TOA is now the new NASL

I don't think there is a chance that the USSF would sanction a USL1 with only 4 teams and not the NASL with 10 teams

That would be totally absurd

 

Okay, well then I'm calling you out for not knowing this stuff. Please post a link where he didn't say this, and where he says that USL is definitely inferior to MLS.

This is one of those ridiculous foils - who keeps bookmarks to links from articles going back 5-10 years? yet that is the argument you are making Seaside. You expect me to just have direct quotes from a TV interview from many years ago, and when I don't produce them you act like I must be lying.

What does that even mean? He has consistently paid lip service to competing, but has never actually challenged for first division status. But that's what my point has been form the beginning, that USL/A-League was always a huge spin operation with not much behind the curtain.

 

Based on what others have been saying in this thread, sanctioning isn't a yearly thing. So since USL1 is already sanctioned, it could be conceivable that they retain their sanction even with only 4 teams.

 

Oh man, don't tell me we've been arguing this whole time and I misunderstood your point. Well here is what you actually wrote which prompted me to challenge you:
(https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showpost.php?p=19412144&postcount=729)

I agree, that notion is absurd. I think Marcos knows that too. My point remains that I've followed longer than that and don't remember him ever coming close to that notion. Furthermore, if it's as well known that he used to spend all this time saying it, why can't it be pulled up on the almighty Google?

There are plenty of things to dislike about Marcos and USL, but this isn't one of them and again there are more direct overtures from owners of teams in the TOA that have said more about competing with MLS than he has...

I don't want to clog up this thread with anymore of this back and forth. I'm surely willing to continue this privately, but this has devolved into something other than the thread title.

 

If the USSF does not sanction the new NASL, a lot of professional players and coaches could lose their job, and this would be absolutely negative for US soccer

 

I don't disagree. Just saying that it is conceivable that NASL could not be sanctioned while USL1 keeps its sanction. If that were the case, I suspect USL would accept most of the NASL teams back. Obviously St. Louis, Miami, and Atlanta would be SOL, but the others shouldn't have a problem.

 

And PR made it to Semi-Finals.

 

Except all the problems that lead them to form the TOA two years ago. I don't see a forced compromise solving anything - just punting the problem down the road for another year.

 

Which would be why I fixed his post to only say one instead of two.

 

In addition to the problems that lead them to form the TOA still existing, there would be a whole lot more problems. Forced compromise is definitely not the best of ideas, but there is nothing requiring USSF to sanction NASL.

 

What I recall is that Tim Holt would come out with "we have the opportunity to surpass or be level with MLS with our momentum," some butthurt would happen, then Francisco Marcos would say "USL-1 is a second division league under USSF." This cycle happened, oh, annually.

The difference between this and my complaint about Wellman (first saying things that can't be unsaid based on some reaction in the media and here, then talking about $2-3 million for payrolls, in effect saying the same thing) is that USL already has sanction, and up until this silly season, had enough teams. NASL has to go through Marcos (and, yes perhaps, many other BoG members) to get there.

Many people have been assuming USSF intends to make a rational decision. Um, er, I could have a chuckle over this. At least it's likely only a couple weeks before we know for sure.

 

kk. Sorry. I tend to skim when I got 4 pages to catch up on.

 

**sigh** You are so obviously trolling but I will answer to your post anyway...

1) The team who will replace the Caps in NASL in 2011 has already been announced: http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Columnists/Jones/2009/11/30/11986986-sun.html it will be in Edmonton.

2) Montreal will be in MLS in 2012 and has already agreed to a 35$ million dollar expansion fee ( same as Vancouver and Portland) it will be officially announced at first kick 2010 as reported by Ben Rycroft (who was also the first to announce that Vancouver and Portland where in):

http://www.metronews.ca/edmonton/co...much-time-montreal-appears-ready-to-enter-mls

It is obvious you are not informed at all about the subject at hand and are just posting crap so either please get informed or kindly piss off....

P.S. And if you want to talk about mismanagement you can look squarely at MLSE for a great example..

 

Huh. Well, thanks to a pissy troll, I learned something that I somehow entirely missed, what with paying so much attention to the USL/NASL. Thanks for repeating something that many folks apparently had already seen!

And, no, I'm not being sarcastic. I really do appreciate it!

 

More from Devo:


http://blogs.democratandchronicle.com/devo/2009/12/03/cleveland-shocks-city-stars-fade-out/

Key meeting this weekend:

James Weise, our Kick This! news director, has tried lining up interviews with a handful of NASL owners for this weekend but they’re all “unavailable,” and that could mean that maybe, just maybe, there is a key meeting this weekend to sort out a ton of details between the NASL and USL and the USSF.

 

Or they are super busy like everyone else is during December.... man we need some news so we don't have to live off this crap speculation.

 

I didn't miss this, but I understand what you're saying. I mean, can we really be calling each other out for not recalling every post that the rest of the members of the board have made? This thing is now over 75 pages long, and the thread has been relocated at least twice. I was here since the original page three, and there are definitely beats I've missed.

 

Dang, its like a bunch of chicks in her fighting over the last hat.

I hope someone joins the NASL soon so we have something new to talk about!

 

I'm thinking about changing my BS bookmark directly to the USL forum instead of the overall forum home page since I immediately scroll down here anyways.

 

I'm waiting to change mine to the new NASL forum.

 

I wonder if this is true?

NASL to have a live streaming site domain name registered http://www.nasllive.com/

 

The W-League is at around 34 teams for 2010, the WPSL looks like it will be at around 70. WPSL, like the NPSL, and WPSL, and NASL, is an owner run league.

 

Very small ..