Upon entering high school many football players have to be corrected on many techniques they were taught at the youth level. Not the fault of the many volunteers just a fact.

For you to state that “…every parent puts their youngin’s in youth sports so they’ll have a leg up…” is comical at best and ignorant at worst. It’s the youth who want to play and are gifted with the ability to do so that play in high school. For you to speak for everyone is kinda funny.

I have coached at the high school level and have spent thousands of hours with young players trying to learn and improve based on their own skill set and can tell you that any young man who is talented (with no experience) will quickly pass the 5 year grid kid players with parents who want him to play.

Are you kidding me?! Every parent puts their youngin’s in “youth” sports so they’ll have a leg up when they get to the high school level. In fact, that seems to be the exact reason the Pinnacle league was developed. Using their own words, “Our goal is simple; we want to build better football players”. Why, so they’ll just be better? NO!, so they’ll be better prepared to play when they get to the high school ranks.

Come on now, let’s not pretend like that’s not the real reason parents sign little Johnny for football or any other sport for that matter. The goal is to have them prepared to play when they reach high school, otherwise it’s a waste of time, money and effort.

The only downside I see are the boys who don’t take part - they’re going to lose ground. But isn’t that the point of practice; to get better than your competition?