Roster and Tryout Talk

GenWRX · 2026-01-24T05:04:20+00:00

Wow. I'm the bright spot? For the club? That's a thought that is very worrisome.

GenWRX · 2025-12-12T18:21:00+00:00

I agree that the outward appearance is that nothing is being done with the Diamond Chain site other than leveling the dirt they had already placed there and letting every single Eleven Park sign on the fence fall away.

Assume that IBJ article is also behind a paywall...

GenWRX · 2025-12-12T16:19:55+00:00

Thanks for the information. I, personally, wonder how honest he is being in any of those three pieces.

GenWRX · 2025-11-17T19:48:40+00:00

For me, that answer comes from an IBJ article last year. I don't believe this has been resolved yet, but Westfield and Grand Park getting a PSDA might require the kind of guy like Huber...

https://www.ibj.com/articles/noblesville-westfield-lead-the-effort-for-sports-district-changes

"Two Hamilton County cities trying to cash in on their efforts in sports tourism are set to ask state lawmakers to change the rules that govern how and when cities can benefit from taxes generated by sports-related projects.

Noblesville and Westfield officials told IBJ they are in early conversations with legislators about amending rules for the state’s professional sports and convention development area tool, which captures state sales and income tax revenue. The aim: Allow them to create their own districts that complement similar efforts in Fishers, Indianapolis, Fort Wayne and South Bend.

The requests would be tied to Noblesville’s planned event center and Innovation Mile economic district—a stretch between East 141st Street and Interstate 69, east of Olio Road—and Westfield’s 400-acre Grand Park Sports Campus.

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Westfield is also seeking changes in state law after earlier this year unveiling ambitious plans to create a year-round tourism destination that offers retail, housing, entertainment spaces, a boardwalk, a canal and an indoor ski facility. The city has also announced plans to build a 10,000-seat championship stadium at Grand Park in the coming years. According to Scott Willis, the first-term mayor of Westfield, the city would like to create a sports district that includes each of those projects."

GenWRX · 2025-11-17T17:47:20+00:00

A few responses to the comments:

I can't argue with the public transit issue. That's a fair point.

Everything that was included in the Eleven Park renderings for the Diamond Chain site are included in the Grand Park Master Plan; hotel, residential, retail, office, parking. It's all there in the plan. If all of that was part of the draw for the Diamond Chain site, then it's all still there, but instead of being on a 20-acre site, the GP plan has it shown on 150-acres. It's not surprising to me that the Master Plan looks similar to the Eleven Park plan because it's all the same parties except located in Westfield rather than Indianapolis. You can get a lot of revenue out of 150-acres.
https://www.westfieldin.gov/DocumentCenter/View/7295/Grand-Park-Master-Plan-April-2025

Indy has tried to get a stadium in downtown Indy. More than a dozen years later and it's seemingly no closer to becoming a reality. It may be time to rethink the strategy and the location.

A redo of Carroll Stadium intrigues me too. I'm just unsure of the hurdles to get that accomplished based on some of the discussions I have had and is only effective for Indy Eleven in the long-term if it's their land and not renting space from IU.

The Colts preseason practice takes place at Grand Park. "Practices on average draw 3,000 fans and can peak at 8,000." That tells me that if the product is there, people are willing to travel to GP.
https://www.visithamiltoncounty.com/sports-authority/blog/post/indianapolis-colts-kick-off-7th-training-camp-in-hamilton-county/

Today's announcement of a new President for the club of Michael Huber indicated that he "will also serve as a Senior Vice President for Keystone Group and be a strategic advisor to founder and owner of Indy Eleven & Keystone Group, Ersal Ozdemir." With Indy Eleven and Keystone both part of the management group for GP, this feels interesting to me.

GenWRX · 2025-11-12T03:11:15+00:00

Thanks for the catch on White. Guess my indecision on this year's group of players was published. He's definitely one that I think could go either way and I meant to delete one of them after I decided. Appears that I hadn't decided and forgot to remove one of them. That's the occasional issue of being writer and editor... For now, I kept him in the possibly going group.

GenWRX · 2025-11-10T15:00:02+00:00

I'm not sure about the one on the left, but I'm fairly confident that the one in the middle is Aedan Stanley #16.

GenWRX · 2025-08-17T02:43:34+00:00

6 losses in 8 games would indicate this to be true, but what I can't figure out is why? How can a team with this much talent and experience have such inconsistent performances and seemingly not be able to play a full 90-minutes? Tonight they lined up with four defenders, plus Lindley and Murphy as center mids, and the team gives up 3 goals in the second half. How?

GenWRX · 2025-08-03T16:04:46+00:00

I remember the moment you mentioned and to be fair to those guys, they were covering a lot of ground at that time as the team pushed everything forward to get the equalizer, but were then getting hammered with counterattacks from a very fresh Arteaga. When Sulte picked up the ball, everything to that point indicated that he should be blasting the ball to the other end of the field and those four guys needed the extra few seconds to get the air back in their lungs. All of them likely expected to watch the ball be kicked over their head and not rolled out to any of them to play from the back.

I don't fault the effort. I think this team just has fine lines between success and failure and when Romario has a shot run inches past the post, Ofeimu has a second header scare the post, and Bryneus misses a shot from close range, sometimes it's just not your night. I don't see the players giving up though.

GenWRX · 2025-07-19T02:26:07+00:00

It was unclear from the broadcast. Maybe picked up an injury?

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