re: Any of you guys coach youth basketball?

I coach travel baseball. We got into a situation where practice fields were scarce. When talking to the city about renting fields, we were told that we wouldn't get practice fields unless we were playing in the rec league. Therefore, we entered our team into the rec league.

We would always throw our weaker pitchers and flip the batting order upside down during the games against most rec teams. Wasn't ideal for us or the rec teams, but it was what we had to do to get access to practice fields. May be a similar deal with trying to get time in a gym in your area.