Does it make a difference who the top PAL teams are. It is a shame, what does PAL mean anymore anyway. Some split teams some combine teams. They are only 11.

Here is an observation. Come to an agreement at what age should teams create ability level teams.

Have each town run tryouts to figure out which kids belong on an A or B or developmental team. Take it out of the coches hands. Have the parents bring birth certificates and the parents Drivers Liscence. (This puts to bed the age question and many conversations stemming from a child playing for the right town).

Have coaches from Nassua rate Suffolk teams and vica versa. Through the tryout process rank the teams for their ability so schedules will be comparable.

This will give parity to all of the ablity/leagues.

For those towns that do not have enough players to make multiple teams within a grade have a league for them (or a mix grade league).

(sure, not an exact science since many coaches know each other and there maybe many cases where "A" coaches may not have "A" sons as players.)


I say this because it seems as if a lot of things happened this year in the 5th grade across the island. No different that has happend to the 2018 or 2017. But why not try to fix it for the 2020 and later.