"BTW, Isn't Little League Recreation?"

Yes I believe it is, but I was more focusing on the territory assigment concept that they use. Club are in such competion with each other right now that the one losing out are the players. How many kids are on the wrong level team because the "local" club wars make it hard for parents to figure out where thier kids should be playing.

Perhap the state level org should assign territory for the rec level play to clubs with some sort of charter. Equal cost and requirements then over time we could grow the system to where club were more territorial with the highest level team becomeing a union of top performing clubs in an area (assuming region play would take more quality players than might exist in some clubs. Idea is rough but the skeleton is there.