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What would you do?

Here's the situation. Our town is primarily a Babe Ruth town, not Legion. However, due to the politics and pettiness of our town, our team chose to play legion two years ago. We were Juniors, and the Senior team is now basically in college.

We would naturally move up to senior legion this year, however, the senior legion coach from last year wants to keep the team. Since legion allows 19 yr olds to play, freshmen in college are eligible. The problem is two-fold. One, he only has a couple of players who have committed. He's got about a half-dozen of "maybes". Second, his team over the last two years has gotten a bad reputation for not being dedicated (lots of forfeits if we didn't supply him players), players fighting, and even drinking between DH games. Basically, the inmates run the asylum.

I thought we'd just move up and that would be it, but he still wants to coach, and according to Legion rules, its his team. I can't go to a meeting a complain or anything like that. The coordinator said we have to "work it out".

None of my kids want to play for him. Although he's a nice guy, he lets his kids run the show, and not in a good way. His idea is to take about half my team, and with his players, form a good team. I told him I'm not breaking up my team, as we've been through too much over the years, and are very committed to each other. We could go play in another league, but honestly, nothing comes close to Legion competition wise for us. Babe Ruth already has a team and I'm "persona non-grata" with the league, so that's out. There's a north-Jersey league (Cerbo) which is great until you're about 15, then it starts to peter out..

If we leave, he's got no team and his kids are screwed. Plus we're screwed in that we don't get in the best league for us. Splitting up my team is not an option to me though.

One thought is, I'll talk to him and take his three committed kids (good players but questionable character) and he and I will split the coaching duties. My coaches have said that's a recipe for disaster, and the only reasonable alternative is that we take his kids, but we manage the team. His kids probably won't show up all the time, as they're more interested in girls, booze, and going down the shore on weekends. But I don't think he sees it this way. He still thinks he can grab some more kids and "figure a way" to get it done.

The league meeting is on the 24th, so there's only a week to get it hashed out.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

thx!
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_________________________ I'm feeling pretty good - we've got it narrowed down to only about 1 colleges now!!!
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