Does USL-1 Need a Salary Cap?
USL-1 made a statement in the CONCACAF Champions League. No one will question this, and those like myself who have long been proponents of the second flight of American football were pleased by the results which saw USL-1 emerge on the media map in a mainstream fashion for the first time. While the league as a whole has benefited from a public relations standpoint, the net result in terms of competition has given two teams a leg up on the rest of the league from both financially and by perception. The Puerto Rico Islanders in particular have opened up a gap in terms of talent with the rest of the league which can be interpreted as unhealthy for the league as a whole. But USL-1, unlike MLS does not have any internal mechanisms to ensure a competitive balance and has seen many clubs either go out of business or relegated to lower division of the USL umbrella in recent years. While USL follows a strictly foreign model for football such as a single table (which I strongly oppose, but may w
