First you must understand the USYSA hierarchy. Unlike US Club, they go way out of their way to make sure that the travel leagues under them do not compete with each other. A local travel league is given a geographic footprint that is theirs to run local leagues. Above them the state organization has a geographic footprint that is theirs to run state cups and other state wide competitions. And above that there is a regional organization that has a geographic footprint that is theirs to run regional premier competitions. As such, LIJSL "owns" Long Island. ENYYSA "owns" half of New York. Region 1 "owned" a quarter of the country.
So when EDP was brought in to take over from Region 1, it was with the explicit understanding that they are replacing NERP, Region 1, etc but under no conditions were to expand themselves downward to compete with the state competitions or the local travel leagues.
EDP saw this as lost money. They were getting away with pushing down in New Jersey and some other places to run local travel leagues and weren't happy about not being able to do the same in NY. So when US Club was feuding with US Club, EDP made a deal with CJSL and NYCSL to bring in NYCSL under the auspices of CJSL as a division within CJSL. ENYYSA okayed bringing over the NYCSL teams into the CJSL fold because why not take over thousands of US Club teams?
The problem is that NYCSL immediately started registering teams from outside CJSL's geographic footprint into their leagues and continued to run region wide "cup" competitions, thus directly competing not only with the other ENYYSA leagues but also ENYYSA itself. NYCSL was EDP's backdoor path to push downwards to run intermediate and local leagues.
While CJSL may be making bank on this deal, other leagues like LIJSL, Big Apple, Staten Island and so on were rightly pissed off about the explicitly prohibited competition to them from within, and ENYYSA was mad about the competition to their state cup, so they tried to reign this in for the past year, got no where, and eventually decided they had enough and acted to shut down NYCSL.
So when EDP was brought in to take over from Region 1, it was with the explicit understanding that they are replacing NERP, Region 1, etc but under no conditions were to expand themselves downward to compete with the state competitions or the local travel leagues.
EDP saw this as lost money. They were getting away with pushing down in New Jersey and some other places to run local travel leagues and weren't happy about not being able to do the same in NY. So when US Club was feuding with US Club, EDP made a deal with CJSL and NYCSL to bring in NYCSL under the auspices of CJSL as a division within CJSL. ENYYSA okayed bringing over the NYCSL teams into the CJSL fold because why not take over thousands of US Club teams?
The problem is that NYCSL immediately started registering teams from outside CJSL's geographic footprint into their leagues and continued to run region wide "cup" competitions, thus directly competing not only with the other ENYYSA leagues but also ENYYSA itself. NYCSL was EDP's backdoor path to push downwards to run intermediate and local leagues.
While CJSL may be making bank on this deal, other leagues like LIJSL, Big Apple, Staten Island and so on were rightly pissed off about the explicitly prohibited competition to them from within, and ENYYSA was mad about the competition to their state cup, so they tried to reign this in for the past year, got no where, and eventually decided they had enough and acted to shut down NYCSL.
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