Despite hope of a resolution in early October, the fate of the National Soccer Alliance — and women’s professional soccer — is still in limbo. U.S. Soccer’s national board of directors tabled discussion of the NSA at its Oct. 4 meeting in Washington, D.C., until it receives more information from the proposed league and meets with NSA representatives Oct. 17. “We’re a bit disappointed just because were trying to move forward,” NSA league development consultant Jennifer Rottenberg said, “and everyday that there’s not an answer hinders our ability to put on the quality league that we and the federation want us to.” Two federation committees — the rules and compliance review committees — are the actual groups examining the NSA’s application for Division I status. Once the committees’ review is complete, they will recommend a course of action to the federation’s board. No deadline for their recommendation was given. “When we met on [Oct. 1] for the first time, most of us had just gotten the package over the weekend,” explained USISL commissioner Francisco Marcos, who is on the compliance review committee. “That thing is massive. There’s no way you can go through all those numbers. The overwhelming feeling is that the committee should meet not only with the NSA people but their possible investors. We need to review it and then schedule a meeting with all of the different principles involved before the committee is prepared to make a recommendation.” AYSO chairman Burton Haimes, who’s also the chair of the compliance review committee, said what the committees need before they can decide on the NSA are “substantiation on information on investors, sponsors, stadiums. More meat on the bones so to speak, to make sure it just isn’t wishful thinking.” Rottenberg said the NSA had “squared away” facilities or stadiums where its teams would play and had solid financial backing. She said the league’s primary investor is John Hendricks, chairman and chief executive officer of Discovery Communications, which owns the Discovery Channel, Learning Channel and The Nature Company chain of stores. “We’re 100 percent confident we meet the standards that they set,” she said. By Soccer America Associate Editor Dean Caparaz