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I coach an 11AA USSSA team in Louisiana. There are plenty of AA teams that should be AAA at least, if not major. Alot of these teams skirt around the classifications by not playing in many USSSA tournaments. If you only play in a handful of tournaments, even if you win them, they won't move you up. It takes alot of complaints combined with convincing tournament results to have a team reclassified. Even if a team is moved up, I've seen them intentionally enter Major tournaments, get smacked around, then whine about it until they get moved back down to AA. Those are the teams coached by "rats" as this board like to call them.
Take Louisiana for example. Look at the number of AA teams in a given age group compared to AAA and Major. It's 3-1 AA versus AAA/Major combined.
But, you can only skirt around the rules for so long. Once you place first or second in the State tournament, you have to move up the next year.
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