Spring thaw hoco teams are not season/summer hoco teams. Nobody has problems giving Rebels credit and it certainly seems like they're a top team. If they have Igloo's number and Igloo was competitive with top hoco teams this summer (they beat BLC and lost to madlax), then they're right there. But in all the Rebel posts about "rankings" (in 3rd grade no less), it's probably Igloo+Rebels+top 1/2 of hoco in first tier, bottom of hoco + best of rest LI + laxachusetts + jersey express + nxt, etc.
Also, you don't need to start artificially lowering the age of the Rebels artificially to compensate; 0% chance rebels have any 7 yo on team let alone active player 7yos. 31s should be 9. Many hoco teams feed from private schools with "pre-1st" (lol) so there are indeed a # of 10 year olds on clubs like madlax, blc, and hawks. But LI lax also has it's reclass nuances so let's not act like Rebels or Igloo are 9yo purists either.
