I signed up two of my sons to play flag with this league after a couple of their buddies had signed up. I ended up volunteering to coach one of the teams, and later stepped up to coach my other sons team as they had a shortage of coaches available. Over all I would say its not a smoothly run league. While this is one of the most expensive leagues to play in, they still required sponsors to cover jerseys, etc for the kids. Additionally a lot of the admin work was pushed to the coaches, which is odd as we are all volunteers. More so, we found through the season that there was a great deal of variance between refs and games, there seemed to be a good deal of chaos, and inconsistency across the operation. Things really came to a head in our last game though. The refs were either over tired or completely distracted. We had an inadvertent whistle, when we tried to understand why we got ignored. Then the ref literally skipped downs on 3 occasions, each time we engaged the refs and were ignored. Additionally the refs did not change play direction at half time. Through out this we engaged the league director with no benefit. More concerning than the lack of care from the refs were the absolute lack of integrity of the opposing coach. Win or loose, the kids were only looking for a fair game to test their metal, and see the fruits of their work during the season. When the league director was approached afterwards, we shoulder shrugs. All the parents of the team are asking where we will be coaching next year, and it wont be at Friday night flag. Meridian PAL, Upward, Ten mile are all much better alternatives in my opinion. The one benefit of this situation was the clear lesson on integrity for the kids. read more