Talen Energy Stadium is slated to host the College Cup again in 2017, but low attendance for the event when it was here in 2013 and even lower attendance over the weekend is cause for concern.
The College Cup is supposed to be the showcase event for college soccer, but can you really call it a showcase when fewer than 9,000 people show up for three games over a weekend in an empty MLS stadium?
When the discussion should have focused on Jordan Morris' next move, Brandon Vincent's potential in MLS, or Andrew Tarbell's wingspan, most of the chatter over the weekend online and in the booth was over how pitiful the attendance was at the stadium formerly known as Sporting Park (Children's Mercy Park) in Kansas City.