SWVA Youth Football League

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Originally Posted by sup-rbeast

IMO, going in house gives more kids an opportunity to play more in the games and develop more as a player. If you have enough kids, in house is the only way to go.

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and I can list several huge advantages for playing in the league. I played in-house in p-nut,and watched my son go in-house his first year,so I have enough insight on it to list the differences. BTW I respect folk's rights and reasons to go in-house,and am cool with it (different strokes for different folks). Here's why I like the league better:

1. (BIG reason). If you are playing in-house,you are running the same offense and defense as the varsity (or you should be). The kids do not get a look at anything different. When my son steps on the field in a couple of years to play PV or,Norton ,he's probably going to have a better grasp at what he'll be facing because playing in the league has given him the chance to see multiple sets,formations,and schemes.

2. The excitement factor: You get kinda tired of playing the same 'ol multiple times a year. The kids in the league load the bus fired up,feeling like the
"big boys" with that "high-school" feeling. I got tired of playing the Falcons 3-4x a year,and my son got tired of playing the other Wise the same.

3. In-house fighting: We at Wise (as did the other communities in the league had problems because folks chose to get immature). Now they get to fight WITH OTHER COMMUNITIES who have ignorant,childish fans (some light humor there folks). Joining the league eliminated a huge problem there.

Like I said,we could punch and counter-punch on this issue,but playing in-house works for you all,and the league works for us. The kids are learning X's and O's and having fun (and that's what matters most)

I always preferred in house more, and still do. It gives kids a change to play and talk trash at school when they beat a friend's team. Of course I only played baseball and basketball back in the day, and it was all in house then.

i have heard a rumor that two appy players are being singled out one in D1 and one in D2 a rule was made that all players would weigh in before the season and agreed to by all the coaches and that was that. but now since appy D1 and D2 are proving to be tough someone said some of the coaches of the losing teams have decided to try to change the rules and make those two players weigh in again or before every game or something. is it fact or fiction???

We had to weigh players before each game. That is the way it is. If there's a question,they have a right to put a kid on a scale.

so why not do it before the games instead of waiting untill after the game is decide.

There is a rule like that in BSG as well...but the kids just weigh at the 1st of the year...and the only ones that weigh are the bigger kids who are gonna be in the backfield...makin them weigh every game is asinine, and exposes one of the many drawbacks of Youth Football League play (That the folks from each community forget it's only P-Nut football and that many of the players are closer to toddler age than teen age)

i agree with a weight limit. its to low in my opinion and to have a couple kids bust there but to make weight at the begining of the season and then maybe gain a pound or two to single those kids out because they are good athletes is crazy. dont wait till you lose a game you thought you were going to win and then complain.

In BSG it was 115 lbs. for a long time...don't know what it is now. But to me that's a fair weight limit considering the kids are 12 and under.

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Originally Posted by Unchained

We had to weigh players before each game. That is the way it is. If there's a question,they have a right to put a kid on a scale.

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This rule was changed for the 2007 season and contiunes today. Once the league president and varsity coach sign off on a weight, that is their playing weight. It's like the "league age" for LL baseball. I have gotten some phone calls regarding these two boys. Roger and Jeremy signed off on it. What is on paper is what their playing weight says. This rule was changed to keep parents from feeding their kids laxitives or starving them during a season just to make weight. Maybe next season we will do a PPK and have league weigh ins together. What we have to remeber is that its a kids game. We are out there to give guidance. I have personally made mistakes over the years and have acted in ways that I wish I could take back. But that is where we can use ourselves as examples for our players and show them the errors of our ways. I love being in the league and watching the kids grow from ALL towns. Yes, I'm from Appy and have been in Wise for the last 12 years. But I have also gotten to know many kids from all the towns and enjoy watching them all.

I remember we played in the Lee County league my 6th and 7th grade years. I had to strip down to my spandex to make the 120 weight to keep QBing our team.