CONCACAF Champions League Drawing My Attention

Lately, due largely to the lack of decent programs on television to watch, I have been spending more time watching the Spanish-language Univision sports channel (Gainesville Cox Cable Channel 410), which is almost exclusively focused on soccer...either the matches themselves or people sitting around in panel discussions of the sport.  When an actual soccer match is broadcast, usually it is one in the Liga MX Mexican soccer league.  After watching several Liga MX matches, I've become more familiar with some of the teams.  My favorite so far? Pachuca.  Pachuca, by the way, did pretty well last year as well and is one of the Mexican teams that qualified to play in this year's CONCACAF Champions League, which is an ongoing tournament, interspersed throughout the regular season, to determine North America's best soccer team.  There is one flaw I noticed with this idea of running CONCACAF like this, although the idea is pretty awesome just the same: the teams that qualify are based on LAST year's performance...but sometimes, a good team last year is an awful team this year! Take LIGA MX's Leon, which won that league's championship tournament last year but is floundering at the bottom of the standings this year so far.  Still, Leon is in the Champions's League.  Or how about the Montreal Impact of the MLS, which did well enough in 2013's final standings to beat out the other two Canadian clubs but is currently in last place in their division this year? However, as bad as they have performed in 2014, the Impact is, incredibly, one of the best teams in the Champion's League so far...even to the point of already advancing out of the Group Stage to the Quarterfinal Round even with a remaining Group Stage match to go.  So you never know exactly what you're going to get from these teams when they are switched to a different setting.

Currently I'm watching a Group Stage match between Guatemala's Comunicaciones and Puerto Rico's Bayamon.  Bayamon is having its share of problems in the Champions League, though, having lost all of their first three games and being outscored in goals 21-2...