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July 12, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Nice web site.
I would suggest another link for great youth information.
http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Dave_Cisar
August 20, 2009 at 7:10 pm
What can be done?
Most kids want to play youth sports and do. When faced with a team of undersized kids, you end up playing the larger kids on the line and the smaller kids in the skill positions. As the years go by and they migrate to school athletics, the once large kids are now average sized and too small to compete for a position on the line and competely inexperienced in any of the skill positions they are now sized for.. The kids who got all the experience at the skill positions are now too small to play and have given up the sport.
Huge dilema if it’s your kid being slotted wrong. Coaches also face pressure by the parents to get every kid playing time and produce wins.
Do the coaches have any responsibility to prepare a kid for the next level or just win now? We have faced this in other sports as well. Kids get positions based on size limitations. Slow kids are automatically awarded 1st base… small kids automatically get safety or corner… big kids, no matter how fast or athletic, get the line. The small kids will not play at the next level, neither will the slow… leaving a bunch of ill-prepared kids to assume position they were never given the opportunity to prepare for.
Please weight in on this I’m curious what you think?
July 13, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Thanks.
Dave’s blog link is in the right menu under Coaching links.
April 13, 2010 at 9:11 am
Can you learn how to teach a sport by reading a book? Can you learn how to instill desire, drive, the hard work it takes to be good if you have never been through it. I do applaud those parents who pick up the torch and help coach when others won’t. I would just have a hard time letting my son play for a coach that has never played the game. I could read a thousand books about cooking doesn’t mean I can cook. Having played the game also doesn’t translate into you becoming a good coach either. But at least you have gone through sweat and blood an have an idea of what the kids are going through. Football is an inner sanctum type of sport and if you never played you will never be in that inner sanctum. I am not saying that after a few years of assisting a head coach that he or she couldn’t turn into a good head coach. I just think there is a lot to be said about having gone through those 2 a day practices the bonds you have created with other players. How much physical and emotional pain you can actually bear. A coach that has never played will never be able to truly know what his player’s are going through. This is just my two cents for what it is worth.