Originally Posted by Anonymous
Remember how f'd up the tourneys used to be with U13, U11, A,B,C, always whining about teams playing down a bracket, it was always a mess. Grade based is clean, and the top teams at the top tournaments don't argue about this holdback nonsense. Unless you want to create a private school league, this is the best it is going to get. They aren't going to go age, as the clubs are not going to want to build teams all through MS, then have to re-build the teams in HS. You need grade based in HS, because coaches don't want to watch mixed up teams during the recruiting years.



Youth Teams were always age based and HS teams were always grade based until the ER Hysteria. The Colleges had no problem recruiting then?? Starting a few years ago we had to have grade base due to ER in 9th grade. Well that is gone.

Recruiting contact can only start in 11th grade now . This eliminates the whole grade based argument for youth.

Now your excuse is we need to form grade base teams in 4th grade and let them play all the way to 11th to give clubs a good chance of building teams! Hilarious. That is a lame argument.

High School teams and youth teams at clubs have always been a separate thing. Even now look. HS teams have big turnover from the 8th grade teams. No where near as many HS teams as there is youth teams. Your argument falls flat.

NCAA took care of their stupidity by getting rid of recruiting 9th graders. Will lacrosse get rid of their stupidity of letting select held back children play down due to a youth grade base system.