SAN DIEGO — On Dec. 5, 2017, a group that included San Diego State Athletic Director John David Wicker and JMI Sports CEO Erik Judson quietly huddled with Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber and others at the soccer league's headquarters in New York.
The San Diegans began planting seeds to land a hypothetical expansion team, for a stadium to which they had not secured the rights to build, as a contentious ballot-initiative fight with a group seemingly guaranteed to snag a team instead roiled.
Their chances at that precise moment? Somewhere between zip, zero and flat-out zilch.
