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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem is other teams in D1 feel the pressure to play the silly recruiting game, and recruit their own out of town ringers to keep up. Adding two high level players can completely raise a teams ceiling to another level. But kids that actually do live in town get squeezed out of playing time or even off the roster.

FCYBL and its member leagues need to rethink this.  Or maybe they’re perfectly fine with it?? [/quote]
The whole point of the league is to provide middle school travel experience before high school. That's why its community based. The concept is it supposed to be the kids from Springfield middle schools playing the kids from Mclean middle schools.

The league needs to enforce its own rules and not allow exceptions to its rules. Ten teams with three zip code exceptions is ridiculous when the coaches are told its 2 or fewer per team. There was a player on 6th grade all league last year who lived in another state.  [/quote]

The league is being used by coaches with egos to build their basketball resumes. The kids and neighborhood leagues are being used, as opposed to being served, by these coaches.

If I’m a wannabe coach, I can either try to recruit and build a full AAU team from scratch (hard), or I can instead step into an established community team with decent players and gym time and a full schedule of game and simply bump off two kids and replace them with 2 out of zip code ringers (much easier).

The kids are losing out but some parents are actually cool with this in pursuit of winning and championships.  I assume the member leagues all think it’s what they have to tolerate to get “good” coaching for their teams. [/quote]

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