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As an OVA, Major: Message's point is just to bring the entire series to a close. Gorou, who has faced many many struggles so far, but have always received support from his friends and family, becomes the one to support his family, with his only gift he can give to his kids, baseball.
Throughout all seasons of Major, we've seen Gorou grow from a talented reckless kid, to a championship-winning professional in Major League Baseball in USA, while retaining his recklessness. But the biggest influence he's had is arguably from his dad. So now that Gorou has become the father, he sought to be the role ... model to his kids, the way his father became his. And the only way he could do that after his injury, being the reckless that he is, is to show his kids, Izumi and Daigo, the result of his hard works; to show them that an obstacle is just another challenge to help them grow.
I know there won't be another season of Major, but if there ever is, this time it'll be the story of Izumi, the way that Major was the story about Gorou.

Honestly, IS had all the ingredients to be a great series.

Art (8) and Sound (8) are both wonderful, the animations were great, action scenes were eye-catching, pretty girls were darn pretty, the new Mecha idea was fresh and interesting, the settings were nice, etc etc etc. After the first few episodes I really had high hopes for IS to be able to at least match up against, say, Highschool DxD. But no. IS turned out to be a project with great potential but no ambition.

It's not like I don't like Ecchi and Harem. I like fan service a lot too. But watching Is I couldn't ... help thinking that it could have been better.

Let me tell you what I'm on about.

Story: 1
The story couldn't have been simpler. Orimura Ichika, a male student, is thrown into an academy, which trains it's students to pilot the IS weapon system. As it turns out, he is the only male in the ENTIRE school full of young girls looking for a boyfriend.

Really? Come on man...

Character: 2
The only male character, Ichika, is an idiot and after intense training from elite students, has OK piloting skills. He is somehow entirely oblivious about the fact that every female in the academy loves him because there's no one else to fall in love to.
And then there's the girls. There's the childhood friend (Houki), the prideful blond (Cecelia), the Loli (Lin), the shy girl (Charlotte), and genetically engineered super soldier (Laura), all trying desperately to get Ichika to love them. But Ichika obviously doesn't know that despite many obvious attempts.

Overall: 2
Overall, it's a huge let down from my expectations after the first 2 or 3 episodes. There were many copy and paste works and many events in the series were overused.
In IS they tried to have a bit of everything. Romance, comedy, ecchi, harem, action, mecha, science fiction, the lot. But it just didn't work out. Maybe too many ingredients spoils the soup too.
And the most frustrating thing was that, it could have been so much greater! The only redeeming point was the great artwork, soundtracks and the background music which, unlike the story and the characters, were quite outstanding.