I thought MLS Rules were in place to prevent "the NASL scenario"

This in general is one of the biggest issues in our present society.

In our willingness to hear everyone we have allowed the supremely stupid, ignorant, etc to to grind our system to halt. They have to be heard, and heaven forbid u point out just how stupid they are...then u are the cretin.

Yet we clog our system and inevitably destroy our economy because of these types of fools.

Such a waste and drag on our system. More destructive than most realize. The time, energy and resources wasted having to teach the stupid the multiplication table while we need advanced calculus is a burden that we can no longer handle IMO.

 

Not to turn this into a political debate, but I halfway agree with you here. I have no problem with teaching one group of kids algebra while the smart kids are learning calculus.

We've turned into a society that is so afraid of hurting people's feelings that we've retarded the development of everyone to spare the feelings of a few.

If there is anything to learn from social media, its that not everyone's opinion should be heard.

 

To be fair, the ignoscenti create page views, which keep this particular enterprise going. As it's not my money, it's easy for me to say the management should remove things that contribute to keeping the enterprise going.

Kinda like MLS, no?

 

It's funny, the same people who say Europeans would quickly adapt to a playoff system now say that Americans would never embrace a league without playoffs. What does this say about their view on Americans.

It has been said that Americans would never embrace soccer because there are too many draws and it's low scoring. Guess what, Americans are adapting and embracing the game for what it is. The same would be true it MLS had pro/rel and no playoffs. To say otherwise demonstrates incredible ignorance.

 

This needs to be the default response for whenever a concern troll shows up to tell us how MLS should be run...

 

Whether or not Americans would embrace the concepts of pro/rel and no playoffs is not the primary reason those concepts have not (and likely will not) come to pass. I have no doubt the "foreign-ness" of those concepts would be eventually disregarded; the concepts themselves are not difficult to understand.

Our point is that because the investor/operators - who actually make these types of decisions - are highly, highly unlikely to vote in the majority to embrace those concepts anytime soon, if at all, it's a non-starter.

The "Americans wouldn't embrace this" idea isn't even close to the top reason why they're not going to happen.

 

Who ever said this?

Americans have always embraced the game. Its not like this is some new phenomenon. But the world's perception of American soccer fans is that we're all stupid and ignorant and don't appreciate the game. Unfortunately, the exact opposite is true. A person living in Des Moines, Iowa has more access to live EPL soccer on TV than someone living in London.

We have more access to virtually every league on planet earth than anyone anywhere else does. As such, MLS is held to a higher standard, which is why it has taken so long for the league to really gain the momentum it now enjoys.

As far as Pro/Rel, without getting into the impossible nature of the suggestion, people like yourself who just think that the world should emulate England always fail to take cultural differences into account. And there are inherent cultural differences, not only with the fans, but with the people that own the teams, that would make pro/rel unrealistic in this country.

 

So, the World Cup and the Champions League are like the Kardashians?

Generally speaking, the YA posters, including those based in Europe, are by and large far more educated on the game, having grown up with it.

MLS forums tend to devolve into "US vs. the world" shouting contests from a lot of "Johnnies-come-lately" instead of, for the lack of a better term, embracing the differences that the global game entails.