Inside Minnesota Soccer — It’s D-Day – Deadline Day for D2 Sanctioning, or is it?

It’s September 15, 2010 and that can only mean one thing for those of you who have been following along at home with the saga of D2 soccer. That’s right, it’s deadline day for submitting bids to the USSF for sanctioning of D2 soccer. However, you may be in for an anticlimactic D-day. And really, like the story that has dragged out for almost two years now, it’s really no surprise to learn the deadline has been pushed back, dragging the whole ordeal out just a tad bit longer.

I gave up trying (or wanting) to cover the soap-operatic ins and outs of who runs second division soccer in the U.S. late last year. However, it will eventually affect the Aztex one way or the other. So, although I’m not going to try to slice and dice, commentate and pontificate, or chew up and spit out the drama du jour here at The Aztexan, I will link to coverage of major developments.

Read the post linked above for a summary of the current situation (and read Inside Minnesota Soccer regularly to keep up on all the developments). The summary of the summary, as far as the Aztex are concerned: we don’t yet know what league Austin will play in next year.

If the NASL bid for Div-II sanctioning is approved, maybe the Aztex will join them and it will be a very similar competitive landscape to this season. The other possibility seems to be a new, more regionalized Div-III league, USL PRO. There aren’t any details out yet about who Austin would play in that league. Please note: this is all speculation. Aside from assurances that they will play (as further supported by the extension of Coach Heath’s contract on Monday), the Aztex front office has been very quiet about all this. Here’s hoping we get answers sooner rather than later.