Nashville SC USL Thread

NPSL team "moving up"... get ready for all of the Chattanooga, Detroit City and everyone else should move up to NASL/USL suggestions.

 

http://www.nashvillefc.com/

 

After the earlier agreement to purchase the assets of the NPSL club, this was no surprise. I'm happy with it. Yeah, it's yet another "City Name" FC, but so what? I'll take a simple FC over dopey names like most minor league baseball teams. And it's a kind of continuity. American soccer has had so little of that before teams like Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, Montreal, Orlando and Minnesota got "promoted".

Sometimes it doesn't take genius, just common sense.

 

Oh, if any club should be "promoted" it is Chattanooga. If only they had some folks willing to put up lots of money to do so.

 

So it appears that that's not going to be the case anymore.

 

story? link?

 

Email sent to members of NFC. Probably will see more in the coming days.

 

Yeah, I didn't want to come out and quote the email here, although I don't know if there would be anything wrong with that.

This kind of makes the name and logo event at the arena a while ago look a little stupid now.

 

http://www.uslsoccer.com/news_article/show/695768?referrer_id=2603770

 

Solid crest, inoffensive name. Good to see they are making some progress.

 

So a new crest and a change from Nashville Football Club to Nashville Soccer Club. Seems unnecessary. The crest is fine. Not better or worse. Same colors. Basically they just swapped the fleur de lis for what I assume are supposed to resemble guitar strings. Interesting that they still seem to be trying to piggy-back on the NFC with the 2013 on the crest. If they are not buying the assets of NFC, why use their founding date?

I guess I need to change my avatar now.

 

http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2016/09/09/nashville-usl-pro-soccer-franchise-changes-club-name-logo/90121754/

So there was apparently a trademark issue with a local soccer team with a similar name. Then why was there not the same issue with the NPSL club having that name? Curious.

I don't know why the crest had to be changed if the name was the issue. If this was truly the reason for this, at least they tried to stay as close to the original as possible. I kind of expected a newer crest from the beginning. It was just an odd turn to adopt the existing one first at a big event and then change it later.

 

It comes down to being able to protect their mark...Without intellectual property protections things like merch licensing becomes a problem.

 

So maybe because of the fact that the NPSL club was non-profit it didn't matter but for the for-profit USL club it does? That could be. That's the only difference I can see. Same name and same crest otherwise. The NPSL club would have to protect their mark too.

There is a Facebook Live thing this afternoon on the Nashville SC page that I probably won't be able to listen to. Hopefully there will be something archived so I can catch up.

 

Well judging by the fact that this entity shares leadership with the last, I suspect it was something they didn't discover 3 years ago....This rebrand would have eventually happened anyway.

 

Yes, that's certainly a possibility too.

To be honest I'm not too bothered by these changes. If they had come out earlier this year with this I would have been fine with it then.

 

Because it's ********ing lazy. And duplicative. And shows absolutely zero creativity. And it's Europosing.

 

If only they hadn't been "lazy" and thought of something "creative" like all those adjective-noun names we have in American minor league sports like Sand Gnats, Riverhounds, Rock Cats and come up with a cartoony logo. Or maybe something like Burn or Fusion or Rhythm. Screw Europe, that's real American!

Boy, all those FC's and Uniteds and Citys must really bug you no end.

 

add Nashville SC U23s to the PDL:

http://www.uslpdl.com/news_article/show/698095?referrer_id=2242498

 

The downside of playing in the PDL v. NPSL is the divisional setup. In the NPSL almost all of the division clubs were nearby, with the exception of New Orleans. In the PDL they'll have the same problem the Metros had being the only club in the area.

And I really hope NSC will continue to play Chattanooga FC in an annual friendly, even though CFC has always beaten the crap out of them so far.

 

This was just a coming out publicly thing...They have been talking since the beginning and working together on the stadium.

 

Given the current teetering-on-the-edge status of the NASL, I would imagine that group of potential investors might want to focus more on MLS or somehow join the USL group instead.

Who knows. The USL might be second division by the time NSC takes the field. It's going to be an interesting year coming up.

 

There is no NASL group anymore. They are working toward MLS only right now. USL ownership is involved with the MLS push.

 

http://www.socceramerica.com/article/70893/usl-nashville-sc-hires-sum-exec-jeske.html?edition=16315

Court Jeske, who spent eight years at MLS and Soccer United Marketing as vice president, international business, has been hired as Nashville SC's first chief executive officer. He will head club operations as it prepares for its 2018 inaugural season in USL.