Leadership Council?

Would the council consist of people in each grade? I have heard of people doing that before, and being very successful with it. If the council is all varsity players for instance, what would the difference be between the council and a group of captains?

I dont think this would undermine the team concept. On the contrary you would be cultivating leaders and leadership. What that would do also is make the other players on the team accountable to not only themselves, you, their parents and the program but it would increase their accountability towards other individuals on the team. I am all for players being held accountable.

I was watching some military documentary a while back and what they said is that the way they get soliders to kill others is to make them feel that they are accountable for their fellow soldier. The idea then would be that you arent killing your enemy but you are preventing your enemy from killing your "brother".

However, I would not advocate giving them different colored jerseys.