iClaudius
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Age: 32
Reg: 05-01-12
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05-02-12 01:06 PM - Post#148849
In response to EnjoyingLife
Thank you ChrisH, I couldn't have said it any better!
Fact...the rule about leaving for a select team has been in place for several years. If you leave ASA for a select team and if you want to return to ASA, you MUST enter the draft, no exceptions. I know of a specific player who has played on a select team for the last 2 seasons, including the commissioners current select team. According to my resources, which I will NOT mention in this forum nor to anyone else for obvious reasons, this player has already been recruited by the commissioner to play on his team this fall in the D6 ASA league! Well, according to the rules, this player MUST enter the draft.
Now lets talk about the "rules"...registration opened yesterday. The rules for ALL football leagues are supposed to be posted online the day registration opens. Guess what, NO RULES as of today. The only rules you can download are the flag football rules. Reason why is because the commissioner is trying to change the rules for his own benefit.
The commissioner has also been calling the other coaches in the D6 league letting them know that he's changing the rules. There are several very influential coaches that don't want to have any part of this because they know it's cheating. They know the commissioner is trying to stack his team unfairly. As I stated earlier, one of the better teams in the league has already pulled out and there are a few others coaches from other teams already speaking to the parents about heading to another league.
Trust me...all of us coaches talk to each other. We all know what's going on and we've all complained but yet nothing changes. Parents have also complained for years via the annual ASA parent/coaches survey. At this point, all we can do is speak to our parents about leaving ASA because ASA won't listen!
We D6 parents/coaches only have one last season before middle school. Most of these kids will NEVER play football again. Why should we expose ourselves to a league that unfairly allows teams to stack the best of the best who will do nothing but beat the heck out of everyone else? How much fun will that be for our kids?
It will soon be made apparent to even the most challenged of students that my opinions have all come to pass. Likewise, it shall become evident that the fallacies put forth above are little more than knee-jerk reactions to some half understood situations. Above all, we have to admit that the credibility of the opinions above are, ahem, questionable.
It can be anticlimactic when a conspiracy turns out to be untrue. I feel your loss there, sincerely. Wouldn't it have been fun to be able to claim foreknowledge of the whole thing?! I do hope some soul searching happens after this defeat. These things can get confusing, with all of the he said she said going on. Lots of moving parts to keep up with. USE this experience. Use it to make life better. The key word here might be "simplify". Rumors, Interpersonal Dealings, Playbooks...all can benefit from this powerful idea. Now, to make this abundantly clear, with no misunderstandings, a big part of this is going to involve not talking about what we don't understand. When we avoid that, we avoid public comeuppances like we've had here today. Let past dismal failures pave the way to future bright successes. 
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