some posts are missing the point. it has nothing to do with individual players. It's just a huge conflict of interest. Here's another one - play for me at club ABC we are the best yada yada yada. Now how does it look if the kid joins club ABC but kids from the competing club XYZ are actually better for the school team? Coach has to take the ABC players to save face and protect her club. And since we know evaluations are subjective, ABC wins every time.

In our town the YJ's are always the first kids called up even if they don't play on the blue team