I am in that exact situation. We have 12 teams in our organization that are (mostly) straight birth year. In a few cases, the team as a whole would need to move up, but the coaches kid *could* now stay down another year with his late year birthday daughter. If the coach stays down though, he is signing on for a season of only USA tourneys next year.
I, too, have reached out to a few USA tourney directors in my area and the feedback is that they may drop USA, and go unsanctioned in order to *not* have to deal with this mixed age issue. If that is the case, then my coach that may have stayed down will not have any local tourneys.
I also run USA tourneys at my park, and I plan to just go unsanctioned next year. Therefore, teams with those late birthday older girls (USA teams who used the new ages) would now *not be eligible to play in my tourneys. It will be interesting to see if I draw fewer teams next year.
I’m trying to figure all this out for what we’ll do next year so I have a question. Why go unsanctioned instead of just stay USA for your tournaments and allow those teams that want to adjust to new age grouping play with their USA roster and those that don’t play with their usssa roster? If a team stays with usssa roster age cutoff then their USA roster will be the same and I doubt they care very much about whether another team went with USA age cutoff for USA tournaments age grouping since the new age cutoff only affects 4 months worth of players.