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I'm sorry, and that's not meant to sound as dumb as it sounds. But I see on here a lot of what we expect them to do...and that's often met with "Not their job". It seems like they only enforce rules when they feel like it (athlete wanting to compete at Worlds but couldn't because of release) but other times they are nowhere to be found (team getting bid with illegal athlete, but still got to use the bid; whole Bangkok fiasco).
What is their actual role in cheer?
How much power do they have?
What are the rules they actually ARE in charge of enforcing and what consequences can they actually impose?
When I first started actually paying attention to my kids' cheer, I thought the USASF was the end all be all of power. I thought USASF Sanctioned meant something. But over the last few months I'm really starting to wonder. I mean we choose gyms based on if they're on USASF's list...yet when people start to talk about calling the USASF about issues (safety, legality, etc.) suddenly they don't want to step in. For example, see the thread on athlete release - when we started saying "Well obviously if there was a safety issue and you wanted to leave, you could appeal to USASF" and we were met with @Andre saying no, there were NO NO NO acceptable reasons for appeals and that the USASF wasn't going to be taking ANY appeals for ANY reason. So basically they can make the rules...but won't have any part in mediating how they're handled???
And now with the whole Bangkok issue, I have to really wonder - how serious can I take this organization that seems to have no regard for anything but money and politics?
What is their actual role in cheer?
How much power do they have?
What are the rules they actually ARE in charge of enforcing and what consequences can they actually impose?
When I first started actually paying attention to my kids' cheer, I thought the USASF was the end all be all of power. I thought USASF Sanctioned meant something. But over the last few months I'm really starting to wonder. I mean we choose gyms based on if they're on USASF's list...yet when people start to talk about calling the USASF about issues (safety, legality, etc.) suddenly they don't want to step in. For example, see the thread on athlete release - when we started saying "Well obviously if there was a safety issue and you wanted to leave, you could appeal to USASF" and we were met with @Andre saying no, there were NO NO NO acceptable reasons for appeals and that the USASF wasn't going to be taking ANY appeals for ANY reason. So basically they can make the rules...but won't have any part in mediating how they're handled???
And now with the whole Bangkok issue, I have to really wonder - how serious can I take this organization that seems to have no regard for anything but money and politics?