After three years of building and having conversation with other minor leagues of basketball the RDBL will play on as an independent with two teams playing under the banner as a player development system.We have held talks with the USBL and what was like a bad dream ABA one set of talks were merger the other joining the league with four RDBL teams moving into the other league the RDBL was formed as a pro/am which allows the teams to operate and make a profit teams play game on television in there local market the Tarrant county Regulators will have shown 8 television games this season the fan base has grown each season and even more people watch the delayed braodcast of the games which allows the team to get sponsors.RDBL president Will Williams who is a TV sportscaster and owns a TV production company has said after visiting in conversation with other league's that since those league's are not in the business for the teams to become a better business for the owner he will wait until the right mix for both parties come alone after all we are already making a profit those teams operate in the Red we did try to schedule games with a few of them and they can't make trip's to us but we can travel to them.The CBA is the best one out there but all of those teams are too far away for a team in Texas to play a season with the cost on the teams would drive them out of business I would like to see the USBL which we had conversation with start a South division it would cut the travel on teams down and the teams from what should be a East would not see those teams until playoff time but those talks broke off after the over priced franchise fee couldn't be work'ed out so for now the 2006 RDBL season will consist of the Tarrant County Regulators and Johnson County Outlaws playing a 20 game independent schedule to showcase the teams players the teams will play any team from anywhere and all home games are televised with a plan to show selected road trip games on tape delay in those markets.The NDBL has had some contact with the league after all we do have something there teams don't we televise the games and any sports team needs that to generate money.The other two markets that will have RDBL teams still playing in 2006 are Odessa,Texas and Beaumont,Texas.