Alert: MISL.com gone!

I'm guessing so, since theres no reason to pull the website..

 

I would think so. Remember, the USL's recent public statements indicate a desire to run a quality indoor soccer league. The USL will only expose the hypocrisy of those statements if it approves hastily thrown together franchises in order to save the 2014-15 season for the MISL.

 

its one thing have a team like the roar, another have 4 such teams.

 

True, but haven't they done that the past few years? Most recently PA? I think the people who actually coordinated and handled the day-to-day operations of the league (Hale, Soccer Sam, etc) are now gone. The USL couldn't/wouldn't want to continue with indoor soccer. So, will Holt make another statement saying "Since we kicked the bulk of our clubs out of the MISL barely 12 hours after MO lifted their trophy, in the past five days we really tried to find quality clubs to continue the league, without success. So we have decided to discontinue operations". What does this mean for the remaining three (MKE, STL, PA)? Are they now free?

 

Site is still up. They are just redirecting the root.

http://misl.uslsoccer.com/MISLteams/index_E.html Still works...

 

Yes I would think the Wave and ambush are free to join the PASL. The roar are done.

 

But the news link doesn't work and they removed MISL from the list of leagues at the top of the USL site.

Makes you wonder why they did that video and invited more scrutiny on the situation.

 

The remaining teams (PENN, STL and MKE) were all sent written notice early this week allowing them out of their MISL operating agreement. STL will play where it makes sense, and right now that's the PASL. PENN has got to drop out, and Sue Black is too stupid to know what she is doing next.

 

Milwaukees going to the pasl, its the only place left to play. look for the wave to join the other former misl teams in the pasl.

 

Their is a chance a new league will be started .

 

Another article from Dallas:

http://soccerblog.dallasnews.com/2014/03/indoor-realignment-misl-gone.html/

The writer believes there is a PASL meeting scheduled for Baltimore next week.

 

so that means that the 6 misl teams - i'm excluding the roar for obvious reasons- will be announced as joining the pasl at that meeting, or in the very near future.

 

I REALLY hope so. This is looking good so far.

 

indeed, brad. are you a long time Wave fan? i expect the wave to be around next year, whether its in the pasl, or some unnamed 'merger league'.

 

Why? Just so the travel costs of any current PASL teams would skyrocket? If you think San Diego and Dallas are suddenly going to start flying to the east coast for all of their away games then you might need to crack open a window and let some fresh air in the room.

 

I see two leagues next season--the PASL and a new league consisting of the MISL clubs (minus PA and probably MKE) and one/two PASL clubs. Hale and Soccer Sam will be at the helm of the new league.

We are big Wave fans and attend many of their matches when we can. However, they maybe in a tough spot right now. Assuming that Sue Black needs an investor, or needs to sell the club outright, then the Wave are really waiting on an announcement from the other former MISL clubs on where they will go. An outright move to the PASL might be seen as a move down for the club; a merger into the PASL with the other MISL clubs would be better, but would it create the same investment income needed to payoff current debt and future needs? A new league maybe better if it includes stronger clubs with aggressive owners, but it cannot include some of the minnows currently in the PASL. Unfortunately, I think the clock is ticking for the Wave and if they don't have a league resolution soon, then the Wave will either fold or go to the dreaded "hiatus" for 2014-15.

 

A new league because it would save a lot of time and issues , Ed Hale clearly stated today several times about a brand new league , and we will have a Division 1 and Division 2 teams and have a 20-26 team league , He also stated that last night a email something was struck and lawyers are now looking in to it . we should hear more in 2 weeks . maybe the pasl will run things who knows .

 

Two divisions sounds like a great opportunity to experiment with promotion and relegation.

 

If you want to start off by putting the best drawing team in indoor soccer (Rochester) in PASL2. That wouldn't make much sense.

 

I'd probably start with all the former MISL teams in the upper division. But it may not make sense when travel costs are so critical and profit margins so tight.

 

What you are seeing is people that have been bashing the PASL for years and trying to prop up the MISL as the best thing out there are getting nervous and not wanting to have to "eat crow".

I was skeptical myself and had concerns about teams that played in small venues etc but in the end it did not turn out to be as bad as I had thought, or others were saying.

And now by saying that 4 or 5 MISL teams are going to come in and totally change the face of what the PASL already has in existence is just their way of holding onto their idea that the MISL is the one with all the power in this.

So lets skip steps 2, 3 and 4 of the Kübler-Ross model and move on as quick as possible to step 5.

 

Except this version of the MISL was not born in 1978. The original MISL died in July 1992. A new league with the MISL name was created in 2001 by former NPSL teams (who were later joined by some WISL teams). That league disbanded in 2008. One of its successor league (the NISL) later changed its name to the MISL.