Hurst, wish that were true in my world; last fall, I coached a U17 club team of better-than-decent players--players I'd be proud to have on my varsity squad--a majority of whom were still playing JV for a ranked 4A school and were "on the bubble" trying to make varsity for this season. Putting a 7th and 8th grade team up against these girls would be pretty much sending them to the slaughterhouse. If you have 70+ high school players try out for varsity...let's say out of those half of them actually have some talent (say, 35), but you only want to keep 20 for varsity--what are you going to do with the other 15? Turn them out to pasture? Nope, you put them on your JV squad so they can get some PT, stay in the program and prepare to replace your graduating seniors for next year.
