Damnit Contrare, we were just starting to get along, and you go and make another dumb statement. The summer/spring coaching is nothing but good for all involved IMO. The few that are victims of favoritism need to do something about it, by either working harder, or showing evidence to the administration of this favoritism. MOST of the time, it is "percieved" favoritism. On the youth football team I coached, I had only 2 kids that were also on our youth wrestling team, and I had to listen to the moms talking behind my back about me playing favorites to the wrestlers. I ignored it, but wanted to say, "maam, there is a reason those two hardnosed nasty wrestlers are playing in front of your sissy kid........"

I have seen what you speak of, and have actually seen the reverse of it, where a coach was actually stupid enough to think that high school softball was the "real deal" and that just because "you" play summer ball doesn't mean you are good enough to play HS ball. The coach actually had a discriminatory attitude toward the girls that play summer ball. I wanted to break the news to her that most HS teams couldn't win a game against most of the competitive summer teams that the girls played on in the summer........

You just have to deal with it. We are always trying to make rules to take care of the very few that it affects, to the detriment of the 99% that it doesn't affect.