I'm going to take each line that can be responded to and attempt to respond so that I can learn from you folks.
>>All this is IS talk!<<
Yes, it's a message board. The best you're probably going to do is to discuss and to learn.
>>Nothing will ever happen to merge b/c it has to be something new not CSC!!!!!! Look how GFC did it all new!!!!! CSC is not the answer here!<<
Why does it have to be something new? You seem very, very certain that CSC is not the answer; could you explain in detail why CSC is not the answer?
CFC was something new; and it couldn't marshall the resources it wanted so it merged into CSC. So something new doesn't seem to necessarily be the answer, does it?
>>Untill ALL the clubs want to form one club in cola the talent will be split!!!!<<
I think that this is the heart of the matter in your argument, correct? Without a single club representing Columbia, GFC and St. Giles can't be beaten, right?
Okay, let's imagine that nothing matters but the talent pool from which you draw. 2000 census numbers for urbanized areas show Greenville with a population of 302,194 and Columbia with a population of 420,537. Thus, with 2 clubs, Greenville draws on roughly 150K. Columbia should then be able to support 2 clubs and win all of the time, or 3 clubs and be very competitive.
However, using this analysis, there's no way to beat Atlanta since it has a population of 3,499,840 and thus can always consolidate into just a few clubs and draw from a greater population.
I understand that you disagree with the theory that a competitive, regional/national oriented club environment in an area can beat a single, centrally planned club environment in that same area. And certainly there has to be a limit with respect to the number of clubs a given area can support. However, respectfully, population draw as the single most important attribute for soccer competitiveness might not be the end-all-be-all theory that is going to make Columbia-area soccer ascendent.
