If I was a paid spokesman I'd use my name as well.

so what is your name big shot?

yes - a handful of lijsl registered clubs set this up to take the place of the free informal Pre-Travel league that turned into JSS rather then go travel at U9.

Handfull of clubs are in minus East Meadow who are leaving this fall.

Time will tell if more parents and clubs want to go the more competitive, formal, costly route.

Nothing evil.

NDP and JSS are not much different from each other when it comes to U8, there is an exception in that U7 teams play in JSS. There are no standings in the JSS U7 & U8 divisions, just as there are none in NDP. I bet as the younger trend continues, the U7s will be playing in NDP soon enough to try keep these parents occupied and leaving to other JSS member programs.

I am also sure that there are competitive physcos in NDP as well, you should be realistic. Competitive physcos aside, fact of the matter is that many of our children are competitive by nature. They want to win an NDP match, JSS match...a baseball game, whatever competitive environment you put them in. NDP is no different...there is a winner and a loser, no matter how you want to slice it, its a game. Is winning most important in terms of development? no...maybe not, but the competitive juices of the children come out naturally, with or without the aid of the physco parents. For the NDP U9s, I am sure the team who went un-defeated knows so, whether its posted on a site somewhere or not. They probably feel good about it..and rightly so.

There are pros\cons to both programs (NDP vs JSS)...but don't try and paint a picture that the NDP is free from the ugly things that go along with youth sports. I also wonder how many kids in your club run off to a JSS match after their NDP match. If you think it doesn't happen, again...unrealistic. Maybe you want to believe these aren't facts because you're a NDP supporter...take a closer look internally in your club, I bet you'd be surprised.

big difference is no additional cost or player registration with a 2nd sanctioning body or the substitution of one sanctioning body with another if you dont want to double register.

After that you are right, a match is a match and the kids know who wins and who lost.

Wrong.. NDP clubs do charge.. watch out for Padetz!! He is a snake in the woods

If this is all true, the ndp will be just like the free pre-travel that morphed into jss. When athletes say its not about the money it ALWAYS is and it could be the same thing here.

You do the math $600 per team a year adds up pretty quick.

Long Island likes to pay for everything sports .