I think that it is more of a question of the facilities being open and being able to use them. I know at my kids school, that the school did not give any money to open the facilities. The parents have worked hundreds of hours to raise money for our kids to use these facilities, and now someone who has not talked with the people that are using them have made a decision to stop us from using something that we built.
As far as fall ball goes my kids play and played at Riverdale and I do not remember when either the baseball or softball coach made it mandatory to play fall ball. The kids who want to play footbal play football. The ones who want to play volleyball or basketball play those as well. Now, however the ones who want to play baseball/softball have been told go find someplace else to play. Sometimes, fall ball is the only place where a marginal player can get noticed by the coach, or get in the extra practice that they want. When a kid wants to get better the adults should not take away that opportunity from them.