Comments on: Would It Be Fair?

By: Catherine

Catherine — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:44:05 +0000

you know what karl, it may be funny, but I think that that would be a great idea!!! =) Smart!

By: karl

karl — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:21:02 +0000

play for it, that’s what i say. hahaha.

By: jenny

jenny — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 08:23:35 +0000

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By: nicko

nicko — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:20:15 +0000

PS thanks for the ref Daryl, and just to get in before someone suggests it: no I didn’t write the wiki article

By: nicko

nicko — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:09:54 +0000

hmmn, the US might be able to offer some incentive to Costa Rica to take their spot, not sure what though other than cash which would be a bit dodgy.

Having both compete is not impossible, presently the tournament has 12 teams with 3 groups of 4 teams, the top 2 teams from each group + the two ‘best’ 3rd place teams also pass to give the quarter finalists. so that gives 18 group phase games, with each team playing 3.
If there were 13 teams in the comp, (lucky number eh?) then you could have 3 groups of 3 teams, and one group of 4 teams with the top 2 from each group going through, this would give 18 group phase games also, but 9 teams would only play 2 group phase games – in particular 3 teams would play only those 2 games before being sent home.

Actually some of the previous world cups were organised with similarly odd structure, so its not unprecedented…

By: ETucker

ETucker — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 03:04:35 +0000

Cajun Nick: good point about the deadline. If it’s already passed, then we definitely should not/could not do it.

Stuart and Matt both bring up good points. On the one hand, it would be bad for the US image (bad karma). On the other hand, have other countries done similar things? I tried some google research, but no results.

If it’s never been done before….I say let’s not be the first and just schedule quality friendlies in neutral venues (Like the Argentina-England friendly last fall)

By: Huh

Huh — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 02:38:20 +0000

Let’s make the USA part of Europe and then they can kick Italia’s a$$es… i would enjoy that. California alone is bigger than any Euro country… perhaps we should have state leagues .. CA vs NY etc. Good way to discover new talent.. HI and AK can play on one team..

By: matt

matt — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 02:17:54 +0000

so the question was “would it be fair?”

so my question is would it be fair to put seed Mexico and not the US even if the US fisnished first in their qualifying region over mexico? would it be “fair” if the us was put in a group with Ghana, Italy, and the czech while mexico gets Portugal, iran and angola.

I could care less about costa rica and I don’t think its bad karma with the reason being…would any country hesitate to bump us out?

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:01:26 +0000

Bad karma to bump them out, and lord knows the US could stand to stop generating bad karma about now.

By: MHL

MHL — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:19:43 +0000

I’m confused. Either there is a deadline, or there is not.

If there is a deadline, and it has passed, then how does is US participation still a possibiity? Doesn’t that negate the deadline?

If there is no deadline, or it has not passed, and Costa Rica and CONMEBOL merely have some sort of agreement with CR for their participation, then there should not be a problem if we decide to participate.

If there was a “deadline,” of sorts, but our participation is still possible, that would seem to indicate some sort of institutional process by which US participation is still possible. Is that is the case, then it would be perfectly legitimate for us to play in the Copa America. To be “unfair” would be to go outside the established rules or procedures. It might be somewhat rude, but I don’t think it would be ethically unsound.