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Guest wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 11:16 am Only hope is that OMHA doesn't follow suit. Similar to OHF having closed borders previously and GTHL saying the heck with that we like open and operating as such even being apart of OHF. It is possible OHF supports open and OMHA and Alliance still operate with closed border programming.

No it's not.

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 11:16 am Only hope is that OMHA doesn't follow suit. Similar to OHF having closed borders previously and GTHL saying the heck with that we like open and operating as such even being apart of OHF. It is possible OHF supports open and OMHA and Alliance still operate with closed border programming.

Alliance and OMHA already voted down open borders internally. They have to follow the OHF's policies as they are the governing body.

A local center can impose their own rules like we want 80% of the team to be made up of kids that live here but they are no longer able to hold a kid to the center. If the OMHA says they're not following the OHF rules, players will just submit an appeal to the OHF and they will approve every release since it aligns with their policy. It's open fella, sorry you're not happy about it but it should've been this way the whole time.

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 11:19 am

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 11:16 am Only hope is that OMHA doesn't follow suit. Similar to OHF having closed borders previously and GTHL saying the heck with that we like open and operating as such even being apart of OHF. It is possible OHF supports open and OMHA and Alliance still operate with closed border programming.

Alliance and OMHA already voted down open borders internally. They have to follow the OHF's policies as they are the governing body.

A local center can impose their own rules like we want 80% of the team to be made up of kids that live here but they are no longer able to hold a kid to the center. If the OMHA says they're not following the OHF rules, players will just submit an appeal to the OHF and they will approve every release since it aligns with their policy. It's open fella, sorry you're not happy about it but it should've been this way the whole time.

THIS. FAQs were clear that any association can dictate how many local kids they want on a team, but they can not prohibit a player from leaving the association.

Time for lacrosse to follow suit.

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 12:11 pm Time for lacrosse to follow suit.

Just what everyone was thinking. lol but yeah you're right, they should.

Let the 1st Hunger Games Begin!

One thing is whether the GTHL and OMHA will put limits on how many non residential kids allowed on each team. This could limit movement.

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 12:17 pm One thing is whether the GTHL and OMHA will put limits on how many non residential kids allowed on each team. This could limit movement.

Current GTHL limit is 3 per team. Need to see if anything changes.

I wish I could have seen the OMHA board's faces through this

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 12:17 pm One thing is whether the GTHL and OMHA will put limits on how many non residential kids allowed on each team. This could limit movement.

They better not it defeats the purpose. Finally open borders. The way it should be.

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 11:40 am

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 11:19 am

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 11:16 am Only hope is that OMHA doesn't follow suit. Similar to OHF having closed borders previously and GTHL saying the heck with that we like open and operating as such even being apart of OHF. It is possible OHF supports open and OMHA and Alliance still operate with closed border programming.

Alliance and OMHA already voted down open borders internally. They have to follow the OHF's policies as they are the governing body.

A local center can impose their own rules like we want 80% of the team to be made up of kids that live here but they are no longer able to hold a kid to the center. If the OMHA says they're not following the OHF rules, players will just submit an appeal to the OHF and they will approve every release since it aligns with their policy. It's open fella, sorry you're not happy about it but it should've been this way the whole time.

THIS. FAQs were clear that any association can dictate how many local kids they want on a team, but they can not prohibit a player from leaving the association.

You will see OMHA and Alliance tell all associations to define their boundary and NOT let any imports in. Says it right in the info on OHF website.

The player movement will apply universally. Associations can restrict their enrollment to players from a geographic area but can limit the choice of players internal to their traditional boundaries from leaving.

And the whole bit on Tampering with parents and coaches ...good luck with that! That's as old as time itself, won't change. You're going to have back room deals and tampering allllllll day long now, at every level. Association will say no imports, except for the following teams. Associations, let your coaches decide! This might be a whole lot of nothing.


All this says is we can't restrict you from leaving, but we can restrict you on where you can go. Hope I'm wrong, let's see what these local brain dead boards do.