shaffer5 competitive baseball does not have minimum play requirements.  you are talking about rec level ball.  that is what i am saying here, infc poses as a rec league but it is competitive!  football teams should be tryout based!  i was a coach and i didn't want the minimum play kids on my team.  and my oldest boy was one of them!  i had to get them the minimums though because it was the rules.  if i could have had a tryout like baseball and picked the best players, and we did away with these silly minimum play rules, at least everybody would have known the deal and you would be either good enough to play or you sit.  and with that if there was a true rec football league where all players had to play at least 2 quarters, that solves the discontent about not playing enough if it is all equal.

but it won't happen unless a big movement occurs where parents and coaches agree on it and push for it together