NASL 2017 News Thread

That was quick.

 

That would likely be a correct decision, because in a motion to dismiss the judge must assume the facts most favorable to the plaintiff, and would essentially have to disregard most of the factual allegations that USSF made in the motion.

I see this lawsuit getting killed off at summary judgment, not at the current stage.

 

And you would have to imagine that the USSF lawyers knew this as well. So what was the advantage to them for submitting the motion to dismiss? Was it just public relations?

 

Motions to dismiss are routinely filed for virtually every lawsuit. It looks like maybe 20% of the content of the motion was actually arguing to dismiss the case, 80% was mainly for PR purposes.

 

Besides, if successful, it would save USSF the dollars and hassle of going to trial. Regrettably, it looks like their argument in this motion boiled down to approximately this:

 

When the league submitted its D2 applicatn to USSF, it did not count Deltas or Edmonton; who informed league of interest to join CPL.

— Nipun Chopra, PhD (@NipunChopra7) October 15, 2017

 

The Deltas are moving to the CPL?

 

Just Edmonton lol

 

So looks like we really are looking at 7 teams next year if the league survives and the 2 new expansion teams stay on board.

 

For a league that wants unity & whatnot, already writing the Deltas off for dead (even if true), doesn't help them out.

 

And this is where myself and a few others say "TOLD YA SO!!!!" regarding the DOA Deltas experiment...

 

The important thing is that you and I (and a bunch of other people) were right.

 

The important thing is the next rich person with more money than sense learn something from this and NOT put a minor league team half assed in a clearly major league city and expect it to work without an extended period of losses and a real stadium plan if ever. You don't own a minor league team in SF and expect it to be a raging success overnight if ever.

 

Nostradamus' we are!!!!

 

Even by the standards of vaporware stupidity this is reaching truly embarrassing levels of desperation now.

 

So the San Diego team has a name now...

1904 FC

If you don't get it don't feel bad. Most won't.

 

The reason for that name is so. ********ing. stupid.

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/sd-sp-nasl-team-name-20171017-story.html

The link explaining it is there, but I'd advise everyone to not click and just live in ignorance.

 

It's like NASL teams have a death wish.

 

We shouldn't be surprised, the other two California NASL team names were just as bad if not worse.

 

Apparently Gulati and Rocco were having discussions about how to get NASL Division 2 approval all the way through October 8. From the Soccer America article:

 

The San Diego logo for your viewing pleasure. Team colors will be the obvious black and white.

 

The logo doesn't do too much for me. The S/9, D/0 is really hard for me to look at.

Love the colors, though, especially if they have a strong silver accent like in the logo.

 

See I had the opposite thought. The S/9 D/0 thing is actually something I like. It's both subtle and explainatory. It actually makes me hate the 1904 name a little less. I'd have preferred an accent color (they're seemingly making the same mistake the Padres are currently making only having a single color logo). But overall with the clear nautical theme which is very San Diego the logo is definitely helpful to the overall brand.

 

I get your points, especially with you being a local. But for me the S/9 D/0 is so jarring for me that it is really hard for me to focus on anything else. It is weirdly unsettling.