PFL Executives: Contingency plans in place.

-Scott Thomas, PFL Columnist.

An unnamed PFL official has been quoted as saying that there is a contingency plan in place for any eventually with the upcoming financial reviews for the Victoria Panthers and Pottsburgh Cardinals.

It is suggested that the league may have to contract to 18 teams, if the troubled teams cannot keep their league licenses, due to funding issues. Teams that go bankrupt lose their eligibility. The Victoria Panthers are currently working with league administrators and insolvency  experts as the league is temporarily running operations as the League Insolvency Protocol System (LIPS) has now been activated.

It would appear that the league will still have two conferences- with nine teams each. The play-off pool would be reduced to eight, from ten. The league has always maintained that there should never be more than half of the teams qualifying for the play-offs.

As the dates for the next three Crystal Bowls are already set, one decision would be to start the season a week later than planned, or to have a bye week for the eight play-off teams to begin the play-offs.

There’s still time, of course, for the two teams to fix their situations. The Panthers are in a deeper hole than the Cardinals at this point. But, it’s interesting to note that the league is already working on a plan b (and maybe a plan c).