Another pro team in Jax.

[Carbo04]

How would everyone here feel about another pro team coming to the Jacksonville area? Whether it be NBA, MLB, or NHL. Which do you think has the ebst chance of coming to the area first? Do you think the city would support a ne wsports franchise, and what do you think it would do for the city? Good or bad?

[gjoseph]

I see either the NBA or the MLB coming to JAX but i'm leaning towards the MLB because it seems like JAX loves baseball and would be nice to have a baseball stadium in downtown by the Landing.

[simms3]

I don't see any other pro teams coming here anytime soon because we cannot support another team. If we could, I would love to go see some MLB or some NBA as well.

[simms3]

I don't see any other pro teams coming here anytime soon because we cannot support another team. If we could, I would love to go see some MLB or some NBA as well.

[simms3]

I don't see any other pro teams coming here anytime soon because we cannot support another team. If we could, I would love to go see some MLB or some NBA as well.

[fljeremy]

My vote would be for MLB I love baseball and enjoy seeing the Jacksonville Suns play. They have a nice stadium too.

[derrickskugler]

We're most likely 15-20 years off from seeing another sport relocate to Jacksonville, but my guess would be the NBA (assuming the Magic get sick of Orlando or something maybe?), or more likely the NHL. Who knows, but it won't be anything anytime soon.

We need to worry about supporting the Jaguars well for the forseeable future, I think. Go Jags.

[crispin]

Check out this study, published by the Business Journal chain, showing how many pro teams U.S. cities can afford. The nutshell summary: It's going to be a while before Jacksonville is a viable market for a second team. And it probably won't be baseball, by far the most expensive kind of team to support.

[facilities man]

The study linked in the above post is the best I've seen on sport viability in different cities. It shows just how difficult baseball is to support. Not only should baseball not expand, it should really be contracted from a couple cities. Football is surprisingly easy to support. Most people think it would be difficult because you are trying to fill a 60,000 + seat stadium, but it's only for 10 to 12 games a year, including preseason and the playoffs. With 81 home games you need a very large metro area to support a baseball team, especially with baseballs lack of revenue sharing. Small market teams can't compete. I don't see any new sprots teams coming to a Florida city for a while. I think the Marlins will get a new stadium somewhere in South Florida and stay in the Miami metro. Orlando could support an NFL team, but with Jacksonville and Tampa being so close in both directions any expansion there would be fought by both cities. Orlando could almost support a basball team, but it would be doomed as a small market team, just like the Devils Rays. They would be better off with a AAA team.

[simms3]

First move should be to transform the AA Suns to AAA. Then we'll see about NBA or MLS in the long run. The study shows MLS as the next possible team for Jacksonville, but I could see an NBA team here before soccer.