We don’t technically have middle school teams we have 4 teams made up of 7/8th graders with 4 separate coaches. All in house. In the last 5 years there have been times when those 7/8th graders were going 9 vs 9 just to “play”. You can’t run any real offense or defense with 9 kids, let alone even a watered down version of what the varsity runs. LL is its own entity, it’s not technically part of the school system, so the reality is they can do whatever they want and the varsity coach doesn’t really have any power over them. Changing over to a 7th and 8th grade team (like all other schools have, and all other sports do), would then give the varsity coach much more say on what they do, how they do it, and “who” is ultimately chosen to coach those kids.