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Originally posted by Skahtboi
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Originally posted by IRISHMAFIA
If you want to complain about the time period, blame HS ball. It is different in every state. Some states play until Memorial Day and other states start school after the first weekend in August. While some teams are from areas where a player can participate in both simultaneously, some state NFHS bodies forbid it. That leaves every ASA association in the country less than 2 months to hold states, regionals, CNQs and ANQs.
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To lend some creedence to Tom's original post, this is exactly why USSSA has both Spring and Fall State Qualifiers, so that every team wishing to try to win a berth to a State Tourney has ample opportunity. They have also introduced their point system as another road to State and National Tournaments.
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Which sort of creates a slanted field as not all areas play fall softball either due to weather or other social priorities. Nor do all teams have time to recruit, practice and bring a newly rostered team in time to the level of qualifying for a National. This would need to happen as half of the previous year's team members would possibly change on January 1 of the following year. Does U-trip do anything to allow for the age change?
And then you have those states which play fall softball and do not allow their players to participate in other programs. I don't agree with this, but it's out there and would just be one more thing someone would complain about.
But then again, nothing new here and not everyone is going to be happy all the time. It's called life and people just need to learn to live with it.
[Edited by IRISHMAFIA on Nov 20th, 2003 at 09:59 PM]