The countdown begins...

[Minor League Man]

PIFL website:

The PIFL will have an Official News Release out concerning the 2007 Season within the next two weeks.

Major updates are currently being done to this site

Actually, there are still several untouched markets (but they'll have to start in the West, I bet)

Yakima
Tacoma
Pocatello
Orem
Broomfield
Colorado Springs
Santa Fe
Great Falls
Butte

to name a few.

We'll wait and see...

[nksports]

Broomfield and Santa Fe (at least the new building there in Rio Rancho) are both Global/ICC-run buildings, that means af2, since they deal almost exclusively with af2.

[phydeaux72]

Broomfield and Santa Fe (at least the new building there in Rio Rancho) are both Global/ICC-run buildings, that means af2, since they deal almost exclusively with af2.

Actually, Santa Fe has a facility where their semi-pro (NAHL) hockey team play. Not sure if it's suitable for indoor football or not, as I have never been there. I'm not sure the Santa Fe market will support indoor ball as it's a pretty small market. Not to mention that Santa Fe is an hour drive from Rio Rancho. Also, the af2 already has an expansion team going in there, same place the Scorpions of the CHL play. Santa Fe's average attendance for their semi-pro hockey team last season was 457.

As for Global/ICC, they don't deal almost exclusively with the af2. You have Global/ICC confused with SMG that built the facilities in Corpus Christi and Laredo. SMG also manages the Laredo Entertainment Center. However, SMG only designed and built the Corpus Christi facility, but does not manage it. The city of Corpus manages their own facility. Global/ICC is affiliated exclusively with the CHL. SMG, at least the management end of it, has dealt almost exclusively with the af2 over the past year or so.

[CBlack]

SMG manages Sioux FAlls arena. And they aren't AF2.

[exit322]

SMG manages the Canton Memorial Civic Center, and the Legends haven't ever played in the af2.

[phydeaux72]

SMG manages Sioux FAlls arena. And they aren't AF2.

Hence the term "almost" exclusively. Doesn't mean it's going to happen in every case. SMG also manages the LEC which had a team in the IFL last season. The difference in SMG and Global is that Global is a parent company of the CHL. SMG has nothing more than good working relationship with the af2. Which means that in most cases the af2 gets first crack at having a team in a facility that they manage.

[PIONEERSFAN101]

Word is the af2 has a team in Tacoma lined up... the Tacoma Rage perhaps.

[nksports]

Actually, Santa Fe has a facility where their semi-pro (NAHL) hockey team play. Not sure if it's suitable for indoor football or not, as I have never been there. I'm not sure the Santa Fe market will support indoor ball as it's a pretty small market. Not to mention that Santa Fe is an hour drive from Rio Rancho. Also, the af2 already has an expansion team going in there, same place the Scorpions of the CHL play. Santa Fe's average attendance for their semi-pro hockey team last season was 457.

As for Global/ICC, they don't deal almost exclusively with the af2. You have Global/ICC confused with SMG that built the facilities in Corpus Christi and Laredo. SMG also manages the Laredo Entertainment Center. However, SMG only designed and built the Corpus Christi facility, but does not manage it. The city of Corpus manages their own facility. Global/ICC is affiliated exclusively with the CHL. SMG, at least the management end of it, has dealt almost exclusively with the af2 over the past year or so.
I was actually thinking Albuquerque with Rio Rancho when I said Santa Fe. (And I was just out that direction in April).
No, SMG will deal with anyone who pays the rent (and sometimes those who don't, just ask Topeka). Now ICC did break with form since it looks like Loveland will go UIF. (But it looks like Broomfield will go af2).
There are some other outside CHL-af2 connections that have more to do with common ownership (or sometimes shared marketing) like Oklahoma City, where both teams are owned by the same group. I believe similar arrangements are in place in Tulsa and Bossier-Shreveport. (Horn Chen started some of that.)
BTW, Global is more than affiliated with the CHL, it owns the WPHL half of the CHL (not the teams, just the league) and operates the post-merger CHL. (That explains why Youngstown, Ohio is in the CHL, nearly a thousand miles from it's nearest cometitor.)