Thursday, May 24, 2007

Rapid City makes rapid WRONG decision

Rapid City today anounced that they will begin contract negotitations with the CHL citing local ownership as the reason. My opinion is that if they would of waited for the USHL ownership group to be formed that the wait would be worth it. R.C. needs to learn that even good ownership can be bad when a bad league comes to town. When the CBA Thrillers left town the IBL came to town and had mulipal franchises in town those franchises and how bad they performed is what is keeping the DLeague from coming to town in my opinion. The Civic Center in my opinion needs to justify the addition of a new arena by more then AA hockey team though. They should talk to the Dleague and the UIF... I challenge anybody that wants to own a franchise in either sport. I wll buy season tickets to either one. Pat Hall who was the majority owner of the CBA Thrillers and the Majority owner of the disfunct Flying Aces should be talked to also George Jenter who owns franchise rights to the UIF should also be talked to. Rapid City has an arena that is 10 times better the SF and can't support crap for minor league sports. There is nothing to do in Rapid like there is in Sioux Falls. I will continue to research what it will take but I challenge any body with a little money and the will and determination to own either a dleague or uif team to bring one to Rapid City. Also if the CHL deal falls through the USHL should come to town imidiatly. SF, SC, Omaha, Kearny, Lincoln, 3 other IA teams all prety close compared to Coloardo and Texas.

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