except at least where i grew up, we have club soccer april-december, and HS january-april. the HS coach where i came from isn't allowed to coach select. i know at least one HS coach served a suspension for stepping in when his kid's select team had their trainer ejected.
and there is debate about whether we could keep playing in the state playoffs if our team was still alive and dallas cup fell within the HS schedule. and you had to seriously consider it as dallas cup was like elite youth teams from around the world and college/pro scouts. even if it might screw your HS team. but we lucked out and either advanced towards state but didn't get invited, or got invited but got eliminated.
i think folks are missing MS treats the unattached like a second team that fouls your eligibility to represent your HS. look i think the counter-arguments are fair enough, maybe make a list of national meets that don't count. but i can also see where it's like if you're representing tupelo HS that's all you can rep for 2 months. the state doesn't necessarily want to have to screen whether you just competed against yourself when you moonlighted. but surely there is some compromise. you go to the meet but as your team. or you run it by the state as an exception.
personally at least some of this smells like libertarians wanting to test whether fairly straightforward rules apply to their kids. the rule is straightforward but my kid doesn't have rules.
i mean, there's already stuff like homeschool kids eligible to represent schools they don't attend and are perhaps even offended by. "but i am in the attendance zone and check the boxes."