Athletic Club Boise

And Mark, we've made a lot recently of stadiums and atmospheres and club culture at the USL level.

I don't know how much you've been paying attention to, Mark, but AC Boise is absolutely crushing it this year and it's really fantastic, and there's a few other USL teams in that space.

Maybe one of the only, um, MLS NEXT Pro independent franchises, clubs that's coming in that's kind of doing that similarly is AC Grand Rapids.

I'm looking at it right now, of the renderings of what is going to be, um, Amway Arena, that's gonna be an 85,000-seater stadium for AC Grand Rapids.

And we're gonna have some great guests, and we might just get the biggest name in Fort Wayne football on, uh, that live show.

And then we are gonna go watch AC Boise, uh, take on the aforementioned Fort Wayne.

And, uh, we're gonna reveal all that, where those teams sit.

And Fort Wayne might be fighting for their playoff lives come that last game of the season.

We're gonna do a live show from the fan zone.

So hopefully we'll be set up with the stadium in the back, and we'll have some of the, the, the Three River Regiment rallying behind us as we wrap up the show.

And then we'll all go in together to the game as they take on AC Boise, who you see there.

They have an X next to their name.

But we could see more of this develop and break out in the next couple of days and like they could absolutely be leaving.

It's scary then because the championship is already gaining AC Boise, so that would be three teams now vacating in the USL 1 ecosystem.

I know eventually they're gonna regionalize it with the Premier team...

But the Premier League coming in and the pro rel structure, but that feels like a lot of shake and bake to happen in USL 1 in one single season.

Here are today's headlines.

AC Boise has clinched a playoff berth in its first ever season.

State lawmakers recently killed $1.2 million in funding for mental healthcare programs in rural schools.

And Boise State's latest report shows a sharp decline in students violating liquor laws.

We are bringing Morning Kickaround to Fort Wayne, Indiana.

We are invading, uh, for the regular season finale of Fort Wayne FC versus AC Boise.

We're gonna do it up big.

We are, uh, taking over.

Probably, you know, in the top three, uh, exciting teams in the United States.

At least new teams from exciting, uh, cities that are really getting behind their teams.

Uh, Fort Wayne and AC Boise.

But, uh, the founder of Portland Hearts of Pine on here.

Gonna be doing this, um, thing we're calling UltraFest, just to have some fun.

Gathering of soccer fans in Fort Wayne at Deer Park Irish Pub ahead of a match that evening, Saturday, October 24th, between Fort Wayne FC, who are building their nice little stadium in League One, and AC Boise, who is having an, a, an excellent first season in USL League One, and is moving up to the championship, USL Championship next year.

Of course, that's ahead of USL instituting pro rel and all those things.

But if you're at all interested in the growth of American soccer, especially at the lower division levels- Definitely check out Morning Kickaround.

But I just think that that's interesting as we talk about soccer wars continuing to move forward.

Uh, in the USL League One with the departure of AC Boise, that, uh, kind of western hemisphere of the USL League One landscape is a little bare.

So, um, imagine, uh, the, coming online for Cascades w- who we're following in Countdown to Kickoff, and then Everett would accompany only AV Alta in, uh, Spokane on the, on that, uh, west side of the entire country.

There's obviously more and more USL League One teams coming online.

Remember, this will be, this will be the third tier of their pyramid as they move teams up to, to Premier and launch teams in other divisions.

So, you know, they'll wanna keep this one, uh, pretty full.

I mean, so we, we're down to 16 teams as of next year because of AC Boise's move.

Who else is set to launch in USL League One, Rob, outside of Cascades? So Cascades will be next year.

Corpus scored in the 97th minute, the final moments of stoppage time on a header off a free kick.

A.C. Boise had come within just inches of scoring in stoppage time moments prior.

The loss snaps the team's eight-game unbeaten streak and blocked Boise from clinching a playoff berth.

Boise remains fifth in the USL League One standings with an international friendly this Wednesday evening against Cancun FC out of Mexico, and then it's back to league action with a home match Saturday at one against Greenville FC.