Originally Posted by Anonymous
"The tournament in question is for high school kids. The college coaches want them playing by their grade. Ok, so some kids are older. They play against each other in high school right? By your line of thinking, 10th graders shouldn't be playing against kids that are old enough to be in 11th or 12th grade. I guess Tommy, Bobby, Timmy and Jimmy should not play varsity until they are seniors then.

I understand your issue with middle school kids but you guys are making asses of yourself complaining about high school kids."

Seniors shouldn't be playing against freshman or sophomores, unless the fresh/soph are good enough for varsity. Nobody is complaining about kids playing up, but kids shouldn't be playing down!


It is the parents choice to play a freshman on a varsity team and are not manipulating any rule. Choosing to play up vs forcing others to play up because you chose to play down are two entirely different things whether it is youth or high school - it is unsportsmanlike. One is an example of your kid being good enough and big enough to play up the other is your holdback kid not being good enough and playing down putting others at risk because they could not hang with their own age.