Las Vegas

StormHawkeye · Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Location: SILVER SPRING MD

As badly as Las Vegas did this season, Jim Ferraro should not be allowed to run another AFL franchise again. This goof basically took the Gladiators and ran them into the ground.

Whoever suggested that Las Vegas go to af2, that would make sense, but you would have to realign the af2 so Las Vegas would be in the Western Division.

If Las Vegas were to go to af2, can anyone come up with a suitable divisoin alignment?

Thank you.

StormHawkeye (Leonard)
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LEONARD "HAWKEYE" WEIRICH
TAMPA BAY STORM FAN SINCE 1991
FAN OF THE af2 SPOKANE SHOCK SINCE 2006

temporary1357 · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

I think Las Vegas should stay in AFL and be given another chance with another owner.

atxstranger · Joined: 07 May 2007 Location: Austin, TX

Ok If Las Vegas goes you end up with 31 teams (assuming Austin doesn't join them). In the interest of balance (which I am a big fan of) and trying to keep travel costs down, I would go with 8 4-team divisions. This assumes you find a 32nd team somewhere but this seems to make the most sense:

American Conference
Eastern Division

Midwest Division

Southern Division

Western Division

National Conference
Southern Division

Central Division

Southwest Division

West Division

I am at a loss for Southern Division as the other teams in the national kind of line up well, so it could be the division with the most travel. Now I can move teams based on where that new team is, but a lot of those divisions are pretty much stuck the way they are.

The other alignment that may work would be a 5 5-team division and 1 6-team division setup, but you could end up with a few teams having some pretty significant travel for their division games that way. Like who would end up in the American East and who gets the long travel dates in the American West. In the National, you could end up with a team with long travel dates to either South Texas or Central California.
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atxstranger · Joined: 07 May 2007 Location: Austin, TX

Ok So I did a little work on this and here is what my alignment would look like on a map:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=112179980348342027321.0004345000b075645b5bd&ll=37.370157,-97.119141&spn=40.136127,78.310547&z=4&om=1

Albuqurque being the 32nd team creates a problem for, though I suppose you could swap Texas for them to get a bit better balance. If Albuqurque becomes Austin its not so bad but there would still be some reoom for juggling. There are also a couple of teams that are regional to each other that should probably find a way to play each other just for fan interest.

And now that I see this layout, I don't know how you get to a 6 division alignment that keeps travel costs down for everyone because with the 8 teams in the west, at best two teams will have long trips to play conference games.
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StormHawkeye · Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Location: SILVER SPRING MD

To atxstranger:

Thank you. You were a big help, my friend. Smile

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LEONARD "HAWKEYE" WEIRICH
TAMPA BAY STORM FAN SINCE 1991
FAN OF THE af2 SPOKANE SHOCK SINCE 2006

blaze_burley · Joined: 06 Jun 2007

Next thing we know Ferrio will be on Elways side Evil or Very Mad

sidelines · Joined: 01 Jan 2001 Location: Cleveland

StormHawkeye · Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Location: SILVER SPRING MD

Then Commissioner Baker ought to boot Ferraro out - that bum screwed up two pretty damn good AFL franchises.
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LEONARD "HAWKEYE" WEIRICH
TAMPA BAY STORM FAN SINCE 1991
FAN OF THE af2 SPOKANE SHOCK SINCE 2006

jerseyboy92 · Joined: 12 Jul 2007

the AFL needs to get rid of Ferraro cause it's obivous that he's just terrible as a owner. either that, or they will move, possibly over to Boston
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sidelines · Joined: 01 Jan 2001 Location: Cleveland

temporary1357 · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

ManchVegas · Joined: 16 Apr 2001 Location: Bedford, NH

We New England arena football fans already have an af2 team - the Manchester Wolves. We don't need another.

StormHawkeye · Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Location: SILVER SPRING MD

We're talking AFL in Boston, ManchVegas, not af2.

Boston already has a NLL team. Now it's time for the AFL to come to Beantown.
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LEONARD "HAWKEYE" WEIRICH
TAMPA BAY STORM FAN SINCE 1991
FAN OF THE af2 SPOKANE SHOCK SINCE 2006