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Why can't the school have an 8th grade team and the rest play JFL. They do the same in basketball, baseball, soccer, why can't football be on the same format. Have there own booster's and the school support it. Or even have try outs and take the best 18 and the rest play JFL. I'm sure the conferance that they were in has made it's schedule already. This appears to be a rushed decision: devilflam :devilflam :devilflam

There was nothing wrong with the coference they were in. But it is impossible to have a seperate middle school team as well JFL at the same time. The numbers are there to have intraleague play but not both.

This is not something that was just rushed into. It has been debated ever since the JFL was forced to go away from this format. If the JFL is A feeder system for the high school program and develop as many players as possible then this is the best way to keep kids involved and provide more playing time for all of them IMO.

Some of these kids you know will be players but some have yet to develop either physically or mentally. These are the kids that we have been losing and many of them are good athletes that need a chance to learn the game. To me you just don't start weeding out kids in middle school. If you start pulling weeds to early you just might pull out a few flowers.