My guess is that most everyone that has a freshman that will still be 14U, will be against the change. It is a natural reaction because of watching past freshmen and sophomores finish High School state and then compete against the kids division. My advice would be to lay out sound reasoning against it. Giving JV high schoolers younger kids for them to beat, saying high schoolers are not used to 1.5 periods and that 8th graders actually have the advantage over freshmen don't meet the level of sound reasoning in my opinion.