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2014 HOF managers meeting notes

 

2014 HOF managers meeting notes

 

 

I finally had time to write up my Hall of Fame managers meeting notes:

– There were 24 umpires for the HOF

– Columbus, Ohio Major will have 3 games on Saturday evening on ESPN3.com

– Maryland Major may be on ESPN3.com

– Smoky may be on ESPN3.com

– The back baseball fields at Osceola County Stadium are gettin new lights!

– Joliet (Chicago) major starts the seeding by 2014 points

– Weekly Conference USSSA brackets will be out Monday or Tuesday (usually Tuesday)

– Approximately 27 Nationwide Conference teams in Columbus, Ohio

– Approximately 34 Nationwide Conference teams at Maryland, Smoky, Cincinnati!

– USSSA has 267,000 teams

– 34 teams were represented in the managers meeting.  (I think 2 more showed up during the meeting)

– USSSA would like teams to start using Gamechanger.com so they can do their stats live and the it automatically totals them for you.

– A CBS TV deal is possible for 2015!

– Since the Nationwide Conference expanded to 52 teams the top 36 teams win the $2,000 prize money.

– Conference allows 'C' teams in to get a taste of what upper level ball is all about.

– The Major World Series may expand to 20 teams in 2015.

– The famous Pif tournament in Canada is now USSSA!

– 2015 Pif will have the first team All Conference selections from 2014 represent in an exhibition against team Canada during Pif week in Canada.  If there isn't enough players from the first team All Conference that can make it then some 2nd team All Conference players will be asked to play.

– The 2015 PIF will be a Nationwide Conference USSSA tournament.

– USSSA now has a Canadian World Series

– Each team needs to give USSSA two contacts

– A reminder that teams can protect players on their roster with a USSSA Conference Roster contract.

– All Conference teams need to sign off on schedules.  Next year the roster sign off deadline will be April 15th

– 2015 teams will lose tournament entry fee and 100 pts if they cancel a tournament after April 15th

– If you pay your Conference entry fee by 2/15/2015 you will get 7 tournament entries paid.  After 2/15 is 6.

– All roster moves go through Hank.Bassett@usssa.com

– Buy your team insurance from USSSA $275.  Protect your players in case of accident.

– You can use an Ipad or Iphone to enter stats live or after the tournament in Gamechanger.com

– Bat testing: Up to 25 bats can be presented for testing. Up to 20 will go in the bucket.

– Umpires can enforce the 90 seconds between innings rule.

– A vote was raised to make the deadline for team stats to be sent in to USSSA by start of business day Thursday after the previous weekends tournament.  Vote passed.  Penalty could be loss of points from that weekends tournament.

– A vote was raised to make the higher seed at the Major World Series automatic home team.  Vote passed on a one year trial basis.

These were the notes that I had taken.  The meeting lasted an hour and 40 minutes so I may have missed something or written something down incorrectly.  Email dw@softballcenter.com if you see a mistake or something that needs added or changes.

Thanks,
DW

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