SCDSL loses Silverlakes Norco...

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Apparently SCDSL did not get there field permits for SilverLakes Norco for the 19-20' season due to a contract expirations or other issues according to communicate sent out recently. Lawyer are knee deep in this one so might be some resolutions but the league folks are informing clubs they will have to get home field permits & discovery league will not likely be at one central place unless they can find a replacement complex.

So what's the inside info on this? What have others heard?
 
How did soccer even existed before Silverlakes open?

Home/away games...

Just fine normally unless your going 100+ miles to/from Santa Barbara, SD, Kern county for one league game.

Perhaps one of our legal posters will chime in but normally boils down to $$$$. DSL had a sweetheart kind of deal at lower costs for the fields that either expired or they forgot, didn't to renew and now they have been asked to pay market rates at a higher cost?
 
I thought the whole point of the discovery division is for scouts to be able to go to a single location to look at the supposed top teams' players. Home/Away defeats that purpose if it was the intent.
 
Scouts? Will some of those phantoms be attending there showcase in march? the undisclosed list of colleges attending out yet?
 
Complex’s like AB Brown in San Bernardino....not a life anyone wants to go back to.
AB Brown is in Riverside (10 minutes down the road from San Bernardino, but Riverside). The fields were extremely substandard a few months ago. Maybe it will change in the future.

SCDSL signed a 7 year deal with Silverlakes that began in September 2015. The deal runs through 2021. The contract is/was for 20 fields at $16,537 for 2019, which is $826/field. Clubs/Leagues willing to pay $825/field can find fields all day long in SoCal. The going rate for a municipal field is around $400-$500 per day, although the quality will definitely be substandard to that of Silverlakes.

It would be hard to imagine that Norco would willingly walk away from the SCDSL contract without having something in their pocket.

The SCDSL and Cal South contracts are in Exhibit A-4: https://emma.msrb.org/ER958862-ER749578-ER1151172.pdf
 
AB Brown is in Riverside (10 minutes down the road from San Bernardino, but Riverside). The fields were extremely substandard a few months ago. Maybe it will change in the future.

SCDSL signed a 7 year deal with Silverlakes that began in September 2015. The deal runs through 2021. The contract is/was for 20 fields at $16,537 for 2019, which is $826/field. Clubs/Leagues willing to pay $825/field can find fields all day long in SoCal. The going rate for a municipal field is around $400-$500 per day, although the quality will definitely be substandard to that of Silverlakes.

It would be hard to imagine that Norco would willingly walk away from the SCDSL contract without having something in their pocket.

The SCDSL and Cal South contracts are in Exhibit A-4: https://emma.msrb.org/ER958862-ER749578-ER1151172.pdf

Interesting makes you wonder if SCDSL could afford those fields at 16k per day x the number of plays days could be 350k over the fall if used for both weekend days for 11 weeks for example 20 fields.

Who opted out or partially ? SCDSL or SilverLakes?
 
Great Park is far less expensive.
Great Park would not be less expensive because SCDSL is not based in Irvine. Last I heard the cost for out of City tournaments was in the neighborhood of $2k per field, but the last Fee Resolution for Category E (tournaments) says market rates. Great Park also is a public park and a pain to deal with from what I understand. It only gets cheaper if say the Irvine Strikers reserve the fields for league. SCDSL would pay a much higher rate.
 
Great Park would not be less expensive because SCDSL is not based in Irvine. Last I heard the cost for out of City tournaments was in the neighborhood of $2k per field, but the last Fee Resolution for Category E (tournaments) says market rates. Great Park also is a public park and a pain to deal with from what I understand. It only gets cheaper if say the Irvine Strikers reserve the fields for league. SCDSL would pay a much higher rate.
For the 06 DPL season it was less than $100 for the field usage per game which is why our club played its home games there. In the south bay it would be 3-4x that amount.
 
Interesting makes you wonder if SCDSL could afford those fields at 16k per day x the number of plays days could be 350k over the fall if used for both weekend days for 11 weeks for example 20 fields.

Who opted out or partially ? SCDSL or SilverLakes?

At this point, its only a rumor, but its hard to imagine that Silverlakes would kick out SCDSL without having a backup because they need the revenue from field fees and parking or that SCDSL would breach the agreement. One possible theory could be that given JH's dual role with Legends and Silverlakes, and the fact that Legends is the primary tenant, I could see Legends just taking over the contract and playing all Legend's games during league at SCDSL and then Silverlakes opening itself up on the open market to other teams in need of fields. Clubs like Arsenal that have a significant presence in the IE could easily take on additional fields at Silverlakes.
 
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