Bonus thoughts... The USSF can help secure the NWSL's standing as the top women's professional league by increasing the standards for a Division I league (namely stadium size and financial requirements) to effectively exclude the USL Super League and a potential women's MLS Next Pro. (11/?)

Also, the NWSL could end up partnering with the MLS for a women's equivalent of the MLS Next Pro and perhaps a girls youth league, which would finally give all of the NWSL teams a youth academy and reserve teams. (12/end)