HHH is a founding member of the NLF, so they get to set the rules. The exclusivity is the sole reason why their teams “improve” each year as they get closer to the all important rising Junior summer.

It’s a pretty nice chart if you compare those younger team to the Older teams. It ain’t player development. It’s player replacement. And that ability to exclude every other team except Mesa is what leads kids to pile into HHH in the high school years.

Call it what you want, it’s tried and true. And nobody cares that you don’t like it.