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Originally Posted by tweeter4
Multiple long time pros, mixed with an experienced coach and long time pro owner in Jeff Stein makes me think they would be more competitive than:
Uprising
Kings
DMG
The MLKing are by far the biggest joke of the division. At this point they are basically just there to say they play pro. DMG I think is too far gone and I cant imagine they find more money or talent anytime soon. Uprising has almost no funding as well and any decent local talent is always going to go to Thunder over them.
Being that the Northeast has some of the best players in the country outside of TX, FL, and CA, there should absolutley be more pro teams up here, and there already are more pro ready rosters sitting in the wings.
Aftermath is a shining example of why there should be some sort of ownership financial committment required for the pro division. They get back a competant owner who can provide the resources needed for a pro team in Mike Hinman, and they go from a hot pile of **** to a promising underdog contender instantly.
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Originally Posted by twinings
ML Kings lost to what is on paper a divisional team. Why are they even in the pro division. Sorry for the hate but it is what it is.
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I think that people forget that ML Kings started as a european team that came over to America so they can play pro in 2 leagues. Next the NXL changed the rules so you can't do that anymore.
Honestly I think that Uprising was an amazing divisional team that was exited to go pro. They got screwed up right away at the pro level. After realizing that it wasent going to be easy they just kinda gave up.
DMG is reabuilding. I dont think think they should be kicked out of the pro division.
Honestly I think the bigger issue is the over the top "buying and selling" of players. Ironmen just kinda shop around every season and fly in players from all over. Thay play in a few Sundays, lose a few people every off season, next just buy some random people, and then complain that they dont win.
I believe that the Ironmen would do much better if they just cut everyone (execpt Nick S and maybe Corey Hall) and just bringing up whole Hurricans team. That way you are taking a team that plays together already, have chemistry, a decent mix of pros to teach (Nick S, Cory, Benny C, Keith D, please bring back Thomas M), some decent funding for pratice, and I believe that they could win in a few years.
People **** on GP for just bringing up a whole D2 team, but I think that was by far the best move. I watched a game that they played and they did pretty well.