Sure, if that’s what your goal is. But, in my opinion, goals for coaches, club directors, athletic directors, etc. should be to get kids to love the game and to grow the game from the lowest level possible all the way to 18s/Varsity. What do club directors get out of placing high in Open? An ego massage? If the majority of your clientele’s focus is on developing as a player and getting better for their high school team, cater to all of them as best as you can.
And, I’m sorry, but I can’t agree that club is “more important” than high school. It is if you wanna get recruited and try to play at the next level, but pay to play crap has gotten out of hand with prices across multiple sports, plus the majority of high school age athletes aren’t going to play in college. So if we start telling kids that club, AAU, select, etc. are more important, we’re completely disregarding kids, sometimes still very talented kids, who play for the love of the game, their team and school pride and don’t want to go on to play in college. And by telling them that, sport “specialization” gets worse and we’re essentially discouraging kids from being multi-sport athletes. Now, I think it’s important to let kids know that if they want to be good at something, they have to work at it and club can definitely help with that, but I’m not on board with having kids put all their eggs into one basket.