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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2014
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"There is not a whole lot of movement either way, but that is to be expected right now. We have had our calls [among team representatives and union leaders]. All the guys are on board. It's a matter of explaining it to the players."
Bobby Boswell, DC United defender (Washington Post)
FACT OF THE DAY
Major League Soccer's highest paid player is Orlando's Kaka, at $7 million per year.
ESPN
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Kaka won the Ballon D'or,
awarded to the best player in
soccer, in what year?
A:2007
THE MORNING BREW
MLS' new Collective Bargaining Agreement will bring enormous change
Major League Soccer will enter its 21st season in March 2015, and the new season will come with a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. The changes are expected to be monumental due to the increase in attendance across the league and the fairly low base salary for players that the expiring deal dictates.
One of the biggest revisions to the agreement will be to the league's salary cap. MLS' salary cap currently stands at $3.1 million. Teams have three Designated Player slots, which allow three players to be payed above the maximum salary of $387,500.
Some of these players are paid well over the salary cap for the entire team, like Kaká, a player just signed by Orlando at $7 million per year. The new CBA will have to address the base salaries of non-DP's who make up most of the league.
Some DP's aren't paid very much. Sporting Kansas City's Matt Besler and Graham Zusi signed new contracts over the summer that increased their base salaries to $600,000, but both contracts include several incentives.
MLS and US Soccer signed a deal worth $90 million with Fox and ESPN for media rights to televise MLS soccer next season. This agreement replaces 2013's deal with NBC and ESPN worth $75 million.
A new television deal with Fox and ESPN will revolutionize how soccer is watched in the U.S., and all of the money has to be shared between players, owners and league initiatives like player development. The new deal will eliminate MLS' online live streaming service and will show every non-televised MLS game on WatchESPN.
Player acquisition mechanisms within the league have been singled out for change in recent years. Players
who are released can go through a series of drafts to allocate them to different teams, but the format of this often makes the player, whose salary usually isn't terribly large, powerless as to where he ends up.
The league also "broke its own rules" to bring big new signings to teams where they wanted to end up. The first was Clint Dempsey, followed by Michael Bradley and Jermaine Jones. These players should have been drafted by an allocation order to the top team in the order, but a rule was added to MLS' regulations after the Dempsey signing that essentially said the league could do whatever it wanted when it comes to allocating a DP to a team.
The fact that all three of these players make several times over what most of their teammates make and the increased amount of money coming into the sport highlights the lack of leverage MLS commands against the players union.
As a result of the impending negotiations and possible rearrangement of player acquisition methods, teams are unsure of how to go about the offseason.
The Chicago Fire has already released almost half its roster, and Sporting Kansas City just made a few surreleases, including
prising releases, include
midfielder Antonio Dovale.
"All the changes that the league is going to make, or that the CBA is going to make, you may not be planning the correct way. That's a little scary, to be honest with you," said Peter Vermes, Sporting KC's coach, via MLSoccer.com.
Fortunately, revisions made in the CBA will mean that the quality of play in MLS should pick up in the years after this agreement is made. More money available for salaries will make teams able to sign better players.
Edited by Emily Brown
Kansas women misfire against top-ranked Notre Dame 89-47
SCOTT CHASEN
@SCHasenKU
Coming into the game against the top-ranked team in the Coaches Poll, few thought the Jayhawks were going to be able to hang around with the Fighting Irish. Notre Dame had already cracked the 100-point mark three times this season, and managed to win games by margins of 35, 54, 60 and 75.
Kansas lost 89-47, but that large margin wasn't the story early on, as the Jayhawks jumped out to a quick five-point lead, before battling back and forth for a while. Nine minutes into the game, the women found themselves down just two;
five minutes after that the Hawks were only down six.
The final score wasn't pretty, but more than anything, the game showed a bit of promise for Kansas. The 42-point margin of victory by Notre Dame was its third lowest of the season, with Chattanooga and Michigan State being the only schools to fare better against the Fighting Irish.
Additionally, Kansas held Notre Dame to 89 points, which is its third lowest scoring total on the season, and more than seven points below its average of 96.2 points per game coming in.
Senior forward Chelsea Gardner led the Jayhawks in scoring and rebounding, with 15 points and six rebounds, to go along with
three steals. Senior guard Natalie Knight, on the other hand, probably had the best overall game for Kansas, scoring 13 points on 5-of-8 shooting, and making three of her four 3-point attempts. Knight also racked up six assists, while committing just one turnover.
Outside of Knight and Gardner, the team combined to make just nine of its 33 field-goal attempts, which rounds out to about 27 percent. Notre Dame shot 55.4 percent from the field, but the Fighting Irish did most of their damage at the 3-point line, going 8-for-13. They also won the battle at the free-throw line, hitting 19 of 21 attempts, while the Jayhawks only took three
free throws the entire game.
free throws in the game
The Jayhawks held their own on the boards, especially early on, and the only other real difference in the game came in the amount of turnovers the Jayhawks committed. Freshman guards Lauren Aldridge, Chayla Cheadle and Terrii Bradley combined for 15 turnovers, which was four more than the Fighting Irish had as a team.
Regardless, the 5-2 Jayhawks will look to bounce back against Incarnate Word on Thursday, before taking on the No.14 California Golden Bears. Both games will be played at Allen Fieldhouse.
- Edited by Ben Carroll
ANDY LARKIN/KANSAN
Senior guard Asia Boyd fights to the basket between two Fort Hays State defenders during the first half of the Jayhawks' first exhibition game on Sunday, Nov. 2.
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