Looks like an opportunity for some of the sponsors - Jeg's, Summit, etc - to host their own Sportsman series and basically eliminate the NHRA middleman. Or at least form an organization and confront NHRA.
I've been thinking for years - at least since Compton took over - that NHRA would focus on and cater to their Pro classes, as they do in their race broadcasts, and eventually split off the Sportsman classes into another series. Perhaps the entertainment part (Pro classes) and the backbone part (the rest of us) of the sport will start to part ways.