Can NISA clubs in 2024 finally achieve the type of local relevance needed to survive?

NISA's concept is sound, but reality is its clubs exist in a vacuum

While NISA has been playing competitively since 2019, it still remains in many ways a “concept” league. The concept being an open system, without the normal restrictions on clubs that exist in the myriad of US closed soccer leagues. However, as the recent discussion over Flower City Union reminds us, NISA does operate in some ways like its rival closed-…