NASL, NPSL teams file with CAS to introduce pro/rel in U.S. soccer

I'm all for it, and I agree with them that it'd be mighty good for the overall product in the U.S.

What's stopping NASL and NPSL from combining and forming a league to rival MLS?

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What's stopping NASL and NPSL from combining and forming a league to rival MLS?

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You know why

MLS would leave FIFA before giving in.

This fight isn't going anywhere.

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If they draw the fans

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and why would fans go to a minor league game in droves? What other sport do minor leagues get really great attendance?

if you don't see why it's a big deal then you're being intentionally obtuse.

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and why would fans go to a minor league game in droves?

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They already do in places.

Pasting a comment from reddit, because it's summed up much better than I could.

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This is stupid. This is so, so stupid for so, so many reasons.

* Regardless of how you feel about pro/rel, and I am in favor of instituting it one day when our soccer economy is more stable, it is not feasible *now*. But instead of putting money towards the development of lower division football, they're going to waste money with a frivolous lawsuit that has exactly zero chance of working.

* FIFA does not step into a confederation's or federation's business unless there is a very clear violation of rules. They especially don't get involved in soccer politics in member nations. If the national body doesn't have an issue with something, FIFA almost never steps in and overrules them. Contrary to the belief of some, pro/rel is *not* mandated in FIFAs regulations. At all. It just isn't. There is no airtight clause that says "you need to have pro/rel or you aren't following the rules".
* Instituting pro/rel now will *not* increase financial returns. It will *not* magically make American soccer better. If anything, instituting promotion and relegation on markets that either aren't ready to move up (due to lack of interest or stadiums for example) or won't survive a drop down (because frankly, American soccer interest isn't there yet), threatens the survival of *more* teams than not having pro/rel until the lower divisions stabilize.
* Nobody, *nobody*, involved at the highest levels of soccer in this country think pro/rel is a good idea. The *only* people who have an interest in pro/rel now are those who would *immediately and directly* benefit from it like Silva and Miami FC. That's it. Anyone, and I mean anyone, who thinks pro/rel now is a good idea flat out doesn't understand the issue, what's necessary for it to be successful, and the impacts of it's implementation.
* Even the privately-funded Deloitte study (paid for by Silva, who has an obvious interest in certain results) said the country wouldn't be ready for at least a decade if not more. That kills any economical reason whatsoever for the implementation of pro/rel. Wouldn't it be ironic if the defense in this case used Silva's own study against him? Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Pro/rel will *eventually* come. When teams can survive being dropped a division. When teams can survive the added costs of moving up. When public interest isn't so fleeting. When the lower divisions stabilize. This is just the old NASL policy of suing their way to get what they want all over again. And it'll fail just as badly. So much for doing things differently, the only difference is it's Silva and Miami FC instead of the Cosmos.

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If they are concerned about being labeled D2, they need to focus on getting US Soccer to change the qualifications for that. I will agree that the qualifications needed to be labeled D1 are bullshite. I do not agree that they need to force MLS to be an open system.

How is that nonsense? I think he has a lot of good points.