[Blau Vogel]

you can put lame at the end of your sentence all you want just proves my point TOUCHY, i havent said a bad thing against your school and if we lived north my kid would go to highlands, but come on seriously we got a feeder program here as well but it dont year after year put out 6'6 6'5 6'4 athletes like highlands so i dont think your feeder program makes kids grow heck it might be something in the water,,,:biglmao:

IMVHO...Where I think most feeder programs go wrong is after sixth grade. MOST programs will put together one or two middle school teams that will compete against other middle schools. This forces the coaches of these teams to play their best players to compete with other schools. In the FTJFL, every year, depending on the number of players, there are 4 or 5 teams made up of middle school 7th and 8th graders that play against each other for two years. The everybody plays rule is in effect here too. This keeps the late bloomers (the tall awkward skinny kid or the short heavy kid) that might not reach full potential until high school, interested and on the field until they reach high school. Those kids don't see the field or even quit when they have to join a schools middle school team where winning is paramount. I guess I shouldn't have given away the secret, but I really believe this is the difference.