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Total Soccer Show: USMNT, Champions League, EPL, and more ...

Will pro-rel in the USL change American soccer forever? | The Big Thing

Total Soccer Show: USMNT, Champions League, EPL, and more ...

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Soccer, News, Sports News, Sports

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Earlier this week, the United Soccer League (USL) broke the news that Promotion and Relegation was coming to the United States. Your favorite foursome (aside from the Ninja Turtles) is together again to discuss the news itself, the potential impact on American soccer and the looming questions still to be answered.


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1:32.7

Today, there's arguably no bigger topic than a fundamental change to the structure of the American game.

1:38.2

USL's proposal to bring European style promotion and relegation to its professional league system.

2:52.6

In this episode, we're going to look at what's happened so far in this development, the timing, the ways in which you could change shocker in the States, and the questions that remain unanswered. My name's Ryan Bailey. Joining me today, it's a man who always be promoted to USL Division I in our hearts. It's Taylor Rock. Go, hello, Taylor. Hello. Promoted to the lowest division from which you cannot be relegated? That's high praise, Ryan. That's high praise to start the show. The only way is up, baby. That's the way we go. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Also here, promotion candidate Graham Rutherland. Hello, Graham. Hello, Ryan Bailey. There's no limit to how low I can be relegated. There's no volunteer. Also with with us on this conversation of man who's introduced third, but will never be relegated in our hearts. Of course, it's Joe Lowry. Hello, Joe. Oh, hey, Ryan. I'm imagining Graham and I in some sort of promotion playoff. I think that maybe is how this is going and the winner of the promotion podcast playoff gets up to the next tier. I don't know exactly how we're going to structure it. It's going to take some thinking, some voting from our ownership. But if we can get that super majority, I think we can make it happen. I love the phrase. Too much stress, too much anxiety in that situation. It's yours, Joe. Have the trophy. Self-relegation already. We're a few minutes in, Graham. Goodness. By the way, just to say, Joe, the phrase super majority, love it.

2:49.8

Yeah, no, it's good. It's good. Nobody really knows how many. No, it's two-thirds. But, you know, nobody really knows how many it is. It's just a great word that we get to use on occasion. It's great. So majority, obviously, like, over 50%. Super majority over two-thirds. I mean, two-thirds is over 50%.

3:08.3

I feel like the word majority would just suffice in that situation.

3:11.8

But sure, supermajority sounds good.

3:13.3

We call it majority majority.

3:15.0

The majority, no, no.

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