Stu Holden
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484 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 6 Jul
Stu Holden’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, he was amazing.
It was actually the last part of that conversation with him, Timmy. I didn't finish or close the loop on it. When I asked him the question, he said, I don't want to sound arrogant, but I knew we'd be back here. And, you know, I guess it's one thing to say it now. It's easy to say it once you're in the final.
But look, I mean, all three of us are involved in club ownership in some different capacity. And the reality is to try to recruit those types of guys that you're talking about, Landon, with Ricky Pooge and loving the city. MLS has gone through these iterations, as you're talking about, Tim, but also in a period, I would say, over the last...
I don't know, five, six years really starting with Atlanta United's kind of growth and explosion in South America where they would get these younger, you know, Argentine, South American guys, 19, 20, 21. Hey, we will bring you to MLS. We'll develop you. We'll give you a platform, you know, and then we're going to sell you and we're going to make money on you. You're going to get to do this.
So then MLS and really the problem that's happened in Atlanta is that that model really worked and then And it didn't work. And then all these guys were expecting that. And it was just a stop. They weren't investing in the club and in the city and in the league and saying, I'm here now. Look, Ricky Pooja is getting paid a lot of money. So I think that helps. And I think that's part of it.
Like you have to pay these guys to not to, to want to think like, I got to go somewhere else after this. And there's always going to be those guys. Like, Gabriel Peck is probably not going to be an LA Galaxy lifer. Like, he's going to go to Europe. He's a young Brazilian guy. He's had a great season. He's probably thinking about the next stage. But that's the challenge.
I mean, and I know you're dealing with that in Houston, Tim. It's like... How do we complement a really solid core group of American players and guys that get it and a coach that gets it and then add these pieces and fit this puzzle together to have success on the field? But the signs are there in Houston. It's been a much better trajectory than it's been in the past. It sounds so simple.
Hire good people, hire a good coach, sign good players. I mean, there you go. There's your blueprint.
How do you guys feel about MLS? It gives you the tools. This is a John Strong stat. The last three MLS Cup champions all missed the playoffs the year before. Oh, wow. That's pretty exciting to me. That gives you the tools to change it over.
pressure and accountability are good things to have. And I think it holds the organization accountable. And then, and then it, it then forces you as ownership or front office to make a decision and to filter out the noise, but understand like what is, what is real. And I think part of that is having to listen to your customer, which is the fan. And,
The fans are your, they're your most loyal customer that you're going to get. They invest in everything that you do. And so you would be ridiculous not to listen to them and they have an opinion and they should, they're in it more than anybody else. And so I love that the galaxy fans did that. It's nothing new.
And as you said, Landon and in other parts of the world where they'll, you know, turn up in hundreds of thousands and throw rocks and you know, All kinds of crazy stuff. And you don't want to see it to get to that level. But I think it was important, clearly, that the Galaxy fans did that. They made their voices heard. There was change in the front office. And you know what?
That change should have come for many years. And maybe that pressure and accountability didn't exist. Or I'm not sure why those changes weren't made previously. I'm sure when they're looking at this now, saying, man, we're MLS Cup champs and we should have done this earlier. But... you know, it's, uh, the galaxy are in a good place.
I said this on the broadcast that MLS needs the galaxy to be what they are. They're the winningest franchise in the league's history, them versus LAFC and kind of, you know, being almost second fiddle for the last five, six years since LAFC has just ran rampant.
Like that's going to be fun now if both teams are good and you know what galaxy need LAFC LAFC need the galaxy in the league need both of these LA teams. So I'm, I'm, I'm excited.
Yeah, look, it's three dads here. The best way to quantify this is my wife and daughter were at the game on Saturday. My wife texted me after the game. She goes, can I watch the whole game?
An eight-year-old watched a 90-minute soccer game. I mean, that speaks volumes. Yeah, look, it's an interesting conversation because MLS – is at times struggling in the TV landscape in the United States versus NFL and college football and NBA. These are behemoths. The NFL is a juggernaut when it comes to TV ratings.
MLS have long trying to like poke their way through and take some market share away from even what you do every week, Tim, at the Premier League. I know it's on at different times, but like, you know, the numbers you guys do consistently versus like, how does MLS become that? I'm talking on a national level.
Regionally, MLS is crushing it. You think about the fans. Guys, I was joking with somebody before MLS Cup. My first MLS assist was in Arrowhead Stadium versus the KC Wiz in front of 5,000 people.
It might have been my parents that traveled and were celebrating that moment. I could hear them and knew exactly what seat they were in. We played in... old college football stadium. I played on a baseball park in Kansas City. It's crazy to think where that has come. Don Garber should tout this.
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