JDog is right. Every SP team has multiple reasonable travel partners. Laredo is more than 15 hours away from the closest opponent by bus, that's a nonstarter.
Laredo reportedly almost joined the NAHL after their fellow ex-CHL markets more or less started the NAHL South Division, but for one reason or another never got their franchise. Travel costs would still be an issue in the South Division, the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees in Hidalgo only lasted 2 or 3 years in the NA before they had to relocate to Pennsylvania citing travel costs despite a pretty good lease deal. Like most teams that far south, there's not a ton of short road trips you get with teams up North.
Not sure the NAHL would take them, any ownership group would have to have their act together. And while there's still hunger for hockey as evidenced by the support that gongshow league got for 2 weeks, there's not many leagues that were as rough and tumble as the CHL and USACHL were. All these leagues nowadays, save for the Fed, are all high pace and high skill leagues with a lot of physicality and decent amount of chippyness but no guys getting on the ice every shift looking to chuck nucks with the closest warm body.
