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Good morning AP readers, welcome back! Before we dive in, I want to take a moment to recognize those of you who have decided to support AP on Patreon. All of your support goes right back into making the website the best it can be, and will help it continue long into the future. Special thanks to Liam Hogan, Jeff Organ, Tobias Carroll, Kevin Johnston, David Corey, Mitchell Lawson, and Aaron Gunyon. Now, today's interview is with Andrew Weilgus, one of the founds of new National Premier Soccer League club Atlantic City FC. If you haven't been keeping tabs on these guys, you should start doing so now. They've got big dreams, and the skills, connections and know how to pull it off. Check it out.  A couple of weeks, I wrote a post based solely around some old maps I had made and found as I started cleaning out files on my work computer. (You can read that by Clicking Here) It would up being way more popular than I thought, and after some positive feedback, I decided to do another one, this time covering soccer in the states of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska.
Personally, I think any league worth it's salt should have maps as part of it's planning process. Growth is good, but maps can help keep everything organized and keep that growth aligned with a particular vision. For that sake of this project, you can imagine these maps being used three different ways.
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Hello again and welcome back to AP! I'm really glad that I can share this interview with you today. When I started American Pyramid over two years ago, one of my goals, if it took off, was to interview some of the non league 'big boys,' like Chattanooga, Detroit City, and Tulsa. While, here's looking at you Detroit City! Everybody has stepped up, now it's your turn. Anyway, after a couple of false starts, I was able to connect with Matt Boullt, the clubs GM, and get an interview done! He covers some really interesting things, but isn't able to give a ton of detail on them yet concerning the search for a new, permanent home for the club and it's interest in NISA. There's some good stuff in here, and I hope you enjoy it. Check it out. Happy Friday everyone! I was going through some old files on work computer, since I'm switching jobs soon and need to start deleting the tons of data I have stored on a PC that isn't mine, and I stumbled across some old maps I did as part of my thinking about organizing soccer in the United States. The first set of maps I uncovered was of California. If I recall, I did this once I heard UPSL was doing promotion and relegation starting in California. Since it's a huge state, and too big for an amateur league to ever, barring something extraordinary happening, have a statewide competition. So I broke it down. Things start off with 16 distinct regions, flowing up to 8, then 4, then 2.
Next, this was a little project I worked on with some guys in the UPSL Midwest, to try and help make things manageable on the travel side of things since the Midwest is, frankly, huge.
Yes, I know I put part of Michigan in a region with Wisconsin, but I think the odds of the peninsula ever having a team are so small, and with Wisconsin being connected to is by land, that it just made sense to me. Lastly, these were maps I made as I prepared for the promotion and relegation debate I did on Soccer Round Table. The idea is that our country is simply too large to have anything short of a Division One nationwide league. Splitting it up makes travel much more manageable teams at the lower levels.
Lot's of random stuff here, but you never know who might be interested in this kind of thing. Would the California plan make sense, and help UPSL provide more structure? Should Michigan be divided, and the Upper Peninsula given to Wisconsin? Is the Mississippi really the middle of the country or not? Let me know in the comments!
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