Regarding the "Precourt jumped the gun. We have no idea why." piece, the only thing that seems plausible (beyond Precourt just being a petulant moron, of course) is that Bobby Epstein's USL Austin announcement happened sooner than he expected it to.



Since the Austin team wouldn't be joining USL until 2019, perhaps Precourt assumed Epstein would not start the branding and marketing push until 2018? Which would, most importantly, be after the expansion decision in Dec 2017 and around the same time Precourt could start his own marketing push.



So maybe Precourt reads stories in August/September about how Epstein's USL team will be playing in a new 5,000-seat stadium at Circuit of the Americas (COTA) in 2019 and starts to worry that this may create consumer confusion and friction with the municipal government on his own stadium project down there? And while USL and MLS and generally cooperative, USL has no idea Precourt put this escape clause in his ownership agreement so they saw no reason to give MLS the heads up (let alone an impatient Precourt)?

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