the 9/1 cutoff is ideal kids to compete against kids their own age and in their own grade, it creates as level of a plying field as you can have. The only kids that would be affected by this (not playing with kids their age and grade) are the kids that were held back or went to pre-first.
Maybe where you live. By being myopic in your choice of dates you are eliminating any chance of of any real progress. Move the date three or four months and you get a chance of enough clubs and parents buying in to the rule to make it happen. The best example is the Crabs going to the World Series of Lacrosse which has a May cutoff.
What is progress??? Letting select group of children play down in youth athletics???? Not to most normal people. Youth sports is for youth athletics and a fair playing field...Not the chosen ones or the Crabs or whoever. How about just change dates in youth lacrosse to May 1 for anyone that wants to play. Then you are doing the right thing. Letting select parents and children get an advantage goes against just about everything you ever hear in youth sports.
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