Flip wrote:senser wrote:I don't think that matters. The club scene is a joke around ND and most of the top atheltes don't even play. I don't even think they really play USVBA.
I know in MN almost every HS team has a JO team and most athletes play in the spring and you can usually tell who is going to be good during the fall. VB pretty much has two seasons in MN.
Yea that's not really the case at all in ND. At least in MN when you get closer to the cities area they are playing usvba and not aau.
The clubs around the fargo area are high school exclusive, and Fargo south is really the only one that has numbers on a yearly basis, but that will change next year with Davies opening up. The North club patchworks their 18s team because they don't have numbers at all, and the case is almost the same every year with the WF club. It's virtually impossible to gauge who will be good in the fall by basing it on the "club" season.
They would be better off establishing a traveling club with tiers and then traveling to the cities for tournaments, the competition would be better. Moving up 16's to play in 18s because they can't field enough teams is absurd. It does nothing for the kids that can't play at that level, and it does nothing for the teams that want competition and are forced to play down. They don't even play club in the western part of the state, at least I know Dickinson doesn't.