People are moronic. Do you really think they would ban all holdbacks (crabs and others) and the looneys kid in this league? If you are not challenging yourself against the best 8th graders what is the point of being in an "elite" league. You get better by playing against the best.
Flaw in that logic is the kids in question are not the best. The on age kids playing in the elite brackets are the best. The Looneys, crabs etc. holdbacks just look better because they are currently bigger, stronger, faster but they are also cowards for not being good enough and having to play down against younger kids. The on age kids on their teams are just as bad as they can not win without surrounding themselves with those playing down. Guilty by association. They are being enabled by what is supposed to be an objective league which has proven they have no objectivity when it comes to certain things and teams.
. What you need to realize is that every team in the elite 2020 HOCO division has holdbacks, everyone of them. Crabs has way more than the others, around 12 to 14 while other teams, including Looney's, have about 2 to 3 on average. It doesn't stop there, all 2020 teams have some holdbacks, it is just unfortunately part of the grade base system. So, following your logic, all of these players, holdbacks and on age are all cowards. Sorry, your logic is flawed.
If a child is over a certain age that is outside the "normal progression" of K, 1,2,3....without repeating a grade and went to school using the ages of the state they reside in, then they have no business playing with kids a year or two younger in a grade based league. No other sport allows this. Most teams would gladly accept an age based restriction on their teams and have nothing to fear as they have only one holdback, maybe two so to lose those kids would not impact the success rate of the their overall team. Teams that take advantage of the system can not say that so they attack the approach that demonstrates good sportsmanship and character constantly.
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