What should USMS do about the suits?

Their timeline is so vague ... How soon after the Sept 25-26 meeting will FINA make its announcement of masters rules? Will USMS then convene a meeting and make their own announcement? What do you mean by implement precisely? That the "suit rule" will be effective at the time of announcement? So the suits may NOT be legal through the end of the year for masters even though they are for USS swimmers? I have to admit I'll be pissed if I can't wear/wear out my tech suit through the end of the year and SCM season while the rest of Europe does ... Interesting "process" ... I'm not terrifically impressed with the"compromise" proposal ... So we ideally want to be a kinda like a USS swimmer but not really? The timeline is vague b/c no one is sure how soon FINA will act after their meeting. And, again, there is no guarantee that they will follow the USAS recommendation. It isn't as if they've been entirely predictable to this point. In the afternoon meeting with the Rules Committee the big concern was SCY. After all, it is the longest season and we are not obligated to follow FINA's rules for SCY. People are concerned if there will be a couple months of swims with the suits, followed by a ban. Recommendations included ran the gamut: ban them now, allow them for the whole season, and everything in between. No consensus was reached. The general consensus (Rules and Coaches) was that USMS will probably do whatever FINA recommends, certainly for LCM/SCM and probably also for SCY. (Personally, I think the rules should be uniform.) I did learn that there are currently rules in place whereby we automatically adopt FINA and USS rules, unless we specifically specify otherwise. Currently USS is going for a Jan 1 deadline (though this is "soft" right now too). I also really believe that the Rules committee -- who are EXTREMELY conscientious -- didn't like having to bypass the HOD but were constrained to do so by the timeline. As far as the nature of the suggestion itself...I think it is a fairly "Solomon-like." The purists won't be completely happy and neither will the tech-people. Probably the sign of a good compromise.

Their timeline is so vague ... How soon after the Sept 25-26 meeting will FINA make its announcement of masters rules? Will USMS then convene a meeting and make their own announcement? What do you mean by implement precisely? That the "suit rule" will be effective at the time of announcement? So the suits may NOT be legal through the end of the year for masters even though they are for USS swimmers? I have to admit I'll be pissed if I can't wear/wear out my tech suit through the end of the year and SCM season while the rest of Europe does ... Interesting "process" ... I'm not terrifically impressed with the"compromise" proposal ... So we ideally want to be a kinda like a USS swimmer but not really? The timeline is vague b/c no one is sure how soon FINA will act after their meeting. And, again, there is no guarantee that they will follow the USAS recommendation. It isn't as if they've been entirely predictable to this point. In the afternoon meeting with the Rules Committee the big concern was SCY. After all, it is the longest season and we are not obligated to follow FINA's rules for SCY. People are concerned if there will be a couple months of swims with the suits, followed by a ban. Recommendations included ran the gamut: ban them now, allow them for the whole season, and everything in between. No consensus was reached. The general consensus (Rules and Coaches) was that USMS will probably do whatever FINA recommends, certainly for LCM/SCM and probably also for SCY. (Personally, I think the rules should be uniform.) I did learn that there are currently rules in place whereby we automatically adopt FINA and USS rules, unless we specifically specify otherwise. Currently USS is going for a Jan 1 deadline (though this is "soft" right now too). I also really believe that the Rules committee -- who are EXTREMELY conscientious -- didn't like having to bypass the HOD but were constrained to do so by the timeline. As far as the nature of the suggestion itself...I think it is a fairly "Solomon-like." The purists won't be completely happy and neither will the tech-people. Probably the sign of a good compromise.