Originally posted by Red_Merkin
It's all about control Jay, the NXL is what team want to be a part of, so they can demand whatever they want from the teams. Until NXL teams say they'll leave the NXL to play other events, i doubt that anything will change.
Red the teams can't as they are locked in and owned by the league but the players can of course.
But you have to ask yourself the question, why do you think all those players are taking this **** from the owners ?
The simple answer is, they have all been convinced by the franchise owners / team owners that 'Money is 'a coming' and lots of it, a frikkin shed load.
Players like Rich Telford (Capt of SC Ironmen) are nobodie's fools, he is his own man and will say exactly what is on his mind.
I talked to him the other nite and asked him straight out what he felt about what was going on and one of the things he told me was that although he did not like what some people were doing, he was 100% convinced that very soon, it was all gonna be worthwhile for him and his team.
Rich has always wanted to be a true professional player in that he would get paid to play and paid enough to live quite nicely on.
We'll see if his wish comes true, I hope so for his sake !
Red, the teams can't leave and the players won't because of what they believe is going to happen.
Why else would you let other people tell you, you can't do this, you can't do that and wotever ?
There are bigger fish to fry for these guys other than one's preferences for tournaments.