[sirkingwilliam]

Originally Posted by sakyle04

$100M is to gain entrance to MLS.

A brand new stadium can be had from scratch for approx $70-90M, so that's not the stadium expansion cost. It is the expansion fee from the league plus start-up costs with the jump.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jos...quakes_Stadium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBVA_Compass_Stadium

Dan McCarney, of the Express-News, knows about the situation just about as well as anyone and he says the $100 million is for stadium expansion and expansion fee.