USSSA is stepping up their game in the hot areas that USFA had a presence. USFA had the majority of their directors change over to USSSA effective August 1. Jeff Strode is coming over as a VP in the SE United States. Tim Foster switched in Indiana, the GA state director switched, Lori Strode is coming over in KY, the LA and TN state directors have all switched. There is not much left to USFA with the exception of a national director and a couple of other directors who didn't want to go or ones in area where USSSA was established.
And I am not sure if NSA has made any changes since the season just officially started. When this was first announced, I looked into a weekend only (Thurs to Sun) policy option that the NSA insurance carrier offered. It is a $10 per team fee - $100 minimum. I used this very policy for some of our Rec/All-Star events since most of those teams play so little in sanctioned events that I didn't think it was fair to get hit with a full year policy to play one weekend (funny how that was a premonition of things to come).
I was all ready to just implement this with our directors and then it was explained to me that if directors decided to use that weekend policy to purchase insurance for teams that didn't have the NSA insurance as a way around the mandate, then the weekend policy would be taken away before next season started. This along with the fact that all of the directors NSA had onboard with me in the central and southern Ohio area were going to leave NSA, made it very easy to walk away.
If you look at the timeline of just 45 days ago, NSA was poised to have a 6 week fall season with multiple events on a couple of those weekends just here in central and southern Ohio along with an even better spring/summer schedule for 2016 as more complexes and events were slated to come aboard. Now there is not one single NSA event scheduled in the central/south this fall and it doesn't look very optimistic for anyone coming in to get dates or secure locations to host events this upcoming season. It is even worse than when I took over a year after the Tealtown incident. Tealtown took a long time to get teams to trust NSA and it's directors, this may have been the death knell for the NSA in Ohio only this time for good.
