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I had a conversation today with someone connected with a youth league and they were very unhappy that some areas try to put all their good players on one team and the less experienced ones on another. He/she felt it was so unfair to the second team and you know what? Under our current system he/she is absolutely right because the “B” team would have to play against the “A” team instead of other “B” teams. My questions is this, “Why not have “A” and “B” teams in every area that has more than one team? Help me this is making my head hurt.

Youth football in Idaho needs to improve in both quality and quantity of games. Old mindsets of trying to keep all the teams “equal” while pretending to play for a championship is just silly. Basketball and baseball (two vastly inferior games in my opinion) figured it all out long ago. Create leagues and schedule games for the level of talent - either competitive or recreational. The entire concept of “A” and “B” teams was initially developed in baseball and continues with great success to this day. Basketball has also copied this model, the Premier League in Idaho Falls is not nearly the same as the local Parks and Rec leagues formed throughout the valley. So why not football?