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Title: Tulsa gets USL soccer team!!!!
Post by: RecycleMichael on December 18, 2013, 11:53:45 AM
http://soccer.si.com/2013/12/18/mls-usl-pro-tulsa-nielsen-kansas-city-sacramento-oklahoma/
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Post by: rebound on December 18, 2013, 12:00:16 PM
NICE!!!
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Post by: Ed W on December 18, 2013, 12:14:32 PM
What's this "soccer"?
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Post by: DowntownDan on December 18, 2013, 01:17:45 PM
Posted in the sports thread that Oneok field has a soccer field outlined in it so I'm guessing they will be playing their games there.
Title: Re: Tulsa gets USL soccer team!!!!
Post by: Hoss on December 18, 2013, 01:18:35 PM
Quote from: DowntownDan on December 18, 2013, 01:17:45 PM
Posted in the sports thread that Oneok field has a soccer field outlined in it so I'm guessing they will be playing their games there.

Which is why I got an email from the Drillers today saying a big announcement was happening today at OneOk Field.

My guess, anyway.
Title: Re: Tulsa gets USL soccer team!!!!
Post by: DowntownDan on December 18, 2013, 01:58:46 PM
QuoteA competing Tulsa ownership group is working to gain a North American Soccer League franchise, possibly for the 2015 season. That group is allied with another group in Oklahoma City that has already been granted a NASL franchise for 2015.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportshomepage1/tulsa-granted-pro-soccer-franchise/article_5539a64e-681b-11e3-a266-001a4bcf6878.html

So were in the same mess now as OKC?  Isn't NASL a higher division league?  Can either city support two professional franchises?
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Post by: DolfanBob on December 18, 2013, 03:04:07 PM
What happens now to Ruf and his Tulsa Athletics and the old Driller Stadium?
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Post by: rdj on December 18, 2013, 05:19:11 PM
Quote from: DowntownDan on December 18, 2013, 01:58:46 PM
So were in the same mess now as OKC?  Isn't NASL a higher division league?  Can either city support two professional franchises?

The Drillers are partnering with Prodigal LLC which is led by Bob Funk.  Prodigal is the owner of the USL franchise set for OKC.

Prodigal is also working on building a soccer specific stadium in OKC.
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Post by: TulsaRufnex on December 19, 2013, 12:44:59 AM
Quote from: RecycleMichael on December 18, 2013, 11:53:45 AM
http://soccer.si.com/2013/12/18/mls-usl-pro-tulsa-nielsen-kansas-city-sacramento-oklahoma/

I hope you had nothing to do with this idea, RM.

(http://uslprotulsa.com/images/tulsaticketpage.jpg)
Title: Re: Tulsa gets USL soccer team!!!!
Post by: Snowman on December 19, 2013, 01:29:28 AM
The only decent reasons I can think of for having the field that far out is to avoid the mound and/or reduce the amount of sodding they have to do but it just seems comically far from what should be the best seats
Quote from: TulsaRufnex on December 19, 2013, 12:44:59 AM(http://uslprotulsa.com/images/tulsaticketpage.jpg)
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Post by: dsjeffries on December 19, 2013, 08:23:14 AM
Reserved my seat.
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Post by: davideinstein on December 19, 2013, 03:49:37 PM
About to reserve mine.
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Post by: TulsaRufnex on December 20, 2013, 12:07:10 PM
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Post by: davideinstein on December 20, 2013, 03:42:15 PM
Yeah, I'm reserving two seats for this.
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Post by: TulsaRufnex on January 05, 2014, 04:46:20 PM
Quote from: Snowman on December 19, 2013, 01:29:28 AM
The only decent reasons I can think of for having the field that far out is to avoid the mound and/or reduce the amount of sodding they have to do but it just seems comically far from what should be the best seats

Exactly.
ONEOK ballpark wasn't built to accommodate soccer... Frontier Field in Rochester (NY) was, however... pay close attention to the setup in the last 10 secs of this video...



Title: Re: Tulsa gets USL soccer team!!!!
Post by: Rookie Okie on January 05, 2014, 06:37:52 PM
Yes, it is true that the design of Frontier Field as a baseball stadium was slightly modified to accommodate soccer just before it opened back in the late 90's, with "accommodate" being the operative word since a soccer specific stadium down the road (figuratively and later literally) was inevitable.   While the soccer field at Frontier was closer to the majority of fans than what the rendering shows for ONEOK, fans on the right side of Frontier had a distant and indirect view of the action.  For many years the soccer purists in Rochester raised the same objections and complaints heard here about playing in a baseball stadium.  Ironically, later on many would argue that the Rhinos experience was more exciting at Frontier than at their current field, Shalen's Soccer Stadium.   

Nonetheless, the future success of soccer in Tulsa must include a soccer stadium as neither of the local b-ball fields are ideal.  I also believe that in order to land MLS in Tulsa as envisioned by many local soccer supporters, it will at least require the COLLECTIVE efforts of the disparate groups coming together with their investors along with strong support from state and local leadership to pull it off.