail, hopefully someone else gives it a try. I’m not sold on the NPSL Pro at all. I doubt it lasts more than two years.

The last 50 years have not been kind to New Orleans. We can only support the Saints at a major league level, these days. The Pelicans will likely be gone in the next 20 years or so if they can’t start winning with any consistency.

If you’re a soccer fan it seems like ESPN+ is the way to go

Thanks everyone for the info!

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I think a realistic goal would be for New Orleans to get a USL Championship team. If that team marketed well to the NOLA Hispanic community and soccer fans in Jefferson Parish and the Northshore, I think NOLA could easily support a D2 team.

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If we do get a USL team we need to go out and get an older player from the Honduran and/or Mexican (Mexico might be harder though) national team, the amount of people with ties to those countries within an 1-1:30 hours of NOLA would easily come out to support the team.

Gulf Coast Premier League

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Kenny Ferrel who is the coach and runs the team is a total jackass and pisses everyone off that he deals with.

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Meh, as someone who works with Kenny a lot. He has a lot of passion and I think people mistake that a lot. He is extremely passionate about bringing soccer to this city. Can't wait to see what league we are in next year, whether it be USL or NISA.