The other owners are NOT happy with the NuRock ownership. There was an end run done here by Nike, possibly the league as well.

However, your scenario would have been true with a number of organizations that made bids for the league. Perhaps you are correct BS, perhaps not a good idea. Then again, the people running the league have not owned teams and the owners of those teams are unhappy with them because they are not sympathetic to the issues they are having as team owners. So what's worse? Not being rhetorical here-I am truly asking a question.

The other owners are NOT happy with the NuRock ownership.

You're assuming that "the same people" are going to continue to be in charge of the marketing and technology.

You don't know what changes are going to be made. None of us do.

I do know this: whoever owns USL and whoever owns a USL team has a tough time of it in the best of circumstances. A crap economy and some of your bellwether franchises leaving, to be replaced by some that have shown dubious organization skills themselves, may make the hard part even harder.

I think you have to look at two things:
1 - At some point, we have to admit that "the product" is responsible for some of the problems; and
2 - If you don't think that USL as an entity is more advanced and less clueless and disorganized than it was in 1999, you're either late to the party, dense, not very observant or not very bright.

But, of course, soccer fans want everything yesterday.

I suppose I was making an assumption regarding who would be in charge of marketing and technology. Point taken. Let me rephrase: The fact that the people currently in charge will remain involved in some fashion does not fill me with hope and joy.

I agree that it is a tough road in the best of circumstances, but I do expect more than I see. Better presentation and professionalism. A league website that is not wholly embarrassing for instance.

And as far as your last point goes, late to the party is the correct answer. I've never pretended otherwise. I started paying attention to the Thunder and by extension the USL last year. But hey, thanks for making yet another of your posts gratuitously negative. Always a pleasure.

It's not a fact. It's an assumption. They might. They might not.



And yet...this is about the best one they've ever had. What's embarrassing about this one? This league has been behind the curve on a lot of things for a lot of reasons (among them money and vision), but, again, if you're looking at it from the perspective of someone who just dropped in, I would invite you to have a longer view of the situation.



We aim to please.

Point being, your frame of reference is skewed if you don't have a working knowledge of where this organization has been and how much better organized it is than it was ten years ago.

Feel free to either offer your abundant talents to make things better, though.

What is embarrassing about the latest USL website? Is that irony? It is close to useless. Pick a conference team at random and there is a very good chance that their website will be more impressive.

If only one could yawn and gag at the same time, that is precisely what I would do when reading your rapier wit.

Thank you for completely devolving this thread into personal insults. Here, have the Preston McMurray award.

I agree w/ Propes ... devolving threads are the bane of BigSoccer ... let's keep our posts pertinent.

Especially personal comments about a person based upon their posted residence ... you have not (and I believe, neither have I) ever met the man.




Take your spinner bait, and troll in some other waters.

[quote=nathan3e]What is embarrassing about the latest USL website? Is that irony? It is close to useless. Pick a conference team at random and there is a very good chance that their website will be more impressive.