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[QUOTE="DarthGrumpy, post: 3211459, member: 2141"]
Coaches who purposely plug their team into a lower division for the sole purpose of improving their win/loss record is a plague in all youth sports.  It's all about their ego (and parents' egos) as it does nothing to help develop their players, who often get a rude awakening individually and/or as a group when they move to a different team or are finally forced to move up.  There was a team in my travel spring baseball B-level league (12U) that has a reputation for doing so.  They went 10-0 during the season with a run differential of +90 (they were wining by 9 to 10 runs a game).   After the spring, 2 teams voluntarily asked to be moved-up for the summer while the other 7 coaches demanded that this team also be moved-up.  The league finally gave in force them into the A Tier II level.  The team is 5-5 this summer (4 games left) with a run differential of +6.  They are still doing well, just not perfect, and I have heard that the coach and his parents are furious.
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