Breaking News, families of public and private school kids across the country pay lots of money to voluntarily play in a youth private club sports league that is grade-based, so they sign up appropriately by grade. This Just In - More Exclusive Breaking News, if the league changes to age-based, kids will appropriately sign up by age.
All of the tryouts are grade-based again. Youth participation doubled last year, largest single-year spike in history of sport. What is the sell to change? Club is a private business, so has to be more than some complaining from parents that already paid for the year, and continue to do so every year. Safety - not valid argument. Lacrosse is a very small sport, rural rec areas never sustained, and still can't sustain, single year age groups, always been average 1-1/2 year spreads at youth level. There is no precedent for a safety outcry. Practicality - HS will always be by grad year, clubs don't want to rebuild or major shake from 8th to 9th, and they control the market. Clubs build 6th to 8th, represents product going into high school, and clubs market on success. Fairness - product selling at record levels, again what is sell? Best case on a compromise would be to lean on kind hearts to go age-based from 1st to 5th grade, then let the more business-minded approach take over with grade-based in middle school.
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[quote=Anonymous]Breaking News, families of public and private school kids across the country pay lots of money to voluntarily play in a youth private club sports league that is grade-based, so they sign up appropriately by grade. This Just In - More Exclusive Breaking News, if the league changes to age-based, kids will appropriately sign up by age.
Thanks captain obvious! Hence the push by many to get lax to go age-based!
All of the tryouts are grade-based again. Youth participation doubled last year, largest single-year spike in history of sport. What is the sell to change? Club is a private business, so has to be more than some complaining from parents that already paid for the year, and continue to do so every year. If a minority number of your customers hate your product, but stop in every day to buy it anyway, is there precedent for change? You may need a competitor to offer a better product, or you need impede the growth of the current product. Buying it and complaining about it, is really just buying it...
I can guarantee that there will need to be only one catastrophic safety incident that occurs between mismatched aged boys in a grade-based situation before the whole sport is forced by the insurance industry to go age-based. The only question is whether to do it proactively before that happens or wait for the incident to occur, which it will.[/quote
Crickets. So the last 60 years was this one big huge unnecessary risk? That's what skill brackets are for, not birthday candles.
You quote recent growth numbers and then subsequently treat the current situation as the 60-year status quo?! You're not really good at this logic and debate thing, are you??
I don't see anything about growth in the 60 year comment. You realize there are multiple people on here, and it's not just you and some other ding dong arguing, correct?
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